Hong Kong, China - Peoples Republic of
PARTICIPANTS COMPETE DURING DRAGON BOAT RACE AT ABERDEEN FISHING PORT
IN HONG KONG.
Participants compete in a dragon boat race at Hong Kong's Aberdeen
fishing port June 15, 2002. Such races were held throughout the
territory on Saturday to celebrate the annual Tuen Ng or Dragon Boat
Festival, commemorating the tale of a third century B.C. poet-stateman
in China who hurled himself into a river to protest against the corrupt
government. REUTERS/Bobby Yip
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