Special Report: Lunar New Year 2009 - Part 1

Edited by Raphael Bu Yunfei

Hong Kong - Feb 12 - IJS-Global - Lunar New Year is the biggest festival for Chinese people.

Hong Kong - Student entrepreneurs at the Lunar New Year Fair, Victoria Park. Photo: Kunthy

Student journalists from Hong Kong Baptist University reported on the Spring Festival from Hong Kong, mainland China and Vietnam.

How did people live in diverse places celebrate the coming of the Year of Ox? Did the financial turmoil have a strong impact on different industries?

Our reporters addressed these questions from many  perspectives.

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Special Report: Lunar New Year 2009 in pictures - Part 1

Photos selected by Nina Liu

Hong Kong - Feb 4 - IJS-Global - From cities across China, student journalists of Hong Kong Baptist University report on the dawn of the Ox Lunar New Year in pictures:
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Special Report: Lunar New Year 2009 - Part 2

Edited by Frederik Schipper

Hong Kong - February 8 - IJS-Global - How did people all over China greet the Year of the Ox? Did they cut on their spendings as a result of the financial tsunami? Or was it business as usual?

Guangzhou, Jan 23: New Year decorations at the entrance of the Tian He flower fair. Photo: Bridget Zhang

In order to find answers to these questions and more, graduate students from The School of Communication of Hong Kong Baptist University report on Lunar New Year festivities from datelines across China.
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Special Report: Lunar New Year 2009 - Part 3

Edited by Tim Zhou Wending

Hong Kong - February 17 - IJS-Global - This is a very special Spring Festival in China this year. This is a Chinese Lunar New Year with the background of Global Financial Crisis. This is our unique memories in the year of 2009, the year of Ox.

How did Chinese people feel about the LIFE in this Spring Festival?

How about PEOPLE during the holiday? What was it like in HONG KONG? Do you wanna know the differences between URBAN and RURAL places? And what is so FUN about OX?

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Special Report: Lunar New Year 2009 in Pictures - Part 3