News about Chinese New Year

KUALA LUMPUR (Jan 26): The official holidays for the Lunar New Year may be over and many folks are back at work, but the festivities continue at home and in the malls as it ain’t really over until Chap Goh Mei rolls in (why mess with tradition when it allows you to have fun for as long as possible).

PETALING JAYA (Feb 7): Gamuda Land released a Chinese New Year short film celebrating the journey of discovery and amazement, in pursuit of true happiness.

Chinese New Year is almost upon us! In Malaysia, we hear Chinese festive songs being blasted in public, and see red and gold-coloured decorations being displayed on the streets and malls in droves.

PETALING JAYA (Jan 20): Tropicana Corp Bhd is collaborating with Tropicana Gardens Mall in launching its Multi-Million Mania campaign, which offers millions of ringgit worth of prizes and vouchers for home seekers and shoppers, as well as a grand prize of a RM519,000 high-rise unit (452 sq ft) at Edelweiss SOFO, Tropicana Gardens.

KUALA LUMPUR (Jan 11) : All 6,480 tickets sold by bus operator Causeway Link under the Malaysia-Singapore land vaccinated travel lane (VTL) were snapped up within hours on Monday (Jan 10) ahead of Chinese New Year, The Straits Times reported.

KUALA LUMPUR (Feb 7): The National Security Council (NSC) has approved new standard operating procedures (SOPs) that will allow reunion dinners on the eve of Chinese New Year among members of different households.

Every year, the festive ambience and specially curated Chinese New Year (CNY) decorations are one of the crowd pullers to shopping malls.

Jason Oh, an employee of a hospitality company currently based in Hong Kong — one of the countries affected by the COVID-19 outbreak that saw schools being shut down and the government rolling out a fiscal stimulus package to ease the impact of the virus – was required to work from home after the Chinese New Year holidays until the end of February 2020.

KUALA LUMPUR (Jan 10): They were there first before AirAsia moved in from LCCT.

SEPANG (Jan 7): AirAsia Group Bhd will add special late-night flights at fixed one-way all-in fares between Peninsular Malaysia and Sabah and Sarawak from Jan 21 to 31, following feedback from the budget airline's guests for it to have fixed low fares for the upcoming Chinese New Year, which falls on Jan 25 and 26.