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		<title>Lunar New Year 2012: Family Matters &#8211; Comedy, Feasting and Mahjong</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Feb 2012 15:43:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eva Tam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hong Kong &#8212; For Twinko Li and her family, the Lunar New Year in Hong Kong means feasting, visiting relatives and taking in a slapstick festive film. The Li family is not unusual. The Lunar New Year is by far the biggest festival in the calendar and it is a rare Hong Kong family that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lunar New Year 2012 – Fortune-Tellers Prosper As Festivities Approach</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Feb 2012 14:58:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paola Barisani</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hong Kong &#8212; In the lead-up to the Lunar New Year, it is a common practice in the city to consult a fortune teller. “One month before Chinese New Year is one of the busiest period of the year,” fortune-teller John Choi Wai-Hung said. “People ask for their individual year fortune forecast to know what [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lunar New Year 2012: Six Signs That It&#8217;s Lunar New Year&#8217;s Day in Hong Kong</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Feb 2012 15:50:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carmen Bat</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hong Kong &#8212; There&#8217;s no mistaking the occasion. The streets are quiet. Flower trucks abound. Large open areas sprout pop-up stalls and holiday-makers. Six signs that it&#8217;s Lunar New Year&#8217;s Day in Hong Kong: Sign 1: The town is painted red &#8212; literally Most of the decorations during the festival are in red, the luckiest [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lunar New Year 2012: Noodles and a Phone Call &#8211; The Loneliness of the Late Train Home</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Feb 2012 15:44:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>He Yujia and Lareina Choong</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Beijing &#8212; Hailed as the largest annual human migration in the world, this year&#8217;s Chunyun or &#8220;Spring Festival travel&#8221; was no exception. The nightmare of simply getting a seat on a train or a plane was compounded by new anti-scalping rules requiring buyers to register their names. For many Chinese seeking to get home in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lunar New Year 2012: People Flooding to Temple on New Year&#8217;s Eve</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Feb 2012 15:43:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cherry Yu</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; Jiangxi-At midnight on new year’s eve, the medium-sized temple-Dongyue Temple-at Shangrao city, Jiangxi Province, were crowded with more than 100 people burning incense and making vows to the buddha. It is an old tradition in China that those who burn incense earlier in the new year will be blessed with better fortune. Therefore, although [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lunar New Year 2012: Rent Hikes, Cold Snap Spell Woe for Seasonal Flower Vendors</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Feb 2012 15:35:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ellen Cheung</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hong Kong &#8212; The four days leading up to the Lunar New Year holiday are make or break for flower vendor Ng Donoan. That&#8217;s when he makes the bulk of his sales of flowers, a vital part of the holiday festivities. But this year, higher rents and chilly temperatures threaten to eat into his profits. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lunar New Year 2012: Indian Chinese Celebrate Their Heritage</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Feb 2012 15:08:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Suhani Jain</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Delhi &#8212; While Delhi prepared to celebrate India&#8217;s Republic Day this January, a small community in the capital held its own celebrations. Lunar New Year for the city&#8217;s Chinese community was a small, but memorable affair. The Chinese Embassy held its annual New Year for expatriates and the Chinese community about 10 days before the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lunar New Year 2012: Ancient Rites Dominate at Zhenjiang&#8217;s Jinshan Temple</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Feb 2012 15:01:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>By Carol Song Yang</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Zhenjiang, Jiangsu Province — Lunar New Year is not only about food, fireworks and family gatherings. Worship plays an important part of the festival. Join visitors to the Jinshan Temple, as they gather to pray for prosperity in the Year of the Dragon: Click on the arrows on the bottom left to progress through the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lunar New Year 2012: Decorating Osaka during the Lunar New Year</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Feb 2012 14:56:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jchua</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Osaka, Japan &#8212; Gearing up for the Lunar New Year in Japan:         CNY Lucky Sign in Doorway of Osaka Restaurant]]></description>
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		<title>Lunar New Year 2012: Celebrating the Lunar New Year in Suzhou</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Feb 2012 14:54:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>fengzhaozhao</dc:creator>
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