Chinese New Year: The Year of the Rat
Chinese New Year is January 25, 2020. It's the first year of the gold rat since 1960.
What is the Year of the Rat? What sign are you?
Learn more about the 12 animals and the five elements that make up the Chinese Zodiac, as well as what type of personality you have based on astrology.
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China Races to Develop Novel Coronavirus Vaccine During Lunar New Year
The Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has started developing vaccines against the novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV), an official with the center said Sunday.
The CDC has isolated the virus and is currently identifying seed strain, said Xu Wenbo, head of the National Institute for Viral Disease Control and Prevention under the CDC, adding that they are also screening drugs targeting pneumonia caused by the novel coronavirus.
Meanwhile the CDC is closely monitoring the virus to study how it mutates.
Every virus has its own special characteristics, and according to what mankind has learned about coronaviruses, the virus mutates as it spreads in the human body. This is what we've learned from other, previous coronaviruses. This time we are closely monitoring things but because of the difference between coronaviruses and other viruses, we've not seen clear mutation of the virus thus far, whether from environmental samples or samples from patients. But like I said this is what we know [as of now] about this virus that we're dealing with. Base on virology studies, the virus would not become how it is now without any mutation. It's just that the differences [caused by mutation] among this virus is very small, less than one percent, so we need time to find out exactly where it mutated. So as of now we are further monitoring and observing things, said Gao Fu, director of the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention.
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Lunar New Year was celebrated at Royal Randwick with The Star Chinese Festival of Racing. Racegoers were treated to a day themed with Chinese traditions and entertainment, an appearance by Winx in an exhibition gallop and the feature race, Group 2 The Star Apollo Stakes, won by Endless Drama (Angland) for Chris Waller.
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Today marks the first day of the new year on the lunar calendar and the start of the year of the rat, which represents hard work and thriftiness.
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Flourishing Fortune! Chinese New Year Raceday on Jan 30!
Veteran Hong Kong singers Frances Yip and Bennett Pang will perform at the variety show. Your favourite jockeys will join the show to wish you a prosperous new year. Master Mak Ling Ling will also share her fortune tips and has designed a Feng Shui Avenue to bring you New Year blessings.
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Coronavirus: Death toll from China virus outbreak passes 100 - BBC News
The death toll from the new coronavirus now stands at 106, with the number of infections almost doubling in a day to more than 4,500.
The rise comes as governments scramble to control the spread of the virus. Hong Kong is going to slash cross-border travel with mainland China.
Meanwhile, Japan is sending a plane to Wuhan, the epicentre of the outbreak, to evacuate its citizens
The virus has spread across China and to at least 16 countries globally.
Hong Kong has announced plans to slash cross-border travel between the city and mainland China as the new coronavirus continues to spread.
More than 100 people have now died in China, with confirmed infections surging to more than 4,500.
High-speed trains and ferries that cross the border will be suspended from Thursday, Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam announced. She wore a face mask.
The virus has spread across China and to at least 16 countries globally.
Several foreign governments with large numbers of citizens in Wuhan, the epicentre of the outbreak, are considering evacuations. Japan is sending a plane later on Tuesday.
Wuhan, as well as the wider Hubei province, are already effectively in a lockdown with strict transport restrictions in and out of the area. Wearing masks in public is now mandatory in some Chinese cities.
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China to Extend New Year’s Holiday to Curb Fast-Spreading Virus
China will extend the current Lunar New Year Holiday for an unspecified period of time to help reduce the spread of the coronavirus that has killed at least 56 people in the country and continues to trigger new infections around the globe.
The holiday is a time when many Chinese leave large cities like Wuhan, where the disease broke out, to return to their hometowns, and the more than 3 billion trips can help spread the disease. The country will extend the holiday “to a proper extent” beyond Jan. 30, state media Xinhua News reported Sunday, citing a government statement. The period began Jan. 24.
An epidemic response committee led by Chinese Premier Li Keqiang earlier Sunday said extending the holiday was an “appropriate measure” to control the spread of the virus.
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Chinese New Year for Kids | What is the Lunar New Year? | 2020 Year of the Rat
Happy Chinese New Year! 2019 is the Year of the Pig, and 2020 is the Year of the Rat! We call it Chinese New Year, but the Lunar New Year is celebrated in many Asian countries. It's based on the phases of the moon! The first day of Chinese New Year begins on the New Moon that appears between January 21st and February 20th.
Our friend the Moon is here to explain this beautiful and exciting holiday. We should say holidays, because the Lunar New Year celebration lasts for 15 days! It's the longest national holidays. Many people travel from all over to visit with their families, and kids even get a whole month off from school!
The Lunar New Year is associated with the Chinese Zodiac. There is a small cycle of 12 years, each year denoted by a special animal sign. These are the Rat, Ox, Tiger, Rabbit, Dragon, Snake, Horse, Sheep, Monkey, Rooster, Dog, and Pig. Then the cycle begins again!
In this video, we'll learn about the traditional activities that take place on each of the 15 days of the Lunar New Year celebrations, including eating special foods, setting off fireworks, receiving red envelopes with money inside, and lighting special red lanterns.
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Hong Kong’s dazzling 23-minute long Lunar New Year fireworks even featured some pig snouts. Pyrotechnics engineer Wilson Mao has staged every major fireworks show in the city since 1996. He reveals some of his wizardry secrets behind the spectacle.
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Xi Stresses Racing Against Time to Reach Chinese Dream
Chinese President Xi Jinping extended greetings to Chinese people of all ethnic groups, compatriots in Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan and overseas Chinese on Thursday, ahead of the Spring Festival.
Xi, also general secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee and Chairman of the Central Military Commission, extended the greetings on behalf of the CPC Central Committee and the State Council while addressing a Chinese Lunar New Year reception held at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing.
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Coronavirus: Timelapse shows speedy hospital construction in Wuhan, China
In footage released by People's Daily, the groundwork and initial building stages can be seen as builders race to build a Coronavirus treatment hospital.
China promised to build the hospital with 1,000 new hospital beds within six days. This would beat the current record-holding purpose built SARs hospital which was build in Beijing in 2003.
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Chinese New Year 2019 Lion Dance, Hong Kong
Lion dance ( 舞獅) is a form of traditional dance in Chinese culture and other Asian countries in which performers mimic a lion's movements in a lion costume to bring good luck and fortune. The lion dance is usually performed during the Chinese New Year and other Chinese traditional, cultural and religious festivals. It may also be performed at important occasions such as business opening events, special celebrations or wedding ceremonies, or may be used to honour special guests by the Chinese communities.