Chinese crowds greet the New Year with a bang
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Bright, deafening explosions and thick smoke covered China's capital at midnight, as Beijingers celebrated the beginning of the New Year and the end of a firework ban in exuberant fashion.
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Chen Yan waves at a crowd of onlookers bemused at seeing China&#39;s late helmsman, Mao Zedong, brought back to life by a middle-aged woman.
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London's 60,000-strong Chinese community have ushered in the Year of the Pig with a colourful Lunar New Year parade, dancing and fireworks in the heart of the British capital.
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China marks the arrival of the New Year, with the golden pig year seen as being particularly auspicious.
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Snow storms and heavy rain leave hundreds of thousands stranded in China ahead of New Year celebrations.
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China marked the 100th anniversary of the birth of its late leader Deng Xiaoping Sunday with a celebration attended by top party officials in Beijing.
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Watch Chinese state television or read  the main Communist Party newspapers and the whole nation  appears to be pulling together to battle heavy snow which has  stranded millions ahead of the Lunar New Year.
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Brutal winter weather has wracked China's central, eastern and southern sections, stranding hundreds of thousands of travelers ahead of next week's Lunar New Year holiday.
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Chinese shares continue their breakneck surge, pushing the main stock index past the 4,000 mark for the first time.
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As China marks the centenary of the birth of its late supreme leader Deng Xiaoping, the Chinese press lavishes praise on his achievements.
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The Chinese New Year is a week old now and slowly life is getting back to normal in China. Even the firecrackers will stop waking me up at 6 in the morning, at least that&#8217;s what I hope. It&#8217;s the year of the golden pig, supposedly a lucky year to have a baby and I [...]
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Across the globe, people gathered for parties, shot off fireworks and held out hopes for a peaceful and prosperous 2008
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The first airliner from Taiwan to land in Beijing in more than 55 years touched down in the Chinese capital on Saturday to fanfare as part of special charter flights between the arch-foes for the Chinese Lunar New Year.
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ZHENGZHOU, China -- A tide of more than 30,000 students with polished rÃÂ©sumÃÂ©s and high hopes surged into a job fair here so eager to meet with employers that they shattered four glass doors and splayed the side walls of an escalator in what became a near riot.
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China's leaders celebrated the traditional Lunar New Year festival by visiting poor residents in the country's backwoods and claiming their policies have begun to raise people's lives, state media reported on Sunday.
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China&#39;s month-long celebration of the birth centenary of its late leader Deng Xiaoping, chief architect of the country&#39;s reform and opening up drive, reached its climax Sunday
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China's capital has special reason to celebrate the New Year -- against all the odds, it managed to reach its goal of 227 days with clear air in 2004, the China Daily said on Friday.