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Traditional New Year gifts draining savings of Chinese working class |
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Having spent the whole year slaving away on his farm in north China's Hebei Province for a mere 3,000 yuan (375 U.S. dollars), Liu Zhenfeng found himself giving away a third of his annual income during the Spring |
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Exchange Spring Festival goods online |
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With the Spring Festival coming to end, many citizens have become busy with the barter of unused festival goods online.
Changsha Evening News reports most goods waiting for exchange are gifts presented by |
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China's highways carry 227 million passengers during week-long Spring Festival holiday |
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China's highways carried 227 million passengers during the past Spring Festival holiday week, when millions of Chinese moved for family gatherings and tourist trips.
The number of travelers rose 11. |
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Consumption craze during China's Spring Festival |
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China's Spring Festival is not only an occasion for families and friends to get together to ring in the Lunar New Year, it's also a huge boost for business as many Chinese were caught in a consumption craze. The |
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Survey: most Taiwanese stay at home during Spring Festival |
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More than 70 percent of Taiwanese spent their nine-day-long Chinese New Year, or Spring Festival, at home, while some 25 percent chose to travel, according to a local survey.
The latest survey |
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Casualties of fireworks total 663 in Beijing during Spring Festival |
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Casualties of fireworks totaled 663 including one death in Beijing in the Chinese Lunar New Year celebrations, according to the municipal health authorities.
Improper use of fireworks was blamed |
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1st special train for migrant workers leaves Chengdu |
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New Year wishes |
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A woman prepares to throw a coin attached to a wish ribbon to a new year good luck tree, Feb. 23, 2007, on the sixth day of the Lunar New Year holiday at Yuyuan Garden, one of the most popular tourist spots in Shanghai, China.
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Traditional culture shown at temple fairs |
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Visiting temple fairs, or "Miaohui" in Chinese, is one of the most important traditional activities during the Spring Festival holidays, as various kinds of traditional craftworks and performances are shown to the visitors at the temple |
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Traditional celebration of Spring Festival |
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Hello Kitty greets Spring Festival |
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Temple fair performers |
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Performers wear traditional costumes during a temple fair in Beijing held to celebrate the new Chinese lunar year, February 20, 2007.
(Source: Reuters)
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Chinese Indonesians celebrate lunar new year in style |
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The ethnic Chinese communities throughout Indonesia celebrated Chinese Lunar New Year in style and attracted lots of local people to join in.
Hundreds of thousands of Chinese Indonesians visited |
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London marks Chinese New Year in style |
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The first day of the Chinese Year of the Pig was celebrated in spectacular style in London when parade and festival transforms Chinatown, central London's Leicester Square and Trafalgar Square on Sunday.
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Malaysian PM wishes Chinese Malaysians happy new year |
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Malaysian Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi on Sunday attended the Chinese Lunar New Year open house hosted by the largest ethnic Chinese political party in this country.
A smiling Badawi in |
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Ethnic Chinese celebrate new year throughout Indonesia |
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Ethnic Chinese communities throughout Indonesia celebrated Chinese New Year on Sunday by visiting temples for praying to their ancestors and gods.
In Jakarta, Dharma Bhakti, Sam Njan Kiong and |
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Myanmar-Chinese celebrate spring festival |
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Some joyful young men and children in small groups were beating up their big and small drums and making house-to-house calls with lion dances performances in the streets to bless for wealth of the local Chinese |
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Chinese communities in S California celebrate Lunar New Year |
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Chinese communities in Southern California celebrated Lunar New Year on Saturday, ushering in the year of the pig.
The pig is the last of the 12 animals in the Chinese zodiac. This year is a |
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