New Year bittersweet for China's families
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ZHUANGCUN, China  - Nothing is more important to Yangyang than being with family to ring in China's Lunar New Year, but sometimes she feels the annual reunion is more bitter than sweet.
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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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PATONG BEACH, Thailand  - People held candles and  white roses on the tsunami-hit island of Phuket, tearfully  embracing as they grieved, in a poignant symbol of the mood  which darkened New Year celebrations across the globe.
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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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China&#39;s Olympic team returned home on Tuesday to a hero&#39;s welcome and dedicated its medals to &#39;the motherland&#39;, as the country swelled with nationalistic pride and vowed to host a &#39;glorious&#39; Games in 2008.
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By Ellen Whyte  WHEN the family is gathered together to celebrate Chinese New Year this weekend, young adults looking for a little postprandial rest away from noisy junior members might want to venture into online treasure hunt.
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A Kentucky widow, moved by the cries of grief she heard in reports about the tsunami disaster in south Asia, invited her entire town to a New Year's Eve bash to raise money for the victims. In California, a college offered free basketball tickets, with a gift for relief efforts the only price of admission.
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China is preparing to mark Sunday the centenary of the birth of Deng Xiaoping, the father of the country's modernization drive, with a flurry of nationalistic and party celebrations.
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BEIJING -- One by one, the mourners pinned on white flowers and stepped into the Beijing courtyard home where China's purged Communist Party chief Zhao Ziyang lived under house arrest for almost 16 years.
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Millions remained stranded in  China on Monday ahead of the biggest holiday of the year as  parts of the country suffered their coldest winter in a  century.
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China's parliament will decide next week whether to allow greater democracy in Hong Kong, but no one in the liberal camp is expecting a surprise Christmas present from the Communist rulers in Beijing.
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Normally exuberant New Year&#39;s celebrations will be tempered by thoughts for victims of south Asia&#39;s tsunami, as several cities worldwide cancel parties and Australia hopes to lead a global minute of silence.
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BEIJING -- The Year of the Pig has turned into the year of the baby.
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As unusually cold weather blankets much of central and southern China in snow and closes roads, one student had a bright idea about how to get home for the Lunar New Year holiday -- he would ski.
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GUANGZHOU, China  - Millions of Chinese shivered through power cuts and water shortages on Wednesday and millions more were stranded by snow ahead of what for some is the only holiday of the year.
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China warned Saturday the worst was not over in its national weather crisis as desperate holiday travellers jammed transport hubs and others endured bitter winter storms without power or water.
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In a generation, a rough-and-tumble form of capitalism is eclipsing the remnants of socialism in China.