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Snapshots: The world in 24 hours April 3

Updated: 2011-04-04 13:33

(chinadaily.com.cn)

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Snapshots: The world in 24 hours April 3

Residents wade through a flooded road in the Phunpin district of Surat Thani province, south of Bangkok, April 3, 2011. [Photo/Agencies]

Snapshots: The world in 24 hours April 3

A family of Chinese Malaysians gather to offer prayers to their ancestors during Qing Ming Festival at a cemetery in Petaling Jaya outside Kuala Lumpur, April 3, 2011. The Chinese visit the burial grounds of their ancestors during Qing Ming Festival in honour of the dead by offering food, tea, wine, chopsticks, joss paper accessories and libations to the ancestors. It also called the "Tomb Sweeping Day" as the Chinese will sweep and clean the tombs of their ancestors during the festival. [Photo/Agencies]

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