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Young woman perform on traditional music instruments known as 'saroon' (centre) and 'gambang' (left) at an inaugural session of the new Malay nationalist group Perkasa in Kuala Lumpur on Saturday. The bonang is made of a set of small knobbed gongs which are placed horizontally on a rack in two rows. -- PHOTO: AFP




In this photo taken on Friday, a villager carries piles of water out from a mountain cave in Longlin county in south China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region. Emergency wells were being drilled and cloud-seeding operations carried out in southern China, where the worst drought in decades has left millions of people without water and caused more than 1,000 schools to close, officials said on Thursday. -- PHOTO: AP




People stand around hot air balloons during the first Indonesian Hot Air Balloon Adventure in Sentul, Bogor, West Java on Saturday. Only foreign participants took part in the first hot air balloon parade in the country. -- PHOTO: REUTERS