In the Chinese calendar, 2011 is going to be the Year of the Rabbit.

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For Chinese, 60 years represent one cycle in the Chinese calendar, which gives this 61st anniversary special significance.

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To begin with, the Chinese calendar does not traditionally number years continuously, but instead employs the cycle of 12 animals, (Year of the Rat, Year of the Ox, and so on).

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He said the Year of the Pig has significance in the Chinese calendar, and noted that type of jewelry was popular in Asian cultures, but little other information had yet been gleaned from the jewelry.

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My social calendar in the Chinese Pamirs was still relatively empty.

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Market volatility and a crowded IPO calendar in Asia Chinese banks need to plump up their capital cushions make the timing and the proceeds uncertain.

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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.

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Using the Dow Industrials in 1977, it was pretty grim no matter whether you look at the calendar year or the start and end of the Chinese year.

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Its first Chinese movie, "Hot Summer Days, " took the top slot at the box office this year over the Chinese New Year weekend, one of the most competitive in the calendar.

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Clever promotions include opening units on calendar days that end with an 8, considered lucky by Chinese.

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For the calendar year, the Dow was down 16.8%, and for Chinese year it lost 17.5%.

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The F1 calendar will expand from 19 to 20 races in 2011, while three races - the Chinese, Japanese and Turkish - are not contracted for 2012.

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