New Year 2013 ringed across the world and all are continuing to make a grand welcome with lots of shines , lighting the skyline and tons of exploding fireworks celebrating the New Year in Sydney, HongKong and the once-isolated country Myanmar in Asia.
The world’s first major celebration for 2013 was held in Myanmar which celebrating its first public New Year’s Eve countdown after spending a long five decades under military rule with ban on big public gatherings.
With new hopes of renewal, the Myanmar people cheered this New Year Eve with a huge street party. In North Korea, a fireworks show over the Taedong River marking the eve of the rise of new leader Kim Jong Un and the recent launch of a satellite into space.
Fireworks, concerts and celebrations around the globe set to welcome 2013 with huge party including all economies of the Asia-Pacific, even the so-called fiscal cliff threatening to reverberate globally from US, reports said.
Securities of Times Square in New York were tightened as more than 1 millions were expected to present for watching the traditional Waterford crystal-studded ball. While in Europe major cities canceled their celebrations due to economic crisis.
In New Delhi, India all the celebrations and festivities cancelled in mourning of the death of a 23-year-old gang-rape victim, just lighting candles to express solidarity with Delhi Braveheart.
World’s first major celebration for 2013 was in Sydney as a 6.6 million Australian dollar costs half dozen tons of fireworks show organized tor the occasions of New Year, many cascading from the Sydney Harbor Bridge.
12.5 million Hong Kong dollar fireworks displayed in Hong Kong’s Victoria Harbor, reported to be the biggest ever in the southern Chinese city .