Chinese Hit the Rails for Lunar New Year
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They swamp the rails every year &#151; millions of travelers who brave crowds, germs, pickpockets and hours of standing on lurching trains to make it home for China's biggest family holiday.
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BANGKOK, Thailand -- A coordinated string of at least 29 bomb blasts in Thailand's largely Muslim south may have been timed for the start of Lunar New Year festivities and intended to frighten ethnic Chinese traders as part of a campaign to damage the economy, a military spokesman said this week.
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Millions of Chinese workers, many headed home for the New Year's holiday, face delays amid some of the country's worst weather in the last 50 years.
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Millions of Chinese migrant workers remain separated from families as the Lunar New Year starts.
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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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China will launch its first unmanned mission to the Moon later this year, a senior space official confirms.
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China is preparing for the take-off of its first Moon probe, weeks after rival Japan launched a lunar explorer.
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China&#039;s first train from Beijing to Tibet zipped past coal country and farm fields Sunday, turning farmers&#039; heads while making the slow climb to the Himalayan region&#039;s forbiddingly high Tanggula Pass.
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Asians burned incense in temples thick with clouds of eye-stinging smoke and gathered for feasts of chicken, hot pots and dumplings Sunday as they celebrated the first day of the Lunar New Year, ushering in the Year of the Pig.
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WENGXIANG, China  - Millions of Chinese began the biggest holiday of the year without power on Wednesday but tens of thousands of stranded passengers had found trains, buses and planes to get back home for family reunions.
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China readied to launch its  first moon orbiter on Wednesday accompanied by a blaze of  patriotic propaganda celebrating the country's space ambitions  and technological prowess.
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Snow and ice storms have stranded hundreds of thousands of people Â most of them migrant workers hoping to leave for the Chinese New Year Â and more blizzards threatened Monday to wreck what for many is a rare chance to see family.
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China is not yet over the worst of a  winter weather crisis that has killed 60 and doomed millions to  a cold dark Lunar New Year holiday next week.
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Beijing, in solidarity with millions of people facing the Lunar New Year without power, will turn off thousands of "holiday lights" lining the capital's main streets each night an hour earlier than usual.
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By Kris Sherman, The News Tribune, Tacoma, Wash.  Feb. 18--Sometime in this new Year of the Pig, which begins today, Tacoma residents will be able to walk the pathways of Chinese Reconciliation Park.
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China launched its first lunar probe Wednesday, an initial step in an ambitious 10-year plan to send a rover to the moon and return it to Earth.
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Hundreds of thousands of desperate travelers pushed their way onto trains Thursday as service resumed after the worst winter storms in decades paralyzed China