21. Even when people buy paper lanterns, many are from mainland China, where labor costs are much cheaper. 22. In another memorial Saturday night, the Association for Preventive Medicine sponsored a release of floating paper lanterns on the Tanshui River. 23. In years past, paper lanterns representing the departing spirits were set afloat on rivers or streams on the final night of O-bon. 24. Paper lanterns hang by the hundred, and artworks of split bamboo line the streets. 25. Traditional paper lanterns made by school children will line the Singapore River and many other parts of the tropical city, not just China Town, Yeo said. 26. A huge Christmas tree stood in the front yard, bright paper lanterns and tinsel were strung across the walls. 27. Carrying flickering paper lanterns, women activists led by Amnesty International held a procession here Thursday, demanding that political prisoners around the world be freed. |