Celebrate Chinese New Year 2026 away from the crowds by exploring these calmer, crowd-free destinations in Asia and beyond.

Richard Drew/AP Chinese and others around Asia flocked to temples and fairs to pray for good health and fortune on Monday, the first day of the Lunar New Year. In Beijing, hundreds of thousands of ...

Once the moon has just about completed 12 full cycles of its phases, the Lunar New Year falls upon us. The first new moon of this next cycle—in mid-February for 2026—marks the beginning of spring ...

A woman praying alone in front of shut temple gates was one of the only signs of Lunar New Year observances at Beijing's Lama Temple on Saturday, as fears over a deadly new virus mount in China.

Bookings from China between Feb. 15 and Feb. 23 have risen 57% from the previous Lunar New Year break, which ran from Jan. 28 ...

It follows celebrations in Sydney, which our correspondent says were tempered with sadness following the attack on Bondi ...

BEIJING — Chinese state TV included dancers in blackface portraying Africans in a holiday gala for the second time in three years, prompting criticism online, as Asia welcomed the Year of the Ox with ...

Across continents, New Year celebrations blended tradition, spectacle, and reflection. While fireworks, light shows, and ...

Protest-themed Lunar New Year fairs have sprung up across Hong Kong to raise money and morale for the city's pro-democracy movement despite stiff resistance from local authorities and pro-Beijing ...

It's also the start of 2026 for much of northwest Mexico and British Columbia in Canada. Most of the world has now welcomed ...

The planned shipments would mark the first deliveries of H200 chips to China after US President Donald Trump said this month ...