Stars and numbers: A shopper looking at an auspicious date in next year’s calendar at a bookshop in Johor Baru.
JOHOR BARU: Many couples are likely to book a date in the auspicious-sounding 2018 to get hitched.
The number 8 is a favourite among the Chinese as the pronunciation ba in Mandarin or pat in Cantonese sounds like fatt, meaning good fortune.
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