On Chinese New Year, it's a custom for Chinese to give
Ang-Pao (Red Packet contains money), usually from older to younger ones, from parents to children. And after that what would they do with the money?
The queue like this is a common sight in Singapore, not only after Chinese New Year, they queue for lottery. This day, I passed this queue and I briefly counted, there were at least 70 people in the queue. No wonder they are
planning to build two casinos here, I bet that will be a good business.
update: also see
this one, sometime ago.