South Korea sheds some Christmas light on North
South Korean church groups have displayed Christmas lights near the tense border with North Korea, an official said Sunday, despite concerns about a violent response from Pyongyang.
South Korean church groups have displayed Christmas lights near the tense border with North Korea, an official said Sunday, despite concerns about a violent response from Pyongyang.
When bibingka vendor Jerric Rivera, 17, rushed to the burning giant Christmas tree in Perez park here last Tuesday, his was an impulse decision just like the rest of the pack of kibitzers—to watch.
The Quezon provincial government’s 56-foot tall Christmas tree festooned with coconut husks and multicolored lights here at Perez Park caught fire on Tuesday, said a local official.
Known to have lit up thousands of impoverished homes in Metro Manila, the innovative and ecofriendly “solar bulbs” or “solar light bottles” awed the revelers who flocked to Oriental Mindoro’s provincial capitol on December 1.
