http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090126/ap_on_re_as/as_china_new_year]China ushers in Year of Ox with celebration (AP) [/URL]



AP - China greeted the arrival Monday of the Year of the Ox with fireworks and celebrations, bidding farewell to a tumultuous 2008 marked by a massive earthquake, the Olympics, and a global economic crisis.