 | A policeman tries to control travelers arriving at a railway station in Guangzhou, Guangdong province, January 31, 2004. A massive movement of people in China of up to hundreds of millions at the tail end of the Lunar New Year holidays poses a challenge to the control of the spread of bird flu. click to open  |
 | Performers in Shenzhen's Window of the World Theme Park on January 27, 2004. click to open |
 | Chinese children dressed as mythical figures perform a dance on elevated poles at a temple fair in Beijing January 26, 2004. click to open |
 | A Chinese migrant worker in Jinzhai County, in China's eastern Anhui province, waits for her ride which will take her back to work in the cities after the Chinese New Year holiday January 26, 2004. click to open |
 | A vendor sells glazed fruits, a local delicacy in northern China, at a temple fair in Beijing January 26, 2004. click to open |
 | A vendor pours hot water from a dragon-shaped jug into a bowl to mix a sweet treat at a temple fair in Beijing January 26, 2004. The annual tradition of temple fairs during Chinese New Year were banned in China during the Cultural Revolution (1966-1976) because they were considered to be based on superstitious and feudal beliefs, but resurfaced in the early 1980's as part of China's opening to the market economy. click to open |
 | 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 |
 | A vendor pours steaming hot water from a dragon-shaped jug into a bowl to mix a sweet treat at the White Cloud Temple in Beijing on Chinese New Year's Day Thursday Jan. 22, 2004. Thousands crowded into the temple, Beijing's largest Taoist temple, to mark the beginning of the Year of the Monkey. click to open |
 | A woman prays as thousands of worshipers pass through the Hsingtien Temple to offer prayers in hopes of good luck in the new Year of the Monkey Thursday, Jan. 22, 2004, in Taipei, Taiwan. The Chinese new year lasts from Jan. 21 to Feb. 5th's Lantern Day. click to open |
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