Lunar New Year marked with celebrations around the world

Lunar New Year 2025 Photos: See Year of the Snake Celebrations Across Asia

More than a billion people around the world are celebrating the Lunar New Year.

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Typhoon Yagi Scrambles Vietnam’s Lunar New Year Tradition

A typhoon and extreme heat dramatically affected prices for the kumquat trees that are ubiquitous during the holiday.

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A look at Lunar New Year celebrations

Lunar New Year celebrations kicked off on Wednesday as millions of people welcomed the Year of the Snake. CBS News correspondent Anna Coren reports on the festivities.

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The Year of the Snake is underway with Lunar New Year festivities around the world

Firecrackers, parades and prayers marked the Lunar New Year as millions around Asia and farther afield celebrated

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Where is the lunar new year celebrated and who celebrates it?

Communities across the world begin celebrating Lunar New Year on Jan. 29 — and 2025 marks the Year of the Snake.

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Diablo 4's Lunar New Year Event Returns, This Time With An Even Bigger XP Buff

Diablo 4 is celebrating the year of the snake with the return of its Lunar Awakening event, and it's making the event even more rewarding than last time around. As detailed by Blizzard, the Lunar ...

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Lunar New Year marked with celebrations around the world

More than a billion people around the world are celebrating the Lunar New Year, ushering in the year of the snake. CBS News foreign correspondent Anna Coren has more from Hong Kong.

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A Tropical, Chewy Lunar New Year Dessert

The writer and curator Su Wu’s version of tang yuan reflects her family’s history and her life in Mexico City.

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Chinese travelers cancel Lunar New Year trips to Thailand over safety concerns

Chinese travelers are canceling plans to visit Thailand during the Lunar New Year holiday, as concerns over the kidnapping of actor Wang Xing continue to reverberate through the country.

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‘Less desirable’: behind lunar new year superstitions of a year of the snake

Some say it’s not the time to make life decisions, but others are countering the bad luck – or leaving those beliefs behind. At Asiastar Fantasy Inc, a San Francisco gift shop that specializes in ...

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In pictures: Welcoming the Lunar New Year

Fireworks, music, lanterns, and dragon dancing filled streets across Asia to celebrate the Year of the Snake.

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Lunar New Year: Family, food and colour as millions celebrate Year of the Snake

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Across Asia, hundreds of millions gather to mark lunar new year

From China to Indonesia, the year of the snake symbolises wisdom and vitality and is marked by family gatherings and festive red banners across many parts of East and Southeast Asia. Hundreds of ...

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A photographer’s fantastical portrait of rural China during Lunar New Year

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Year of the Snake: PSG show off special Lunar New Year kit

PSG and some other clubs are ushering in the Year of the Snake with a special kit to mark the Lunar New Year.

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5 Dumpling Recipes in Time for Lunar New Year

Just in time for Lunar New Year, Cooking writers share the dumplings they love most, with recipes and videos for how to make them.

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Auschwitz survivors and world leaders set to mark 80 years since Nazi death camp’s liberation

Inside the Auschwitz, Soviet soldiers liberated roughly 7,000 prisoners who had been brutalized by a Nazi regime hell-bent on exterminating the Jewish people.

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Mass travel underway for Lunar New Year

The world's biggest annual migration of humans is underway as mass travel in China reaches a peak this weekend ahead of Lunar New Year. An estimated 9 billion trips are expected across the 40-day ...

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China's Lunar New Year travel rush kicks into high gear with 9 billion trips expected

China’s Lunar New Year travel rush has kicked into high gear, with billions of trips expected in coming days for the peak of the 40-day annual mass migration

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China unleashes record short-term funds ahead of lunar new year

Authorities try to pre-empt holiday cash crunch but shy from cut to reserve requirement ratio

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Fuchsia Dunlop’s culinary guide to Lunar New Year

The writer, cook and Chinese-food champion gets ready to greet the Year of the Snake. Plus, FT correspondents reveal how their cities will mark the occasion

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The Global Far Right Is Celebrating Trump’s New World Order

Far-right lawmakers and extremist influencers the world over are celebrating Trump’s early days in office and advocating for similar efforts in their own countries.

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Lunar New Year giveaway of cash, food leaves 4 dead in Cambodia as crowd surges

Four people were killed and five others injured as a crowd scrambled for food and cash handouts from one of Cambodia’s richest men as a Chinese Lunar New Year gift

ABC News - Jan. 23

Save On Thousands Of PC Games And Unlock Free Steam Keys During Fanatical's Lunar New Year Sale

Fanatical is celebrating the start of the Year of the Snake with its annual Lunar New Year Sale . The sale runs until February 2, and not only are thousands of PC games on sale, the retailer is ...

GameSpot - Jan. 22

Lessons on Authoritarianism From Around the World

Tyranny doesn’t happen overnight. Take it from the people who missed the first signs.

The New York Times - Jan. 22

How a stylish crowd celebrates Lunar New Year

Four creatives share their favourite outfits, meals and customs for a prosperous year ahead

Financial Times - Jan. 18

New York state schools will close in celebration of Lunar New Year for the first time

For students across New York, the upcoming Year of the Snake will start off with a bit more of a bang.

NBC News - Jan. 15

Climate ‘whiplash’ events increasing exponentially around world

Global heating means atmosphere can drive both extreme droughts and floods with rapid switches. Climate “whiplash” between extremely wet and dry conditions, which spurred catastrophic fires in Los ...

The Guardian - Jan. 15

Our remote isle celebrates New Year on 13 January

Foula - which also celebrates Christmas on 6 January - never full adopted the modern Gregorian calendar.

BBC News - Jan. 13

‘Each year you delay giving a phone is a big win’: child screen-time solutions from around the world

From stringent legislation to grassroots action, Australia and Spain lead the way in tackling children’s use of mobile phones and tablets. If the advent of the affordable mobile phone has given ...

The Guardian - Jan. 11

The Englishmen making a managerial mark around the world

England appointed German Thomas Tuchel but there is no shortage of English-born coaches in charge of national teams across the globe.

BBC News - Jan. 7

Twin New Year's attacks mark grim start to 2025

The deadly New Year's attack in New Orleans and the Cybertruck blast in Las Vegas just hours later marked a grim and uneasy start to 2025. Jim Axelrod takes a look at how the nation is handling the ...

CBS News - Jan. 2

The Guardian view on the New Orleans attack: a familiar horror marks an anxious new year | Editorial

The deadly assault on crowds in the US city echoes those elsewhere. A bigoted and kneejerk reaction will not dispel the threat from terrorism. The deadly attack on new year revellers in New ...

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