Monday, February 19, 2007

Tourists in Sarawak puzzled over different ways of celebrating New Year

KUCHING: As they were driven through the city, the first thing that Chinese tourists Fan Rui and Zhong Hua noticed was that the city was terribly quiet.

Baffled why all the shops were shuttered up, they asked their tour guide and his reply was: “To welcome Chinese New Year.”

Fan and Zhong said they found this strange because in China no shops would close their doors during the Chinese New Year holidays.

"We had not expected this,” they said when met at the open house of Sarawak Tourism Federation president Wee Hong Seng yesterday.

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