Spring Festival 2008

What's New

-	Top leaders attend Lantern Festival party
-	'Lantern Festival should be formal holiday'
-	Chinese, British singers sing the 'Same Song'
-	Peking opera based on Hamlet performed in Paris
-	London hosts Women in China photography exhibition
-	Chinese, British women entrepreneurs meet at cultural festival
-	Temple fairs in China during Spring Festival
-	Retail sales rise 16% during holiday
-	Millions on the move at post-festival travel peak
-	235 mln people travel by bus during Spring Festival
-	Yangzhou Opera performed to celebrate Spring Festival
-	Beijing Spring Festival shopping spree hit 1.91b yuan in 4 days
-	Eat, drink and make merry
-	Many different faces to Chinese New Year celebrations
-	Equestrian theatre Zingaro debuts in HK
-	Olympic theme appears in Chinese New Year
-	Folk customs on ancient fair
-	President Hu spends holiday in disaster-hit area
-	Mauritian president joins in Spring Festival celebration
-	Empire State Building lit up for Lunar New Year
-	Beijingers spend US$95m on Lunar New Year's eve
-	Migrant workers find New Year warmth away from home
-	Power shortages darken Shanghai's holiday lamps
-	Students staying in Beijing get stipends, part-time jobs
-	China to seek cultural heritage status for Spring Festival
-	Cross-Straits sea routes remain open for New Year
-	Zhang Ziyi accused of lip-synching
-	China marks changing Spring Festival
-	Tibetans celebrate Tibetan New Year
-	Chinese peacekeepers in Sudan awarded medals