Chinese have another reason to celebrate their New Year as the 8-8-8 promotions offer introduced by Skype enables people living in Canada and U.S to call their loved ones in Hong Kong, China and Taiwan and wish them a happy Chinese New Year absolutely free. This event is an important part of the Chinese culture and their celebrations would be starting on February 18th and ending on March 5th.

Under this offer all U.S and Canada users will be eligible for twenty four minutes of free landline and mobile calls to Hong Kong, China and Taiwan. Normally these calls cost $0.021 per minute along with a connection fee of $0.039. In order to avail this offer click here.