Many Chinese revelers spent this year's Spring Festival staring at their smartphones to snap up cash deposits or shopping vouchers distributed in electronic "red envelopes" via social networking apps such as WeChat.
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While the number of Chinese mainland visitors to Hong Kong fell for the first time in 20 years over the Spring Festival holiday, the government in the special administrative region wants to cut it back even further.
When I stepped into London's 10 Downing Street on Monday evening, I found Lunar New Year in full swing.
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Snow, icy rain and fog caused flight delays and highway closures in many parts of China on Tuesday, the last day of the weeklong Lunar New Year celebration, when millions of travelers head back to school or work.
The 87th Academy Awards, held in Los Angeles Sunday evening local time, took a new twist when a Chinese star failed to make an appearance.
Liangjiahe, a village in Shaanxi province where President Xi Jinping spent seven years as a rural laborer, became a popular Spring Festival tourist destination after Xi and first lady Peng Liyuan paid a visit ahead of this year's holiday.
When Mark Levine, an English-language instructor at Beijing's Minzu University of China, was first invited to attend a Chinese colleague's wedding in Jiangsu province in 2006, his second year in China, the California native was ready to present a small decorative gift for the new couple as he used to do in the United States.
The 2015 Lunar New Year has fully embraced mobile technology, with instant messaging platforms such as Tencent's multimillion-user app WeChat attracting most of the attention.
Just a short hop from the Indonesian holiday hotspot of Bali, a Saudi tourist and his family listen to the call to prayer as the sun goes down on Lombok, the self-styled "island of 1,000 mosques".
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