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Chinese New Year 2014: Welcome the Year of the Horse

Fireworks Display at Marina Bay

The Chinese New Year is China’s most important holiday. It is also known as the Spring Festival. Traditionally, the New Year period lasts for 15 days, starting from the middle of the last month and ends sometime in the middle of the first month. The holiday not only welcomes in the New Year, but is […]

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Welcome the Year of the Snake: Chinese New Year 2013 in Malaysia

New Year Shopping outside a shop in Chinatown, Kuala Lumpur

The Chinese New Year celebrations are considered to be the most important of all the traditional Chinese holidays and festivities. This event starts on the first day of the first month according to the Chinese lunisolar calendar (a calendar where dates indicate both the moon phase, and the time of the solar year); the celebration […]

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