festival & custom匈中

，Qingming culture makes a comeback 04-02
，China celebrates Dragon Boat Festival 12-04
，HK gets ready to celebrate 10th anniversary of return 12-04
，Feature: Dragon boating is full of fun 12-04
，Celebrations of 10th anniversary of HK's return held in London 12-04
，Coney Island Mermaid Parade celebrated in New York 12-04
，CIPEC 2007 being held in Beijing 12-04
，Memory of emperor Fuxi honored in NW China 12-04
，San Juan's night in Alicante 12-04
，Chinese Food Festival in E China's Tianjin 12-04
，Blythe 6th anniversary exhibition in Tokyo 12-04
，NW China mulls "New Silk Road" exhibition park 12-04
，Grand gala held marking HK's return 12-04
，Pandas crowd pleasers in HK 12-04
，18,000 join parade to mark HK return anniversary 12-04
，China to hold second int'l artwork fair 12-04
，Italian art in spotlight at 2nd China Int'l Art Works Expo 12-04
，Master painter remembered by his daughter 12-04
，Fashion camps launch catwalk counterstrokes 12-04
，Pamplona bull-running festival starts 12-04
，10 Foreign teams take part in Indonesia's kite festival 12-04
，Seven injured in Spain's running of bull festival 12-04
，Int'l beach festival to open in Dalian 12-04
，35,000 descend on Roswell to talk about aliens 12-04
，Grand gala honors Chinese TV hosts 11-23
，Photo exhibition brings China's West closer to Americans 11-23
，"Beijing Week" to be staged in Moscow 11-23
，Weather vane shows trends of TV industry 11-23
，Int'l book fair opens in Cape Town 11-23
，Malaysia celebrates Dragon Boat Festival 11-23
，Beijing Olympic Cultural Festival to see multipil activities 11-23
，Chinese urged to return to traditions of Dragon Boat Festival 11-23
，China celebrates Dragon Boat Festival 11-23
，HK gets ready to celebrate 10th anniversary of return 11-23
，Feature: Dragon boating is full of fun 11-23
，Celebrations of 10th anniversary of HK's return held in London 11-23
，Coney Island Mermaid Parade celebrated in New York 11-23
，CIPEC 2007 being held in Beijing 11-23
，Memory of emperor Fuxi honored in NW China 11-23
，San Juan's night in Alicante 11-23
，Macao to host int'l jewelry expo 11-23
，Chinese Food Festival in E China's Tianjin 11-23
，Blythe 6th anniversary exhibition in Tokyo 11-23
，21st China Lotus show in central China 11-23
，NW China mulls "New Silk Road" exhibition park 11-23
，Grand gala held marking HK's return 11-23
，China likely to cancel "golden week" holidays in 2009 11-23
，Pandas crowd pleasers in HK 11-23
，18,000 join parade to mark HK return anniversary 11-23
，Italian art in spotlight at 2nd China Int'l Art Works Expo 11-23

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