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This photograph taken on March 28, 2025 shows young ethnic Shan boys wearing shimmering dresses and colourful floral headpieces ahead of taking part in the annual Poy Sang Long procession, a traditional rite of passage ceremony for young boys to be initiated as novice Buddhist monks at the Wat Ku Tao Buddhist temple in Chiang Mai in northern Thailand. Dressed in flowers, finery and makeup, scores of boys were paraded around a temple in Thailand before having their heads shaved – a symbolic start to a centuries-old Shan monkhood ordination. (Photo by Manan Vatsyayana/AFP Photo)
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