Hope for a better 2009 in celebrating Lunar New Year
(Xinhua/Agencies)
Updated: 2009-01-26 09:35

Volunteers hold back a throng of hundreds of people waiting to place joss sticks in an urn at the Kwan Im Thong Hood Cho temple in Singapore January 26, 2009. Each year, hundreds of people vie to be the first to place joss sticks in an urn at the stroke of midnight at the temple to mark an auspicious start to their year. Chinese people all over the world are ushering in the Lunar New Year, the Year of the Ox, on January 26. [Agencies]
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