A tribal woman tries to catch small fish as her granddaughter dozes on her back at a paddy field on the outskirts of Guwahati in India’s Assam state on March 20, 2023. (AP Photo/Anupam Nath)
A group of Naga girls in traditional attire accompany a bride-to-be, center, as she leaves her village to travel to the village of her groom, in Shangshak village, in the northeastern Indian state of Manipur,
Chilli Pepper Farm in Bogra, north of Bangladesh (Azim Khan Ronnie/AGORA)
Yi ethnic farmers at a vegetable plantation in Qingshui village, Ganluo County, Sichuan Province, China (EPA)
Fruit and Vegetable Vendors in Bucharest, Romania
Mobile Hammock, Phnom Penh, Cambodia
Co-existing atop of one of the largest disposal sites in northeast India at the Boragaon area of Guwahati, India.
Straw baskets in Baltic Sea beach in Warnemuende, Germany
A farmer packs turnips in a field on the outskirts of Srinagar, India.
Burmese migrant workers bathing elephants to prevent the coronovirus spread in Kanchanaburi, Thailand
New Normal in Paris (AP)
A child practices basic Peking opera skills in Hai'am China (Costfoto/Barcroft)
Pickles in the Zawiya market in Gaza City, Palestine (Khalil Hamra)
Covid 19: A mosque during the first day of the holy fasting month of Ramadan in Lhokseumawe, Aceh, Indonesia(Zik Maulana)
People with bicycles meet at the clock park in Duesseldorf, Germany (Martin Meissner)
India: Migrant workers fleeing New Delhi in the midst of government lockdown
Youths hang out in a courtyard of an overcrowded housing complex in Sale, near Rabat, Morocco
Ethnic Palaung workers clean off trays for baby silkworms at a mulberry farm, hills of eastern Myanmar
Migrant workers relaxing in the construction site in Jiading District Shanghai, China
Yazidi women burn incense during the ceremony for the opening of the first mass grave in Kojo, Sinjar
A Yazidi girl playing above an abandoned car in the city of Sinjar.
Standing in line waiting for their turn to receive free food grains from a government-controlled grains store during a 21-day nationwide lockdown, Ahmedabad, India.
Social distancing markers are seen at a food outlet as authorities implement a social distancing measures in Singapore.
Roses on a new grave at a cemetery complex n Jakarta, Indonesia, Reuters/Willy Kurniawan
A Kashmiri farmer carries hay through a flooded field in the south of Srinagar, India.
A laborer moves a sack of charcoal at a shop, in Kabul, Afghanistan.
A woman checks freshwater crabs at a breeding farm at Hongze Lake in Huaian, Jiangsu province, China.
Farmers tend paddy fields just a few weeks ahead of harvesting in Naypyidaw, Myanmar.
A man unloads trash at a waste transfer station in Bamako, Mali.
Farmers harvest lotus roots in Haian in China's eastern Jiangsu province.
A worker collects fishing nets at an aquaculture company in Xuzhou, Jiangsu province, China.
Birds sit in their cages during a bird-singing competition in Thailand's southern province of Narathiwat.
Farmers dry corn during harvest season in Tancheng in China's eastern Shandong province.
A man and his children collect water from a public water pump in Kabul, Afghanistan.
A worker who delivers vegetables rests on a auto rickshaw at Divisoria Market in Manila, the Philippines.
A worker unloads kaolin powder from a wooden ship at Sunda Kelapa harbor in Jakarta, Indonesia.
Evangeline Garcia paddles a
boat-load of piglets to safety at a flooded village in Quezon city,
metropolitan Manila, Philippines.
A man takes a nap on the pavement in downtown Jakarta, Indonesia.
A man empties a container of fish onto a sack at a fishing village in Mumbai, India.
Children carry bread in Damascus, Syria.
A Pakistani farmer harvests wheat in a field on the outskirts of Lahore.
Workers unload watermelons from a boat in the river Burigangan, Bangladesh.
Employees work at a vinegar and soya sauce mill in Zhenjiang, Jiangsu province, China.
A worker marinates fish in the Cilincing district in Jakarta, Indonesia. (Reuters)
A Palestinian woman herds sheep near the Gaza-Israel border on the outskirts of Gaza City.
A farmer tends to an onion crop
on the slopes of Mount Cereme, Majalengka, West Java, Indonesia. (Reuters)
Men fish on the ice-covered Yenisei River in Krasnoyarsk, Russia.
Indonesian villager Mama Hasria
swims upstream with about 200 empty jerry cans tied to her back, a daily
trip she and other local women make to get clean water for their
community on Sulawesi island.
A worker ties steel bars at a construction site for a road in Peshawar, Pakistan.
A farmer plows a paddy field to plant rice seedlings in Naypyitaw, Myanmar.
A fisherman works in his boat amid a sea tangle farm in Huangqi village, near Lianjiang in Fujian province, China.
A laborer works on a salt pan on the outskirts of Nagaur district in the Indian state of Rajasthan.
A man collects lotus flowers to sell while floating on a tire tube at a pond in Colombo, Sri Lanka. (Liyanawatte)
Countless chilli peppers surround laborers in the Bogra district in the
north of Bangladesh. More than 2,000 people work on almost 100 chilli
farms in the are.
A Kashmiri woman rests after collects firewood in the outskirts of Srinagar, India.
A boy collects used plastic bottles to be sold at a junk shop at Divisoria market in Manila, Philippines.
Men transport goods across railway tracks in New Delhi, India.
A man rows his boat filled with straw on the waters of Nageen Lake on a cold morning in Srinagar, India.
A boy rides a donkey on the outskirts of the Red Sea port city of Hodeida, Yemen. (Abduljabbar Zeyad)
A Cambodian man rides his motor-cart loaded with goods along a street on the outskirts Phnom Penh.
A Cambodian man rides his motorbike loaded with bananas along a street on the outskirts of Phnom Penh.
The town of Kota Bharu, located on the east coast of peninsular
Malaysia, is home to many museums, mosques, and the famous Siti Khadijah
Market, where local women gather to sell produce.
A villager dries persimmons on rooftop at a village in Guilin, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, China. (Reuters)
Boats in the Chabaish marsh in the Maysan province of southern Iraq. (Nabil al-Jurani))
Workers rest after unloading mangoes at the Gaddiannaram Fruit Market on the outskirts of Hyderabad, India. (Noah Seelam)
Workers dry semi-finished bamboo chopsticks in a village in Xingan county, Jiangxi province, China. (Reuters)
A man reads a newspaper in New Delhi, India (Money Sharma)
The Tsaatan (Dukha) Reindeer Nomads from the Mongolian North.
Photographs by Hamid Sardar-Afkhami
Farmers collect water caltrop nuts on Qiuxue Lake in Taizhou, China. (Getty Images)
Women pick marigold flowers used to make garlands and offer prayers,
before selling them to the market for the Tihar festival, also called
Diwali, in Kathmandu, Nepal (Navesh Chitrakar)
A girl collects water lillies from a canal near Uttar Stla village in Barisal, Bangladesh (Azim Khan Ronnie)
Fishermen paddle their boats as they carry their family members in the waters of Vembanad Lake in Kochi, India.
A man collects lotus flowers at a pond for sale, in Kandal province, Cambodia.
Residents cross flooded fields in Madagascar's capital Antananarivo.
Women from the Tiwa tribe catch fish in a wetland at Dharamtul village
in Nagaon district, in the northeastern state of Assam, India.
A man pushes a trolley along a railroad track to transport commuters in Manila, the Philippines
Men extract sand from the Lempa River to use for construction, in San Marcos Lempa, 84 km from San Salvador, El Salvador
A girl carries water in a pot and a bucket on the outskirts of Agartala, India.
A vendor carries a bread tray while riding a bicycle, in Cairo, Egypt.
Purev and Buyantogtokh, two members of a Tsaatan family in the Altai
mountains of northern Mongolia. Tsaatans are a nomadic community who
herd reindeer year-round. (Joel Santos)
A shepherd leads his herd back from grassland in the Talesh mountain
area, close to the Caspian Sea, in Iran. (Ebrahim Noroozit)
A boy carries buckets to collect drinking
water at Sapa village, in the outskirts of Mandalay, Myanmar. (Hein Htet)
Mohanis
fishermen catch herons in the Indus River. They sneak up on
unsuspecting birds by wearing headgear made of heron as a decoy. Birds
are caught for food, as well as for sale and to be trained. (Randy Olson)
A fishmonger carries a shark on his motorcycle, in Padang, West Sumatra, Indonesia.
Garbage pickers collect recyclable materials at a rubbish dump on the outskirts of Baghdad, Iraq.
Acehnese men, dressed in woman's clothing, play football to mark the 71st Indonesian Independence Day in Banda Aceh.
A child carries buckets of water as people wait to get drinking water
from a donor's truck at a village of Dala township at outskirts of
Yangon, Myanmar. Myanmar suffers from drought and drinking water
shortages in at least 10 regions due to the El Nino weather phenomenon.
An Afghan boy carries a shovel on his shoulder as he walks in a poppy field in Zhari district of southern Kandahar province.
A woman walks in a yard where tea leaves
are dried at a tea company in Dening, Fujian Province, China.
Indian worker rests while loading fruits. (Anon.)
A Saudi man leads camels as he heads back home from a training center
near the city of Tabuk, located some 1,500 km northwest of the capital
Riyadh.
A Palestinian tea vendor calls out to clients at the weekly flea market in the in the Central Gaza Strip city of Nusseirat.
An Indian woman carries a sack of used plastic bottles to be sold at a
recycling plant in the eastern Indian city of Bhubaneswar.
An Indian woman sun dries red chilies on the outskirts of Ahmadabad.
Families live in concrete pipes used as makeshift dwellings along a street in Manila, the Philippines.
A Cambodian man is silhouetted as he catches fish for his evening meal
in Chak Chrouk village, on the outskirts of Phnom Penh, Cambodia.
Once fresh fish reaches the often chaotic
markets in Tanji, Gambia, it is sold to a variety of buyers, such as
middlemen for vendors and individual customers. Here, a man tends to
smoking a batch of fish in one of Tanji’s smokehouses. Fish is smoked
for several days, then either sold domestically or exported to northern
Africa. (Luke Duggleby)
A Pakistani farmer drives a tractor loaded with radishes on the way to a vegetable market in Lahore.
A man dries handmade noodles in the sunlight in Fuxing town, Changhua County, Taiwan.
A woman takes a selfie in a snowy wood on the bank of the Yenisei river, with the air temperature at about minus 21° C (- 5.8° F), outside the Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk, Russia.
Porter at Cambodia/Thailand border crossing. (Lim Yau Tong)
Kazakh herdsmen drive their sheep and goats through snow-covered fields
next to a forest at Guozigou valley in Yili, Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous
Region, China.
Floating market, Cần Thơ, Vietnam. (tôi đang viết một cuốn tiểu thuyết)
Laborers unload gravel from a boat docked in Dala township, opposite Yangon city, Myanmar. (Olivia Harris)
A leek vendor waits for customers at a market in Beijing. (Kevin Frayer)
Leather tanning in Morocco. Once the leather is ready and colored it is taken out to dry under the sun. (Natalia Siobanu)
Bound for home at the end of the working day, Hmong farmers cross a terraced rice field in the Tu Le Valley in Yen Bai Province, Vietnam. (Quỳnh Anh Nguyen)
Manila, Philippines: A worker rests next to bags of charcoal at a repacking shop in Las Piñas.
(Erik de Castro)
A farmer harvests in a crop field in Yili, Xinjiang Autonomous Region, China.
A Vietnamese woman of Hmong
ethnic tribe carries a grass basket on a terraced rice paddy field
during the harvest season in Mu Cang Chai, northwest of Hanoi. (Kham)
Palestinian farmers harvest dates in Khan Yunis, in the southern Gaza Strip.
Bangladeshi traders transport cattle to a livestock market.
Fresh produce and baskets of fish surround a woman at the Siti Khadijah market in Kota Bharu, Malaysia. (Duratul Ain D.)
In the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Wagenia fishermen still craft
enormous traps to snare fish in the roiling rapids outside of Kisangani. (Pascal Maitre)
Conchita Boriu, a Wayu
indigenous woman, weaves a blanket as she sits by her woven bags for
sale along the beach in Riohacha, Colombia. Boriu said it takes
her a little over one month to finish a blanket. She sells them for
about $35. (Fernando Vergara)
Local farmers head to their
farmland by oxcart in Samroang Tiev village on the outskirts of Phnom
Penh, Cambodia. Oxcarts are the main form of transportation for
farmers. (Heng Sinith)
A woman rows her boat as she harvests tomatoes on Inle lake, in
Myanmar's Shan State. (Soe Zeya Tun)
A farmer uses a rake to dry cloves, commonly used in locally
manufactured cigarettes, near Purwakarta, West Java, Indonesia. ( Darren Whiteside)
Workers walk along wires as they inspect newly-built electricity pylons above crop fields in Chuzhou, Anhui province, China.
Vendors at the Noryangjin Fish Market in Seoul, South Korea. (Brian Hammonds)
A boy rests on the back of a water buffalo in the Diyala River in Baghdad, Iraq.
A woman walks through an alley amid used pairs of jeans hung to dry
before they are sold in a second-hand clothes market in Kolkata, India.
A man uses a mobile phone while riding a camel through a traffic jam in downtown Cairo, Egypt.
Women cover themselves as they walk on the banks of the river Ganges during a dust storm in Allahabad, India.
A public bus crammed with commuters is seen on the outskirts of Cairo, Egypt.
A woman peels sugarcanes on a railway track to sell it to sugarcane juice vendors at a slum area in Kolkata, India.
A boy enjoys the sun atop a donkey grazing in a field in the northern Gaza Strip. (Majdi Fathi)
Afghan children gather raw opium on a poppy field on outskirts of Jalalabad, Afghanistan. (Parwiz/Reuters)
Drying cuttle-fish in the sun at Nam Du Island, Kien Giang, Vietnam. (Huynh Thu)
An Indian laborer sleeps surrounded by mounds of mangoes at a fruit market in Hyderabad.
A man makes traditional Thai tea using a cloth bag filter at Bang Saphan
meat and fish market in Prachuap Khiri Khan province, Thailand. (Matthew Richards)
Rice harvesting in Mu Cang Chai, Yen Bai, Vietnam. ( Quoc Tran Le Bao)
Dying threads in Santipur, Wes Bengal, India. (Bhaskar Sur)
A man collects recyclable wastes from a dumping site as he is surrounded
by Marabou storks on the outskirt of Uganda's capital Kampala.
Commuters are seen during rush hour on a street in Hanoi, Vietnam.
An Indian "toddy tapper", who collects the sap from palm trees to make
arrack, climbs a tree with clay pots to fill up with the liquid at Bibi
Nagar in Nalgonda District, Hyderabad, India.
A Burmese laborer lifts a basket of fish from boiling water at a
processing factory near Bang Saphan in Prachuap Khiri Khan province,
southern Thailand. (Matthew Richards)
Fishermen wait for glass eels to be drawn to the bright lights they're
shining on Japan's Yoshino River. When the eels are close, the fishermen
scoop them up.(Asahi Shimbun)
Bangladeshi workers unload goods from a boat in the Buriganga River in Dhaka.
Pakistani villagers prepare cow dung cakes in the suburbs of Islamabad.
Cow dung cakes are popularly used as fuel for cooking in rural areas a
major source of domestic fuel as an alternative to firewood.
Passengers travel on an overcrowded train on the outskirts of New Delhi, India.
Laborers work at the installation site of a new railway track on the
outskirts of Agartala, capital of India's northeastern state of Tripura.
A reindeer herder near Lake Khovsgol in northern Mongolia. ( Pascal Mannaerts)
On the way to the farm in the mountain village of Kalaw in Myanmar. (Alexandros Tsoutis)
Men carry floating pitchers that they use to catch fish while heading
home in Soneri village next to Keenjhar Lake, near Thatta, Pakistan.
Pakistani women carry wood they have collected to be used as fuel for cooking and heating, in Islamabad.
A Surma woman carries meat in the Omo River Valley, Ethiopia. (Dimitra Stasinopoulou)
A man is surrounded by pelicans as he walks near a fish market in the Chorrillos municipality in Lima, Peru.
A boy sleeps in a hammock while his mother works at a brick kiln on the outskirts of Yangon, Myanmar. (Soe Zeya)
A man looks at an installation made of sock textiles on display at a
demonstration hall of the local sock-making industry in Zhuji, Zhejiang
province, China.
A grocery store employee waits for customers in central Beijing. (Kevin Frayer)
Collecting Water Lilies: During the floating season in Vietnam's Mekong Delta, wild water lilies grow everywhere in rice fields covered by water. They are processed into special dishes such as salads and sour soup with fish. (Nhiem Hoang)
A group of Wakhi women return from a daily excursion across Pakistan’s
Hunza riverbed to gather fodder and wood for their cooking fires. (Matthieu Paley)
Vendors hawk goods at one of many markets on Lagos Island, Nigeria. (Robin Hammond)
Afghan children who work as water vendors search for customers at the Kart-e-Sakhi cemetery in Kabul.
People sit on a overloaded truck in Madama, Niger, near the border with Lybia.
A fisherman takes in the dried fishing nets to catch a local specialty
"Iseebi" or Japanese spiny lobster at Touji Port in Shimoda, Shizuoka
Prefecture.
A Kashmiri man makes his way through the frozen surface of water of a lake on a cold and foggy morning in Srinagar, India.
A laborer works on top of scaffolding at a construction site in Beijing, China.
Workers collect salt from salt ponds at the Maras mines in Cuzco, Peru. Salt has been obtained in Maras since pre-Incan times by
evaporating highly salty local subterranean stream water.
A blacksmith hammers the wheel of a bullock cart, a two- or four-wheeled vehicle pulled by oxen in Santipur, West Bengal, India. (Abhi Ghosh)
Garment workers leave a factory for home after a days work in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. (Samrang Pring)
Fishermen cast their nets from rafts made out of tubes from discarded automobile tires at Garhbeta, West Bengal, India. (Debdatta Chakraborty)
Lave net fishing at Ba Dong Beach, Tra Vinh, Vietnam. (Pham Ty)
A laborer removes the skin of garlic at a wholesale market in Kolkata, India.
A tea delivery boy with empty tea pots attached to a rope hang on to his forehead, collects empty tea cups and tea-pots from an outdoor telephone stand in Rangoon, Burma. (AP)
A fruit vendor sleeps on a couch as she waits for customers in Yingjiang county, Yunnan province, China. (Wong Campion)
Medical staff from Handan City 2nd Hospital in northern China learn how to smile by holding sticks in their mouths. (HAP)
Chinese trishaw drivers take a nap while waiting for customers in an alley near the drum tower in Beijing.
Kuchi, an Afghan nomad, leads his camel across a road in Jalalabad-Kabul highway east of Kabul, Afghanistan. (Rahmat Gul)
Railway workers do track work on the hundred-year old Long Bien bridge in Hanoi, Vietnam. (Hoang Dinh Nam)
A girl scavenges for recyclable materials at a garbage dump site in Las Piñas, Philippines. (Ezra Acayan)
A
worker at Conacado Cooperative in the Dominican Republic harvests cocoa
pods in order to extract and dry out the beans for production. (Simon
Rawles)
An
Indian man dries fresh vermicelli, used to make a traditional sweet
dish popular during the Islamic fasting month of Ramadan. (Sanjay
Kanojia)
A sulfur miner in East Java, Indonesia. (Agung Bawono)
A woman paste cow dung cakes on a wall for drying in the northern Indian city of Allahabad.
A colorful ice cream vendor in Turkey makes a show for his customers. Dondurma, as the treat is known there, is thicker and chewier than traditional ice cream. (Harry Hartonto)
Prospectors pan for gold at a new gold mine found on a cocoa farm near
the town of Bouafle in western Ivory Coast. (Luc Gnago)
A customer drinks a bottle of water as his shoes are polished by a shoe shiner on a street in downtown Sao Paulo, Brazil. (Nacho Doce)
Amos (36) works at the sand mine in La Boule 12, Petion Ville, Port au Prince, Haiti. He earns approx $8 a day. (Hector Retamal)
People help a fisherman to load a swordfish, caught from waters of the
Indian Ocean, on his back as he makes his way to the market in Somalia's
capital Mogadishu, Somalia.
Ethnic Dong women work at a tea leaf processing factory in Liping
county, Guizhou province, China. Liping county's tea plantations
attracted more than 60,000 women workers from nearby villages this
spring and each tea picker earns around 100 yuan ($16.10) per diem.
An Indian farmer rests among watermelons at his fruit stall prior to
auctioning them at the Gaddiannaram wholesale fruit market on the
outskirts of Hyderabad.
A Cambodian man walks on a 5-meter- (16.5 feet) long bamboo pole
spanning across two tall palm trees as he collects palm juice to make
palm sugar during its harvest season in Samroang village, Kampong
Chhnang province, northwst of Phnom Penh.
A Palestinian shepherd leads his goats near the West Bank city of Jenin.
A worker carries a bag containing coals to sell at one of the charcoal sites in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.
People hang on to a crowded passenger train as they travel to Colombo in Sri Lanka. (Dinuka Liyanawatte)
National Food Authority workers walk atop sacks of rice as they make an
inventory of rice stocks at a government rice warehouse in Taguig, Metro
Manila, Philippines.
A man in a factory in India sifts coloured powder known as 'gulal' to
be used during the forthcoming festival of Holi. (Diptendu
Dutta)
Indian women sort red chili peppers to dry at Shertha village in the western Indian state of Gujarat.
A boy herds ducks in a canal in Samroang Kandal village on the outskirts of Phnom Penh, Cambodia.
A Pakistani horse cart driver transports plastic bottles for recycling in Islamabad.
High-rise construction worker in Dhaka, Bangladesh. (Kumar Bishwajit)
People push an ox cart carrying bamboo stalks in Theikgyi township, Myanmar. (Soe Zeya Tun)
A Chinese workers moves amongst some of 5,000 clay pots containing
fermenting chilli peppers used to make spicy hotpot, which is a famous
local dish in Choongqing.
A worker collects palm oil fruit inside a palm oil factory in Sepang, outside Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. (Samsul Said)
Afghan laborers work at a charcoal shop on the outskirts of Kabul.
A Sri Lankan stilt fishermen works on his pole in the southern town of Galle. (Ishara S. Kodikara)
- Laborers piled up bricks in a yard in Dhaka, Bangladesh. (Probal Rashid)
A vendor sells carrots at a market in Lahore, Pakistan. (Arif Ali)
A falcon
searches for scraps as a woman cleaned fish on the banks of the Sobat
River in Upper Nile, South Sudan. (Goran Tomasevic)
A laborer works on the scaffoldings of a flyover under construction in Lahore, Pakistan.
Enmeshed in his work, a man makes a basket along a road in Lahore, Pakistan. (Mohsin Raza)
An Afghan farmer works in turnip fields on the outskirts of Mazar-e-Sharif, Afghanistan. (Mustafa Najafizada)
A woman crochets as she sells wool in Ahmadabad, India.
A Kashmiri milkman cycles on a snow-covered road in Srinagar, India. (Dar Yasin)
A woman
carries a basket through cold and foggy dawn along the banks of
the Turag River near Dhaka, Bangladesh. (A.M. Ahad)
A worker stuffs a toy bear at a toy factory in Wuhan, China. (Reuters)
A girl pulls her brother on a makeshift raft along a flooded road in Butuan, Philippines. (Erik De Castro)
A man pushes a cart carrying passengers' luggage outside a railway station in Guangzhou, Guangdong province, China,
Sigarang Garang, Indonesia: A villager evacuates his buffalo from the mud and ash from the Mount Sinabung eruption. (Ulet Ifansasti)
Women drag containers of water near Kabul, Afghanistan. (Massoud Hossaini/)
Manila, Philippines: A worker carries roasted pig outside a store. (Aaron Favila)
Market in Kota Bahru, Malaysia near the Thai border is run mostly by women. (Mohd Irman Ismail)
Young Gujjar nomads walk with their flock through thick fog on the outskirts of Jammu, India.
North Korean girls carry firewood on their backs as they walk on the
banks of the Yalu River, some 100 kilometers from the town of
Sinuiju, opposite the Chinese border city of Dandong,
Afghan girls collect thorn to use for cooking and heating in Bagram north of Kabul, Afghanistan.
Villagers from the Rumao Island community paddle their canoes loaded
with arapaima or pirarucu, the largest freshwater fish species in South
America and one of the largest in the world, while fishing in a branch
of the Solimoes river, one of the main tributaries of the Amazon, in the
Mamiraua nature reserve near Fonte Boa west of
Manaus. (Bruno Kelly)
A young boy concentrates as he makes flower garlands to sell on the streets of New Delhi. (Du Lianyi)
A Cambodian family collects water lilies from O-Treng lake to sell at a
market, in Kampong Speu province,
southwest of Phnom Penh. Locals purchase the lilies as an ingredient for
soup.
A fisherman lays fish fillet out to sun dry at the Panyimur landing site
on the shores of Lake Albert, north of Uganda's
capital Kampala.
A laborer pulls a cart loaded with supplies while heading to a nearby market in Karachi, Pakistan.
A grower tends to saffron plants in Zhoushan, Zhejiang province, China. (Xu Yu)
A mining engineer examines the stunning crystals of rock salt that line
the walls of this ancient salt cave - 1,300 feet below the Earth's
surface. Wearing a hard hat and head torch, Murat Danaci explores the
depths of the largest rock salt reserve in Turkey, based near the city
of Cankiri. (Melih Sular)
An elderly Thai woman sifts through rice grains on a bamboo tray, a
process that removes stalks and dust from her newly harvested crop.
(Matthew Richards)
Sri Lankan Tamil farmers transport coconut husk in Jaffna, 400 kilometers (250 miles) north of the capital Colombo.
A Sri Lankan man cycles his bicycle laden with firewood to be sold in the northern town of Kilinochchi.
Woman carrying grass bought from a market to be used as cattle feed, Kumaon, India.(Michael Gebicki)
A man carries a sofa suspended from a rope over his forehead in Katmandu, Nepal. (Agron Dragaj)
Shrimp fishing in the North Sea: After the end of the cockle season, the brown
shrimp season is under way for fishermen on board the Jolene catching
the shrimps, sorting them from pink shrimps and bagging them. (Sean Smith)
Kashmiri Ali Mohammad makes Kangris or fire pots inside his home in
Trajbal village, on the outskirts of Srinagar, India. Kangri is an age
old device for keeping warm, consisting of a decoratively woven yellow
wicker case housing an earthen pot for burning charcoal.
Indian camel herders arrive with their camels for the annual cattle fair in Pushkar, Rajasthan state, India.
A child carries a load of bananas in Rutshuru, Congo. (Junior D. Kannah)
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man carrying handmade bamboo baskets to sell in a market, on the
outskirts of Agartala in the northeastern state of Tripura, India. (Jayanta Dey)
A man manually extracts oil from one of three 300 feet deep wells
he works on in the Minhla township of the Magwe district in Myanmar. Everyday he makes around $30 extracting crude oil. (Damir Sagolj)
A man collects lotus leaves from a pond on the outskirts of Bhubaneswar, capital of the eastern Indian state of Odisha. (Reuters)
A woman prepares tea at an outdoor shop in Abyei, claimed by both Sudan and South Sudan. (Goran Tomasevic)
A man herds his yaks in the snow in Tsenkher Sum, Arhangai, Mongolia. (Mareike Guensche)
A trader carries sweeping brooms for sale along the streets of Madagascar's capital Antananarivo.
A
Pakistani woman carrying a bed on her head and holding a rooster,
walks back to her home through a brick factory on the outskirts of
Islamabad, Pakistan.
A woman exercises with a ribbon during a morning exercise session at Jingshan Park in Beijing, China.
A Tibetan woman carries a container of water on her back as she walks
through an entrance gate to Bajiao village (an ancient village known as ‘Karnang’ in Tibetan) on the outskirts of Xiahe,
Gansu province, China. (Andy Wong)
A Bangladeshi fisherman flings open a traditional blue net to catch tiny shrimp. (Pronob Ghosh)
Employees work inside a beer factory in Shenyang, Liaoning province, China. (Reuters)
A vendor pushes his cart loaded with king coconuts towards the main market in Colombo, Sri Lanka.
An Afghan girl tends to her sheep at a livestock market in Kabul. (Anja Niedringhaus)
A worker drives a forklift near bales of recyclable material at a plant in Tizayuca, Mexico. (Susana Gonzalez)
A worker rests on piles of cotton at a ginning factory in Wuhu, Anhui province, China. (Reuters)
Kashmiri farmers separate grain from the chaff after harvest in Boras
village, northeast of Srinagar, India. (AP)
Woman carrying grass bought from a market to be used as cattle feed, Kumaon, India.(Michael Gebicki)
Workers pick grapes during the harvest at the Chateau l'Etoile vineyard in l'Etoile, France.
Book shops in busy market in Khatmandu, Nepal. (John Hodgson)
Bus conductor shouting to persuade passersbys to board his already packed bus in bustling downtown Mandalay as people are
trying to get home. (Margo Ryan)
Fishermen in Kovalam,
India prepare their netting before heading out to sea. (Matt Paish)
Men sleep on a vehicle as they wait for the Thanzay (Iron Market) to
open, in Yangon, Myanmar. Thanzay is the largest
meat market in the capital, selling mostly fresh pork and other poultry
products. (Soe Zeya Tun)
A farmer harvesting vegetables in a field on the outskirts of Shillong city, India. (European Pressphoto Agency)
A woman chopping firewood in Pahalgam, India. Locals use wood and charcoal for heating and cooking. (Javed Dar)
A Palestinian farmer harvests dates from a palm tree in Deir al-Balah in the central Gaza Strip. (Reuters)
Rangoon, Burma: Workers sort frozen fish in a boat at Kyi Myin Daing fish market. (Gemunu Amarasinghe)
Women pick red peppers in a field near Batya, south of Budapest, Hungary. (Laszlo Balogh)
A factory worker installs rivets inside a recreational vehicle travel
trailer at the Airstream, Inc. plant in Jackson Center, Ohio.
(Luke Sharrett)
A man carries chickens at a chicken wholesale market in Rangoon, Burma. (Reuters)
People harvesting grapes in Buxeuil, France, in the Champagne region. (François Nascimbeni)
A woman and her granddaughter prepare traditional kurt cheese inside a yurt on the Assy plateau near Almaty, Kazakhstan. (Shamil Zhumatov)
A boy carries a sheep on his shoulders near a cattle market in Lahore, Pakistan. (Arif Ali)
Employees work inside a LCD factory in Wuhan, Hubei province, China. (Reuters)
A woman rests on a bench in front of a house covered with strings of
peppers in the village of Donja Lokosnica, Serbia. (Sasa
Djordjevic)
Migrant construction workers relax in the evening breeze outside their
dormitories after a shift at a residential construction site in Shanghai, China. (Aly Song)
A hand-rickshaw puller waits for customers at a roadside wholesale sugarcane market in Kolkata, India. (Reuters)
People trying to walk amid a storm near the Ravi River in Lahore, Pakistan. (Arif Ali)
A fisherman repairing his fishing net in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India. (Reuters)
Workers assemble phones on the factory floor during the opening of the
new Motorola Flextronics factory in Fort Worth, Texas. (Larry
W. Smith)
The owner of a street bookstore and library enjoys his lunch in Maradana, Sri Lanka. (M.A. Pushpa Kumara)
Workers hang Burley tobacco in a tobacco barn to start the six week
curing process in Pleasureville, Kentucky. (Luke Sharrett)
A Bangladeshi man cuts Kashful, or white grass plants, in Keraniganj, near Dhaka. (AP)
A laborer cools down under water from a supply pump in a truck on the outskirts of Havana. (Desmond Boylan)
A man takes a shower on the roof of a building in central Yangon in Myanmar. (Soe Zeya Tun)
A man selling wafers waits for customers in Madrid,
Spain. With temperatures reaching up 36 degrees Celsius (97
degrees Fahrenheit) many people wait for the sun to set before going
out for a walk. (Daniel Ochoa De Olza)
A worker steps on scaffolding with a life rope at
an apartment construction site in Jakarta, Indonesia. (Tatan
Syuflana)
A Cambodian farmer on an ox-cart heads to a rice
field for work at Krang Tnung village on the outskirt of Phnom Penh,
Cambodia. (Heng Sinith)
A Bangladeshi laborer takes a break from
refurbishing a ferry at a dockyard in Keraniganj near Dhaka, Bangladesh. Laborers engaged in building ferries, that involves
welding, cutting and painting, earn less than 4 US dollars a day. (A.M.
Ahad)
Roadside vendor throws bread to his partner as they bake Indian flat
breads on coal hearths for sale in New Delhi, India. (Saurabh
Das)
A
woman takes a break from the back-breaking work in a paddy field in
Umwang in the northeastern Indian state of Meghalaya. (Anupam Nath)
A man peddles rubber flip-flops on his motorcycle in Manila, Philippines.
A fisherman arranges fishes kept for drying at a fishing harbor in the southern Indian city of Chennai.
Plums are harvested by a seasonal worker on Wilms' fruit farm
near Frankfurt (Oder), Germany. (Patrick Pleul)
A farmer leaves a paddy field for the day on the outskirts of Bhubaneswar, India. (Biswaranjan Rout)
A worker picks Sauvignon Blanc grapes at Ehlers Estate winery in St. Helena, California, USA. (Eric Risberg)
Usa Mahmueangbon picks lotus flowers at her family’s lotus farm in
Nakhon Pathom, Thailand. (Barbara Walton)
A fisherman pulls his net from a lagoon in Trincomalee, Sri Lanka. (Dinuka Liyanawatte)
Vendors selling deep-fried canapes wait for customers on a street
overflowed with rainwater in Rangoon, Burma. (Gemunu
Amarasinghe)
Daily life somewhere: Mother and child. (Tamrail)
A man rides a trishaw loaded with bananas in Bogor fruit market in Bogor, West Java, Indonesia. (Davide Rosa)
A laborer unloads bags filled with cabbage from a supply truck in Chennai, India. (Babu)
Indian laborers carry a giant basket of vegetables to a wholesale market in Kolkata, India. (AP)
A worker harvests muscat grapes at the vineyards of Domaine de Rombeau in Rivesaltes, southern France. (Raymond Roig)
Children collect water lilies from a lake in Norshingdi in the outskirts of Dhaka, Bangladesh. (Firoz Ahmed)
A woman rakes coffee beans while drying them at her house in Son La province, west of Hanoi. (Xinhua)
A man carries his child in a bag as he crosses a street in Bhubaneswar, India.
Farmer Rigoberto Diaz naps as he waited for retailers to purchase
items from him at a wholesale market in Havana. (Adalberto Roque)
A man carries bananas on his shoulders as he worked at Bar Ga Yar jetty
on the Hlaing River in Yangon, Myanmar. (Lynn Bo Bo)
A villager fishes on a platform at the Erhai Lake in Dali, Yunnan province, China.
A lady collects water in the river by a village in Bagan, Myanmar. (Marcelo Salvador)
Man carries a basket at a vegetable market in Gujranwala, Pakistan. (K. R. Waleed)
A vendor carries empty buckets at the Jambanja market in Seke, Zimbabwe. (Alexander Joe)
Carrying chickens to be sold in the hills north of Kathmandu, Nepal.
A woman shops for vegetables in Jambanja
market in Seke, Zimbabwe. (Alexander Joe)
A Sri Lankan traditional drum makers work at a makeshift factory in
Kuragala, near the capital Colombo. (Ishara
S.Kodikara)
Srinagar, India: Kashmiri men take a break to chat while selling their produce at the floating vegetable market on Dal Lake. Greg Baker)
Residents transport drinking water through Loudi, Hunan province,
China. (Guo Guoquan)
A man works at a candy factory in Herat province, Afghanistan, Saturday. (Ahmad Massoud)
A Bangladeshi dhobi, or laundryman, washes clothes near a garbage dump on the banks of the Buriganga River in Dhaka. (AP)
A worker dries vermicelli at a factory in the northern Indian city of Allahabad. (Reuters)
Workers unload sacks of flour on a street in Shanghai, China. (Peter Parks)
A Pakistani boy walks his camel back home along a street on the outskirts of Islamabad, Pakistan. (Muhammed Muheisen)
Belgian shrimp fishermen ride cart horses to haul a net out in the sea
to catch shrimps during low tide at the coastal town of Oostduinkerke. (Yves Herman)
A street vendor plays with her child at a market in Mumbai, India. (Rajanish Kakade)
A worker drains and rinses boiled soy beans at a small tempeh factory
Friday in Jakarta, Indonesia. Tempeh is an Indonesian staple made from
fermented soy beans. (Ed Wray)
A farmer carries rice seedlings in a paddy field on the outskirts of Phnom Penh, Cambodia. (Reuters)
An Indian laborer rests on his handcart, placed as a road divider, at a
wholesale market in New Delhi. (Manish Swarup)
A vendor displays bananas at his stall in the Somali capital Mogadishu
as Muslims prepare for the fasting month of Ramadan. (Feisal
Omar)
A family from Breb, Romania, puts finishing touches on one of the 40
haystacks it makes each summer. Traditional haymaking culture survives
in Transylvania, a plateau region surrounded by mountains, in part
because of the people's deep attachment to rural ways of life that have
their origins in the Middle Ages. (Rena Effendi)
Bangladeshi people, mostly garment workers, ride an overloaded boat on
the outskirts of Dhaka. (AP)
A fisherman casts his net into the River Mahanadi on the outskirts of Bhubaneswar, India.
Nepalese farmers return home carrying their belongings after planting
rice at the beginning of the monsoon season in Jitpur village on the
outskirts of Kathmandu. (Narendra Shrestha)
A worker cooks fish in a Bandarharjo smokehouse in Semarang, Indonesia. (Ulet Ifansasti)
A vendor waits for customers at his stall at a wholesale food market in Mumbai, India. (Vivek Prakash)
A motorist buys fuel from a street vendor in Makassar, Indonesia. (Yusuf Ahmad)
An Indian worker rests on mangoes at a wholesale
fruit market in the outskirts of Jammu. India
recognizes mangoes as national fruit and is the world's largest mango
producer with about 13 million tons each year, far exceeding all other
countries. (Channi Anand)
Salt Workers, India: The hostile desert landscape in the Little Rann of Kutch in western Gujarat state is where these day laborers work. (Charlotte Anderson)
India: Fishermen transporting baskets full of fish on their boats, in Chennai, Tamil Nadu. (Babu)
Indonesia: A worker lays out
fish to dry on Cilincing beach, north Jakarta. The small family-run factory
sells the dried fish to the local market every day. (Beawiharta)
An Afghan laborer arranges pots at an aluminum factory, on Surkh Rod district of Jalalabad east of Kabul, Afghanistan.(AP)
A man rides a motorbike loaded with coconuts with his pig-tailed macaque in Sawah Lunto, West Sumatra, Indonesia. (AP)
An Afghan farmer walks through a field in Marmol.
Afghanistan remains one of the poorest countries in the world. (
Farshad Usyan)
Gaza: Palestinian
Mohammed Jundeya, 17, who left school to work as an apprentice in a car
repair garage to support his family's income. Apprentice mechanics earn
around $100 per month, garage owners say. (Mohammed Salem)
Back-breaking work for this Indian farmer as he unloads a basket of
freshly harvested pineapple at his farm near Agartala, India. (Abhik Deb)
Haiphong, Vietnam: A rickshaw driver transports live pigs. (Hoang Dinh Nam)
Dhaka, Bangladesh: A child gathers watermelons. (Mohammad Asad)
India: Bakarwal nomads walk as they carry goats on their backs on the
outskirts of Srinagar, India. Bakarwals are nomadic herders in Jammu
Kashmir state, who wander in search of good pastures for their cattle. (Mukhtar Khan)
China: A worker checks bricks of compressed tea at a factory in Menghai county,
Yunnan province. The province is a major tea producer and
boasts a few national names such as Pu'er. (Xinhua)
China: Tea farmer picking tea in Pu'er, Yunnan. (Liang Zhiqiang)
India: Women carrying pitchers filled with water on their heads in Juval village in Gujarat. (Ajit Solanki)
A man crosses terraced fields in Loudi, Hunan province, China. (Liu Aicheng)
Maasai traveling in Northern Kenya on a caravan of camels. (Dale Morris)
A Nepalese laborer transports a piece of plywood at Lukla, Nepal. (AP)
A man sits on an air-filled tube and collects lotus flowers to sell, in the Bindu Sagar pond in Bhubaneswar, India.
Egyptian
vendors present their animals on a camel market in Birqash, north of
Cairo. Hundreds of camels are brought in from Sudan
and Somalia to be sold on Egypt's largest camel market every Friday.
(Oliver Weiken)
An Indian boy sits atop a government water supply truck as residents fill water containers in New Delhi.
Jia Fengxia, a cleaning woman in Datong, North China's Shanxi province, cleans the street. (Asianewsphoto)
Workers push sections of a huge bamboo raft as others try to dismantle
parts of it in Sittwe, northwestern Rakhine State, Burma.
A man prepares bars of salt to be sold in the main market of the city of Mekele, northern Ethiopia. (Siegfried Modola)
Entire communities living on a lake, and going to school on stilts at Tonle Sap Lake in Cambodia. (Steve Wallace)
A worker makes chair frames to be woven with rattan at a workshop
manufacturing furniture in Trangsan a village near Sukoharjo, Central
Java, Indonesia. (Ulet Ifansasti)
Mumbai, India: A security guard sleeps outside a closed garment shop. (Danish Siddiqui)
Indian village girls carry water in pitchers on their heads at Juval
village, Ahmadabad, India. Water scarcity in
the scorching summer is a common sight in villages in India.
Manila, Philippines: Government workers collect used styrofoam boxes as they clean the surroundings of a school. (Aaron Favila)
New Delhi, India: A mechanic in his workshop with his pet goat minds bags and belongings of migrant daily workers. (Saurabh Das)
Workers carrying tea leaves walk back to their factory after a day's
work at a tea garden estate on the outskirts of the northeastern Indian
city of Siliguri. (Rupak De Chowdhuri)
Indonesian women shop for headscarves at a craft exhibition in Jakarta, Indonesia. (Dita Alangkara)
A village boy holds a traditional
handmade umbrella as he keeps watch over cattle grazing in the field on
the outskirts of Bhubaneswar, India. (Biswaranjan Rout)
A sales clerk reads at her kiosk in downtown Seoul, South Korea. (Kin Cheung)
An Indian roadside barber gives a shave to a customer in the shade of a tree in New Delhi, India.(Altaf Qadri)
Indian farmers transport watermelons on camels on their way to market in Allahabad, India.
Porter Khum Bahadur, 15, carries boxes of vegetables on his back near
the vegetable market in Kathmandu, Nepal. According to the porters in
the area they earn around $7 a day. (Navesh Chitrakar)
Jogjakarta,
Indonesia: 85 years old female porter has her basket of vegetables
loaded onto her back at Beringharjo traditional market. (Ulet Ifansasti)
Long sections of fabric are dyed and then hung, creating a rainbow affect in Lahore, Pakistan. (K.M. Chaudary)
Migrants ride on top of a northern bound train toward the U.S.-Mexico border in Juchitan, southern Mexico.
A female laborer carries bricks at a brick factory on the outskirts of
the southern Indian city of Chennai. May Day or Labor Day.
An Indian farmer feeds harvested wheat crop into a thresher as a woman
collects de-husked wheat in a field at Kunwarpur village, east of Allahabad, India.
Klaistow, Germany:
Polish migrant workers harvest white asparagus from a field at a farm. (Jochen Eckel)
Miners carry sulphur at Ijen crater, Bondowoso, Indonesia. (Retno Kurniasih Damayanti)
A
woman driving a scooter in Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India with
portraits of women in traditional attire visible by the roadside. (Mahesh Kumar)
A potato trader sleeps in the Dhaka wholesale market due to lack of
business during the 36 hour country-wide strike. (Abir Abdullah)
A Woman Rests on Internet Cables Awaiting Installation at Dhaka University in Bangladesh. (GMB Akash)
Two Afghan men take a brak from work on the outskirts of Kabul. (Rahmat Gul)
Tokyo,
Japan: A workers' cafe in the Tsukiji market, the biggest wholesale
fish and seafood market in the world. (Graeme Robertson)
A banana vendor waits for costumers at the Lambaro traditional market, Aceh Besar, Indonesia. (Hotli Simanjuntak)
Awoman makes incense at Cao Thon village, one of the biggest incense
villages in Vietnam. Cao Thon has produced incense for over 100 years. (Luong Thai Linh)
Rangoon, Burma: A man rests in a basket at a night market. (Ye Aung Thu)
Workers hand-pick Giant Tecolote Ranunculus flowers
at the Flower Fields in Carlsbad, California. The flowers are sold for
commercial purposes and the fields are a tourist attraction.
Laborers display fish for sale at a night market in Rangoon, Burma. (Ye Aung Thu)
A worker rests on harvested wheat crop at Chando village in Punjab, India. (Ajay Verma)
Workers paint furniture in Karma Gongsong, lhasa, Tibet. (Tongqi Huang)
Men carry sacks filled with shellfish on a beach at Diani Beach on the
Indian Ocean coast of Kenya, south of Mombasa.
An
Indian farmer carries gourds on his head to sell in a market in
Phaphamau village on the outskirts of Allahabad, India. (Rajesh Kumar
Singh)
Kashmiri laborers carry fodder for cattle on the edge of Dal lake on the outskirts of Srinagar. (Tauseef Mustafa)
Men pass their time sitting along a street in Bhaktapur, Nepal.
A woman hangs an inner tube of a tire filled with drinking water, over a
donkey, next to a well in the Yemen.
A vendor selling red onions waits for customers at a market in Makassar,
Indonesia. The vendor is reflected in a motorcycle's wing mirror.(Reuters)
Rangoon, Burma: Newspaper sellers wait for a bus after receiving their stock from a wholesaler. (Gemunu Amarasinghe)
Karachi, Pakistan: People sleep on open-air charpoy beds
near a railway station. Charpoy guesthouses are set up from 9pm to 7am
for the homeless, passengers and drivers, and charge about 40 rupees
($0.75). (Akhtar Soomro)
A
farmer collects gum arabic from a tree in El-Nahud, Sudan. The
versatile sap has numerous applications, including as a stabilizer in
foods and soft drinks, as well as an ingredient in medicines, paint,
glue and cosmetics. (Mohamed Nureldin Abdallah)
Locals walk on a bridge as they go to a tea plantation in Xinchang, Zhejiang province, China.
A Boy Helping His Cattle Cross the Stream near Mandalay, Myanmar. (Kyaw Zaw Lay)
An employee works at a textile mill in Jiujiang, Jiangxi province, China.
A vendor waits for customers in a market near Barkhor street in Ihasa, Tibet. (Tongqi Huang)
A
young Indian slum dweller who migrated from the Indian state of
Rajasthan to Kashmir thrashes date palms to make brooms on the side of
the road in Srinagar. (Yawar Nazir)
Water
Maids in Burma. Women carry water buckets on a yoke, having collected
water from a pond at Dala township. With no fresh water available and a
limited water supply system, residents have to rely on rainwater ponds.
(Lynn Yinn Bo)
A woman spice seller in Jakarta, Indonesia. (Tatan Syuflana)
A shepherd cares for his flock near the ruins of the ancient
Roman city of Serjilla, in the northwestern province of Idlib, Syria. (Bulent Kilic)
A local Chinese elderly woman caries a baby piggyback in a traditional basket on the outskirts of Chongqing, China.(AP)
A Day Laborer Works at a Chemical Drum Recycling Plant in Dhaka, Bangladesh. (Raihan Parvez)
Crates of Coca-Cola are seen stacked outside a counter of a coffee shop in Singapore.
A woman cycles as she carries baskets to sell in a market near Lapdaung mountain in Sarlingyi township, Burma.
Men and boys fish in canoes in the Niger River in Gao, Mali. (Joe Penney)
A man carries a sofa on his motorcycle on a highway near Kenya's capital Nairobi. (Marko Djurica)
A man prays for his friend killed by the tsunami at Arahama district in Sendai, Miyagi prefecture in Japan. (Toru Yamanaka)
A woman works at a clothing factory in Huaibei, East China's Anhui province. (Asianewsphoto)
Indian salt worker Walbai Ayyubbhai, 70, carries a rake at a salt pan
in the Santalpur region of Little Rann of Kutch, some 240 kms from
Ahmedabad, India.
A fish trader carries dried fish skeletons at the Obunga "mgongo-wazi"
fish frying market in Kenya's western town of Kisumu, 200 miles
from the capital Nairobi.
Electricians check the electricity pylon situated amid farmland in Chuzhou, Anhui province, China.
A
mahout receives a dousing from his elephant ahead of the tourist season
when they provide rides to visitors at the Pobitora wildlife sanctuary
in Assam, India. (Biju Boro)
An Afghan laborer pauses in his work at a traditional cotton factory in the city of Jalalabad. (Noorullah Shirzada)
People harvesting salt at sunset in the Ninh Hoa District, Khanh Hoa Province, Vietnam. (Hoang Giang Hai)
A Nepalese woman from Rolpa district works at a brick factory in Lalitpur, Nepal. (Narendra Shrestha)
Jakarta, Indonesia: Butchers cut sides of beef at an abattoir. (Ed Wray)
A Pakistani fisherman hangs fish to dry in the sun in Karachi.
Every day most people risk their life to ride on the roof of the train in order to save money in Bangladesh. (Sumon Yusuf)
A little village girl fills drinking water in a pot at Uttar Radhanagar
Railway Station of South24 Pargana district, West Bengal, India. (Chandan Ghosh)
A vendor speaks on a mobile phone at her poultry stall in a local food
market in Bangkok. (Mohammad Ismail)
Beijing, China: Artists work on ivory sculptures in the Beijing ivory carving factory. (How Hwee Young)
An Indonesian woman looks out from inside a crowded city bus during rush hour in Jakarta. (Dita Alangkara)
A domesticated elephant halts at a traffic intersection in New Delhi,
India. There are an estimated 28,000 wild elephants in
India, along with thousands of domesticated ones that do everything from
performing in shows to carrying heavy loads in the country's big
cities.
(Altaf Qadri)
(Altaf Qadri)
A banana vendor hangs out at his kiosk at Babakan market in Tangerang, Banten province, Indonesia. (Bay Ismoyo)
An Indian labourer sorts watermelon at the Gaddiannaram fruit market in Hyderabad. (Noah Seelam)
Getting on and off a local train in Mumbai, India. (Divyakant Solanki)
A woman eats her lunch in a shop in a wholesale clothing market in Shanghai, China. (Peter Parks)
A man works his boat along the river on a very foggy January morning in Chitwan National Park, Nepal. (Deepa Jahagirdar)
A farmer loads bananas atop a cargo vehicle to be transported to vendors
in Manila, in Magsaysay, Occidental Mindoro in central Philippines.
A worker walks past piles of wood at a wood-processing factory in Huaibei, Anhui province, China.
An Indian laborer sun dries red chilies at Shertha village, outskirts of Ahmadabad.
A street vendor selling bread walks in front of graffiti near Tahrir Square in Cairo.
Small-scale tobacco farmers arrange bales at the start of Zimbabwe's selling season at Boka Auction Floors in Harare.
A farmer sorts rice seedlings in Gowa district, in Indonesia's South Sulawesi province.
Kathmandu, Nepal: a porter carries a pile of mats. Quite a few mats, actually. (Navesh Chitrakar)
A man in traditional costume takes part in a funeral procession for
Cambodia's late former King Norodom Sihanouk at the Royal Palace in
Phnom Penh.
Sulawesi,
Indonesia: a farmer dries rice in the hot sun. Sunlight helps the
drying of agricultural products. When the harvest season comes, the
farmers are ready to collect crops from the rice paddies in order to
ease milling and production. (Alamsyah Rauf)
Burma: people sit on a truck as they travel to Kyite Htee Yoe pagoda, in Mon state, a famous pilgrimage site for Buddhists. (Lynn Bo Bo)
A trader reads a newspaper at a sugarcane wholesale market in Kolkata, India. (Rupak De Chowdhuri)
Tuk tuk drivers wait for customers in Bangkok, Thailand, today. (Sakchai Lalit)
Calcutta, India: Shopkeepers wait for customers at the College Street secondhand book market. (Piyal Adhikary)
A
farmer picks spring tea at a plantation in Sanjiang Dong autonomous
county, Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region, on Monday. Sanjiang tea is one
of the most famous early spring teas. Tea-planting areas in Sanjiang
cover about 9,500 hectares, and more than 200,000 people work in the tea
industry. (China Daily)
A worker harvests sugar cane at Zambia Sugar plantation in Mazabuka. (Jason Larkin)
A boy rushes to catch up to his mother as she helps
others carry a large fishing net back home, outside of Ouidah, Benin. (Jon Gambrell)
A man drives a cow cart in Zee-O village, about 20 miles from ancient city of Bagan, Burma. (AP)
People make their way through flood water in Lanxi, east China's Zhejiang province. (AFP)
Fishermen tow nets in bad weather in Trenggalek coast in East Java province, Indonesia, (Sigit Pamungkas)
Rome,
Italy: Mathias Menanteau works on a cello body in his workshop. He
builds and restores violins and cellos for reknowned musicians. (Gabriel Bouys)
Cavite
City, Philippines: Newly recruited female marines take their lunch with
fellow soldiers after undergoing drills inside the marine headquarters. (Romeo Ranoco)
Basket umbrellas help keep women somewhat dry as they work in
flooded fields in Mawsynram, India. An annual rainfall of more than 467
inches gives Mawsynram the title of "wettest place on Earth." (Johnny Haglund)
Young monks are on the way to have their meal in the Changlie monastery
in Aba prefecture, Sichuan province, China. (Tongqi Huang)
Segou, Mali: women sift wheat in a field. (Jerome Delay)
India: A man carries flower garlands at the Mallikghat wholesale flower market
in the eastern Indian city of Kolkata. (Piyal Adhikary)
A woman eats steaming instant noodles in front of a truck full of
vegetables at a market in Hefei, central China's Anhui province. (Getty Images)
Chengdu, China: a woman makes red lanterns as the Chinese Lunar New Year is approaching. (China Foto Press)
Peru: Fishermen eat lunch in the bow of a
fishing boat docked in El Callao after a night of fishing in the Pacific
waters off the coast . (Rodrigo Abd)
Peshawar, Pakistan: a man repairs a rabab, a traditional musical instrument, at his workshop. (Fayaz Aziz)
Cairo, Egypt: A street vendor sits in the back of a pickup truck along with his vegetables for sale. (Nasser Nasser)
A woman harvests sugarcane at the Montelimar sugar mill on the outskirts of Managua, Nicaragua. (Reuters)
Bangladeshi farmers walk with their cattle through a mustard field at Singair, outskirts of Dhaka. (AP)
Tea
Time: A vendor prepares hot milk and tea for passengers waiting at the
Allahabad railway station in Uttar Pradesh, India. (Rajesh Kumar Singh)
A worker makes firecrackers at a makeshift factory in Bocaue town,
Bulacan province, north of Manila, Philippines. Firecracker makers are
in a rush to meet the demands of pyrotechnic enthusiasts for the coming
New Year revelry despite local health officials warning against the use
of fireworks. (Reuters)
Rafah, Gaza Strip: A man picks flowers for export on a flower farm. (Ibraheem Abu Mustafa)
Dhaka, Bangladesh: Bicycle rickshaw drivers drink tea as they wait for customers on a cool winter evening. (Kevin Frayer)
Lalitpur, Nepla: A butcher slices meat from the head of a buffalo. (Navesh Chitrakar)
India: A vendor reads a newspaper at a wholesale vegetable market in Kolkata. (Rupak De Chowdhuri)
Siberia,
Russia: The Nenets are an indigenous tribe living in Yamalo-Nenets
Autonomous Okrug. Here Olya, six years old, collects wood in the forest.
(Alessandra Meniconzi)
Cambodia: Vegetable seller taking a break. (Aaron Joel Santos)
Columbia: Harvesting coffee. (Steve McCurry)
Pakistani laborers carry baskets of bananas at a fruit market in
Lahore.
(AFP)
Rangoon, Burma: A street vendor transports apples and child. (Gemunu Amarasinghe)
Minoity, Belarus: A worker checks mushroom beds at
a private farm, workshops of which are located inside hangars of a
former Soviet missile military base. (Vasily Fedosenko)
Luzmila, 12 years old, carries to her house the barley that
she harvested by herself on her family's little farm situated on the
mountain behind their house in a rural village in the Andes Mountains
called Sotopampa, in Peru. Once a year, they harvest the barley and then
they consume it during the following year. Alejandro Kirchuk)
Women of the
Flower Hmong people selling chillis in Can Cau, Vietnam, close to the
Chinese border. (Nick Board)
Villagers transport bamboo downriver to sell in Lebak regency, Indonesia’s Banten village. (Reuters)
A North Korean performer, who plays the role of the female lead Song
Chun Hyang, skates with live pigeons chasing her during a theatrical
performance of the classic Korean Tale of Chun Hyang at the Pyongyang
Circus Theater. (AP)
Pyongyang, North Korea: Women rehearse martial arts movements and dance routines. (Ng Han Guan)
Yangon, Burma: a woman sells food at a night market. (Nicolas Asfouri)
Gauhati, India: Villagers fish with their baskets in Mayong
village. After the flood water receded villagers
were able to resume fishing in the low lying areas of Assam state. (EPA)
Tachiliek, Burma: a woman fixes her hair inside a shop selling counterfeit Chinese made luxury brand handbags at a market. (Paula Bronstein)
A donkey collapses from the heavy weight of bricks at a brick factory in Baghdad’s southeast suburb of Nahrawan, Iraq. (AP)
Chiang Rai, Thailand: A woman picks Oolong #17 tea leaves during a harvest at the Suwirun tea farm. (Paula Bronstein)
A young Buddhist monk sits in a niche made in a wall in the compound of
Mahabodhi temple, where Buddha attained
enlightenment, during the Kalachakra Buddhist festival in the town of
Bodh Gaya, in the state of Bihar, India. (AP)
A nomadic shepherd with his herd of sheep waits for the signal at a busy
road junction in Noida on the outskirts of New Delhi, India. (Reuters)
A local fisherman casts a net on the Mekong river in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. (Samrang Pring)
Kashmiri village women walk over the marshy land while wearing wooden
boards on their feet, to collect water chestnuts from the waters of
Wular Lake at Bandipora, about 65 km (40 miles) north of Srinagar. Water chestnuts are locally known as "Singada" and are
eaten raw, boiled or are grounded into flour after they are dried. (Danish Ismail)
Lima, Peru: a man uses a public phone. (Rodrigo Abd)
El Callao, Peru: A fisherman takes a nap on his boat after an all night fishing expedition. (Rodrigo Abd)
Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea: Young
Papua dancers look on as Prince Charles and Camilla, Duchess of
Cornwall, land at the airport. (Chris Jackson)
People cross the Suchiate river from
Guatemala to Mexico in Frontera El Carmen. The Suchiate river is a
natural border line between Mexico and Guatemala and it is used for
illegal transportation of people and goods. (Jorge Dan Lopez)
Shi’ite people perform the traditional Baraa dance as they celebrate Eid
al-Ghadir in Sana’a, Yemen. The celebration marks al-Ghadir day, on
which Shi’ites believe that Prophet Muhammad nominated his cousin, Imam
Ali, to be his successor. (Reuters)
Brides run at the start of the ‘Running of the Brides’ race in Bangkok,
Thailand. Some 20 brides and grooms in wedding dress took part in the
race to win a wedding package worth about 600,000 baht ($19,501),
according to its organizers. (Reuters)
Riders compete in an annual horse race
commemorating the Day of the Dead at the village of Todos Los Santos
Cuchumatan, 310 km west of Guatemala City. (Jorge Dan Lopez)
Shaolin monks perform qigong, a type of
traditional Chinese martial arts, during the opening ceremony of the
fourth Southern Shaolin Martial Arts Cultural Festival in Putian city,
Fujian province. (China Daily)
Kathmandu, Nepal: A group perform yoga in a morning health exercise session in the open air at Tudhikhel. (Narendra Shrestha)
Srinagar, India: Workers cure sheep and goat hide. (Yawar Nazir)
Kathmandu, Nepal: A man carries strings
of lemons and chillis for sale. Nepalese believe in hanging garlands on
the gates of homes and stores to get rid of bad energy. (Niranjan Shrestha)
An elderly Indian man walks with his (very
elegant) goats in heavy rain ahead of Cyclone Nilam in Chennai, India. (Nathan G)
Somalis carry a swordfish and a shark on their heads from the ocean to the market in Mogadishu, Somalia. (AP)
A porter carries stacks of boxes at Namdaemun Market in Seoul, Korea. (Kim Hong-Ji)
Nomadic Gujjar women from Kashmir sit together
after morning prayers outside the Jama Masjid, a mosque in New Delhi,
India. (Kevin Frayer)
Quechua speaking knitters outside of Cusco, Peru. (Christopher Newman)
Naypyidaw, Burma: A laborer works in a paddy field. (Soe Than Win)
Havana, Cuba: A man carries a freshly caught fish to be sold. (Ramon Espinosa)
Kenyan scouts play instruments to entertain guests during the Mashujaa
Day (Hero’s Day) celebrations at the Nyayo National Stadium in Nairobi.
The national holiday commemorates those who had taken part in the
country’s struggle for liberation. (Reuters)
Sunlight reveals a playful moment while the
washing dries on the banks of the river Ganges in Allahabad, India. (Rajesh Kumar Singh)
Lucky day: A family poses in front of the Gandan
monastery on a special day on the Lunar calendar for wedding ceremonies
in Ulaanbataar, Mongolia. Mongolia has been undergoing massive social,
economic and political changes since gaining independence from China
some 100 years ago, and removing itself from the Soviet Bloc more than
20 years ago. (Paula Bronstein)
A grape picker tosses freshly harvested Pinot Noir grapes into a
trailer, at a vineyard of Schwarzenbach Weinbau winery in the town of
Meilen near Zurich, Switzerland. (Reuters)
An unemployed woman gathers cabbage in the field of a private farm near
the village of Radashkovichi, some 40 km (25 miles) northwest of Minsk.
Some unemployed residents help harvest crops on the privately-owned
farm, and in turn, receive 60,000 Belarussian roubles ($7) and two heads
of cabbage at the end of the day. (Reuters)
A woman sits between piles of corn as she removes the husks on a road located on the outskirts of Beijing, China. (Reuters)
A woman sits on a boat as she transports food baskets on the river Buriganga in Dhaka, Bangladesh. (Reuters)
Nurses rally in front of the Government House in Bangkok, Thailand.
Nurses demanded better working conditions and full-time jobs, asking the
government to improve job security by offering permanent contracts.
(Reuters)
Afghan women and children work in an outdoor traditional factory
extracting and preparing pinenuts for sale on the outskirts of
Jalalabad. (AFP)
Kolkata, India: men use a communal tap to bathe. (Saurabh Das)
Rangoon, Burma: a man climbs scaffolding at a construction site. (Soe Zeya Tun)
An Afghan man works in an outdoor traditional
factory extracting and preparing pinenuts for sale on the outskirts of
Jalalabad. (Noorullah Shirzada)
A Palestinian picks dates from palm trees during
the date picking season, in Deir al Balah town, central Gaza Strip.
Dates have been a staple food in the Middle East for thousands of years. (Ali Ali)
Esteli, Nicaragua: a boy stands beside a mound of oranges for sale in front of a mural at a market. (Esteban Felix)
A vendor arranges tofu on her stall as she waits for customers at a market in Huaibei, Anhui province. (Reuters)
Pakistani villagers travel on a horse-cart in the outskirts of Lahore. (AFP)
Korla, Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, China: Contestants race camels during the 8th Nadam fair. (Jiang Wenyao)
Aparecida, Brazil: Churchgoers light
candles at the Basilica of Our Lady of Aparecida, where thousands
gathered to attend a Mass honoring the patron saint of Catholic
Brazilians on her feast day. (Andre Penner)
A man takes part in racing Pacu Jawi or ‘mud cow racing’ in Padang
Pajang, West Sumatra, Indonesia. The Sumatran sport is held at the end
of each rice harvesting season by the Minangkabau people. (AP)
A worker checks aluminium utensils inside a factory on the outskirts of
Agartala, capital of India's northeastern state of Tripura. (Reuters)
Women make their way to a spring near their
village in Wollo. Traditional farmers around the world rely on seed
diversity to meet the challenges of climate, pests, disease, soil and
nutrition. They build on seed varieties bequeathed by previous
generations. (Damian Prestidge)
Singapore: An elderly man takes his afternoon nap in a shopping mall. (Wong Maye-E)
A worker takes a break from loading coal onto trucks near the town of
Dangcheng, located 250 km southwest of Beijing. (Reuters)
A fruit vendor takes a rest from selling pineapple at a public market in
Quezon City Metro Manila. (Reuters)
The Hawaii All-State Marching Band make its way through Times Square
during Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade in New York City.
(Reuters)
South Korean school girls from the Little Angels Folk Ballet perform in
New Delhi. (AFP)
Dancers of the Folkloric Ballet of the University of Guadalajara
(Mexico) perform during the Bogota Dance Festival at the Julio Mario
Santo Domingo Theatre in Bogota, Colombia. (AFP)
A construction laborer carries bricks on her head at the construction
site of a residential estate on the outskirts of the western Indian city
of Ahmedabad. (Reuters)
A man walks in a bus lane next to a morning rush hour traffic jam in Jakarta, Indonesia. (Reuters)
Volunteers make kimchi, traditional pungent vegetable dish, to donate
them to the needy neighbors for winter preparation in front of Seoul
City Hall, South Korea. (AP)
Naga tribesman perform a traditional folk dance during the Tokhu Emong, a
post harvest festival of the Lotha tribe in Dimapur, India's
northeastern state of Nagaland. (AFP)
Muslim women attend prayer at the slopes of Mount Merapi in the village
of Kalitengah Lor outside city of Yogyakarta, Central Java, Indonesia,
to celebrate the festival of Eid al-Adha. (Reuters)
Ballet dancers perform during a dress rehearsal of 'Samsara' by Spain's Victor Ullate in Madrid. (Reuters)
An Afghan man working in tandoor shop takes a break in Kabul. In most
Afghan villages women cook Nan-I-tandoori, oval or circle bread, the
Afghani national bread in tandoors, a cylindrical clay oven. (AP)
A cobbler fixes a rubber sole at a shop in Quetta, Pakistan. (Reuters)
Kanjeng Pangeran Haryo Yudanegara (L) and his wife Gusti Kanjeng Ratu
Bendara wave to people as they were driven in a horse-drawn carriage on
the street of the ancient city of Yogyakarta, Indonesia. Yudanegara
married Bendara, the youngest daughter of Sultan Hamengkubuwono X after
three days of continuous ceremonies. (Reuters)
An Indian woman paints earthen lamps on the outskirts of Jammu ahead of
Hindu festival Diwali. Diwali, the festival of lights. (AP)
Bhutanese Buddhist monks perform during a rehearsal for a dance to be
performed during the wedding festivities of King Jigme Khesar Namgyal
Wangchuck and future Queen Jetsun Pema, in the capital of Thimphu. 31
year-old reformist monarch of the small Himalayan Kingdom wed his
commoner bride. (AP)
Clown Juan Diego Velandria removes his make up at the end of a working day in Caracas, Venezuela. (Rodrigo Abd)
A boatman negotiates with a potential customer at
the Sadarghat Terminal on the Buriganga River in Dhaka, Bangladesh. (Kevin Frayer)
Hanoi, Vietnam: A street vendor looks for customers. (Luong Thai Linh)
Workers load rice at a warehouse in Jakarta, Indonesia. (AP)
China: A worker lies on cotton as he rests at a cotton purchase station in Wuhu, Anhui province. (Reuters)
People row a long-boat with their legs at a traditional rowing
competition during the annual Phaung Daw Oo Pagoda festival at Inle
Lake, Burma. (Reuters)
A Cambodian boy rows a container through floodwaters at a village in Kandal province, east of Phnom Penh. (AFP)
A laborer smokes while taking a break from spreading maize crop to dry
at a wholesale grain market in the northern Indian city of Chandigarh. (Reuters)
A farmer picks cotton on a farm in Qaha about 25 km (16 miles) north of Cairo, Egypt. (Reuters)
A Pakistani woman walks along a flooded road holding an axe to cut wood,
in Digri district near Hyderabad, Pakistan. (AP)
People walk over a world map in Lisbon, Portugal. (Reuters)
A vendor sells flowers (orchids) at a market in Bangkok, Thailand. (AP)
Pakistani girls, who collect recyclable material for their living, walk at a roadside in Rawalpindi. (AP)
A Palestinian woman sorts olives during the olive harvest in the West Bank village of Kabatyeh, near Jenin. (AP)
Caracas, Venezuela: A girl carries a baby along a street lined with homes built with metal sheets and cinder blocks. (Rodrigo Abd)
A vendor with his head covered by a lotus leaf sells lotus-buds on a street in Srinagar, India. (Reuters)
Tibetan girls perform on horses during a horse racing festival in Damxung county of Lhasa. (Reuters)
A Nepalese shopkeeper looks out from his shop at Basantapur Durbar
Square in Kathmandu. The Durbar Square, which holds the palaces of the
Malla and Shah kings, is located in the center of the capital and is
listed as a UNESCO world heritage site. (AFP)
A boy takes shelter from the rain under his horse-cart on the banks of
the Tawi River in Jammu, India. (Reuters)
People carry bamboo shoots they collected from the forest on the Rangoon-Naypyitaw highway near Naypyitaw, Burma. (Reuters)
A Kashmiri woman removes lotus leaves from the water of Dal Lake in
Srinagar, India. Dal Lake is famous for its natural beauty and a popular
destination for both Indian and foreign tourists. (AP)
A tribal man holds a handmade umbrella and walks behind his cattle,
unseen, near Manikpur village, in Ganjam district, about 200 kilometers
from the eastern Indian city of Bhubaneshwar, India. (AP)
A Kashmiri Muslim boat man prays on his boat after breaking his fast
during the holy month of Ramadan, in Srinagar, India.
(AP)
Somali refugees carry firewood outside Dadaab, eastern Kenya, 100 kms (60 miles) from the Somali border. (AP)
Riders practice for a show on their horses at a farm in Kaposmero, 190 km west of Budapest, Hungary. (Reuters)
Indonesia: A young girl plays as Indonesian women pray at the Istiqlal mosque in Jakarta. (AFP)
A child stands in front of her home at a refugee camp in Dadaab, Kenya. (AP)
Tribal Ao Naga men look on before performing a warrior dance during the
Tsungremong festival in Dimapur, India's northeastern state of Nagaland.
The festival, celebrated by the Ao Naga, is a thanksgiving festival
invoking the blessings of god an abundant harvest after the completion
of seed sowing. (AFP)
Painters rest as they wait for customers in Sana’a, Yemen. (Reuters)
Tengger tribesmen perform cane fighting during the religious ritual of
‘Karo’ in Probolinggo, East Java, Indonesia. The Hindu tribe celebrate
the ritual once a year to praise their God, Sang Hyang Widi Wasa, who
endows prosperity to their land. (AP)
Fish-farming facilities on the coast near Epidaurus, in Greece's
southern Peloponnese region of Corfos. Greece has one of Europe's
largest fish-farming industries, which employs some 10,000 people and
contributes significantly to exports. (AP)
Timber rafts are transported along the Angara river near the town of
Kodinsk, northeast of the Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk. (Reuters)
Women and girls, caught in a small sandstorm, fetch water in Wajir, Kenya. (Reuters)
Australia: Aboriginal
dance troupe Bangarra performs the koki dance from their new
contemporary work 'Belong' at the Sydney Opera House. (AFP)
Dancers perform a traditional Javanese dance Kuda Lumping in Jakarta, Indonesia.
A dancer from the Rambert Dance Company performs in front of St. Paul's
Cathedral in central London, as part of the City of London Festival.
(AFP)
Devotees, locally known as children of mud with their bodies covered in
mud and donning banana leaves, attend a mass during a religious
festival in Aliaga, north of Luzon, Philippines. Hundreds of devotees
marking the feast of St. John the Baptist attend the annual religious
festival. (AFP)
Afghan wrestlers compete in a ring arena in a field outside Herat. (Reuters)
Cano Ciego Island, Costa Rica: Cecilia Villegas, 77, throws a fishing line into the sea off the Pacific coast. (Juan Carlos Ulate)
A woman parks her bicycle outside a railway station in Ghent, Belgium.
Thousands of people ride bicycles in the city when traveling short
distances. (Reuters)
Sport really can be played
anywhere, even at the busy, rubbish-strewn docks.
Despite
the ground being laden with plastic and other garbage, Dhaka, the
capital of Bangladesh, is one of the few places in the world where
plastic bags are banned. (Dominic Burdon)
Burmese monks playing their traditional sport of chinlon, also called 'sepak takraw' in a disused water tank. (Ryan Margo)
Singapore: A child sleeps as actors from the
Shuang Ming Feng Hokkien opera troupe change their costumes backstage
during an outdoor performance. (Tim Chong)
Fish being auctioned to fishmongers in Ajman, UAE (Aida Mullen)
A young resident of the hillside neighborhood of Jamal Mina rides a
donkey down to a water collection point high above Kabul. (AFP)
A restaurant worker cleans beneath lanterns hanging above a street ahead of the Mid Autumn Festival in Beijing, China. (AFP)
A woman walks through foam, caused by heavy winds and stormy seas, on a
coastal path in the town of Portstewart in Northern Ireland, in late September. (Reuters)
An Indian woman walks out of her home as
two laborers sleep on her front steps in New Delhi, India. Thousands of
migrant laborers, known in the city as 'pavement dwellers', sleep on
the streets of the Indian capital every night. (Kevin Frayer)
Kathmandu, Nepal: A girl stands next to
the idol of Swet Bhairab during the Indra Jatra festival. The annual
festival, named after the god of rain and heaven, marks the end of
monsoon season. (Navesh Chitrakar)
Guatemala City, Guatemala: A boy waits to
sell pumpkins at "La Terminal", a food market. The market is one of the
largest trading centers of the city, with more than 4,500 vendors. (Jorge Dan Lopez)
Siberia: An actor from Russia's Tuva region, dressed in
costume, performs traditional music during the opening ceremony of the
third International Music Festival of Asian-Pacific Region in
Krasnoyarsk. (Ilya Naymushin)
Tibet: A vendor stands in front of roadside stalls in Lhasa. (Reuters)
A market, locally known as 5 Day market, which rotates every five days
around the villages, in Inle, Shan State in eastern part of Burma. Hill
tribe people come down to the market to buy and sell goods, including
their hand-made items. (Zaw Yar Zar Tun)
Munich, Germany: People in traditional
Bavarian clothes take a break after the Oktoberfest parade. Millions of
beer drinkers from around the world will descend on Munich over the next
two weeks for the 179th Oktoberfest. (Michael Dalder)
Khan Younis, Gaza Strip: A Palestinian boy sits on a tree as a girl plays on a makeshift swing. (Mohammed Salem)
Chengdu, China: A woman waits for customers outside her traditional Chinese wines shop. (Andy Wong)
Seoul, South Korea: A student wears a
traditional costume while performing during the grand Confucian ceremony
of Seokjeon at a shrine in Sungkyunkwan University. Seokjeon is a
biannual ritual to consecrate Chinese philosopher Confucius and his
disciples as supreme teachers at civil temples. (Kim Hong-ji)
Kathmandu, Nepal: A young girl arranges her hair as her mother (not seen) sells corn on the streets of the city. (Navesh Chitrakar)
A participant dressed in a bird costume takes flight during the 2012
Taiwan Birdman competition in New Taipei City, Taiwa. Sixty teams and
280 competitors were registered for the human-powered flight
competition. (AP)
City residents gather potatoes at a field in a state-owned farm near the
village of Krynitsa, some 50 km (31 miles) northwest of Minsk, Belarus.
The residents help harvest the state-owned farm, and in turn, receive
one compensatory sack of potatoes at the end of the day. (Reuters)
The world's largest beer festival opened with a pop as the first keg was
tapped at Munich's Oktoberfest, a 16-day extravaganza of lederhosen,
oompah music and millions of ales. (AP)
Team Venezuela performs in the group all-around final during the South
American Championship of Rhythmic Gymnastics in Cali, Colombia. (AFP)
Cambodian vendors drive horse drawn carts loaded with bamboo sticks to
be used for construction through village of Chrey Seimar, in Prey Veng
province. (AP)
The Australian Ballet perform Pyotr Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake at the State Theater in Melbourne. (Paul Jeffers)
Graceful dancers at the Owara Kaze no Bon festival in Yatsuo, Toyama Prefecture. (The Asahi Shimbun)
Women in national Belarusian costumes perform on stage during the
Dazhynki harvest festival in the town of Gorki, some 270 km (168 miles)
east of Minsk. (Reuters)
Warriors take part in a Maori welcoming ceremony for the U.S. Secretary of
Defense at the Government House in Auckland, New Zealand.
(Reuters)
Roofs of houses and buildings in the crowded city of Ho Chin Min, Vietnam. (Vi Thao Tran)
Bangladeshi men row during a traditional boat race in the Buriganga River in Dhaka. (AP)
The three-day Teej festival is celebrated by Hindu women in Nepal and
some parts of India. It commemorates the union of the Hindu goddess
Parvati and Lord Shiva, and involves sumptuous feasts and rigid fasting.
Married women fast during the day and pray for long lives for their
partner, and unmarried women pray for handsome husbands. (Niranjan Shrestha)
Juba, South Sudan: A boy is given a lollipop by his father at the Konyo Konyo market. (Camille Lepage)
Kachin children play inside the Hpun Lum Yang
Internally Displaced People camp, Kachin State, Myanmar. The camp houses
more than 1436 people. (Nyein Chan Naing)
Ice figures and sculptures in the ice tunnel
Permafrost Kingdom, an underground tourist attraction inspired by the
extreme cold of Yakutia, Russia. The array of tunnels are 150m deep and
are filled with ice sculptures and other ingenious creations, all made
from permafrost. (Strunin Anatoly)
A Bangladeshi child laborer carries empty bottles at a plastic bottle recycling center in Dhaka. (AP)
Terekeka, South Sudan: Boys from the Mandari tribe wait by the Nile river for boats with the day's catch to arrive. (Camille Lepage)
Pocspetri, Hungary: An agricultural worker carries a bundle of Virginia tobacco leaves. (Attila Balazs)
Allahabad, India: A policeman sits shaving on his bed after heavy monsoon rains caused flooding of the police station. (Rajesh Kumar Singh)
Rangoon, Burma: A man eats breakfast as workers unload gravel from boats at a small port outside the city. (Damir Sagolj)
Tokyo, Japan: Elderly people and a young girl practice physical activity using wooden dumbbells on Respect for the Aged Day. (Franck Robichon)
Floods: A worker sleeps on a
hammock above a flooded street during a heavy downpour brought by
Typhoon Sanba in Quezon City in the Philippines. (Cheryl Ravelo)
Half the size of a football pitch, Migingo Island
on Lake Victoria is claimed by both Kenya and Uganda. The population of
131 is made up of mostly fishermen and traders. (Jesco Denzel)
A back side wall of a local mobile phone shop is covered with old cellphones in Tokyo, Japan. (AP)
Hard Life: A worker at a junk
shop picks up used plastic sheets drying out in the sun to be sold to a
recycling plantin Caloocan, Philippines. (Aaron Favila)
Drought in Kenya: Teso Diba and her malnourished son Umuro, aged
four, inside her dasse, a traditional mat-clad hut. Drought in the area
has left nomadic pastoralists such as the Gabra struggling to survive. (Gideon Mendel)
Ethnic Tibetan women pray around the Labrang Monastery in Xiahe county, Gansu Province, ahead of the Tibetan New Year. (Reuters)
Religion: A man pushes his bicycle through a garden containing more than 1,200
Buddhist statues in a monastery in the city of Myitkyina, in Burma's
northern Kachin state. (Reuters)
Nomadic Life in the Kyrgyz lands of the Wakhan
Corridor. The intimacy of this everyday life moment, shot inside of a
family yurt, is in total contrast with the harsh environment these
nomadic tribes live in. These tribes live weeks away from any village by foot. In spite
of being located at an altitude of 4,300 meters in one of the most
remote areas of Afghanistan they are equipped with solar panels,
satellite dishes and cellphones. Ancestral ways of living - with touches
of modernity. (Cedric Houin)
Yearly Floods: A boy looks out of his home in a low lying community, Manila, Philippines. (Paula Bronstein/Getty Images)
Simple Life: A Nepalese woman walks carrying a child at
Bhaktapur, on the outskirts of Katmandu, Nepal. (Niranjan
Shrestha/Associated Press)
Artist Monks: Buddhist monks and nuns established the Guangxuan Art Troupe at Tiantai Temple at an altitude of 800 meters of
Tiantai Mountain in HongAn county, Huanggang city, central China's Hubei
province.
Tradition: Serving tea the time-honored way in Fujian province, China. (Xinhua)
Celebrations: South Koreans wearing traditional Korean costumes in Cheonan, south of
Seoul, carry torches in their hands during a ceremony to celebrate the
March First Independence Movement Day, the anniversary of the 1919
uprising against Japanese colonial rule. (AP)
Daily Life: An Indian woman carries marigold flowers on her head on the outskirts of
Jammu, India. Marigolds are widely used as strings of garland and for
Hindu religious rituals. (AP)
Hard
Living: An employee works inside a cotton processing unit at Kadi town,
about 56 km (35 miles) north of the western Indian city of Ahmedabad.
(Reuters)
Hard Living: A worker carries sacks of rice at a warehouse owned by Indonesia's state
procurement agency Bulog in Makassar of South Sulawesi province.
(Reuters)
Hard Living: An old man drags sacks of cotton to be used for quilts to earn his living in Peshawar, Pakistan. (AP)
Celebrations: Wearing their traditional costumes Turkmens celebrate Newroz (New Year)
holiday in the capital Ashgabat with a portrait of President Gurbanguly
Berdymukhamedov in the background. (AFP)
Celebrations: Students take part in a parade celebrating Bangladesh's independence in
Bangabandhu National Stadium in Dhaka. Bangladesh celebrated the 41st
anniversary of independence from Pakistan. (Reuters)
Royal Funeral: A coffin carrying Tonga's King George Tupou V is carried on a giant
black and gold-topped catafalque by 150 pallbearers to the Royal Tombs
in Tonga's capital Nuku'alofa. Tonga's King, 63, who ushered in
democracy to the South Pacific archipelago, was buried in a ceremony
that mixed traditional Polynesian ritual with Christian hymn singing.
Music: Musicians play Veena, an ancient Indian classical musical instrument, during a concert in Bangalore. (AP)
Religion: Tibetan exiles light cedar leaves to purify air as they wait to welcome
their spiritual leader Dalai Lama outside a small Buddhist temple near
Rewalsar, a small hill town 90 miles from Dharamsala, India. (AP)
Culture: Flowers and various offerings near graves at a Chinese cemetery during
Qingming Festival in Singapore. Qingming, also known as Grave Sweeping
Day, is a day on which Chinese honor the dead by cleaning family graves
and burn offerings aimed at appeasing the dead in their afterlife. (AP)
Happy: Boys ride a motorbike on their way back home after taking a bath in a
canal at Chachura village, in the northern Indian state of Uttar
Pradesh. (Reuters)
Daily Life: A man pulls his load of whicker chairs on a cart in a street in Shanghai, China. (AFP)
Rural Life: A Bangladeshi youth rafts piles of bamboo along a waterway in Dhaka. (AFP)
Religion: Catholic clergy walk holding candles during the Holy Thursday procession
of the Washing of the Feet inside the Church of the Holy Sepulchre,
traditionally believed to be the burial site of Jesus Christ, in
Jerusalem's Old City. (AP)
Religion: Tibetan Buddhist monks make ceremonial offerings to the Dalai Lama at
the Chime Gatsal Ling monastery in Dharamsala, India. Buddhist devotees
prayed for his long life at a special ceremony in the monastery. (AP)
Tradition: Thai soldiers dressed in ancient traditional uniforms pull the royal
chariot carrying the royal urn of Princess Bejaratana Rajasuda
Sirisobhabannavadi during the ancient rites of the royal cremation
ceremony at Sanam Luang in Bangkok. (AFP)
Ritual: Hindu holy men step over children as a ritual to bless them during a
religious procession to mark the Gajan festival in Kolkata, India.
(Reuters)
Ceremony: North Korean choir sings during a concert in Pyongyang to commemorate 100 years since the birth of Kim Il Sung. (AP)
Hard Life: Nepalese workers stand together at a brick factory in Imadol on the outskirts of Kathmandu. (AP)
Religion: Novice Thai nuns stand in line to receive food from people at the
Sathira Dammasathan Buddhist meditation center in Bangkok, Thailand. A
small but growing group of Thai girls are choosing to spend part of the
school holiday as Buddhist nuns. (Reuters)
Remote Life: A man guides donkeys through a mountainous road covered by snow after
the Srinagar-Leh highway was opened to traffic in Zojila, 108 km (67
miles) east of Srinagar, India. The 443 km (275 miles) long highway was
opened by army authorities for traffic after remaining snowbound at
Zojila Pass, 3,530 meters (11,581 feet) above sea level, for the past
six months.(Reuters)
History: A Turkish folkloric group performs traditional music in Tripoli,
northern Lebanon during an annual ceremony to commemorate the 723rd
anniversary of the liberation of the city from the Crusaders by the
Mamluks. (Reuters)
Culture: Newlyweds dressed in Han-dynasty costumes bow to each other during a
traditional group wedding ceremony in Xi'an, Shaanxi province, China.
(Reuters)
Celebrations:
Hundreds of thousands of people march through Havana's Revolution
Square during the May Day parade, Cuba. (Reuters)
Culture: Traditional drummers wait for dancers from a school to perform during
their debut with a traditional country dance form known as Kandian dance
at the Gangaramaya Temple in Colombo, Sri Lanka. (Reuters)
Poverty: Children wait for alms from passing devotees during the chariot festival
of Rato Machhindranath in Lalitpur, Nepal. Rato Machhindranath is known
as the god of rain and both Hindus and Buddhists worship Machhindranath
for good rain to prevent drought during the rice harvest season.
(Reuters)
Celebrations: Lanterns release by Buddhist worshipers fly during a procession
commemorating Waisak day which marks the birth, death and enlightenment
of Buddha at the 9th century Borobudur temple in Magelang, Central Java,
Indonesia. (AP)
Natives: Rea Inu Bake, from the Indian tribe Hunikui, takes part in a protest
against slave labor outside the Chamber of Deputies in Brasilia.
Brazil's lower house is expected to vote on a constitutional amendment
that would punish landholders found to be using slave labor. (AP)
Celebrations: Members of a local dance troupe perform in Setif during a visit by
Algeria President Abdelaziz Bouteflika at the commemoration of the
Algerian war of Independence. (Reuters)
Tradition:A
snapshot of the women who come to live at the Pashupatinath Temple in
Kathmandu, Nepal. They have accepted that their time has come and it is
believed that to die and to be cremated here, one of the most important
Hindu temples in Nepal, will release one from the cycle of rebirth in
this world. -
Keith Hallagan
Poverty:
A man who who sold his kidney due to poverty sits outside his home in Kavre, Nepal. - Navesh Chitrakar
Royalty: Cambodian Prince Norodom Chakravuth, rear center, holds plow handles to
mark an annual royal plowing ceremony in Phnom Penh. The ceremony was
held to mark the start of rice-farming season. (AP)
Zen for bus drivers and conductors: In a bid to reduce stress level among bus drivers and lessen chances of
accidents, Chennai in India has introduced
yoga and life-skills classes for its employees. Included in the package
are a few lessons in effective communication too.
Celebrations: Girls and young women
sing during a reed dance at Queen Mother's royal palace. The annual
event brings unmarried girls from all over Swaziland to pay homage to
the Swazi Queen Mother, Ntombi Thwala in Mbabane, Swaziland. - Themba Hadebe
Rural Living: A Cambodian man drives an ox-drawn cart through his flooded farm during
the rainy season in Phlang village, about 34 kilometers (21 miles) west
of Phnom Penh, Cambodia. (AP)
Poverty: A girl plays with her brother as they search for usable items at
junkyard near the Danyingone station in Rangoon's suburbs, Burma.
(Reuters)
Culture: Balinese Hindus carrying Pratima, the symbol of God, walk on a beach
during a cleansing ceremony called Melasti in Gianyar, Bali, Indonesia.
Balinese believe that through this cleansing ceremony, they can drive
bad spirits away and cleanse their spirituality. (Reuters)
Tradition: Lebanese students dance during The Big Dance event in downtown Beirut, near the parliament. (Reuters)
Art: A flower-covered Mini Cooper during the Chelsea Flower Show in London.
The Chelsea Flower Show is the most prestigious of Britain's flower
shows and is held every year in the grounds of the Chelsea Hospital.
(AFP)
Daily Life: A Cambodian family transports sacks loaded with corns to a market in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. (AP)
Tradition: Girls wearing traditional dresses, bow at the 40th Coming of Age Day
Ceremony and representation of traditional 'Gwan-Rye' in Seoul, South
Korea. The ceremony is held to authorize boys and girls at the age of
20, who have been living under the protection of their families, as
independent individuals. (AP)
Cottage Industry: A man spreads rose petals, which will be used to make incense sticks, on
the floor to dry in a compound in Lahore, Pakistan. (Reuters)
Matrimony:
A visitor looks at participant's details for potential dating at the
second Shanghai Marriage Expo in Shanghai, China. (AFP)
Shortage:
People jostle as they collect water from a truck from Water and
Sewerage Authority in the outskirts of Dhaka, Bangladesh. (Reuters)
Religion: Buddhist monk Thich Tam Man kowtows on a road in the Ninh Binh province,
about 90 km (56 miles) south of Hanoi. He started his journey in 2009
from his monastery at Hoang Phap pagoda, near Vietnam's southern Ho Chi
Minh city, to Yen Tu mountain, which is about 150 km (93 miles) east of
Hanoi. The distance he will travel is about 1800km (1118 miles), and
with every step he takes, for 10 hours a day, Tam Man will kneel and
pray. He believes that with every prayer he makes, he will be able to
atone for his previous mistakes, and pray for world peace. (Reuters)
Celebration: Kenyan army soldiers march past the Nyayo National Stadium in Nairobi to
attend the 49th Madaraka Day or independence from British rule
celebrations (AP)
Religion: Pope Benedict XVI celebrates a Mass in Bresso, near Milan, Italy. (AP)
Ritual: Married Hindu women devotees are seen through sacred threads being tied
around a banyan tree (a divine wishing tree) in a ceremony considered to
bring good luck during the Hindu religious festival of Vata Savitri
Purnima in Ahmedabad, India. (Reuters)
Religion: Buddhist monks pray during a ceremony on Vesak Day, an annual
celebration of Buddha's birth, enlightenment and death, at the Wat Phra
Dhammakaya temple in Pathum Thani province, north of Bangkok, Thailand.
This year marks the 2,600th anniversary of Buddha's enlightenment.
(Reuters)
Farming: Balinese girls harvest onions on they field in Kintamaini valley in Bali, Indonesia. (AP)
Cultural Festival: Participants from Lombok province perform in a parade during the 34th
Bali Art Festival in Denpasar on Indonesia's resort island of Bali.
(AFP)
Acrobatics: An ethnic Miao minority man balances himself on the blades of knives as
he performs 'Shang Dao Shan' (climbing up a mountain of knives) during
an acrobatics show in Guiyang, Guizhou province.
(Reuters)
Rural Life: Ethnic Kyrgyz shepherds herd goats in the Tianshan mountains, Wensu
county, Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region, China.
(Reuters)
Tribal War: Papuan tribal warriors armed with bows and arrows and improvised shields
move into position as tribal clash erupted between two tribes in Kwamki
Lama village in Mimika district located in Indonesia's restive Papua
province. (AFP)
Farm Life: Workers sort palm fruits at a palm oil processing plant in Lebak, Indonesia. (AP)
Daily Life: Public and private residential blocks on a hillside in Hong Kong (Reuters)
Daily Life: A man transports fodder on his bullock cart on the outskirts of Faisalabad, Pakistan. (Reuters)
Village Life: A toddy tapper walks on a rope as he crosses between coconut palm trees
in order to collect sap to make palm wine, or toddy as it is locally
known, in Wadduwa in Sri Lanka. (AFP)
Hard Life: An Afghan refugee girl sits on a jerrycan while other refugees collect
water in a slum on the outskirts of Islamabad, Pakistan, on World
Refugee Day. (AP)
Commemoration: Drummers from South Korea perform during a commemoration ceremony in the
south Lebanese town of Tayr Dibba, held in honor of all those who
fought in the Korean war (1950-1953). (AFP)
Tradition: A child adjusts his rice dumpling-shaped hat while performing during the
opening of the Duanwu Festival in Beijing, China. Rice dumplings are
traditionally eaten during the festival, also known as the Dragon Boat
festival, which falls on the fifth day of the fifth month of the Chinese
calendar. (AP)
Daily Life: Malang Jan, 65, combs his beard after a bath on the outskirts of Jalalabad, east of Kabul, Afghanistan. (AP)
Culture: Hindu holy men queue up to register for the annual pilgrimage to the Amarnath cave shrine, in Jammu, India. (AP)
Festival: Moroccan horsemen perform on the occasion of the Gnaoua World Music Festival in Essaouira. (AFP)
Religion: Devotees covered with mud and dried banana leaves pray in front of a
cross during a religious ceremony that celebrates the feast day of their
patron Saint John the Baptist, in the village of Bibiclat, Nueva Ecija,
north of Manila, Philippines. (Reuters)
Construction: A Pakistani carpenter works on a fishing boat at the harbor of Karachi. (AP)
Religion: Young monks gather and pray at Tergar Monastary to celebrate the 28th
birthday of Ogyen Trinley Dorje the 17th Karmapa, at Bodhgaya, India.
Karmapa, 27, is the spiritual head of the Karma Kagyu school, one of
the four sects of Tibetan Buddhism, and a possible successor to the
Dalai Lama. (AFP)
Culture:
People walk near giant bottles in Bordeaux, southwestern France, on the
eve of the inauguration of The Bordeaux Wine Fair. (AFP)
Religion: Hindu priests offer prayers for monsoon rains in the Osman Sagar Lake on the outskirts of Hyderabad, India. (AP)
Life: Twelve-year-old Chatu collects lemons at a wholesale fruit market in Kolkata, India. (Reuters)
Historical Treasure: A member of Sotheby’s auction house staff looks at The Shah of Persia’s
Elephant Automation Clock, circa 1780, with a guide price of US $1.5-3.0 million, in London, England. (Reuters)
Migration: Afghan women sit in a handcart as a worker pushes it in the Torkham border of Afghanistan and Pakistan. (Reuters)
Celebrations: Belarussian athletes perform during celebrations marking Independence Day in Minsk. (Reuters)
Art: People admire a giant kinetic structure at the Changi International
Airport in Singapore. Claiming to be the world’s largest kinetic art
installation, ‘Kinetic Rain’ designed and built by a German team is made
up of 1, 216 bronze droplets that transform into multiple shapes
through slow fluid movements. (AP)
Remote: A Mongolian man takes a rest in between the Yolyn Am ice canyon in the
Gurvan Saikhan Mountains, located 45km south of Dalanzadgad. (AP)
Celebration: An exile Tibetan in traditional costume waits to perform a dance at
Tsuglakhang temple in Dharmsala, India. The Dalai Lama celebrated his
77th birthday with festivities held for the entire day at the temple
complex. (AP)
Daily Life: A child walks on the backs of cattle in a river in the eastern suburb of
Fadaliayah, outside of Baghdad, Iraq. The animals are bathed daily to
help keep them free of diseases and to protect them from the heat. (AP)
Festival: A woman dressed in flower costumes participate in the11th Jember Fashion
Carnival in Jember, Indonesia’s East Java province. The carnival
procession that had a 3.6 km ( 2.2 mile) route was made up of 700
participants. (Reuters)
Tradition: ‘Locks
of love’ are displayed on top of Mt. Nam or Namsan in central Seoul,
South Korea. Young couples come to the top of the mountain to hang their
locks of love and throw the key away in the hope for eternal love.
(Reuters)
Culture: Traditional dancers perform during celebrations to mark the first
anniversary of the Republic of South Sudan’s independence in the capital
Juba. (Reuters)
Traditional Costume: An ethnic member of parliament leaves parliament after the parliament session in Naypyidaw, Burma. (AFP)
History:
Mongolian artists in traditional costumes perform dance during the
Naadam Festival opening ceremony at a stadium in Ulan Bator. Mongolians
celebrate the anniversary of Genghis Khan’s march to the world conquest
with the annual sporting festival. (AP)
Rural
Life: Indian farmers plow a field in preparation for sowing cotton in
Nani Kisol village, around 70 km from Ahmedabad. (AFP)
Organized: A three-year-old boy plays near a banana-shaped meeting point for lost
children on the beach of Oostduinkerke, Belgium.
(Reuters)
Tough Life: An Indian man sucks on a hose to pull water as a crowd gathers around a
government tanker delivering drinking water because of short supply of
running water in New Delhi, India. (AP)
Tradition: Indonesian men watch cock fight in Solo, Central Java, Indonesia. (AP)
Kite
Festival: Balinese men watch a traditional kite competition during kite
festival in Padang Galak, island of Bali, Indonesia. (AP)
Fashion: A model participates in a Muslim fantasy fashion show at the Tsunami Museum, in Banda Aceh, Indonesia. (AFP)
Tradition: Revelers hold candles and red scarves during the closing ceremony of the
San Fermin festival in Pamplona, Spain. Thousands of people gathered in
front of the city’s town hall to sing the traditional farewell song
‘Pobre de mi’ (Poor me) to show their sadness at the end of the
festival. (Reuters)
History: The entrance to a cave, shaped in the form of an aeroplane, under a
mountain that was once the headquarters of former Chinese Communist
military leader Lin Biao located on the outskirts of Beijing. The cave
has been turned into a ‘Military Bar’ using old military ordnance as furniture
including sandbags, artillery shells and land mines. (Reuters)
Life:
A motor tricycle loaded with recyclable plastic bottles drives along a
street in Taiyuan, Shanxi province, China. (Reuters)
Religion: Shinto priests pray as Japan’s Emperor Akihito, unseen, visits Meiji
Shrine where his great-grandfather Emperor Mutsuhito’s spirit is
dedicated, in Tokyo. (AP)
Religion: Children from the Jain community raise their hands to offer prayers to
Lord Mahavir on the death anniversary of Jain saint Chandrasekhar
Maharaj in the western Indian city of Ahmedabad. (Reuters)
Food Crisis: Syrian men line up to buy bread at the only bakery still open in the city of Al-Bueda. (AFP)
Performance: Clowns watch colleagues perform during the inauguration of the fourth
annual Latin American Clown Congress in Guatemala City, Guatemala. Clowns from Central America, South America and the Caribbean
have gathered for three days in the capital city to exchange ideas and
attend workshops. (AP)
Relief: Water is released from the Three Gorges Dam, a gigantic hydropower
project on the Yangtze river, in Yichang, central China’s Hubei
province, after heavy downpours. (AFP)
Urban Life: People walk under umbrellas displayed over a street in a sales promotion of a store in Seoul, South Korea. (AP)
Improvization: A man uses plastic bottles to help him and his daughter swim, near the
banks of the Ravi river, on the outskirts of Lahore, Pakistan. (Reuters)
Funeral: Balinese man walks between burning animal statues during a mass cremation ceremony in Ubud, Bali, Indonesia. (AP)
Religion: The Moroccan faithful pray on the esplanade of the Hassan II mosque
during the Tarawih prayers, as part of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan,
in Casablanca. (Reuters)
Culture: A woman relaxes in a roofed wicker chair on the beach in the German
Baltic Sea resort of Sellin on the island of Ruegen. (Reuters)
Village Life: A woman is transported on a cart to the International Medical Corps’
clinic in Gendrassa camp in Maban, Upper Nile State, South Sudan.
(Reuters)
Religion: Buddhists carry candles during Asanha Puja Day, the eve of the Buddhist
Lent, at a temple in Nonthaburi province, on the outskirts of Bangkok,
Thailand. (Reuters)
Fashion: Women walk through the central textile market to buy new clothes in downtown Jakarta, Indonesia. (Reuters)
Tradition: Boys dressed as holy cows participate in a parade to mark the Gaijatra
Festival, also known as the festival of cows, in Kathmandu, Nepal.
Hindus in Kathmandu celebrate the festival to ask for salvation and
peace for their departed loved ones. Cows are regarded as holy animals
in Nepal which help departed souls to reach heaven. (Reuters)
Tradition: Villagers walk to the crater of Mount Bromo during the annual Kasada
festival in Indonesia’s East Java province. Villagers and worshipers
throw offerings such as livestock and crops into the volcanic crater to
give thanks to the Hindu gods for ensuring their safety and prosperity.
(Reuters)
Daily Life: Shepherd Ingo Schorneck leads a herd of sheep during the regional
Shepherds Championships of Thuringia in Hohenfelden, central Germany.
(AP)
Religion: Indian Sikh devotees offer prayers at the Golden Temple, Sikh’s holiest
shrine in Amritsar, India. (AP)
History: People release paper lanterns on the Motoyasu River facing the Hiroshima Peace Memorial, commonly called the Atomic
Bomb Dome, in Hiroshima, Japan in remembrance of victims on the 67th
anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima. (Reuters/Kyodo)
Religion: Pakistanis buy food from a stall to break their fast, during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan in Karachi. (AP)
Tradition:
A man carries a flower arrangement on his back during the annual
festival of flowers in Medellin, Colombia. The flower festival is one of
the most important events of Medellin and has been celebrated every
year since 1957. (AP)
History: A villager carries local noodles for workers breaking stones to earn
daily money near a grave site of Phnom Trungbat where skulls and bones
were unearthed in Dau Dantrey village, about 60 kilometers (40 miles)
northwest of Siem Reap in Cambodia. (AP)
Celebrations: A performer is silhouetted in a sea of cloth during the 47th independence celebration in Singapore. (AP)
Culture: Indigenous girls perform a traditional dance during International Day of
the World’s Indigenous People celebrations in Dhaka. The Bangladeshi
government directed all district administrations to not cooperate in
celebrations of the indigenous day, claiming to the effect that there
were no indigenous people in the country. (Reuters)
Culture: An 82-year old Padaung woman cooks in her kitchen in De Maw Soe
Township, Loikaw, Kayah State in eastern Burma. Padaung is one of the
ethnic groups in the country. (Photo: Simon Soe/Burma)
Religion: Devotees form a human pyramid to break a clay pot containing curd during
the celebrations to mark the Hindu festival of Janmashtami in Mumbai,
India. Janmashtami, which marks the birthday of Hindu god Krishna, is
being celebrated across the country. (Reuters)
Celebrations: Paramilitary soldiers take part in a full-dress rehearsal for India’s
Independence Day celebrations in Agartala, capital of the northeastern
Indian state of Tripura. (Reuters)
Celebrations: Men perform a traditional dance during a ceremony to mark Pakistan’s Independence Day in Quetta. (Reuters)
Tradition: Gardeners work on a giant carpet made of flowers to form a floral
decoration at Brussels’ Grand Place, Belgium. The
design requires about 700,000 flowers to create, according to event
organizers. (Reuters)
Daily Life: Thai vegetable market vendors pull back awnings and their produce off a
railway track to allow a cross-country train to dissect through the
middle of the town of Maeklong in Samut Songkhram province, 60 km (37
miles) west of Bangkok, Thailand. The bustling market has to scramble
from the tracks eight times a day as trains pass. (Reuters)
Religion: Tibetan Buddhists and tourists view a huge Thangka, a religious silk
embroidery or painting displaying the Buddha portrait, during the Shoton
Festival at Zhaibung Monastery in Lhasa, capital of southwest China’s
Tibet Autonomous Region. (Reuters)
Celebrations: People attempt to climb greased and slippery poles, to which prizes and
flags are attached, to celebrate Indonesia’s Independence Day in
Jakarta. (AFP)
Village Life: Ghasiram Kisan feeds Buddu, a one-and-a-half year old sloth bear at the
family’s home in Lakhapada, 350 km (218 miles) from Bhubaneswar, India.
The wild bear, which was rescued by wildlife officials, wandered into
the village as a cub following a herd of goats and had lived with the
family ever since. (AP)
Tradition: Pakistani Muslims travel on an overloaded train as they head to their
hometowns ahead of the Muslim festival of Eid al-Fitr in Lahore. (AFP)
World Record: Farmers plant rice seedlings in a paddy field in Taoyuan County,
northern Taiwan. According to event organizers, 1215 farmers broke the
Guinness World Record by planting rice seedlings for 2.1 hectare in 16
minutes 20 seconds. (Reuters)
Religion: A Yoruba woman worships the goddess of the Osun river and other spirits
in Osogbo, Nigeria. Many of the worshipers observing the centuries-old
ethnic Yoruba celebration in southwestern Nigeria are Christians and
Muslims. (AP)
Religion: A Nepalese man climbs the Boudhanath stupa in Katmandu, a world heritage site, to hang prayer flags. (AP)
Tradition: Vanessa Maier (C) pours water in a barrel as she competes to win the
traditional ‘Markgroeninger Schaeferlauf’ shepherd’s run in
Markgroeningen, southwestern Germany. Highlight of the traditional
festival is the barefoot race of shepherd girls and boys over a 300
meters long stubble field. (AFP)
Religion: Ethiopian Orthodox faithful participate in Sunday mass at Bole Medhane Alem Church, in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. (AP)
Tradition: A Nepalese girl looks for snails, used for medicinal purpose, in a paddy field on the outskirts of Katmandu. (AP)
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