Broncos Cheerleaders head to Hong Kong for Chinese New.
Facebook �� Twitter �� Google �� LinkedIn �� Pinterest �� Email. The Denver Broncos Cheerleaders were selected to represent the United States in the 20th annual Cathay Pacific Lunar New Year celebration beginning on Feb. 19.
Image of the Day: January 31
. Members of the Chinese community performing a lion dance as part of Chinese New Year celebrations in Kolkata, West Bengal.
Special Parking Rules in New York City
Because of the Asian Lunar New Year, alternate-side street-cleaning regulations will be suspended on Monday in New York City. Other regulations will remain in effect.
Shanghai Dampens LUNAR NEW YEAR Events After Deadly Stampede
Officials have put the brakes on some popular Chinese New Year events in big cities in the wake of a deadly stampede in Shanghai last month, leaving some observers complaining of a dampened mood and a kill-joy bureaucracy. Shanghai canceled its .
Dragons, Dancing Ones, Set Off a Riot in China
At least a dozen people were injured during a riot that began when the police tried to stop a Lunar New Year procession in rural Guizhou Province.
Kicking Off the Lunar New Year
. A firecracker festival in Roosevelt Park in Manhattan’s Chinatown on Friday is one of many events this weekend to mark the beginning of the Year of the Horse.
Pet Owners Brace for Chinese New Year Fireworks
. Although Lunar New Year fireworks are considered a sound of celebration and a deterrent to evil spirits, many pet owners say their dogs and cats are terrified during the two-week barrage of pyrotechnics.
Year of the Ox Is Looking Inauspicious
Projections from astrologers (and bankers) for the Chinese Lunar New Year, which began on Monday, are gloomy.
Outfitted for the LUNAR NEW YEAR: Celebrate in Red and Gold
Valentines Day isnt the only holiday coming up this month��� no, not by a long shot. While a great many of us toasted to the new year on January 1st, a very large portion of the world will be celebrating the Lunar New Year��.
Dance Listings for Jan. 20-26
A selected guide to dance performances in New York and the area.
Heat map captures massive Chinese New Year migration - AOL.com
Thats the tradition of us northern Chinese. The interactive has been employed for more than details on holiday travel. Last Lunar New Year season, some media outlets suggested, rather dubiously, that many of the bright lines on the map emanating.
Hong Kong running out of flu drug as LUNAR NEW YEAR looms
Urgent stocktakes ordered at public hospitals ahead of new year holiday.
The Lyricism of Chinese New Year
The New York Philharmonic gala at Avery Fisher Hall on Tuesday night included the pianist Lang Lang, the conductor Long Yu and a Mongolian children’s choir.. Steve Smith reviews Chinese New Year performance hosted by the New York Philharmonic at Avery Fisher Hall, with guest stars the Quintessenso Mongolian Childrens Choir and pianist Lang Lang, conducted by Long Yu.
Chinese New Year in Portland features lantern viewing in.
Edward Hemmings, Director of Facilities and Safety, hangs red lanterns that will remain up for two weeks after February 19, Chinese New Years Day. Lan Su Chinese Garden prepares for the Year of the Ram. They had a��.
What to do, see and eat for Chinese New Year
The annual turning of the Chinese calendar, giving birth to a new lunar year, brings out some of the most festive celebrations. Ring in the Year of the Sheep/Goat in true tradition! By the time the clock strikes midnight on Thursday, Feb. 19, the party.
For Chinese, biggest meal of the year goes West
The Lunar New Year, also known as Spring Festival in China, is the most important holiday in the Chinese calendar and the reunion dinner, held on New Years Eve, is the occasion for family members to get together to usher in the new year. In the.
Feeling For | Gerard Tullys Snake Ring
. Bring in Chinese New Year with this 18-karat solid yellow gold bauble.
Chinatown shines amid Lunar New Year festivities
If not, you better hurry up. The Chinese Lunar New Year has begun. The celebration started Wednesday night when thousands of Chinese throughout the city ��� and millions throughout the world ��� rang in The Year of the Sheep with lots of food and.
Celebrating Lunar New Year
19, millions of people will celebrate Chinese New Year, more accurately and correctly referred to as the Lunar New Year or the Spring Festival. This holiday is a celebration of family and human connections, of those alive and those who have passed away.
The Year Of The Ram: How To Celebrate The Lunar New.
Its the year of the ram! February 19 marks the Chinese or Lunar New Year, and since Southern Brooklyn is home to a large Chinese-American community, there will be many opportunities to celebrate this lively cultural event.
For the Holidays, Hong Kong Decks Its Skyscrapers in Lights
Owners of dozens of buildings across the city drape the exteriors with enormous displays for Christmas, New Year and the Lunar New Year — an expense that appears to be downturn-proof.. Owners of dozens of buildings across Hong Kong drape exteriors with enormous light displays for Christmas, New Year and Lunar New Year--expense that appears to be downturn-proof.
Not to Everyones Taste
HONG KONG - For weeks now, in the prelude to the Lunar New Year holiday that started Monday in Asia, the ramshackle restaurants along Nhât Tân Street in Hanoi have been jammed with patrons. Happens every New Year. The menus feature meat prepared seven different ways, and the meals, which typically cost about $15, almost always include heroic drinking bouts with rice wine or the local turpentine called ruou.. HONG KONG --- Lunar New Year celebrations have begun all across Asia, and in some places the weeklong festivities include hearty meals of dog meat. While the tradition of eating dog persists, notably in northern Vietnam and southern China, it also seems to be in general decline throughout the region.
Its Chinese New Year: A financial astrologer predicts 2015
A man takes a picture of a hand-made decorative lion head in Hong Kong on February 9, 2015, during an exhibition about the traditional lion dance which is performed in many countries of Asia during the Chinese New Year. Photograph by Philippe Lopez .
Fireworks Fly On Hudson River For Chinese LUNAR NEW YEAR
NEW YORK (CBSNewYork/AP) ��� Fireworks were set off in the Hudson River Tuesday evening in celebration of the Chinese Lunar New Year. The Grucci and Barbash families of Long Island lit up the sky with a colorful display on Tuesday near the Chinese .
CY Leung and his wife are mocked in Hong Kongs Lunar.
The markets are taking place in 15 parks and playgrounds across the city until the early hours of next Thursday, the first day of the Lunar New Year. This article appeared in the South China Morning Post print edition as Leung��.
Hong Kong Holiday Makeover, in Lights
. Hong Kong goes into overdrive for the holiday season, as Christmas lights morph into Chinese New Year lights.
LUNAR NEW YEAR drives gold to a 6-week low
���While current drivers like the uncertainty related to Greece and the dollar could sway it both ways, the upcoming Chinese Lunar New Year has the potential for reducing demand and hence, support,��� said Ole Hansen, head of commodity strategy at Saxo.
Pianist Jiaxin Tian Headlines Carnegie Hall Chinese New.
On February 18, 27-year-old Steinway Artist Jiaxin Tian will perform a Chinese New Years concert at Carnegie Hall.
Chinese New Year celebrations in NYC
Bundle up, bring your confetti, and check out Chinatowns 19th annual Lunar New Year Parade for exotic visual performances, floats, cultural dances, and classic food. People of all ages are welcome, so go, enjoy, and help ring in the Year of the Sheep.
Shanghai Doctor Dies of Bird Flu
. Investigators are trying to determine if the doctor had contact with poultry or live birds, as in most previous H7N9 cases, or if he might have contracted the disease from a patient.
Santa Clarita Public Library Hosts Chinese Lunar New Year Celebration
The Santa Clarita Public Library, in partnership with the Friends of Santa Clarita Public Library and Santa Clarita Valley Chinese School, will host a Chinese Lunar New Year Celebration from 1:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. on Sunday, February 22, 2015 at the .
Miniature goats for Lunar New Year
Taiwanese artist Chen Forng-shean celebrates the Year of the Goat by delicately carving miniatures of the animal onto pencil tips. Rough cut (no reporter narration).
Ash Wednesday trumped by Chinese New Year
In view of the celebration of the Chinese Lunar New Year, its cultural and spiritual importance and the traditional practices with it, we therefore grant dispensation from the obligation of fasting and abstinence, wrote Cardinal Luis Tagle of the.
Bill Proposes LUNAR NEW YEAR School Holiday
Monday marks the start of year 4710 on the Chinese calendar and year three of an effort by two New York lawmakers to give the citys children the day off from school, reports SchoolBook.. Two legislators introduced a measure to close public schools for the Chinese New Year in New York City, where one in six students is Asian.
Happy Chinese New Year 2015! | Human World | EarthSky
This years Chinese New Year - February 18-19 - rings in the Year of the Sheep (Goat, Ram). Gong Xi Fa Ca, yall.
Chinese steel trade already slowing ahead of LUNAR NEW YEAR
The exodus of Chinese steel traders towards their home towns for this years Chinese New Year holiday has already started, a week before the traditional Spring Festival celebrations (February 18-24) officially begin,��.
SETTV Holds LUNAR NEW YEAR Party with Plenty of Star.
Its Lunar New Year on February 19th this year, much later than the usual early February or late January dates during most years. Thats because the Lunar calender only has 30 days in every month so after a few years it gets��.
Chinese New Year Celebrations In Philadelphia 2015.
The Chinese New Year falls on Thursday, February 19 and brings a ton of festive events to Chinatown and beyond during the upcoming weeks. (Photo by M. Edlow.
Chinese New Year - Holidays - HISTORY.com
Find out more about the history of Chinese New Year, including videos, interesting articles, pictures, historical features and more. Get all the facts on HISTORY.com.
CCTV Appoints Hosts for LUNAR NEW YEAR Gala, With Some.
Lunar New Year celebrations in China are typically marked by travel back home, dumplings with family members and, on New Years Eve, the Spring Festival Gala on China Central Television. The state broadcaster, known as��.
Buffett Rings in Chinese New Year With a Serenade
Warren E. Buffett is many things, but a songster?. The Year of the Dragon, which began on Monday, has been good in the past for the shares of Berkshire Hathaway, Mr. Buffetts investment vehicle.
Celebrate the LUNAR NEW YEAR with Westfield MainPlace.
We are ringing in the Lunar New Year a few days early with a festive celebration at the Westfield MainPlace in Santa Ana. We were joined with festive cultural Korean and Vietnamese dancers and artwork. Nina Tran from the��.
China: Repairs on TV Tower to Begin Soon
Nearly nine months ago, a stray fireworks rocket set alight a 520-foot tower during Lunar New Year celebrations, destroying part of downtown Beijing’s massive new state television headquarters.
TimesCast | January 23, 2012
Egypt seats its new Parliament | Romney and Gingrich trade jabs before Mondays debate | China celebrates the Year of the Dragon.
Vivienne Tam prepares for Fashion Week and LUNAR NEW YEAR
Designer Vivienne Tam has a lot on her fashion plate. Not only is she showing off her latest line at New York Fashion Week Monday, but also shes prepping for Chinese New Year ��� the most important holiday on her native countrys calendar. As Tam puts .
See the People of Beijing Travel Home for the Chinese New Year
Getty Images photographer Kevin Frayer captures a busy train station in Beijing as Chinese get ready to travel home to visit families during the Spring Festival holiday period that begins with the Lunar new year celebrations on February 19. See the.
Chinese New Year 2015: A fortune tellers take on the economy
It seems that in the year of the goat, Chinas economy [will] still have some growth, but maybe slow down compared to last year -- not so strong, Wong said. This prediction appears to be right on the money. Chinas economy grew by 7.4% last year, and .
Holiday Parking
The Asian Lunar New Year has prompted a suspension of New York City street-cleaning rules.
Santa Clarita Public Library Hosts Chinese LUNAR NEW YEAR.
The Santa Clarita Public Library, in partnership with the Friends of Santa Clarita Public Library and Santa Clarita Valley Chinese School, will host a Chinese Lunar New Year Celebration from 1:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. on Sunday,��.
Chinese (Lunar) New Year 2015 events in Portland (PHOTOS)
If you want a taste of the Lunar New Year celebrations around town, heres your list.
Chinese new year 2015 ��� in numbers
The number of days most Chinese workers will get off work during the 40-day lunar new year period, giving them a rare chance to spend time with their families. At midnight on Wednesday, hundreds of millions of people will celebrate the end of the year.
From Chinese Students in Germany, a Technology Promise to the Motherland
. A letter exchange between President Xi Jinping of China and overseas Chinese students in Germany highlights what one Western intelligence analyst called a well-honed system to bring technology from the West to China by appealing to patriotism.