Chinese New Year
A resident wearing a face mask walks under red lanterns setup for the Lunar New Year holidays in Beijing, China, Monday, Feb. 7, 2022. As China gets back to business after a muted Chinese New Year holiday that coincided with the start of the pandemic-restricted Beijing Olympic Winter Games, the feeling inside and out of the bubble in this auspicious Year of the Tiger is that festivities for the most sacred and important holiday for the country were limited and underwhelming. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)
A muted Lunar New Year, inside and outside Olympic bubble

By Sally Ho And Ken Moritsugu Feb. 07, 2022 04:53 AM EST

Furkan Akar and Aysenur Duman, of Turkey, lead their team in during the opening ceremony of the 2022 Winter Olympics, Friday, Feb. 4, 2022, in Beijing. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip)
Beijing Olympics open with nod to Year of the Tiger

Feb. 04, 2022 07:44 AM EST

A man wearing a face mask printed with a cartoon tiger walks on a street during the Lunar New Year eve in Beijing, Monday, Jan. 31, 2022. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)
AP PHOTOS: China celebrates Lunar New Year ahead of Olympics

Feb. 01, 2022 07:02 AM EST

Chan Jit Yen prepares ingredients for a Lunar New Year hot pot lunch she is hosting for Malaysian students at her rented apartment in Singapore Saturday, Feb. 13, 2021. With Malaysian workers and students stranded in the city state over the Lunar New Year due to coronavirus travel restrictions, the Malaysian Association in Singapore has called on Malaysians to treat students to a meal. (AP Photo/Annabelle Liang)
Malaysians in Singapore host stranded students for New Year

By Annabelle Liang Feb. 15, 2021 12:23 AM EST

A worker disinfects the Thean Hou Temple during during first day of Chinese Lunar New Year celebrations in Kuala Lumpur, Friday, Feb. 12, 2021. The movement control order (MCO) currently enforced across the country to help curb the spread of the coronavirus, has been extended to Feb. 18, effectively covering the Chinese New Year festival that falls on Feb. 12 this year. (AP Photo/Vincent Thian)
Chinese TV features blackface performers in New Year's gala

By Joe Mcdonald Feb. 12, 2021 01:32 AM EST

FILE - In this Jan. 21, 2006, file photo, Chinese lion dancers perform in Oakland's Chinatown in Oakland, Calif. Police are stepping up patrol and volunteers are increasing their street presence after several violent attacks on older Asians stoked fear in the San Francisco Bay Area's Chinatowns and subdued the celebratory mood leading up to Chinese New Year. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma, File)
Attacks on older Asians stoke fear as Lunar New Year begins

By Daisy Nguyen Feb. 12, 2021 01:04 AM EST

A miniature lion head is carried as it is prepared to be painted as a dragon and lion dance group seek other ways to earn a living at a creekside slum at Manila's Chinatown, Binondo Philippines on Feb. 3, 2021. The Dragon and Lion dancers won't be performing this year after the Manila city government banned the dragon dance, street parties, stage shows or any other similar activities during celebrations for Chinese New Year due to COVID-19 restrictions leaving several businesses without income as the country grapples to start vaccination this month. (AP Photo/Aaron Favila)
AP PHOTOS: Dragon dance ban saddens Manila residents

By Aaron Favila Feb. 10, 2021 12:15 AM EST

FILE- In this Sept. 11, 2018, file photo, lobsters are packed at a shipping facility in Arundel, Maine. America's lobster industry recovered from the Trump trade war to have a good 2020, but it is approaching one of the busiest times of the year with trepidation because of coronavirus. Chinese New Year shipments will be complicated by the virus this year. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty, File)
Lobster biz braces for Chinese New Year impacted by pandemic

By Patrick Whittle Feb. 08, 2021 01:02 AM EST

Customers wearing face masks to protect against the spread of the coronavirus, measure the height of a peach blossom tree at a farm located at Hong Kong's rural New Territories on Jan. 14, 2021. The Lunar New Year holiday is usually a busy period for flower farms in Hong Kong, which gear up to sell plum blossoms, orchids and daffodils at flower markets during the festive season. But the pandemic and restrictions on such festive markets this year has taken a toll on many farms, who worry that they may be left with an oversupply of flowers. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung)
Flower farms see their Lunar New Year sales wilted by virus

Alice Fung And Nicole Ko Feb. 02, 2021 10:41 PM EST

A maintenance worker wearing a face mask to protect against the spread of the coronavirus walks outside of an office complex in Beijing, Wednesday, Jan. 13, 2021. China is concentrating its pandemic prevention efforts in the rural areas as officials urge people to not travel home for the annual Lunar New Year festival, as the country combats its most serious latest outbreak of COVID-19 since the pandemic originally broke out in Wuhan a year ago. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)
China pandemic control goes rural ahead of Lunar New Year

Jan. 13, 2021 06:06 AM EST