Here's when the Chinese New Year starts in 2025, how long it lasts, where the Lunar New Year is celebrated and your guide to ...

The Lunar New Year usually starts sometime between late January and mid-February. This year, the festivities begin on ...

As billions of people worldwide celebrate the Lunar New Year, astronauts aboard China's Tiangong space station sent home a holiday greeting.

In diaspora communities, particularly in cultural enclaves, Lunar New Year is visibly and joyfully celebrated. In the Chinese ...

Lunar New Year festivals and prayers are marking the start of the Year of the Snake around Asia and the world.

But for billions of people around the world who celebrate the Chinese New Year, also known as the Lunar New Year, festivities are about to begin. Here's everything to know about the 2025 Lunar New ...

Here’s what to know about Lunar New Year. Is Lunar New Year and Chinese New Year the same? Lunar New Year is widely celebrated throughout Asian communities and refers to the period between the ...

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Hundreds of millions of Chinese criss-cross the country during the Lunar New Year holidays each year to reunite with families back in their hometowns or for sight-seeing during an extended festive ...

As China celebrated the Lunar New Year, shoppers and travelers said they were feeling constrained by a slowdown in the ...

Lunar New Year — also commonly called Chinese New Year — marks the start ... thousands of years is that of Nian, a beast who ate human flesh on New Year’s Day. Nian was scared of the color ...