Focus Taiwan
Date: 2019/12/29
By: William Yen

Taipei, Dec. 29 (CNA) With 2020 just around the corner, countdown parties and firework displays have been organized around the country to celebrate the end of the year and to create a festive cheer to embrace the incoming year.

At the various New Year's Eve parties, celebrities, singers and dancers will perform across the country to join crowds in counting down the arrival of 2020 and bringing the decade to a close.

Starting in the capital, the 2020 Taipei New Year's Eve Party and the Taipei 101 fireworks display at Taipei City Hall Square will kick off at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday and will be headlined by Golden Melody Award winners rapper Leo Wang (LEO王) and R&B crooner ØZI (陳奕凡).

This year's Taipei 101 fireworks display will have approximately 16,000 rounds and run for 300 seconds, in combination with animations on the building's giant T-Pad wall, which is made up of 140,000 LED bulbs and covers the exterior from the 35th to the 90th floor.   [FULL  STORY]