Lunar New Year ; Festival-Goers Were Seeing Red
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By RACHEL SLAJDA  QUINCY  Red, the color of prosperity and success, is central to Asian New Year celebrations, at which red lanterns are strung and money is given in red envelopes. Said to fend off evil spirits and bad fortune, it is the luckiest of colors.
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Britain's cities are preparing to mark  the New Year with firework displays, concerts and sports  events, but the celebrations will be overshadowed by the Asian  tsunami disaster.
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Millions of revellers were celebrating the first night of the holiday last night.
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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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A TRADITIONAL Oriental ritual helped to dispel
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Authorities around the Asian region battered by the quake-tsunami tragedy that killed some 120,000 people scaled back or canceled celebrations Friday to mark the New Year.
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Deal for lunar New Year holidays allows nonstop travel for first time since 1949.
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All you need to know as the year-long festival begins
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Outdoor New Year celebrations will go ahead as planned as forecasters say the night should be dry.
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Musical lunarcy China has celebrated today's Moon Festival by releasing a list of ditties to be broadcast back to Earth from its Moon-probing satellite due for launch in 2007, Reuters reports.â¦
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WASHINGTON -- The color red is always popular during the holidays. But this season, (RED) is even hotter.
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Religious, secular, inclusive, traditional: It's turning out to be an intense year in the debate over how to celebrate.
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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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CHENZHOU, China  - The thunder of firecrackers ushered in the Year of the Rat on Thursday, but millions of Chinese were spending a cold holiday as repair teams battled to restore power knocked out by the worst snow storms in a century.
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Chinese entertainers in lion costumes perform outside a temple fair to celebrate the coming of spring in Beijing Tuesday. Asians flocked to temples, parks and Disneyland on Sunday to pray, play, eat and celebrate the first day of the Lunar New Year, ushering in the Year of the Pig.
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As tourism makes a slow comeback in Indian Kashmir, authorities in the bloodied region are wooing visitors with Christmas and New Year celebrations, the first since a violent separatist revolt began 15 years ago.
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Millions of people across the UK celebrate the New Year, with the biggest events in London and Edinburgh.