Chinese New Year - 2007

The Year of the Red Fire Pig was greeted with parades and fireworks around the world - and in some places few pigs. In Malaysia and China where there are large Muslim populations, the governments decided that the pig should not be featured much. In China, pigs were not allowed in Chinese New Year TV ads!

closer to home: Even my 6 year old knows that there is no "year of the panda", and I got a thank you note from a Jewish friend for featuring a pig in the Chinese New Year card I made for them.

This years' pictures include:

• National Geographic photo of folk artists who performed on stilts.
• Still from BBC on London's Chinese New Year celebrations
  
• Vancouver Chinese New Year parade photos
• SanFrancisco's Chinese New Year parade
• China View's photos
  
  
• Video from Liverpool, England parade
  

More to come. . .