A Chinese kite festival is planned Friday to Sunday at the Wo Hing Museum, 858 Front St., in Lahaina. The festivities will lift off from 2 to 8 p.m. Friday with interactive martial arts and Chinese ...

The festive cheer of Makar Sankranti stood overshadowed by at least four deaths today that were caused by illegal glass coated nylon kite strings.

Two villages in Punjab's Sangrur and Bathinda districts have implemented a ban on kite flying and sales due to accidents ...

A class 10 student died after sustaining a deep cut on the neck by a Chinese kite string in Ludhiana’s Samrala on Saturday, ...

WEIFANG, China (AP) — More than 1,000 kites filled the skies of Weifang, an eastern Chinese coastal city that touts itself as the “kite capital of the world,” on Saturday. Locals say there is nothing ...

Two gram panchayats in Sangrur and Bathinda districts in Punjab have decided to ban kite flying in their villages in the wake ...

According to eyewitnesses, the plastic thread, flying in the wind, wrapped around Sarabjit Kaur’s neck near a gurdwara, ...

Police in Hyderabad have registered a case following the death of a young girl in Kukatpally after a Chinese kite string, ...

Despite the ban, Chinese manja is being used rampantly for flying kites during the Sankranti festival season.