From Jan 23 to Feb 3, a "Happy Chinese New Year" event will be held to celebrate the Chinese traditional festival in Valletta, Malta.
In 2015, various activities in different forms have been held aiming to strengthen deeper communication between China and other countries.
A Chinese New Year concert was held in Haifa, Israel on Jan 7. The concert, organized by the Chinese embassy in Israel, the Ministry of Culture of China and Haifa government, is the prelude to the “2016 Happy Chinese New Year” in Israel.
Guangdong Song and Dance Ensemble put on dance drama Dragon Boat Racing at the David H. Koch Theater at Lincoln Center in New York on Jan 7.
The Chinese Ministry of Culture and Egyptian Embassy in China jointly staged a press conference to launch the 2016 Sino-Egyptian Culture Year at the National Center for the Performing Arts in Beijing on Monday.
In Sydney, a series of cultural events have been launched with more expected to come as the Sydney China Cultural Center opened its "2016 Happy Chinese New Year" campaign.
Chinese New Year is celebrated on a different date each year but is always somewhere in the period from Jan 21 to Feb 20. Why don’t Chinese have a fixed day for their most important festival?
Receiving paper letters may have become a distant memory to most of us, but lovely stamps are still alive in our past and future. 2016 marks the start of the fourth generation of Chinese zodiac stamps, which begins with stamps commemorating the Year of the Monkey.
To celebrate the Year of the Monkey, Singapore Post Limited (SingPost) will be releasing a new Zodiac Monkey stamp set which goes on sale on Jan 8 to usher in the Lunar New Year.
A replica of an ancient luxurious chariot, the equivalent of a Rolls-Royce in modern times, is now on display at the Emperor Qin Shihuang's Mausoleum Site Museum in Xi'an, the capital city of Shaanxi province, Jan 7, 2015.
Through the year, more than 130 programs and events were held in Qingdao with the goal of raising the cultural development and cultural exchange with Korea’s Cheongju and Japan’s Niigata.
With the upcoming Year of the Monkey on Feb 8, 2016, Just Share It - Happy Chinese New Year the global online photo contest is being launched all over the world. Chinaculture.org invites people to share their photos of Chinese New Year celebrations.
The submission deadline is Feb 29, 2016. The top 100 photos (single or group) will be grouped into first, second and third levels and another 100 photos (single or group) will be shortlisted from the submitted works. All the 200 final selections will be paid 5,000RMB, 3,000RMB, 1,000RMB and 500RMB respectively.