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Lunar New Year celebrations begin in China and across Asia | |
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Countries across Asia are beginning Lunar New Year celebrations to welcome in the year of the sheep. | |
In China, hundreds of millions of people are travelling home in what is considered the world's biggest annual human migration. | |
State media says about three billion passenger trips will be made by plane, train and car over the 40-day period. | |
It is a public holiday in many places with ethnic Chinese populations such as Taiwan, Singapore and Malaysia. | |
The festival is known as Tet in Vietnam and Seollal in South Korea, and is traditionally a time to be with family. | |