Lai See (Hong Bao in Mandarin) are the red packets with "Lucky Money" that are given on the Chinese New Year - I've mentioned them here before. There was a really good article on My UM Today about them and I'm including it here for future reference. I wondered how much money my students actually get, and according to this article, the UM Students surveyed got between 1000 and 2000 MOP (US $125 - $225). I got a few this year, myself, along with several goodies from colleagues who travelled abroad and candies from one student who went to Japan.
The article:
http://news.umac.mo/nrs/faces/pub/viewItem.jspx?id=37370&locale=en_US
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