Spring Festival

GANSU

Officials chided for taking too many days off for Lunar New Year

19 Feb 2013

Long holidays can sometimes be too much of a good thing – as officials from Gansu and Hunan provinces are now learning.

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Talking points: Macau corruption trial, Delhi rape, Lionel Messi, IMF Cairo visit

7 Jan 2013

Macau begins corruption trial of HK tycoons

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Discovering the joys of volunteering

16 Mar 2010

Sue Guan, Yan Danbin and Zheng Jihu are students at Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine. Before the winter holiday, their university sought student volunteers to help maintain order at...

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New eras

1 Feb 2009

The Lunar New Year is also known in Putonghua as Yuan Duan, which means beginning and morning. Thus, the new moon in the first lunar month of the year heralds a new cycle, starting at dawn.

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Stressed out

5 Feb 2003

The Spring Festival is a time of happy reunions when family and friends return to their home villages from the cities where they make their living during the rest of the year. But it is also a...

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Ticket-scalping thrives despite armed police

21 Jan 2001

At Beijing's main railway station in Dongcheng district, travellers bundled up in padded winter coats carrying makeshift luggage try to avoid police while negotiating exorbitant prices for black-...

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