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Article: Celebrating Chinese New Year
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- New Straits Times
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- January 26, 2009
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New Straits Times
01-26-2009
Celebrating Chinese New Year
Edition: Main/Lifestyle
Section: 1Klassifieds
CHINESE New Year is the most important festival to the ethnic Chinese community in Malaysia. Sometimes called the Lunar New Year this holiday lasts for 15 days with many exciting events to offer.
New Year preparation usually starts months ahead. This date is determined by the lunar calendar and usually falls in January or February.
As part of the preparation every household will be busy spring cleaning as they believe it will sweep away any bad luck accumulated in the past year and have the house ready to receive new luck for the year as the day arrives.
A common decoration in Chinese ...
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