Lunar New Year – Asia Times

New year in Seoul’s old heart

by Tom Coyner and Andrew Salmon February 15, 2021February 18, 2021

Gyeongbokgung – or Gyeongbok Palace – is arguably the most iconic site in Seoul, if not the Korean peninsula. As one of East Asia’s standout clusters of historic architecture, it is an appropriate site to welcome in the Lunar New Year. The “Palace Greatly Blessed by Heaven” was the compound of dedicated royal architecture around […]

South Koreans face anti-social Year of the Ox

by Andrew Salmon February 14, 2021February 17, 2021

Will bitcoin bears crash Year of Ox party?

by Paul Muir January 29, 2021January 29, 2021

China

Lunar New Year lockdown fears spread across China

by Frank Chen January 8, 2021January 31, 2021

China

China admits problems in virus response; death toll at 426

by Jing Xuan Teng and Beiyi Seow February 4, 2020February 18, 2020

Pandemic fear dampens Chinese New Year cheer

by Nile Bowie January 25, 2020March 16, 2020

Northeast Asia, South Korea

Happy Year of the Rat – clever critter with a bad rap

by Andrew Salmon January 25, 2020February 18, 2020

Containers to be shipped abroad at the Port of Lianyungang in East China's Jiangsu province. Photo: AFP

China

China’s exports plunge more than 20%

by Asia Times staff March 8, 2019February 18, 2020

AT Finance, Vietnam

Vietnamese teens arrested for robbing foreigners

by Asia Times staff February 15, 2019February 18, 2020

Vietnamese home owner, gamblers arrested in illegal casino

by Asia Times staff January 18, 2019February 18, 2020

Rolls of steel are stacked inside the China Steel Corporation factory. Photo: Reuters / Tyrone Siu

Beijing, China, European Union, Hong Kong, Mexico, World

Wang warning comes as US trade deficit with China balloons

by Asia Times staff March 8, 2018February 18, 2020

Route M503 runs almost parallel with the centerline of the Taiwan Strait, where a new unilateral two-way traffic arrangement has been made by China. Photo: Central News Agency

Beijing, China, Shanghai, Taiwan

Political ramifications of Beijing’s salami-slicing over Taiwan

by Gary Sands March 7, 2018March 7, 2018

PLA soldiers stand guard at an entrance to the Guangzhou Railway Station. Photo: PLA Daily

Beijing, Chengdu, China, Guangzhou, Shanghai, Wuhan

PLA lends brain and brawn for China’s New Year travel rush

by Frank Chen February 14, 2018February 18, 2020

A visitor hangs his wish to a lantern at a festival ahead of Chinese New Year in Xian, Shaanxi province. Photo: Reuters / China Daily

AT Finance, Beijing, China, European Union, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, Northeast Asia, Philippines, Shanghai, Singapore, Thailand, Vietnam, World

A tale of Chinese spending power in the Year of the Dog

by Gordon Watts February 10, 2018February 18, 2020

Xi Jinping and Chinese Premier Li Keqiang in March. ChinaAFP/Nicolas Asfouri

Beijing, China, Northeast Asia, South Korea

China’s financial markets face closer government scrutiny

by Gary Kleiman March 14, 2017

Surplus to requirements. New year flowers are dumped. Photo: Ya Leung

China, Hong Kong, Taiwan

Slideshow: Hong Kong’s mountain of Lunar New Year waste

by Asia Times staff and Ya Leung February 11, 2017February 18, 2020

Ivanka Trump and husband Jared Kushner arrive at the presidential inauguration ceremonies in Washington. REUTERS

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China tries the family path to White House doors

by Richard Cook February 8, 2017February 18, 2020

WeChat says it has come under pressure from the Cyberspace Administration of China and closed the accounts which were “suspected of publishing information related to ICOs and speculations on cryptocurrency trading.”
Photo: Reuters

China, Northeast Asia, South Korea

WeChat users send 46b digital red packets over Lunar New Year

by Reuters February 6, 2017February 18, 2020

The search for a bride is getting tough for Chinese men, or bare branches, with few means and the widening social gap does not help. Photo: AFP/Fred Dufour

Beijing, China, India, Middle East, Shanghai, South Asia, World

China’s ‘bare branches’ stuck between tradition, capitalism

by Xuan Li February 5, 2017February 18, 2020

The "Humiliation Seat" cushion. Photo: Asia Times/Lin Wanxia

Beijing, China, Hong Kong, Middle East, United Kingdom, World

Slideshow: Hong Kong’s generational divide

by Benny Kung February 3, 2017February 18, 2020

A chicken for sale in the market. Photo: iStock/Getty Images

China

Behind China’s PMI smokescreen lies a bag of new year surprises

by Steve Wang February 2, 2017February 18, 2020

People print movie tickets from a machine at a cinema in Tianjin, China, January 13, 2017. Photo: Reuters/Jason Lee

China, India, South Asia, World

A record, a scandal and a rule change in China’s box office

by Jonathan Papish February 2, 2017February 1, 2017

People are silhouetted against a light display during the The Magical Lantern Festival marking the Chinese new year at Chiswick House in London, Britain January 18, 2017. REUTERS/Neil Hall

China, European Union, United Kingdom, World

Chinese New Year events in London the biggest outside of Asia

by Richard Cook January 31, 2017February 18, 2020

A reunion dinner is designed to bring a family good luck in the year ahead. Photo: Asia Times / Lin Wanxia

AT Finance, China, South Asia

Auspicious dishes: Get set for the family reunion dinner

by Lin Wanxia January 29, 2017February 18, 2020

Photo: Akshay Chitwar

Beijing, China, European Union, World

Baijiu, by jove! Chinese spirit stirs up UK cocktail scene

by L.K. Morgan January 28, 2017February 18, 2020

FILE PHOTO - A group of fans dressed in homemade replica armour of "Avengers: Age of Ultron" movie characters, Iron Man, Captain America and Thor, watch the film in a theatre in Changchun, Jilin province, China on May 16, 2015. REUTERS/Stringer ATTENTION EDITORS - CHINA OUT. NO COMMERCIAL OR EDITORIAL SALES IN CHINA

AT Finance, Beijing, China, Hong Kong, India, South Asia, Thailand, Tianjin, World

New box office highs expected this Chinese New Year

by Jonathan Papish January 27, 2017January 27, 2017

A calligrapher writes a set of spring festival couplets for a customer. Spring festival couplets are used as New Year decorations in Taiwan to express hopeful thoughts for the coming year. Handwritten ones are increasingly rare in the digital age. Photo: Asia Times / Liu Hsiu Wen

China, Middle East, Taiwan

Market economies: New Year shopping in Taiwan

by Liu Hsiu Wen January 27, 2017February 18, 2020

A Chinese man and his daughter visit a papercuts display at Beijing Olympic Park on January 22. Photo: AFP / China OUT

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Lunar New Year in numbers

by Asia Times January 27, 2017February 18, 2020

Courtesy of Pauline Yau

China, Hong Kong

Birds of a feather: Hong Kong’s paper roosters

by Asia Times January 26, 2017February 18, 2020

Courtesy of Endre Penovac

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For whom the cock crows

by Asia Times January 25, 2017February 18, 2020