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U.S. House of Representatives Speaker McCarthy rumoured to visit Taiwan this spring
Image : A U.S. news website reported that McCarthy, the new speaker of the House of Representatives, will visit Taiwan this spring. (Associated Press)
The U.S. political news website "Punchbowl News" quoted an official directly involved in the talks on 23 January 2023 and reported that the new House of Representatives Speaker McCarthy will visit Taiwan this spring, and the Pentagon is preparing for it.
According to the report, Biden-Harris administration officials expect Kevin McCarthy to visit Taiwan sometime in the spring.
Punchbowl News is a membership-only news site co-founded by journalists and best-selling authors Jake Sherman and Anna Palmer, and veteran Capitol Hill reporter John Bresnahan, whose name comes from Nickname from the Capitol Secret Service.
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Chinese students changed Lunar to "Chinese"; NTU issued a statement to fight back
Image : Nanyang Technological University (NTU) in Singapore used "Lunar new year" to celebrate the Lunar New Year on campus, but Chinese students changed it to "Chinese new year". (Photo taken from Weibo)
Nanyang Technological University (NTU) in Singapore recently put up several posters in the campus, hoping to celebrate the Lunar New Year with students. However, the English term used by the school in the propaganda is "Lunar new year" instead of "Chinese new year”; this action aroused the dissatisfaction of the Chinese students in the school, who even altered the English words on the board without authorization, changing Lunar to Chinese. Afterwards, the school issued an external statement through the media to fight back.
According to a report by the Singapore media "8world News" on 21 January 2023, NTU put up posters for the Lunar New Year Festival on campus display boards, introducing "Spring Festival customs in Asian countries". The English word on the poster uses Lunar new year to refer to the Lunar New Year. However, Chinese students crossed out the word Lunar and wrote "Chinese".
In this regard, the Nanyang Technological University Chinese Student Association issued a statement stating that the school did not invite the Chinese International Student Association to be the organizer this year, and the Nanyang Student Affairs Office requires all campus organizations to use "Lunar new year". The student union declared that in order to stick to Chinese culture, it would rather give up its position as the organizer of the Chinese New Year series of activities than "concede on issues of principle."
The spokesperson of Nantah University also counterattacked through "8world News", because NTU has students and employees from different countries. In addition to Chinese students, there are also students from South Korea, Vietnam and other countries. They commemorate and celebrate their New Year during this period. "Based on the spirit of diversity and tolerance” it is why the English word “Lunar” is used in this lunar calendar event.
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"Lunar New Year" is not unique to China! South Korean professor calls for rectification of name
Reporter : Chen Chengliang / https://news.ltn.com.tw/news/world/breakingnews/4191409
The Lunar New Year (Lunar Year, Spring Festival) is not exclusive to China. On the 19th, Professor Kyoungduk Seo of Sungshin Women’s University launched a name rectification campaign on Facebook, calling on everyone to change the English translation of the Spring Festival from “Chinese New Year " (Chinese New Year, Chinese New Year) to "Lunar New Year", but was insulted by a large number of suspected CCP netizens!
Seo posted screenshots of several messages on the 21st, saying that he had received many public messages and private message wash-ups, including accusations that "Korean plagiarized Chinese New Year's Day", "New Year's Day was invented by the Chinese" and various insults, but he advocated that However, the "Spring Festival" as it is called in China is different from the name and origin of the Chinese New Year in South Korea. It should not be collectively referred to as the culture that originates from China.
Seo pointed out in a post on Facebook that the lunar year is often called the Chinese New Year (Chinese New Year) around the world, but the lunar year is not only a unique Chinese culture, but also a traditional festival in South Korea, Vietnam, the Philippines and other Asian countries. It is inappropriate to call it Chinese New Year in English, and it is better to use Lunar New Year as the official name.
He pointed out that Chinatowns in major cities in western countries will hold New Year activities in the name of Chinese New Year during the Lunar New Year, and mainstream media also use Chinese New Year to introduce the culture of the Lunar New Year, which may cause audience misunderstanding; not only Nike, Apple and other well-known international brands on their official websites, even the postage stamps issued by the United Nations refer to Chinese New Year as the Lunar New Year, which is regrettable. Therefore, we decided to launch a campaign to change the English name of the Chinese New Year to Lunar New Year this year.
In order to avoid controversy, Sydney, the largest city in Australia, has officially changed the name of "Chinese New Year" to "Lunar New Year" in 2019. In order to promote the development of domestic tourism, Thailand has changed its "only commemorative and no holiday" and will be the first time in 2021 to "Lunar New Year", which is listed as a legal holiday in Thailand.
In addition, California passed a bill last year, starting in 2023, the first day of the Lunar New Year will be listed as a statutory holiday in the state, which is the first precedent in the United States.
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Little Pink tearing up the New Year's greeting poster with "lunar" was arrested by the New York Police Department but she insisted she was right to do so
Image : Chinese people who call themselves "Beijing girls saw a red New Year poster with "Happy Lunar (lunar calendar) New Year" written on it when they passed by a New York shopping mall, but instead of "Chinese New Year", they tore down the poster in anger. He was taken to the New York Police Department for questioning. (The picture is taken from "@whyyoutouzhele" Twitter and synthesized by LTN)
A Chinese netizen asked for help on a social platform recently. He was angry because he saw a poster in a department store on the streets of New York, USA, saying "Lunar New Year (Lunar New Year)" instead of "Chinese New Year". The poster was torn off forcefully. After the mall called the police, the little pink was taken to the police station for interrogation but he insisted that he had "no fault". Therefore, the PO article sought advice from netizens, and the outside world was surprised after the news was exposed.
Twitter user "Ms. Li is not your teacher" posted today that a Chinese citizen who called herself "Beijing girl" came across a red New Year poster when he was passing by a New York shopping mall. Wrote "Chinese New Year", angrily tore down the poster without authorization, the mall found out and called the police for help, so he was taken to the police station for interrogation, this big girl from Beijing insisted, "I was right! She brought me to NYPD! Now it's time what should I do?" To this, "Mr. Li is not your teacher" and sighed, "Uh, what about a Lunar New Year..."
The BBC report explained that the global celebration of the Lunar New Year is not limited to China, but also includes Vietnam, South Korea, Singapore, Taiwan, etc., and the English word "Lunar" is related to the moon, which means the lunar calendar. It is reported that Chinese supermodel Liu Wen paid New Year greetings to fans on IG in 2018, and attached a photo with socialite Deng Wendi. At that time, she was bombarded by a large number of Chinese netizens for saying "happy lunar new year". She later changed "lunar" to "Chinese".
After the news was exposed, some netizens bluntly said, "Don't we also talk about the Lunar New Year? Is there anything wrong with that?", "Which G-spot did the lunar new year encounter with powder maggots?", "How do I remember that the Ministry of Foreign Affairs also used Lunar before? New Year...has already caused a major collapse of faith", "Sensitive and inferior", "They are really sick, what happened to lunar new year? The whole world must speak and act according to their logic just go crazy."
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Cook used "Lunar" for New Year's greetings, and the little pink collapsed on the first day of the new year
Reporter : He Yating / Editor : Lin Qing / https://www.ntdtv.com/gb/2023/01/22/a103631695.html / Image : Apple CEO Tim Cook sparked controversy when he tweeted a greeting card to express his wishes. (Internet screenshot)
On the occasion of the traditional Chinese New Year in 2023, Apple CEO Tim Cook sent a greeting card on Twitter to express his blessings but because he used the word "Lunar" (calendar) the word caused controversy.
January 21 is New Year's Eve of the traditional Chinese New Year (also known as "Yellow Calendar New Year"). In the evening of the 21st, Apple CEO Tim Cook reposted a New Year's card written in Chinese on his Twitter account, and tweeted: Send out a tweet written in English saying "Wishing everyone celebrating the Lunar New Year a healthy, safe, and happy Year of the Rabbit!"
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Cook's English congratulatory speech used "Lunar New Year" instead of "Chinese New Year", which touched the sensitive nerves of some CCP netizens. On the first day of the Lunar New Year, some Chinese netizens commented "correction" under Cook's tweet, repeatedly emphasizing that it should be "Chinese New Year", which caused controversy. There are also Chinese netizens threatening Cook with Apple's "huge market" in China.
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Surprisingly, some Chinese netizens left messages claiming that there is a problem with the writing of the word "Lunar" on Cook's greeting card, which indicates that there will be "no wheat harvest" in the future, which is an ominous omen.
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It is worth mentioning that the U.S. embassy in China and some celebrities from other countries also used "Lunar New Year" instead of "Chinese New Year" when they delivered New Year's greetings recently.
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In this regard, the little pinks of the CCP reacted very strongly, going out to "conquer" everywhere, accusing the U.S. embassy in China of "attempting to humiliate us", "bad intentions", "intent to reduce China's influence on the international stage", etc. .
Even a few days ago, there was a little pink of the Communist Party of China who saw a poster posted in a department store saying "Happy Lunar New Year " on the streets of New York and tore it off. After being interrogated by the police, he posted a post online asking for help.
In fact, the term "Lunar New Year" has gradually been widely used in the international community. NTD reporters searched Google using "Chinese New Year 2023" as a keyword, and found that among the more than forty related reports presented on the search page, more than two-thirds of the titles used "Lunar New Year" .
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Some observers said that whether the Lunar New Year is unique to Chinese traditional culture is an academic issue. Scholars who study history and culture can conduct in-depth research and discussions without raising it as a political issue. However, the brainwashing education of the CCP poisons the hearts of Chinese people, which can be seen in the overreaction of the CCP pinks.
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Swedish media reveals: The CCP forced public derivatives to sign “allegiance” contracts
Reporters : Xia Dunhou, Chang Chun and Liu Fang / https://www.ntdtv.com/gb/2023/01/22/a103631718.html
The CCP authorities require public-funded students to sign an agreement before going abroad, pledging to "loyalty" to the CCP during their study abroad. Overseas pro-democracy activists pointed out that the CCP also uses overseas "student associations" to monitor the words and deeds of overseas students.
The Swedish media "Daily News" reported a few days ago that a Chinese student at Lund University in Sweden revealed an agreement document, which shows that in addition to swearing allegiance to the CCP government, the government-sponsored international students must also "serve the interests of the regime" and "absolutely cannot" participate in Activities against the wishes of the Chinese Communist Party authorities.
The report said that other universities in Sweden also began to check the students' documents. So far, at least 30 Chinese government-sponsored students have signed agreements with the China Scholarship Council under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Education of the Communist Party of China. The CCP authorities are suspected of sending overseas students overseas to steal technical intelligence and suppress human rights through similar agreements.
In fact, the CCP has a long history of forcing government-sponsored overseas students to sign relevant agreements.
Jie Lijian, Executive Director of the Youth Department of China Democracy Party: "If you say that once you go abroad, you are afraid that you will not return, or you will have some remarks or behaviors that they think are anti-party and anti-state, and you will be restrained. It is equivalent to a A pledge of allegiance."
Jie Lijian, executive director of the Youth Department of China Democracy Party, pointed out that the CCP also uses overseas "student associations" to monitor the words and deeds of international students, and brainwash them by regularly holding outings, picnics, barbecues and other activities.
Jie Lijian: "They are also under (under control) all the time, with student unions, overseas secret party branches, and relevant political leaders as regular controls. Some time ago, some students around the world were protesting the CCP's closure of cities. This for a while, they were also very strict, that is, they did not participate, contact, or support."
Those who oppose the CCP regime, their relatives and financial guarantors in China will be threatened and punished by the CCP authorities.
The same is happening in the United States.
American student Zhang Junjie: "Including me, I have similar situations, such as personal attacks and threats to my family's life. I think as long as you stand up now and speak out against the Communist Party, you will suffer from threats in this regard."
Just on 10 January 2023, Wu Xiaolei, a Chinese student at the Berklee College of Music in Boston, was prosecuted by the U.S. authorities for allegedly stalking and threatening a Chinese who supported the Chinese democracy movement.
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Chinese financial white-collar caught offering guarantees to protesters, human rights groups concerned
Reporter : Liu Fang / Editor : He Yating / https://www.ntdtv.com/gb/2023/01/22/a103631815.html / Image : In New Delhi, 2 December 2022, participants of the Tibetan Youth Congress unfurl blank papers in solidarity with the ongoing protests in China. (Money Sharma/AFP via Getty Images)
Human Rights Defenders issued a circular on New Year’s Eve of the lunar calendar, calling on the international community and all walks of life in China to continue to pay attention to everyone who was arrested and detained during the “White Paper Protest Movement”. The public is urged to provide detailed information on those arrested, including their real name, gender, year of birth, place of origin, occupation, and time of arrest.
The report emphasizes that all family members of the arrested relatives should understand that the clearer and more detailed the information provided by the arrested family members, the better their situation and external rescue, so "don't be afraid, don't be intimidated."
The website also disclosed information about the arrest of Ms. Li Chaoran, who was detained by the authorities. Li Chaoran was born in 1995. After graduating from Beijing Normal University with a bachelor's degree and a master's degree from Renmin University of China, she worked in a financial institution in Beijing.
According to a friend, Li Chaoran himself did not participate in the action of raising blank papers at Liangma Bridge in Beijing in the evening of 27 November 2022. However, Lin Qian, another protester who was arrested for participating in the movement, was infected with the epidemic and needed a guarantee at the Pinggu Police Station. Out of sympathy and love, Li Chaoran went to the police station to guarantee Lin Qian's release and kept her at home until Lin Qian was taken away by the police for the second time.
Human Rights Defenders disclosed that Li Chaoran was only responsible for sponsoring a young man who was arrested during the "White Paper Movement".
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CCTV Spring Festival Gala criticized under surge of covid deaths
Reporters : Xia Dunhou, Yi Ru,and Li Peiling / https://www.ntdtv.com/gb/2023/01/23/a103632699.html
After the CCP relaxed the epidemic prevention and control, the epidemic broke out across the country. People in many places said that the high number of deaths from the epidemic is shocking. However, CCTV's "Spring Festival Gala" ignored the tragedy of the epidemic and still sang praises for the CCP, which aroused public indignation.
A family member of a patient in Mudanjiang, Heilongjiang: "The atmosphere is too tense now. When will this covid virus pass?"
On 20 January 2023, the Heilongjiang woman in the video said that because of the CCP virus, her two neighbors were in bad condition, and her father was also hospitalized.
Since the outbreak of the epidemic in December last year, the death toll has risen rapidly across China.
Mr. Zou from Yueyang, Hunan Province said that the local death toll is shocking and many people live in fear.
Mr. Zou, Yueyang, Hunan: "Several old people I know died and left because of the epidemic, that is, the first 3-4 days. I know five, and my brother knows more than a dozen. One of us in the countryside In the township, there are a lot of people who have heard about it. Everyone feels the shocking number, and it is our township. Let’s not talk about other places, even the locals who are still alive are surprised by the number of deaths.”
Mr. Zou said that some local people who died of the epidemic were buried or cremated. Before the twenty-eighth day of the twelfth lunar month, there were coffins on every street, and the local hospital was overwhelmed with patients.
Mr. Zou: "In a small clinic, usually three or two people get IV drips, but now there are twenty or thirty people going in. I'm talking about a while ago. The beds in the hospital are very tight, and the number of people getting IV drips has increased by 10 to 20 times."
Ms. Xu from Enshi, Hubei also said that since November 2022, the local area has entered the peak period of the epidemic, and more than 100 people have died. A couple died, leaving only one child.
Ms. Xu from Enshi, Hubei: "Recently, he was in the countryside to hold funerals at home. He has his own land, so he did funerals for his own home and buried them."
Amid the national sadness, CCTV's "Spring Festival Gala" still smears the CCP, which arouses public indignation.
Mr. Zou: "This is one of the great tragedies in human history. It's so tragic. They treat it as a funny joke."
Mr. Zou criticized that the CCP authorities are celebrating their achievements on the pile of dead people, and they still have to boast that they are good at everything, which is shameless.
News (9) to (10) / Reporter : Luo Tingting / Editor : Wen Hui / https://www.ntdtv.com/gb/2023/01/23/a103632163.html
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On the first day of the new year, Wuhan is full of chrysanthemums in the streets. Residents: They all died last year! (video)
Image : On the first day of the Lunar New Year in 2023, videos and photos of chrysanthemums on the streets of Wuhan went viral on the Internet. (Video screenshot/NTDTV synthesis)
There is a custom of "burning incense" in Wuhan, Hubei. In the early morning of the first day of the new year, people use chrysanthemums to pay homage to relatives and friends who died in the past year. On the first day of this year, videos and photos of chrysanthemums on the streets of Wuhan went viral on the Internet. A female citizen exclaimed: "My God, the streets are full of chrysanthemums. These people all passed (died) last year!"
At the end of last year, the epidemic broke out in China, Wuhan fell again, the hospital was full, the queue of hearses outside the funeral home stretched for several kilometers, and the crematorium could not burn the corpses day and night. Due to the CCP’s concealment, the outside world cannot obtain accurate data on how many people died in this tsunami of the epidemic in Wuhan but there are some indications that the death toll in the new outbreak in Wuhan is quite alarming.
On the first day of the Lunar New Year, Wuhan became a "Flower City" overnight, with chrysanthemums adorning the roadsides. Related videos went viral on social media. People were remembering their relatives who passed away recently, and the whole city was filled with sadness.
A woman who shot the video exclaimed: "My God, the streets are full of chrysanthemums... My grandfather passed away in the first half of last year, and this time many old people passed away."
"My friends and family all died during this time," Zhang, a 54-year-old man from Wuhan, told AFP holding a bouquet of chrysanthemums.
"A lot of people have died from COVID-19 in recent years, so our sales of chrysanthemums have been high," another flower seller, surnamed Tao, told AFP.
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Dead bodies burned in only one Wuhan crematorium
Last December, the CCP suddenly abolished its strict anti-epidemic policy and loosened control without warning or preparation, leading to a massive outbreak across the country.
According to a research report by Peking University, about 900 million people in China have been infected. The official number of deaths has risen from 37 to nearly 60,000, but this figure is still widely questioned by the outside world.
A large number of people died from the epidemic in Wuhan, Hubei Province. The online video shows that on December 22, there was a long line of hearses outside the Huangpi funeral home in Wuhan. The citizen who shot the video said that it was already past 9 pm, and he had been waiting for 5 hours, and there were still people coming in.
The hall of Hankou funeral home is also crowded with people. Mr. Fu, a citizen of Wuhan, told NTDTV on 27 December that there were 18 furnaces in the Hankou crematorium, and the corpses could not be burned day and night.
Mr. Fu said, "This is the case in every crematorium across the country. The Hankou crematorium is very large, with about 18 furnaces. If the corpses are burned at the same time, the 18 furnaces burn day and night, which takes half an hour, or 45 minutes, or one hour, one stove burns at least 24 people a day."
According to the staff of the funeral home in Hankou, the amount of cremation was huge, and people had to wait 4 to 5 days to receive the ashes.
Ms. Hua, a citizen of Wuhan, told NTDTV: "Now I heard that the crematoriums are all made by appointment. A friend, he died for a few days and had to make an appointment. He was cremated only the day before yesterday. The sudden release of the epidemic in the past three years depends on you. Self-immunity, you are dead, you are alive, no one cares. The common people know very well that many people have died, and I am very angry. The people are not able to live."
Ms. Han Xiu, an American writer: About 1/4 of the people in Wuhan died of the epidemic
Tang Jingyuan, a current affairs commentator in the United States, said in the "Vision Quick Review" that Ms. Han Xiu, an American writer who has lived in China for many years, revealed in an interview with Fang Fei, a well-known overseas media person, that a friend in Wuhan who knew the inside story passed the encryption in mid-December last year. In this wave of epidemics, two-thirds of the people in Wuhan were infected and about one-quarter died. The situation is extremely serious, but due to the strict official blockade, the outside world knows nothing about it.
Wuhan has about 13 million permanent residents. If the information provided by Ms. Han Xiu is true, in just half a month, more than 3 million people in Wuhan died of the epidemic.
Tang Jingyuan said that with such a large-scale death toll in Wuhan, the authorities can successfully avoid the public's attention and be undetected by the outside world, so no one can know exactly how many people died in this tsunami of the epidemic across the country.
The Epoch Times reported on 16 January that Mr. Li Hongzhi, the founder of Falun Gong, pointed out that the CCP has been covering up the epidemic for more than three years. The epidemic in China has killed 400 million people. When this wave of epidemic ends, China will die 500 million people.
Master Li also said that when SARS appeared last time, 200 million people died in China. Many years later, the CCP discovered that the population had decreased, and immediately released the two-child and three-child system.
There are many funerals in the countryside, no one on the street
As the Chinese New Year is approaching, people not only in Wuhan, but everywhere are organizing funerals for relatives who died in the epidemic, and there are bursts of mourning and joy.
A video posted on the Internet shows that on New Year's Eve on January 21, a villager died in a village in Yongzhou, Hunan, and the family wore hemp and filial piety to worship.
On the first day of the new year, a villager in Langfang, Hebei made a video and asked the CCP experts, "Did you see it? This is the current situation in the countryside. Do you see it? No one. Who dares to come out."
He said, "Is there still a sense of youth now? Do you think there are still people? What about the old men and old ladies? I want to say that you (experts) are not too much to harm people and morals."
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Chinese people around the world celebrate the New Year, attracting different ethnicities to celebrate together
Reporter : Li Qingyi / https://www.ntdtv.com/gb/2023/01/22/a103631933.html / Image : Video Screenshot
Happy New Year, viewers! Welcome to global news. From New Year's Eve to New Year's Day, Chinese people all over the world hold New Year celebrations. While inheriting the tradition, it also attracts the participation of people of all ethnicities.
After three years of intermittent epidemic blockade, on Saturday (21 January), New Year's Eve, Chinatown in Sydney, Australia reopened for business, and local residents and tourists were beaming to welcome the arrival of the Lunar New Year.
The streets are decorated with lanterns and festoons, gongs and drums are beating, and various shapes of bunnies can be seen everywhere. The local Chinese present traditional lion dance performances for the public. The specialty snack bars in Chinatown are booming, attracting people of all ethnicities.
Jayzer Nguyen, employee of the beverage store Sharetea: "It's very busy here, obviously after two years of covid, now we can celebrate the real Chinese New Year."
Eric Kha, a Sydney resident: "It feels great. It feels like the city is back to normal, and it's as lively as it was pre-covid. This is what Chinatown should be like."
In the famous National Economic Achievements Exhibition Hall (VDNKH) in Moscow, the capital of Russia, the drums were beating, and the local Chinese performed dragon dances for the people. Hundreds of local Moscow residents celebrated the New Year with the Chinese.
Clearly, Russians are increasingly interested in China and Chinese culture.
Moscow resident Anastasiya "(I am) interested in Chinese culture, the Lunar New Year. I want to see how to celebrate the New Year here."
Moscow resident Roman: "I envisioned the dragon to be a bit bigger."
Moscow resident Anna: "Still beautiful"
In Madrid, the capital of Spain, on the first day of the Lunar New Year, the local Chinese community held a festive parade, fan dance performances, traditional dragon dances, lion dances, stilt walks and other programs, attracting thousands of people to watch.
This is the Usera area where the Chinese live, known as the Chinatown of Madrid, where about 40,000 Chinese live.
Laboratory worker Susana Zhang: "I'm glad to see that so many Spaniards are also interested in Chinese New Year now, China is becoming more and more important to everyone."
In the eastern Indian city of Kolkata, Chinatown is decorated with colourful lights, people wish each other, watch dragon and lion dance performances, and set off fireworks to drive away bad luck and usher in the new year.
"Happy New Year!"
Kacy, a Chinese living in India: "It's really lively, we are all here, super happy, relatives and family get together, yes, we are here to spread love."
Pictures of Siem Reap
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