GEORGE TOWN: The air was thick with the smoke of incense as tens of thousands of celebrants greeted the onset of the ninth day of Chinese New Year last night, colloquially called the Hokkien New Year.
Though this demarcation of clanship had ended in everyday life in Malaysia, ethnic Chinese of Hokkien origin still hold fast to olden practices.
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