Chinese people will be able to start their week of New Year celebrations -- Spring Festival -- from lunar New Year's Eve again, a date excluded from the holiday last year.
U.S. stocks opened lower Monday following a downgrade of Japan's debt rating and tepid sales figures of the Thanksgiving holiday.
A seven-day traffic rush across China is coming to an end as the National Day holiday, also known as the "Golden Week," concluded on Tuesday.
Chinese people spent 13.3 percent more on shopping and eating during the seven-day Lunar New Year holiday, which illustrated high consumer confidence despite a softening growth momentum of the economy at the start of 2014.
A total of 17,760 fires broke out during China's Spring Festival holiday, leaving 43 people dead and 17 injured, the fire department of the Ministry of Public Security said Thursday.
China's consumer market boomed during the first days of the Lunar New Year holiday despite falling luxury gift sales, according to the Ministry of Commerce (MOC) on Wednesday.
More than 8 million train trips are expected to be made on Thursday, the final day of the week-long Spring Festival holiday, as millions return to work from family reunions, according to the China Railway Corporation (CRC) on Thursday.
The celebration of Christmas and New Year is warming up the extraordinarily chilly winter in Vietnam's capital Hanoi.
The public and travel industry want longer and guaranteed paid leave to help meet travel demands as the new holiday plan for 2014 fell short of expectations.
The Chinese government on Wednesday unveiled holiday arrangements for 2014 after it sought opinions from the public through polls on major websites.
In Washington D.C., U.S. President Obarack Obama officially kicked off the Christmas tree at an elaborate holiday display.
The Chinese public have been voting online about the country's public holidays, with many wanting current arrangements to be changed
After the week-long National Day holiday that ended on Monday, many Chinese people found themselves even more fatigued than usual as they battled large crowds.
China's central bank on Tuesday injected liquidity into markets through six-day reverse repurchase agreements (repos) in an effort to meet rising cash demand during the upcoming week-long holiday.
China's Purchasing Managers' Index (PMI) for the manufacturing sector fell for a second month to 50.1 percent in February from 50.4 percent in January, according to data released Friday.
According to the Ministry of Transport, railways handled 34.7 million trips, with a year-on-year increase of 3 million trips.
A latest survey released on Thursday showed Amazon, an American multinational electronic commerce company, leads in holiday customer satisfaction among U.S. top Internet retailers while Apple hits four-year low in the study.
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