Happy Year of the Rooster!
People in villages and cities across China and other parts of Asia are getting ready to celebrate the Lunar New Year this weekend. DW looks at some of the preparations for the festivities.
Roosters made of dough
Folk artist Kan Zongqin from eastern China's Shandong Province made a total of 100 rooster-shaped dough figurines to greet the lunar new year of the rooster.
Rooster beauty contest
Proud rooster owners posed in Shunde, in China's southern Guangdong Province.
Pork meat for rooster year
New Year's meals are lavish and the holiday represents the peak time for meat consumption. Paramilitary policemen in Hangzhou pulled this pig outside for slaughter.
Celebrations in Singapore
A giant golden rooster lantern lights up Singapore's Chinatown district.
Decorations in Yangon
Myanmar's capital was decorated with lanterns ahead of the Lunar New Year festivities.
Gong xi fa cai in Indonesia
"Gong xi fa cai" is a wish for wealth in the new year - very fitting here in Jakarta's business district.
Happy "Tet!"
Resident in Xuan La, a village near Hanoi, Vietnam, were making "Banh Chung" rice cakes in preparations for the Lunar New Year festivities, known as "Tet."