Travel and spending during China’s Lunar New Year holiday hit new records this year, giving the government an encouraging boost as it seeks to ramp up the ailing economy.

Among China’s traditional holidays and celebrations, none ranks higher in importance than the Lunar New Year (農曆新年). Also ...

China's film market achieved a record high of 9.5 billion yuan ($1.3 billion) in takings over the Lunar New Year period, 18.8% higher than the same period last year, as movie-goers flocked to cinemas ...

adding a touch of Valentine's Day sweetness to Christmas (another reason the fruit is exorbitantly priced in China around the holiday season). So, packing a few apples as part of your Christmas ...

President-elect Donald Trump took an aim at Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, ‘radical left lunatics’ and also mentioned Panama Canal in a series of Christmas Day social media posts.

That nostalgic evocation of rural Virginia wasn’t so different from the setting of “Christmas Day in the Morning ... and although she spent her childhood in China, stories of old-time ...

One city in China produces 80 per cent of the world’s Christmas decorations. Yiwu International Trade City exports more than 20,000 types of Christmas products to more than 100 countries ...

However, flights between western China’s Urumqi and Georgian capital Tbilisi have circumvented southwest Russia’s Dagestan region since an Azerbaijan Airlines came down on Christmas Day ...

More than 60 per cent were from mainland China, adding to the 660,636 who ... crossings estimated to peak at about 595,000 on Christmas Day. Some residents told the SCMP they were only staying ...

Christmas Day in Hong Kong has seen no let-up in clashes ... focusing on a bill that would have allowed the extradition of suspects to mainland China. The bill was later withdrawn, but ...

Christmas is not traditionally celebrated in China, but it is common for young ... Infections in China are likely more than a million a day with deaths at more than 5,000 a day, in "stark contrast ...