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All hands to the paddles as Hong Kong crews struggle for supremacy

Thursday 24 June 1993 23:02 BST
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One of the crews competing in the annual Dragon Boat festival races, held in memory of a legendary Chinese official who drowned himself in a lake. Mourners went out in boats and threw dumplings to the fishes to lure them away from the corpse.

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