Welcome to the Year of the Rooster. As you probably already know, much of the traditional celebration around Chinese New Year is governed by the idea of luck, good and bad. For good luck, cook and serve a whole fish, decorate your house in red and wear red clothing, spend time with your family, give gifts of money. All of these are said to bring good luck for the coming year. But if you want to avoid bad luck for the Year of the Rooster, here are some things it is said you

Happy New Year! And here’s to a happy, healthy and prosperous 2017 for everyone everywhere. Here are my New Year’s resolutions: lose weight give up rest time to exercise give up sugar stop worrying give up alcohol cut down on money spent on going out Good, eh? If I do all that I’m sure I’ll feel better. Come on! What’s wrong with this picture? ‘Give up’, ‘stop’, ‘lose’, ‘cut down’, that’s what. Have you ever seen anything more soul destroying? It’s natural that the new y