With the Lunar New Year holidays in China starting Monday, a busy period for retailers as Chinese tourists to Japan increase around this time of year, concern is spreading among retail businesses over a lowering of Chinese consumers’ desire to spend money this year due to the slowdown of Chinese economic growth and the recent strengthening of the yen.
Mexico City officials are predicting Alfonso Cuaron’s film “Roma” will sweep the Academy Awards and are already planning a mass celebration.
In this year’s Dinagyang Festival, which people said was much grander, the Parade of Lights became the highlight at Megaworld Iloilo Business Park (IBP) in Iloilo City.
In the fighting arena that day, 124 camels wrestled each other in short duels — part of a centuries-old Turkish tradition.
Despite heavy afternoon downpour, participants in the grand street dance competition at this year’s Niyogyugan Festival strutted their way along Lucena City streets, showcasing the rich and colorful culture of the towns and cities of Quezon Province.
The Austrian National Day marked two important events: first, its centenary as a republic, and second, the 63rd anniversary of its adoption of the law of permanent neutrality.
In Vietnam’s “incense village,” dozens are hard at work drying and whittling down bamboo ahead of the busy lunar new year holiday.
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The horse race tradition started in the area more than a century ago and it was banned during the years of Communist rule.
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With the Year of the Pig just weeks away, pig-related products have become a popular item on Chinese people’s shopping lists for celebrating the upcoming Spring Festival.
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