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Dragon dance, goddess pageant held in central Thailand to celebrate Mid-Autumn Festival

​Colored lights decorated dragon swam among crowds in a shrine, a young woman in goddess costume offered incenses to the moon... This is the unique way that people in Nakhon Sawan of Thailand celebrated the Mid-Autumn Festival on Thursday night.

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Exquisite work inspired by Buddha draws many to HK mall

A crystal sculpture of the Guanyin bodhisattva, or Goddess of Mercy, has become an instant draw at a Hong Kong mall, where shoppers are stopping in their tracks to stare at its intricacy.