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Caishen's here: God of Fortune statues pop up across the island
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SINGAPORE - While Chinatown's light-up was turned off over the weekend to discourage crowds, festive lights are burning brighter in the heartland to usher in the Year of the Ox.
Statues of the God of Fortune, or caishen, have sprung up from Bedok to Toa Payoh to Jurong East, along with fairy lights and, occasionally, lanterns in the shape of zodiac animals.
