Jack Dutton is a Newsweek Reporter based in Cape Town, South Africa. His focus is reporting on global politics and international relations. He has covered climate change, foreign affairs, migration ...

“To be perfectly frank,” Ling-ya Lee, who came to Los Angeles from Taiwan in 1989, says of her Chinese New Year preparations, “I rarely make dumplings anymore.” Given the high quality of ready-made ...

Chinese New Year is just around the corner and will soon be celebrated by those who follow calendars that are based around moon cycles. Interchangeably known as the Lunar New Year (given that it is ...

The Chinese or Lunar New Year is a holiday that roughly a fifth of the world celebrates and for those 1.5 billion, it’s the most important date on the calendar. But the 6 billion rest of us can get in ...

In 2025, Jan. 29 marks the start of the Lunar New Year, also known in China as the Chinese New Year or Spring Festival, China’s biggest holiday. The world’s largest human migration takes place as ...