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Fading colours: Bangladesh's threatened rickshaw art
AFP, Published on 21/12/2023
» DHAKA - Vibrant greens and swirling yellows, film stars, birds and architecture: Bangladesh's bicycle rickshaw drivers have for decades used their transport as a unique moving canvas of urban folk art.
Dry streets as Myanmar boycotts water festival to protest junta
AFP, Published on 13/04/2022
» Myanmar marked its normally boisterous new year water festival with silence and boycotts on Wednesday, as fighting between the military and opponents of the coup raged across the country.
Silent streets for water festival in Myanmar lockdown
AFP, Published on 12/04/2020
» Like Songkran in Thailand, Myanmar's New Year festival of Thingyan is the country's biggest public holiday -- normally a week of nationwide celebration and water fights, with soaked revellers partying late into the night.
Thai new year splashes in with water fights, raves
AFP, Published on 13/04/2019
» BANGKOK - Water-spraying elephants, raves and boisterous, street-blocking water fights -- Thailand's Buddhist new year arrived with a splash Saturday, a once calm festival now celebrated with a more raucous edge.
Soaked streets, water fights mark Myanmar festival
AFP, Published on 13/04/2018
» YANGON: The thudding bass of party music and splash-happy water fights marked the start of celebrations leading up to the Buddhist New Year in Myanmar on Friday, a time of high spirits and revelry.
Drug suspects killed in Chiang Rai
AFP, Published on 12/04/2014
» Security forces shot dead seven suspected drug smugglers and seized hundreds of thousands of methamphetamine pills after a firefight in the Golden Triangle border region, an official said Saturday.
Thai police seize 16 'illegal' elephants
AFP, Published on 21/08/2013
» Thai police said Wednesday they had seized 16 elephants from tourist destinations as part of a nationwide swoop on operators suspected of using smuggled wild pachyderms for entertainment.
Chinese go water-splashing mad
AFP, Published on 15/04/2013
» JINGHONG, China - Thousands of people armed with plastic water guns and buckets battled on the streets of a southwestern Chinese city Monday, drenching each other as part of an annual Buddhist-inspired festival.
Army 'faces 3,000 active rebels'
AFP, Published on 02/04/2012
» Thailand is fighting against more than 3,000 militants waging insurgency in the deep South, army chief General Prayuth Chan-ocha said Monday.