A series of activities were held in in Buenos Aires to welcome upcoming Chinese New Year.
The sequel broke nine records on its opening weekend, including highest box office sales and first film to earn more than 100 million yuan each day in three days.
Amid the brisk, festive air of Chinese New Year, monkey-themed stamps are being issued by postal services all over the world to welcome the Year of the Monkey.
A "Happy Chinese New Year" concert was held at the Richmond Hill Centre for the Performing Arts in Toronto on Jan 24. The Chinese Artists Society of Toronto and the Hospital for Sick Children organized the concert.
A promotion combining the dance drama The Silk Road on the Sea and a seminar on Chinese and European culture was held at the European Institute of Asian Studies in Brussels, Belgium, on Jan 25.
Chinese are angry that the 'king' of the Monkey Kings isn't invited to appear on CCTV's Spring Festival gala next month.
'2016 Happy Chinese New Year' launched in Seoul on Jan 26. The event features Chinese arts, folk music, opera, fashion, books and cuisine.
March marks the start of the China-Latin America Culture Year, a program that will boost cultural exchanges between China and nearly 30 Latin American countries.
More than 2,000 events, including concerts, film screenings, parades and exhibitions, are set to be held in more than 140 countries across the world to celebrate the upcoming Chinese New Year, or Spring Festival, which falls on Feb 8.
An opening ceremony of 2016 China and Qatar Cultural Year was held in Doha on Sunday. Chinese Minister of Culture Luo Shugang, Qatari Minister of Culture, Arts and Heritage Hamad bin Abdulaziz Al-Kuwari, and Ambassador of China to Qatar Li Chen attended the function.
The Memorandum of Understanding on setting up a China Cultural Center in Morocco was signed by the director of China's State Administration of Cultural Heritage Liu Yuzhu and Morocco's culture secretary Mohammed Amin Sybi on Jan 21 in Rabat.
Online polemics are raging in China over the design of a monkey-like mascot for the state TV's annual Lunar New Year gala heralding the Year of the Monkey.