chinese new year

www.businessinsider.com — Although the Chinese New Year, or Spring Festival as its more commonly called in China, is still several weeks away, the start of the country's peak travel period, known as the "Spring Rush", has already begun.

www.theworldofchinese.com — Using science, interviews, voodoo, and other advanced techniques, we've created this graph, which accurately depicts Spring Festival through the eyes of a first-year foreigner!

www.ministryoftofu.com — Right before Chinese New Year, a.k.a Spring Festival (tomorrow), shopping centers and supermarkets have geared up for people’s shopping spree. Condoms have been lined up alongside with other merchandise, such as health products and electric appliances, as red-hot New Year gifts and have found their way into people’s shopping carts.

chinadigitaltimes.net — An animated homage to the incoming Year of the Rabbit is circulating in Chinese cyberspace. The subversive video makes reference to numerous recent news events, and ends with an armed rebellion by the rabbits (ie the beleaguered Chinese people) against the Tigers (ie the government

www.straitstimes.com — THE death toll in a fireworks explosion in southern China rose to 21 with two more people succumbing to their injuries, state media said on Sunday.

The blast occurred on Friday night in Guangdong province, Xinhua news agency reported, as millions of people around the country continued to set off fireworks to mark the beginning of the Year of the Tiger.