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What are you doing for Lunar New Year in Shanghai?

| xianzai.com

What are you doing for Lunar New Year in Shanghai?


Mail delivery arrangements for the Lunar New Year holiday

Fri, 9 Feb 2007 09:00:00 +0800 | hongkongpost.com

Hongkong Post announced today (February 9) that during the coming Lunar New Year holidays from February 17 to 20, there would be one mail delivery on Saturday, February 17 (the day preceding Lunar New Year's Day).


Chinese share prices surge to new record (AP)

Fri, 16 Feb 2007 09:19:05 GMT | Yahoo! News

In this photo released by China's Xinhua News Agency, local people choose food for Spring Festival, the annual week-long holiday which marks the Lunar New Year, which begins on Feb. 18, at a market in Yinchuan, the capital of northwest China's Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, Thursday, Feb. 15, 2007. (AP Photo/Xinhua, Liu Quanlong)AP - Shanghai's benchmark stock index surged past the psychological benchmark of 3,000 to a new record Friday, though share prices later fell back to close only marginally higher amid renewed profit-taking.




Chinese New Year: Indonesia

Sun, 18 Feb 2007 00:35:52 +0000 | Indonesia Logue

Today is Chinese New Year, or Imlek, throughout Indonesia and the world. The Chinese communities in the major cities throughout Indonesia, Jakarta, Semarang, Surabaya, Bandung and Yogyakarta, will be holding street parades featuring Barong Sai and many more puppets dancing in the streets and in klentengs (Chinese temples). To all my Chinese friends in Indonesia, and [...]


Chinese crowds greet the New Year with a bang (Reuters)

Sun, 18 Feb 2007 07:39:13 GMT | Yahoo! News

Worshippers burn incense at the Longtou Temple in southwest China's Chongqing Municipality on the first day of the new Chinese lunar year February 18, 2007. Chinese around the world welcomed the Lunar New Year which is believed to be an especially auspicious 'golden pig year', which only comes around every 60 years. CHINA OUT (China Daily/Reuters)Reuters - Bright, deafening explosions and thick smoke covered China's capital at midnight, as Beijingers celebrated the beginning of the New Year and the end of a firework ban in exuberant fashion.



Enter the Chinese Year of the Pig. You're in luck!

Mon, 19 Feb 2007 14:00:00 +0000 | Newsvine China

Happy Chinese New Year! Some celebrate the Chinese New Year by attending a lavish, $500-a-plate ball. Others like to eat dumplings and observe the pageantry. And for a few women, the Year of the Pig promises such good luck, they plan to become pregnant.


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