The three car makers each logged more than 20% sales growth in the month from the same month a year ago, when the Lunar New Year holidays reduced the number of operating days.
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After launching a lunar orbiter later this year, scientists will begin the process of choosing among several competing rover designs for exploring the Moon's geology and terrain, and now the first of these candidates has been unveiled for public consumption.
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It might be too early to call a serious slowdown in the Chinese recovery as the latest data may have been affected by the Lunar New Year, a period that is often associated with a sharp increase in the price of food and other goods, which occurred in January in 2012 and February in 2013.
He plays Sam, an astronaut who is nearing the end of a three-year stint on the lunar surface, where he manages the mining of Helium-3, a precious substance that will save the planet Earth.
By contrast in Indonesia, the ethnic Chinese this year were allowed to celebrate the Lunar New Year for the first time in a generation, now that Suharto's iron rule is gone.
Gaining an edge on its neighbour, Japan launched a lunar probe shortly before China did last year.
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The Foreign Ministry did not immediately respond to faxed requests for comment on Tuesday, a public holiday in China marking the Lunar New Year.
Barclays Capital analysts said without any support from a firmer euro, combined with the Lunar New Year holidays next week, gold could see its gains capped.
The move by some luxury hotel chains in greater China to ban shark fin soup ahead of the Lunar New Year was symbolic of a new day and part of a worldwide push.
While fireworks are a major part of the festivities surrounding the Lunar New Year, which marks the beginning of the Year of the Snake, authorities in Beijing are asking the public to curb firework celebrations so as not to add to the city's worsening air pollution, Xinhua reported Tuesday.
If you mine the newspaper archives for last year, or the year before (well, not exactly, you need for Chinese New Year, which being based on a lunar calendar is a movable feast) you will see many a story about how factories were desperately short of the labour they needed in the big Chinese manufacturing towns.
All in all, China's Lunar New Year is shaping up to be a Leaner New Year.
Fireworks are traditionally set off in China to celebrate the Lunar New Year, which is just over a week away.
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As the Chinese start preparing for the lunar new year by ancient tradition a time for debts to be settled the money may grow tight.
He refused to stay at the Mandarin, saying there was no need to put him up in a luxury hotel or make the staff work overtime during the Lunar New Year holiday just for his benefit.
As both countries celebrate the Lunar New Year starting this weekend, South Korea is expecting a 25% jump in the number of Chinese visitors from last year's holiday period.
In addition, the Lunar New Year holiday, which essentially shut down the country for a week in January, was a temporary brake on demand.
This year's September 27 marks three important lunar events -- a supermoon, a total lunar eclipse and Asia's Mid-Autumn Festival, also known as the Moon Festival.
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Last week, ahead of the Lunar New Year holiday, dozens of North Korean trucks lined up at a customs checkpoint in the northeastern Chinese border city of Dandong, loaded with bags of rice, cooking oil, cheap electronics and other daily items that their country's collapsed industry cannot produce enough of for its 24 million people.
Lunar Prospector itself provided more evidence last year when it used an instrument called a neutron spectrometer to look for the tell-tale signs of hydrogen, one of the elements of water.
February same store sales actually inched up 2% in China, on the back of flat numbers at KFC and a 13% surge in Pizza Hut, as Chinese consumers ramped up purchases around the Lunar New Year.
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On Saturday night, the government counted a total of 839 fires caused by revellers setting off fireworks and firecrackers across the country on Lunar New Year's Eve.
The LLCD (Lunar Laser Communications Demonstration) launches on LADEE in January of next year and will demonstrate a laser downlink rate of 622 megabytes from the moon.
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March is considered a key month to assess manufacturing activity as data in January and February is skewed by the Lunar New Year Holiday when many factories are shut.
After a one-month quarantine, the pandas are expected to make their debut in Taiwan during the Chinese lunar new year.
Armadillo came close to winning the X Prize Foundation's Northrop Grumman Lunar Lander Challenge last year by flying an alcohol-fueled rocket 150 feet in the air to a landing pad 300 feet away.
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