Tens of thousands of revellers, including hordes of foreign tourists sporting floral shirts and plastic water guns, descended on the streets of Bangkok on Thursday for the biggest traditional new year gathering since the pandemic. Festivities for Songkran, a much-loved Thai festival sometimes described as the world's largest water fight, had been muted or barred for the past few years due mainly to COVID-19 restrictions. Locals and tourists play with water as they celebrate the Songkran holiday which marks the Thai New Year in Bangkok, Thailand, April 13. REUTERS/Chalinee Thirasupa But as travellers now return to Thailand, the key tourism sector is helping revive Southeast Asia's second-largest economy. Revellers - many of them soaked to the skin - walked through a half-kilome...
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