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2012 - Year of The Dragon (2)

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2012 - Year of The Dragon (2)

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  1. Angelito "Karat Chef" Araneta Jr., 24, looks at his edible Water Dragon sculpture made of gum-paste icing inside a restaurant in Manila January 20, 2012. The sculpture is coated with 24k gold leaf and adorned with 17 Mikimoto pearls and two diamonds on the eyeballs. Angelito made the sculpture, which costs around 600,000 pesos ($13,863), for the Lunar New Year on Monday. - Source: Reuters

  2. A dragon-design spring festival couplets are seen on a banner for the upcoming temple fair of the Chinese Lunar New Year at Longtan Park in Beijing, Jan 18, 2012.

  3. Thousands of people visit a lantern festival to celebrate the Chinese New Year of the Dragon in Shanghai, on January 23, 2012. (Peter Parks/AFP/Getty Images)

  4. Participants prepare a 30-foot dragon before marching in the annual Chinese New Year celebration in LowerTown Arts District of Paducah, Ky., Saturday, Jan. 21, 2012. - John Wright - ASSOCIATED PRESS

  5. Dragon-design light decoration for the upcoming Chinese Lunar New Year is seen above cars on a street in Singapore Picture taken January 16, 2012. REUTERS/Tim Chong (SINGAPORE - Tags: SOCIETY)

  6. Dragon dance performers in Taipei, Taiwan (AP/Chiang Ying-ying)

  7. Soldiers perform a dragon-dance in front of Tay Kei Sek temple in Semarang, Central Java, Jan. 23, 2012. The Lunar New Year begins on Jan. 23 and marks the start of the Year of the Dragon, according to the Chinese zodiac. - Source: REUTERS/Dwi Oblo

  8. Members of the Chinese community dressed as a god (L) and a warrior give red packets, monetary gifts given during holidays or special occasions, to children during celebrations at Lima's Chinatown, Jan. 22, 2012. The Lunar New Year, or Spring Festival, begins on Jan. 23 and marks the start of the Year of the Dragon, according to the Chinese zodiac. - Source: REUTERS/Pilar Olivares

  9. A fire breather performs in Chinatown in Manila a day before the Chinese New Year (Photo credit should read NOEL CELIS/AFP/Getty Images)

  10. Nicasio Leong Magdaraog puts some finishing touches on the head of a dragon for the start of celebration of the Chinese Lunar New Year, on January 20, 2012 in Manila's Chinatown district, Philippines. (AP Photo/Pat Roque)

  11. Dancers perform during a parade held to welcome the Chinese New Year in Solo, Central Java, Indonesia, on January 15, 2012. (AP Photo/)

  12. A performer reaches out for the gift being dangled from a supermarket during a dragon dance performance in celebration of the Chinese New Year at Manila's Chinatown district, on January 23, 2012 in the Philippines. (AP Photo/Bullit Marquez)

  13. Divers perform a dragon dance during an event to celebrate the Chinese Lunar New Year at the Shanghai aquarium, on January 19, 2012. (Reuters/Carlos Barria)

  14. HONG KONG

  15. Pedestrians cross the road near a dragon decoration installed for the Lunar New Year in Singapore, on January 16, 2012. (Reuters/Edgar Su)

  16. Ethnic Chinese people burn joss sticks to celebrate the lunar new year at Hea Tek Tunk Chinese Temple in Bangkok, Thailand on January 23, 2012. (Sakchai Lalit/Associated Press)

  17. Visitors walk past dragon-shaped lanterns set up for the upcoming Spring Festival in Xi'an, Shaanxi province, on January 16, 2012. (Reuters/China Daily)

  18. An illuminated LED dragon is seen at the 2012 Cathay Pacific International Chinese New Year Night Parade in Hong Kong, on January 23, 2012. The parade featured illuminated floats accompanied by local and international performing groups which entertained both locals and tourists alike on Chinese Lunar New Year. (aaron tam/AFP/Getty Images)

  19. Gods of fortune - Chinese employees dress as gods of fortune to attract customers while distributing discount vouchers outside a shopping mall in Beijing, China, on Jan. 17. China will celebrate the Lunar New Year on Jan. 23. Andy Wong / AP

  20. Residents of New York celebrating the launch of a new lunar calendar year. (Photo: Michael Suddenly / Getty Images)

  21. JANUARY 21: A diver in a mermaid costume reaches for a dragon as a sting ray and a guitar fish swim by during a performance for the celebration of the Chinese New Year at Manila's Ocean Park. (Pat Roque/Associated Press)

  22. Massive dragon takes over The Venetian Las Vegas

  23. Indonesian ethnic Chinese hold a lantern together before releasing it on January 22, 2012 to celebrate the lunar new year in Medan, North Sumatra, Indonesia. (Binsar Bakkara/Associated Press)

  24. Students perform a dragon dance during a procession along the Chinatown area in Binondo, metro Manila, Jan. 21, 2012 to celebrate Chinese New Year. The Lunar New Year begins on Jan. 23 and marks the start of the Year of the Dragon, according to the Chinese zodiac. Source: REUTERS/Romeo Ranoco

  25. Shangai

  26. CALCUTA

  27. Prayers for a new year - Worshippers burn incense in prayer at the Lama Temple, one of the most renowned Tibetan monasteries outside Tibet, wishing for good luck and good fortune on the first day of the Chinese New Year of the Dragon in Beijing, China, on Jan. 23. On the first day of the lunar new year, according to Chinese tradition, many pray for health, wealth and happiness. Diego Azubel / EPA

  28. A worker installs dragon-shaped lanterns on a lake for lunar new year in Suining, China on January 2, 2012. (Associated Press)

  29. Filipino-Chinese perform the dragon dance on the eve of the celebration of the Chinese New Year at Manila's Chinatown district Sunday Jan. 22, 2012 in the Philippines. This year is the year of the water dragon in the Chinese calendar. (AP Photo/Bullit Marquez)

  30. Lauren Tian (left) and Brianna Liu laugh as other members of the Winchester School of Chinese Culture performs a dance as part of the lunar new year celebration at Franklin Park Zoo in Boston on January 14, 2012. (Essdras M Suarez/Globe staff)

  31. Stringer/Reuters - Those who deride China for failing to take patent protection seriously might just be provoking a sleeping dragon.

  32. Woman pray at a Buddhist temple in Denpasar, on the Hindu majority island of Bali on January 23, 2012, celebrating the Chinese Lunar New Year. (Getty)

  33. A dragon lantern is seen at Yuyuan Garden in downtown Shanghai January 17, 2012. REUTERS/Carlos Barria

  34. A reveller writes the 'Dragon' in traditional Chinese characters and 2012 with fireworks in Beijing. (Photo by Liu Jin/AFP/Getty Images)

  35. A man walks past red lantern decorations for the Chinese New Year in Yuyuan Garden, downtown Shanghai, on January 17, 2012. (Reuters/Carlos Barria)

  36. A performer breaths fire during a dragon dance performance in celebration of the Chinese New Year at Manila's Chinatown district, on January 23, 2012 in the Philippines. (AP Photo/Bullit Marquez

  37. A large dragon made of flowers at the Sentosa Flowers festival on on Sentosa Island, Singapore. Each year Sentosa is transformed into a magical floral wonderland. Showcasing some of the rarest and most unique flowers of spring, it has several large dragon displays. (Photo by Chris McGrath/Getty Images)

  38. Chinese-Indonesians perform a dragon dance before the Chinese Lunar new year in Kuta, on the Hindu majority island of Bali. (Photo by Sonny Tumbelaka/AFP/Getty Images)

  39. Amateur artists perform a fire show to celebrate the Chinese new year in Russia's Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk, on January 22, 2012. (Reuters/Ilya Naymushin)

  40. MOHD FYROL/AFP/Getty Images - Hundreds of Buddhist devoteeshold up incense sticks during the eve of Lunar New Year of the Dragon at a Chinese Buddhist temple in Singapore on January 22, 2012.

  41. Chinese New Year celebrations in Trafalgar Square LONDON Photo: Alamy

  42. A Chinese puppet show is performed at a mall in Jakarta in honor of the new year. ADEK BERRY / AFP/GETTY IMAGES

  43. REUTERS/Edgar Su - People rush to place joss sticks at the Guan Yin temple in Singapore January 23, 2012, on the eve of the Lunar New Year with hopes to be the first person to offer joss sticks when the clock strikes midnight, believed to bring prosperity and luck.

  44. A girl lights incense sticks on the first day of the Chinese Lunar New Year at a temple in Kuala Lumpur, on January 23, 2012. (Reuters/Bazuki Muhammad)

  45. In the streets Filipinos perform a dragon dance outside a grocery store as they mark the Chinese New Year in the Binondo Chinatown district of Manila, Philippines, on Jan. 23. Dennis M. Sabangan / EPA

  46. A traditional Chinese dance group performs a show to celebrate lunar new year on January 15, 2012 in Mijas, Spain. (Jorge Guerrero/AFP/Getty Images)

  47. USA, San Francisco, The dragon carried by New Year's parade participants. (Photo: Justin Sullivan / Getty Images)

  48. PHILIPPINES, Manila, : New Year's fun in the stock market in Manila. AFP PHOTO / NOEL CELIS

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