Royal guests grace celebration: HRH Prince Haji Al-Muhtadee Billah (3rd L), the Crown Prince and Senior Minister at the Prime Minister’s Office, accompanied by HRH Paduka Seri Pengiran Anak Isteri Pengiran Anak Sarah (R) carrying Yang Teramat Mulia Pengiran Muda Abdul Muntaqim and HRH Prince Abdul Malik (L) visiting with Pehin Goh King Chin (2nd L) yesterday during the Chinese New Year celebration in Pehin Goh’s residence at Kota Batu.
Fireworks explode over the skyline of Beijing as residents celebrate the arrival of Chinese New Year early on Jan. 26, 2009. Millions of Chinese across the country celebrated the arrival of the Year of the Ox.
Fireworks to celebrate the Chinese New Year illuminate the skyline of Beijing on Jan. 26, 2009. Chinese welcomed the arrival of the Year of the Ox with raucous celebrations on Sunday despite gloom about the economy, setting off firecrackers in the streets and sending fireworks into the sky.
A Buddhist man faces the skies as he prays to the Goddess of Heaven while people rush to place incense sticks in an urn at a local Chinese Buddhist temple on Jan. 26, 2009 in Singapore. Every year, hundreds of Buddhist believers gather at a temple where they will vie to place their joss sticks in an urn at midnight marking an auspicious start to the Chinese lunar new year.
A dancer holds a lion’s head high in the Golden Dragons and Multiple Lions Dance in Calgary's Chinatown on Jan. 25 during the 2009 Year of the Ox Chinese New Year Carnival.
A visitor takes a picture in front of a Chinese New Year’s poster outside a Hong Kong shopping mall to celebrate the year of the Ox on Jan. 26, 2009.
A man lights candles in a temple during Chinese Lunar New Year celebrations to mark the Year of the Ox in Jakarta’s Chinatown on Jan. 26, 2009.
A girl touches a giant panda toy near the enclosure of Tuan Tuan and Yuan Yuan, the two giant pandas from China, at the Taipei City Zoo in Muzha on Jan. 26, 2009. Thousands of children and parents met the two pandas on Monday the first day of the Chinese Lunar New Year, after a month-long quarantine. The names of the pandas when linked mean “reunion” in Chinese.
Chinese lanterns are seen against the backdrop of a partial solar eclipse in Singapore on Jan. 26, 2009. Coinciding with Chinese Lunar New Year celebrations, a solar eclipse made its way across Southeast Asia, much of it over the sea.
A character wearing firecracker outfit, plays with a young shopper at a shopping arcade in Hong Kong on Jan. 26, 2009, the first day of the Chinese New Year of the Ox.
Chinese lanterns hang above the streets in London’s Chinatown district to celebrate the Chinese New Year on Jan. 26, 2009.
People walk past an illuminated sculpture of an ox, lit up for the Chinese New Year, in Singapore on Jan. 26, 2009. Chinese people around the world celebrated the Lunar New Year of the Ox.
A couple sits under illuminated sculptures, lit up for the Chinese New Year, in Singapore on Jan. 26, 2009. Chinese people around the world celebrated the Lunar New Year of the Ox on Monday.
