US Stamps
Lunar New Year stamp ceremony in Honolulu

By Michael Baadke
A first-day ceremony for the United States Lunar New Year stamp celebrating the upcoming Year of the Dog will take place Jan. 11 in Honolulu, Hawaii.
The 11 a.m. event will be held at Chinatown Cultural Plaza, 100 N. Beretania St., Honolulu. It is free and open to the public.
The nondenominated (49¢) forever stamp is being issued in a pane 12.
Connect with Linn’s Stamp News:
Sign up for our newsletter
Like us on Facebook
Follow us on Twitter
The ceremony participants will include Larry Munoz Jr., U.S. Postal Service acting vice president of area operations for the Pacific Area; Douglas D.L. Chong, president of the Hawaii Chinese History Center; and journalist Pamela Young of KHON2 TV in Honolulu.
"The Lunar New Year is the most important holiday of the year for many Asian communities around the world and is celebrated primarily by people of Chinese, Korean, Vietnamese, Tibetan, and Mongolian heritage," the Postal Service said in a Dec. 27 press release.
The new stamp, with artwork by Kam Mak, is the 11th in a planned series of 12 stamps that have been issued annually since 2008.
MORE RELATED ARTICLES
Headlines
-
US Stamps
Dec 1, 2023, 2 PMChristopher Columbus lobbies Queen Isabella for December cartoon caption contest
-
US Stamps
Nov 30, 2023, 5 PMUSPS reveals designs for 2024 stamps celebrating Dungeons & Dragons, Ansel Adams, more
-
Postal Updates
Nov 30, 2023, 4 PMLetters to Santa Claus touch the heart
-
US Stamps
Nov 30, 2023, 1 PMU.S. 2024 Love stamp to be issued Jan. 12 in Romance, Ark.