Chinese Endure New Year Travel Rush for Taste of Home
Voice of America
Passengers gather at the Shanghai Hongqiao railway station in Shanghai on Feb. 3, 2024, during peak travel ahead of the Lunar New Year of the Dragon, which falls on February 10. People are seen at Shijiazhuang train station on Feb. 6, 2024. A couple rests on the floor as they ride a train from Beijing to Shijiazhuang on Feb. 6, 2024. People ride on a train at Shijiazhuang train station on Feb. 6, 2024.
On a crowded train laden with crimson-colored gifts for loved ones, IT worker Sun Jintao is heading from Beijing to spend the Chinese New Year holiday with his family for the first time in years.
FILE - In this Nov. 9, 2015, photo, Myanmar's pro-democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi, right, delivers a speech as close ally Tin Oo waves in Yangon, Myanmar. Tin Oo died June 1, 2024, at the age of 97. FILE - Tin Oo, co-founder of the National League for Democracy party, points out other party members at a ceremony to mark the 25th anniversary of the founding of the NLD, in Yangon, Myanmar, on Sept. 27, 2013.
Polling officials check and seal an electronic voting machine before they allow voters to cast their votes at a polling station during the last round of a six-week-long national election near Dharamshala, India, June 1, 2024. Nuns of the Missionaries of Charity, the order founded by Mother Teresa, stand in queue to cast their votes during the last round of a six-week-long national election, in Kolkata, India, June 1, 2024.
A North Korean military guard post, top, and South Korean post, bottom, are seen from Paju, South Korea, near the border with North Korea, May 31, 2024. A TV screen shows a report of North Korea's multiple rocket launchers during a news program at the Seoul Railway Station in Seoul, South Korea, May 31, 2024.