Hong Kong’s iconic bun festival on Cheung Chau Island attracted tens of thousands of people on Monday, but visitor numbers were lower compared with last year. Held annually on the eighth day of ...

HONG KONG -- Crowds flocked to the outlying Cheung Chau Island in Hong Kong to celebrate the Bun Festival, held each year in a century-old tradition to ward off evil and pray for peace and blessings.

HONG KONG (AP) — Crowds flocked to the outlying Cheung Chau Island in Hong Kong to celebrate the Bun Festival, held each year in a century-old tradition to ward off evil and pray for peace and ...

Crowds join Hong Kong's annual Bun Festival, one of its oldest and most colorful traditions. May 5, 2025. The annual Bun festival on Hong Kong's remote island of Cheung Chau kicked off on Monday, ...

Participants collect buns from a tower covered with plastic buns during the Bun Festival in Cheung Chau Island in Hong Kong, Tuesday, May 6, 2025. (AP Photo/Chan Long Hei) Expand ...