Park Hyatt Beijing: A weekend of wellness to shake off the Chinese New Year holiday indulgences.
Closing arguments are scheduled to begin Tuesday after a break for the Jewish New Year holiday.
Last year, the company received its orders 45 days late because of the New Year holiday.
The approaching Chinese New Year holiday is the biggest focus in Friday's Chinese newspapers.
Some more upbeat figures were published in Japan ahead of its new year holiday.
Angela Merkel, the chancellor, used the new year holiday to avoid public comment and has remained silent.
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But now the greater concern is making sure it doesn't get left short-handed because of China's New Year holiday.
Most Asian markets were closed for the Lunar New Year holiday, while Japan was shut for National Foundation Day.
Department stores and supermarkets reported that sales over the lunar new year holiday were 10-20% higher than in 2008.
Each year, about 25% of the workers there don't return after the New Year holiday, LaserPeg Chief Executive Jon Capriola said.
Snow on the gallops and the trainer's new year holiday meant that the owners' dreams were put on hold until the spring.
The Queen's Medical Centre said bosses had taken the decision not to restart routine surgery following the Christmas and New Year holiday.
Trading was thin, with many of the region's markets, including in Japan, China, Australia and Singapore, closed for the New Year holiday.
In addition, the Lunar New Year holiday, which essentially shut down the country for a week in January, was a temporary brake on demand.
"The PMI is a quite inaccurate barometer around the Chinese New Year holiday, " said Lu Ting, an economist with Bank of America Merrill Lynch.
The Y2K Cooperation Center warned that The Gambia's official computer systems could still face problems when normal work resumes after the new year holiday.
He was returning from a Christmas and New Year holiday with his wife, Maurizia Castiglioni, and two friends - Elda Scalvenzi and Guido Foresti.
Most analysts blamed the timing of the Chinese New Year holiday for the surprising figures, which looked a lot better in January for China investors.
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Since the beginning of the Lunar New Year holiday, the number of daily visitors to the spa has risen to about 1, 700, compared with 1, 300 normally.
Hu Xiaonan, 24, who works for a PR company, said having banquets over the New Year holiday is a must, but people should wrap up the leftovers.
March is considered a key month to assess manufacturing activity as data in January and February is skewed by the Lunar New Year Holiday when many factories are shut.
It was also lower than the 10.3% recorded in December and the 10% recorded in the fourth, suggesting there may be some destocking due to the Chinese New Year holiday.
However, some analysts tempered the enthusiasm, saying trade data for China is unpredictable at the beginning of the year because of the Lunar New Year holiday when many factories shut down.
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The company is one of many from the U.S. and other countries that are closely watching China as factory workers slowly return this week from the country's long Lunar New Year holiday.
Companies have altered ordering practices but are still closely watching China as workers return this week from the long Lunar New Year holiday, worried that fewer workers are going back to their factory jobs.
He refused to stay at the Mandarin, saying there was no need to put him up in a luxury hotel or make the staff work overtime during the Lunar New Year holiday just for his benefit.
However, he issued a warning that further falls were unlikely over the next two months as the NHS faces up to winter pressures and the increased demands from flu and the Christmas and New Year holiday.
Prices tend to rise into year-end due to a number of gift-giving holidays around the world, starting with the so-called wedding season in India and continuing through to the Chinese New Year holiday early in the following year.
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Jonathan Phillips, chairman of North Yorkshire Safeguarding Adults Board, said the case was unusual "in that it focuses on a very short period of the man's life and that his involvement took place over the extended Christmas and New Year holiday period".
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The Human Resources and Social Security Department of Guangdong estimated that 10 million workers, or 61% of the province's migrant-labor pool, would head home to see their families for the New Year Holiday, with a return rate of around 90%, leaving a labor shortfall of up to 1.2 million workers after the holiday.
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