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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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