Disney has embraced the Lunar New Year and is happily transforming "The Year of the Rat" into "The Year of the Mouse" -- an opportunity that only comes around once every twelve years.
The China Cultural Center in Fiji and Post Fiji jointly launched the Year of Rat stamps here on Friday to celebrate the arrival of the Chinese New Year which is to fall on Jan. 25 this year.
French postal service company La Poste issued two Year of Rat stamps in a ceremony here on Saturday to celebrate the Chinese Lunar New Year.
Canada Post has issued two stamps celebrating the Year of the Rat, representing the first year in the Lunar New Year cycle and the final issue in a second 12-year series honoring the annual Chinese festival.
Steal, bite and destroy, rats don't have a good reputation in most countries.
China Post invited many noted artists, such as Zhou Lingzhao, Huang Yongyu and Han Meilin, to design stamps. Now it has taken one step further to engage members of the public with the process of creating and producing stamps, by launching a design competition to collect ideas for a set of special st