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New parents celebrate Chinese New Year: More than a dozen little girls clad in silk Chinese dresses helped usher in the year of the rooster Wednesday in a courtroom filled with balloons, stuffed animals and plenty of proud parents.

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Chinese Say Goodbye to Monkey and Welcome 'Rooster': People across China have been celebrating the advent of the traditional Lunar New Year's eve since Tuesday night and the ensuing week-long holiday, saying goodbye to the year of Monkey and welcome the year of Rooster.

Chinese Celebrate Year of the Rooster: A holiday calm fell over normally bustling cities Wednesday as ethnic Chinese communities across Asia celebrated the start of the lunar Year of the Rooster with visits to crowded temples and family banquets.

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Local families learn about ancient Chinese customs: Each year when the lunar holiday rolls around, parents John and Heidi Tippett get out all their books and travel logs from China. They sit down with their daughters—Anna, 6, and Elena, 31/2—and talk about the 7,000-mile journey they took to get them from an orphanage on the other side of the world.

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Google celebrates the Chinese New Year.

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Chinese rush to wed before 'widow's year': The two were outside a drab government office, anxious to wed before the start of the Chinese New Year on Tuesday. The reason? An ancient superstition arising from a calendar quirk that makes the coming lunar year a "widow's year."

:-) Nu Yr: Making phone calls and sending text messages will be the two main ways Chinese intend to express good wishes this year at Spring Festival, or Chinese Lunar New Year.

China Stocks Arsenal With Russia Weapons: Blocked from buying U.S. and European arms, Beijing has stocked its arsenal with Russian-made supersonic fighters and other high-tech weapons, and is investing in the development of its own cruise missiles.

Great Wall Plundered for Road Paving: According to Ningxia Daily, almost 100 meters of the Great Wall in Xinxing village, Zhongwei City was destroyed last month after being plundered for road building materials.

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An unlikely bundle of joy: Despite her snug, high-collared Chinese dress, Caitie seemed like a little holiday firecracker on this afternoon—hugging visitors' necks and making kissing noises, leaping from a coffee table into her sister's arms, snatching a "fried devil"—a crispy bread dough treat—from her mother's plate.

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(Image from ChinaDaily.com.)

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Agency focuses on finding homes for young Chinese: As the eyes of the world are riveted on southern Asia and the plight of the tsunami orphans, Jan Welsh is trying to open hearts to another need: Chinese children awaiting adoptive families.