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More than 100,000 ethnic Chinese who call New Zealand home celebrated the Chinese New Year on 26 January this year.
In December 1926 Rewi Alley left New Zealand ‘to go and have a look at the Chinese revolution’. Alley stayed in China for 60 years, becoming one of its best-known and best-loved foreigners.
The 1981–2 World Cup campaign is undoubtedly the high point of New Zealand's soccer history.
Each year of the Chinese calendar is represented by an animal. In 2009 it is the Year of the Ox.