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From Indonesia, Panama, Vietnam to Australia, families ring in the year of the rabbit

End of zero-Covid policy allows family gatherings and largest festivities since pandemic began
People across China have rung in the lunar new year with family gatherings and crowds visiting temples after the government lifted its strict zero-Covid policy, marking the biggest festive celebration since the pandemic began three years ago.
The lunar new year is the most important annual holiday in China. Each year is named after one of the 12 signs of the Chinese zodiac in a repeating cycle, with this year being the year of the rabbit. For the past three years celebrations were muted in the shadow of the pandemic.

Jen Robinson, a Cantonese American living in Bucks County, finds connection with her family and heritage, as they celebrate the Lunar New Year.

Solo performers played the piano, violin, and Chinese flute and gourd instruments, while a Peking Opera solo and duet were backed by a group playing a variety of Chinese instruments. Dance numbers ...

The European luxury sector is welcoming the end of pandemic lockdowns in China, as the return of big-spending Chinese tourists could sustain further growth.

Comedy caper deserves credit for fighting the corner of the city’s cinema in the face of the mainland film behemoth
Hoping to sustain a recent mini-resurgence of Hong Kong films through to lunar new year, Ying Chi-wen’s second feature is a silly, initially laboured but increasingly endearing comedy mashup. A remake of 2021 Taiwanese gangster film Treat or Trick, which is itself a do-over of 2004 Korean horror-comedy To Catch a Virgin Ghost, it manages to hit virtually every branch on the genre tree on the way down: Bad Boys buddy action comedy, dead wet girl Asian horror, knockabout Beijing opera farce, wuxia parody.
Yau Shing (Hong Kong singer Hins Cheung) is a hotshot point man in Ray-Bans for So Good security firm. Told to escort a consignment of diamonds across the city, he fails to anticipate his driver Jelly (Kaho Hung) hightailing it with the bling, which also cheeses off some bungling triads out to nab it. So the gang boss orders his minion Monk (Michael Ning), as well as Yau Shing and rookie recruit Penguin (Jeffrey Ngai Tsun Sang), to the off-the-grid village where Jelly has holed up on his way to Malaysia.

Sunday will mark Chinese Lunar New Year on the lunisolar calendar and the museum and the Huntington Asian American Task Force used the holiday as a way to teach about Asian culture.

Dhingra is the Nannerl Keohane Distinguished Visiting Professor at Duke and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill for the 2022-2023 academic year. In this role, he explores the Asian ...

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