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WITH less than a week to Chi-nese New Year, Alor Setar city is bursting with energy as families busily prepare for the festival.

DOWNTOWN LOS ANGELES - For decades in Los Angeles, men in search of high-quality suits at bargain prices knew to come to Los Angeles Street. These days, the street is still a menswear hub, with three blocks lined with suit clad mannequins, though finding top-notch threads is no longer so easy.

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — For about two hours, laugh, weep, shiver with fear, feel your adrenaline pumping — all for $10, preferably in a comfy chair, maybe with a barrel of buttered popcorn radiating warmth in your lap. Sound like a bargain?

At a recent Retail Promotions Committee Meeting, chaired by Siobhan Lomax, the group set dates for upcoming downtown events. The festival starts with a parade and has attractions throughout the day.

Three consumer golf shows are set to open later this week at virtually opposite ends of the nation. The West Michigan Golf Show will take place in Grand Rapids February 12-14, while on the same dates the Seattle Golf Show and Portland (Ore.) Golf Show will run. Here are the details.

The Lake Elmo Inn's Christmas trees begin every year naked. The lonely twinkle lights that adorn their bare branches do little to help them stand out against the holiday decorations that will embellish the remainder of the restaurant once the season begins.

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Shoppers queued out of the doors of Dunmail Park yesterday morning waiting for the “closing down” sale prompted by Asda’s move into the building later this year.

Women bargain with a seller at a rural market in Zaozhuang, east China's Shandong province, February 2, 2010. As the Spring Festival, which falls on February 14 this year, draws near, Chinese people in rural areas are busy with festival shopping in nearing towns.