Hong Kong Celebrates 'Stubborn' New Year

Chinese around the world are celebrating the Lunar New Year — the year of the goat, or the sheep, depending on whom you ask. But it's apparent that Hong Kong Chief Executive CY Leung prefers the latter. In a New Year's address Wednesday, he urged the territory's citizens, who staged mass protests last year, to behave more like mild-mannered sheep in the coming year. However, many in the former British colony seem to prefer the stubborn goat. At the annual New Year's...

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