Keep the angpow packets red


I REFER to the report “Changing of the red packet” (The Star, Jan 30).

It is shocking that many of us in our frenzy to keep up with the modern times forget how and why the red packet is given on Chinese auspicious occasions, that include the Chinese New Year.

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