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 | Spring Festival 2004: Worshipers offer incense and pray at the Chinese Temple in Panama City's Chinatown on Chinese Lunar New Year's Day, Panama, January 22, 2004. Chinese and Panamanians worshippers visited the temple to bring in the New Year, the year of the Monkey and to pray for happiness and prosperity. click to open  |  | Spring Festival 2004: A visitor to the Yan Woo temple in Chinatown lights incense on the morning of the Chinese New Year, beginning the year of the monkey, in Panama City, Panama Thursday, Jan. 22, 2004 in Panama City. Panama has the largest number of ethnic Chinese in all of Central America, estimated at 120,000. The first immigrated in 1854 during the construction of a railroad from Panama City to Colon and others immigrated with the construction of the Panama Canal. click to open |  | Spring Festival 2000: Women cover their ears from firecrackers in the Chinese neighborhood of Panama City, Panama on Saturday, February 5, 2000. Today marks the Chinese New Year, ushering in the year of the dragon. (AP) click to open |  | Spring Festival 2000: A dragon dancer rests while others perform in front of fircrackers in the Chinese neighborhood of Panama City, Panama on Saturday, February 5, 2000. Today marks the Chinese New Year, ushering in the year of the dragon. Panama's Chinese population first immigrated in the mid 1800's to help construct the the transcontinental railroad that predated the Panama Canal. click to open |
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