Baba Nyonya family ushers in Lunar New Year with RM20,000 fireworks display


MELAKA: A prominent Baba Nyonya community member is set to usher in the Year of the Horse with a RM20,000 fireworks display on the eve of the Lunar New Year, continuing a Peranakan tradition his family here has upheld for generations.

Mike Thein said the fireworks, which arrived on Monday (Jan 26), were purchased through contributions from all his family members and will be set off at an open area near his ancestral home in Pulau Gadong here during the annual reunion dinner.

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