{"id":19644,"date":"2025-12-14T11:13:35","date_gmt":"2025-12-14T03:13:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=19644"},"modified":"2025-12-14T11:13:35","modified_gmt":"2025-12-14T03:13:35","slug":"a-guide-to-christmas-celebrations-in-singapore-taiwan-and-the-philippines-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=19644","title":{"rendered":"A guide to Christmas celebrations in Singapore, Taiwan and the Philippines"},"content":{"rendered":"


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The Christmas Train Show returns to Singapore\u2019s Gardens By The Bay. Photo: Shutterstock<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Unlike many other places in Asia, Christmas Day is an official public holiday in the city state. Not that the festivities will be limited to December 25.<\/p>\n

Returning for a 42nd year is Christmas on a Great Street, the \u201cgreat street\u201d in question being Orchard Road. Highlights of the event, which runs until January 1, include a Christmas Village at the Ngee Ann City Civic Plaza that features a 14-metre-tall tree and nightly snowfall shows.<\/p>\n

Over at Gardens by the Bay<\/span><\/a>, the second annual Christmas Train Show is chugging around the Flower Dome (until January 4), taking visitors on a festive voyage across the United States, Denmark and Singapore, the locations brought to life with miniature landscapes, heritage shophouses built with recycled material and Lego creations. One of the vehicles used this year is a G-scale SMRT train specially created to mark Singapore\u2019s<\/span><\/a> 60th anniversary. Multi-hued poinsettias and Christmas trees add to the festive cheer.<\/div>\n
On December 31, Singaporeans will be treated to day one of the Singland Festival, an indoor New Year celebration at the Marina Bay Sands featuring South Korean star Rain<\/span><\/a>. Fellow singers Henry Lau, Ne-Yo and Terry Lin will feature on January 2 and 3. The new year itself will be ushered in with Marina Bay\u2019s legendary fireworks display.<\/div>\n

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The Giant Lantern Festival is a regular Christmas attraction in San Fernando, in the Philippines. Photo:Getty Images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Christmas is big in the Philippines, a predominantly Christian country, and nowhere more so than San Fernando, in Pampanga province.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n


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