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Hand-carved mahjong tiles are a dying craft in Hong Kong

Mahjong tile-making is a dying craft in an era of mass-produced tiles for the table-top game, popular in China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan.

Arts and Books

Chinese students weight gain Lunar New Year

Chinese students threatened with ‘forced exercise’ if they gain weight during Lunar New Year

One student said it would be difficult to avoid gaining weight during holidays because it's the time people eat a lot and do little exercise.

Human Interest

China to mark Year of the Pig with ‘Peppa Pig’ movie

China is set to mark the Year of the Pig with a film starring "Peppa Pig," the popular cartoon character that fell foul with its censors.

Celebrations and Festivals Just In People

Lunar New Year goes global, thanks to travel

Spring Festival has become a golden week for global tourism, with Chinese travellers this year visiting at least 800 destinations in more than 70 countries and regions in Asia, North America, Europe and Australia during the seven-day break, according to a new report.

Travel

Lunar New Year promo at Marco Polo Ortigas

Celebrate the Lunar New Year and welcome the Year of the Fire Monkey at Marco Polo Ortigas Manila on Feb. 5-9.

Food Headlines

Peping Cojuangco et al.–they’re now irrelevant

Your mantra for the week: “Everything I do excels in a magnificent way.” This is the first Sunday of the...

Columns Featured Columns

Year of the Sheep won’t be baaa-d, fortune tellers say

The Year of the Horse brought catastrophic international air accidents, brutal terror attacks, global political upheaval, a resurgent Ebola virus and war -- and, in Hong Kong, large-scale civil unrest.

American lobster: the new Chinese New Year delicacy

Now on the menu in Beijing for Chinese New Year: lots and lots of American lobster.

Food

Firecrackers explode as Filipino-Chinese perform the dragon dance in celebration of the Chinese New Year at Manila's Chinatown district Monday. Jan. 23, 2012. in the Philippines. This year is the Year of the Dragon in the Chinese calendar. AP PHOTO/BULLIT MARQUEZ

Big Yang Theory: Chinese year of the sheep or the goat?

Sheep or goat? China's coming lunar new year has stirred a debate over which zodiac creature is the correct one -- but Chinese folklorists dismiss the fixation on animals as missing the point.

Filipino expat looks back on 14 lunar new years in China

It has been 42 years since my first Chinese New Year in Beijing. And 28 years since my last in the Chinese capital, as I, with my husband Mario and our two Chinese-born daughters, returned to the Philippines in 1986 right after the first Edsa People Power Revolution that brought down the Marcos dictatorship.

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