What is the best time to experience Hong Kong, a vibrant East-meets-West city? Well- informed visitors choose the Spring Festival, the most jubilantly celebrated occasion by all Chinese people worldwide.
Police on Saturday caught a man accused of killing three people at a nursing home in central China, two days after the fight with his boss over unpaid wages which led to the slaughter.
The Spring Festival, the beginning of a new Chinese Lunar Year and a day when all Chinese people across the world unite with their loved ones, is being celebrated by more and more people from other cultures.
For Tibetans, this Lunar New Year is doubly joyful as it coincides with the Tibetan year of the Wooden Ram, which also begins on Thursday.
In China, the sky is filled with pyrotechnics and the ports and airports are full of happy family reunions: Wednesday marked the thousand-year-long tradition of ushering in the lunar New Year.
Long lines formed at a busy border station on Monday as a great number of the Chinese mainland tourists traveled southward to celebrate the upcoming Spring Festival in Hong Kong, a special administrative region that will mark the occasion with a unique fusion of modern fun and ancient customs.
China's environment watchdog on Tuesday demanded local governments take measures during the lunar New Year celebrations to lessen pollution caused by fireworks.
The snowstorms that started Monday evening across the U.S. northeast coast continued to ravage the region Tuesday, with millions of people living in New York City, Boston, Philadelphia and other metropolises in the area affected.
U.S. stocks eked out modest gains after trading in a narrow range Monday, as investors were digesting implications of the Greek national election results on the eurozone economy.
Millions of people living in the U.S. northeast on Monday took the brunt of a severe snowstorm and blizzard that is ravaging the region.
South Korean President Park Geun-hye on Monday instructed officials to make efforts to create conditions for a dialogue with the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK).
With Prime Minister Tony Abbott set for a short holiday, Australia is to be run out of the small Queensland town of Maryborough over the next week, with National Party leader Warren Truss to take the reins.
South Korean President Park Geun-hye urged the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) Monday to respond to Seoul's dialogue offer "without any hesitation."
Thirty-two out of 49 injured people in the New Year's Eve stampede in east China's Shanghai have been discharged from the hospital, local authorities said.
The New York Police said Tuesday that three people are now in custody in connection with the shooting of two police officers responding to a robbery in Bronx the night before.
U.S. stocks fell sharply on Monday with major stock indices going down more than 1.5 percent, as oil prices slid to new five-and-a-half-year lows on concerns about supply glut.
As the world is entering the new year of 2015, global leaders, as a tradition, delivered their New Year speeches, voicing greeting messages with hope and confidence.
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