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SINGAPORE - FEBRUARY 08: A couple pose for a photograph inside a Prosperity Pineapples lantern display at the 2013 River Hongbao Festival at The Float at Marina Bay on February 8, 2013 in Singapore. This annual event is an integral part of Singapore's Chinese New Year celebrations and showcases larger-than-life lantern displays (designed locally and handcrafted by China craftsmen), intricate handicrafts, and crowd pleasing local delights and foreign delicacies from Guangdong at the largest outdoor Food Street in Singapore, as well as a myriad of other activities. (Photo by Suhaimi Abdullah/Getty Images)