Red Couplets

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During Chinese New Year, Red Couplets are Chinese good luck sayings written on red paper, often with gold trimmings and usually made up of four Chinese characters which ask for luck in terms of long life, wealth etc.

Wish all good luck at Year of the Ox.

External Links:

• Read Lunar New Year Fireworks Display for more information
  
• View Chinese New Year Fireworks Display Photo Gallery
  

Related Photos:

• A Symphony of Lights New Year Countdown 2007
  

Frost Warning in Hong Kong

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Date: 14 Jan, 2009
Place: Yuen Long, New Territories

Hong Kong Observatory has issued a frost warning. The temperatures dropped to eight degrees Celsius in the urban areas and several degrees lower in the New Territories.

Ground frost occurred on high ground and in the northern parts of the New Territories.


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Lunar New Year Fireworks Display in Hong Kong

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Event: Lunar New Year Fireworks Display (賀歲煙花匯演)
Date: 02 Feb, 2008

Sponsored by the Mission Hills Group, Mission Hills Golf Club and Hsin Chong Construction Group, and co-ordinated by the Home Affairs Bureau, the Lunar New Year fireworks display will light up the sky over Victoria Harbour at 8pm on Friday (February 8).

A total of 40,000 firing shells will be discharged in the display from four barges in a 23-minute extravaganza consisting of 10 scenes. The sponsorship amount is about $7 million.

To celebrate the Chinese Year of Ox, the fireworks display will be held on January 27, 2009 (Tuesday). The show begins at 8:00 pm.

External Links:

• Read Lunar New Year Fireworks Display for more information
  
• View Chinese New Year Fireworks Display Photo Gallery
  

Related Photos:

• A Symphony of Lights New Year Countdown 2007
  

New Years Eve in Hong Kong

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Event: Hong Kong’s New Year Countdown Celebrations (除夕倒數煙火匯演)
Date: 01 Jan, 2009

Thousands of spectators gathering along both sides of Victoria Harbour for Hong Kong’s New Year Countdown Celebrations. As the clock strikes the midnight hour, a pyrotechnics show will be launched from Two ifc and nine other landmark buildings on Hong Kong island to illuminate the glamourous Victoria Harbour, signifying a bright and hopeful New Year for Hong Kong and the world.

The event sequence as follows:

1. Event Sequence of the Hong Kong New Year Countdown Celebration on Dec 31, 2008:

10:57:00 : Countdown Ceremony officiated by Donald Tsang, Chief Executive of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region;

10:59:00 : Countdown to 2009, 60-sec numerical countdown by LED lights with pyrotechnic display effects on the façade of Two ifc;

11:05:00 : Hong Kong Welcomes 2009 with Spectacular Display. Continue with a 5-minute brilliant pyrotechnical show on 10 landmark buildings on Hong Kong island, orchestrated by special theme song written and produced by award winning Hong Kong musician Mr Peter Kam.

External Links:

• Hong Kong’s New Year Countdown Celebrations info and Photo Gallery.
• A Symphony of Lights New Year Countdown info and Photo Gallery.
  

Related Photos:

• A Symphony of Lights New Year Countdown 2007