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Jenny Chan 陳詠欣
Mar 5, 2015

CNY recap: Paperless hongbaos, paper cuts with French twist, and more

GREATER CHINA - Judging from the number of sheep-like noises we made when we came across cool bits of marketing throughout the 15-day Chinese New Year celebration (which culminates today in the annual Lantern Festival ‘元宵节'), there were quite a few newsworthy and significant things to bleat about. Here's a few of our favourites.

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