The Year of the Ox

Chinese New Year 2
Vivek Prakash / REUTERS

Making Their Own Luck
People wait to place joss sticks in Singapore's Kwan Im Thong Hood Cho temple, where hundreds of people annually vie to be the first to place joss sticks in an urn at the stroke of midnight to mark an auspicious start to their year.

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