An Ethnic Chinese prays in front of a paper statue of the Chinese deity "Da Shi Ye" during the Hungry Ghost festival at Kota Damansara in Kuala Lumpur. The Hungry Ghost Festival falls on the 15th day of the seventh lunar month. The Chinese devotees believed the gates of hell are opened during the month and the dead ancestors return to Earth.

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