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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 ...

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The highlight of the festival comes at midnight with a “bun-scrambling” competition, where climbers race up a tower covered with plastic buns. Whoever gets the most buns of greatest value wins ...

The highlight of the festival comes at midnight with a "bun-scrambling" competition, where climbers race up a tower covered with plastic buns. Whoever gets the most buns of greatest value wins the ...

The festival culminated in a late-night scramble by competitors up a precipitous 18-metre “bun tower” made from imitation buns. Around 1,650 spectators watched 12 finalists – nine men and ...

A participant performs lion dance in the Piu Sik Parade at the Bun Festival (Photo: AP) Hong Kong: Crowds gathered on Cheung Chau Island to take part in the city’s famed Bun Festival, a vibrant ...

The climax of the festival comes at midnight, when contestants climb a 14-metre-high tower covered in buns – hoping to be crowned “King of Kings” or “Queen of Queens”. Among those ...