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Beijingers send 400 mln text messages on Lunar New Year's eve www.chinaview.cn 2007-02-19 01:15:46 BEIJING, Feb. 18 (Xinhua) -- Beijingers sent more than 400 million text messages of greetings on the eve of the Chinese Lunar New Year, or Spring Festival, the most important festival in China. Figures released Sunday by Beijing Mobile and Beijing Unicom, two major telecommunications operators in the Chinese capital, showed that about 5,800 text messages were sent per second Saturday in Beijing. The Chinese Lunar New Year starts on the first day of the first lunar month, which falls on Sunday this year. Reuniting with...

ON February 18, the Chinese world will usher in the new year of an animal, but its identity will be suppressed. A billion people will view China's - and the world's - most-watched annual television show, the Chinese New Year's Eve variety spectacular, but the viewers will be no wiser as to which animal is involved. Left out ... pigs won't be mentioned in China's Year of the Pig celebrations to avoid offending the country's Muslim population / File