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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
National
Rachael Davies

The best Chinese New Year activities in London to bring in the Year of the Snake

With roughly 1.5 per cent of London’s population having Chinese ancestry, accounting for 150,000 people, it’s no small wonder, then, that the capital city will have various festivities for Chinese New Year.

Celebrated across many more countries in South Asia – such as Korea, Vietnam, Thailand, Indonesia, Singapore, Taiwan, Malaysia and the Philippines, as well in many diaspora communities around the globe, the Chinese New Year goes by many other names.

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