Happy new year my local Oriental Kitchen
The capital’s Chinese New Year celebrations – which were attended by a record 300,000 people last year and are the biggest outside Asia –
– will transform central London on Sunday 10 February 2008.
Visitors to Trafalgar Square, Leicester Square and London Chinatown will be able to see in the Year of the Rat in spectacular style with a full programme of Chinese arts and entertainment – as well as food, firecrackers and fireworks.
The festivities start at 11am with a two-hour grand parade of hundreds of performers including dragons, lions and dancers travelling down The Strand, Charing Cross Road and Shaftesbury Avenue. At Trafalgar Square – after an official opening ceremony at 12 noon – the stage and big screen will feature Chinese dragons, traditional and contemporary music and dance, and martial arts.
. Highlights will include performances by visiting artists, the Beijing Dance Drama Opera House and Beijing Little Starts Dance Group.
In Leicester Square there will be displays of fireworks and firecrackers on the hour from 2-6pm. 
And, new for 2008, there will be activities for children and families in St Anne’s Gardens, off Wardour Street. Meanwhile, in specially decorated Chinatown and surrounding streets, there will be food and cultural stalls.
Photos: Ayoub mzee
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BARAKA OBAMA WHEN HE WAS YOUNGKenyans in the UK petitioned the British Government Today at 10 DOWNING STREET
While kenyans in the Diaspora were petitioning the UK Government In Kenya, government and opposition negotiators have wrapped up a week of talks saying progress has been made toward resolving the crisis over December's elections. 
In Kenya, government and opposition negotiators have wrapped up a week of talks saying progress has been made toward resolving the crisis over December's elections.
On Wednesday, the United States imposed a travel ban on 10 Kenyan businessmen and politicians for their alleged involvement with the violence.
the United States made its decision based on a number of factors, including media reports.
the United States is reviewing its aid to Kenya in the aftermath of the violence.
The European Commissioner for Humanitarian and Development Aid, Louis Michel, was also in Nairobi on Thursday for meetings with the negotiators, calling for compromise between the two sides.
U.N. Undersecretary for Human Rights Louise Arbour has dispatched a three-week fact finding mission on human rights abuses.
"The Canadian law precludes the admissibility into Canada of people who are found to have been responsible for subverting democratic processes and democracy,"
Some 1,000 people have died in clashes since the 27 December elections
With the political crisis apparently easing, Kenya's internal security minister on Friday lifted the ban on public rallies that had been imposed after the violence broke out.
While kenyans in the Diaspora were petitioning the UK Government In Kenya, government and opposition negotiators have wrapped up a week of talks saying progress has been made toward resolving the crisis over December's elections. 
In Kenya, government and opposition negotiators have wrapped up a week of talks saying progress has been made toward resolving the crisis over December's elections.
On Wednesday, the United States imposed a travel ban on 10 Kenyan businessmen and politicians for their alleged involvement with the violence.
the United States made its decision based on a number of factors, including media reports. 
the United States is reviewing its aid to Kenya in the aftermath of the violence.
The European Commissioner for Humanitarian and Development Aid, Louis Michel, was also in Nairobi on Thursday for meetings with the negotiators, calling for compromise between the two sides.
U.N. Undersecretary for Human Rights Louise Arbour has dispatched a three-week fact finding mission on human rights abuses.
"The Canadian law precludes the admissibility into Canada of people who are found to have been responsible for subverting democratic processes and democracy,"
Some 1,000 people have died in clashes since the 27 December elections
With the political crisis apparently easing, Kenya's internal security minister on Friday lifted the ban on public rallies that had been imposed after the violence broke out. Photos: Ayoub mzee
