La Chine entame la saison des voyages de 40 jours des vacances les plus longues de l'année

 

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Chine : Wuhan fête le Nouvel an lunaire avec un spectacle de lumière - video

 

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China: Foreign leaders send Lunar New Year greetings

Foreign leaders around the world sent their greetings and good wishes to Chinese celebrating the Chinese New Year, expressing their will to further develop relations with China.

Greeks celebrate Chinese New Year in Athens

Greeks joined their Chinese friends living in Athens on Saturday in celebrations ahead of the Chinese New Year, or Spring Festival, sending warm wishes to China for a prosperous and peaceful year.

Snowfall disrupts Spring Festival travel in NE China

Snow disrupted the trips of Spring Festival travellers in northeast China on Thursday, causing multiple accidents and temporary closure of an airport and expressways.

Chinese Lunar New Year : Travel peak comes as Chinese go home for Spring Festival

Chinese authorities have forecast a peak travel rush in the second week of China's 40-day "Chunyun," starting Friday, as many Chinese people are rushing back home for the Spring Festival.

Austrian police have arrested nine Iraqi asylum seekers on charges of drugging and raping a German tourist during New Year’s Eve celebrations.

The suspects were arrested during August 13-14 raids in Vienna and two other Austrian provinces. Aged 21-47, the men are either refugees or asylum seekers.

Thousands pay homage in Mao’s hometown during Spring Festival

More than 70,000 people traveled to the hometown of late Chinese leader Mao Zedong in Shaoshan, Central China's Hunan Province during the Spring Festival as part of a local tradition to pay tribute to the Great Helmsman at the start of each lunar year.

Fireworks, Parades Begin Chinese Year of the Monkey

Celebrations are kicking off around the world to mark the new Chinese year - the Year of the Monkey.

Tibetan Buddhists Receive Blessings ahead of Losar

Large crowds of Tibetan Buddhists gathered at a prominent monastery in the holy city of Lhasa on Friday to receive blessings in a centuries-old religious ritual, a prelude for celebrations of the Losar, or Tibetan New Year.

The way to welcome traditional New Year of Asia countries

Each country has different customs to welcome Tet Holiday, such as, Thailand people always throw water together to get lucks, Chinese people eat foods with the meaning of longevity and Vietnamese people clean their houses, buy salt, and go to pagoda to pray luckiness and happiness for their family.

Tibetans in Yunnan Give Up Wearing Animal Skins, Burn Valuable Furs (VIDEO)

Tibetan villagers living in the southwestern Chinese province of Yunnan have marked the beginning of the Lunar New Year by vowing to give up the wearing of animal furs and by burning those already in their possession, sources said.