19/04/2025

SATURDAY | APR 19, 2025

PICTURE GALLERY 17

TALL ORDER ... A worker on a skylift sprays the bronze statue of Admiral Yi Sun-shin, who won a major naval victory over Japan in the 16th century, during a street and park clean-up event for spring at Gwanghwamun Square in Seoul, Korea. – AFPPIC

SOAKING UP THE FUN ... Residents and tourists splashing one another during the Songkran Festival in Bangkok, Thailand. – REUTERSPIC

eri Anwar Ibrahim, receiving China President Xi Jinping at Istana Negara in Kuala Lumpur. – PIC COURTESY OF PMO

UNBREAKABLE METTLE ... A Palestinian child strikes a defiant pose amid rubble in Jabalia in the northern Gaza Strip in the aftermath of an Israeli bombing operation. – AFPPIC

TRADITIONAL CELEBRATION ... Devotees take part in a religious procession on the occasion of ‘Mahavir Jayanti’ to commemorate the birth anniversary of Lord Mahavira, the founder of Jainism, in Chennai, India. – AFPPIC

BEAUTY AMID BEAUTY ... Tourists taking photos among the flower beds during a visit to Victoria Embankment Gardens in London. – REUTERSPIC