In today's photo gallery, we feature troubled street vendors, monks lining up for alms, moon jelly fish, a dog feeding two-day-old tiger cubs, a man kissing a Japanese Koi carp, an injured village headman in Pattani, and shanty houses and skyscraper buildings in Jakarta.
22 AUG 2014

A day in photos

In today's photo gallery, we feature troubled street vendors, monks lining up for alms, moon jelly fish, a dog feeding two-day-old tiger cubs, a man kissing a Japanese Koi carp, an injured village headman in Pattani, and shanty houses and skyscraper buildings in Jakarta.

PHOTOS: Bangkok Post
 
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A day in photos
Street vendors from Tha Tian and Tha Chang markets gather in front of City Hall, begging the Bangkok Metropolitan Administration (BMA) not to remove their stalls, which encroach on pavements. Authorities want to clear the sidewalks for pedestrians. (Photo by Apichart Jinakul)
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Monks line up for alms outside Wat Benchamabophit, known to tourists as the marble temple, Bangkok. (Photo by Seksan Rojjanametakul)
A day in photos
Several hundred people participate in the mass "Ice Bucket Challenge Thailand" in front of CentralWorld shopping centre to raise around two million baht for Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and the Thai Red Cross Society. (Photo by Wisit Thamngern)
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Police officers try to save Sorma Jaedee, a 51-year-old village headman who was badly wounded in a drive-by shooting in Pattani. He was shot several times in the body and was rushed to Yaring Hospital. (Photo by Abdullah Benyakart)
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A worker cleans a cannon in front of the Thai Khu Fah building inside the Government House compound ahead of the arrival of Gen Prayuth Chan-ocha, who is awaiting royal endorsement as Thailand's 29th prime minister. (Photo by Chanat Katanyu)
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Pavena Hongsakula, a leading activist for women's and children's rights, left, talks to a woman who was hired as a surrogate mother. The woman told her she agreed to do it because she desperately needed money. (Photo by Apichit Jinakul)
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Thirty passengers were injured when the bus they were travelling in overturned in Ayutthaya. According to the passengers, their driver was racing with another bus before the accident. He fled the scene. (Photo by Sunthorn Pongpao)
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A 1,500-kilogramme male elephant was electrocuted when it came into contact with a high voltage wire in Prachuap Khiri Khan. (Photo by Chaiwat Satyaem)
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A large number of moon jellyfish are floating in Sivika Bay of the Khao Laem Ya-Mu Ko Samet National Park near Samet Island in Rayong. (Photo by Jumphol Nikomruk)
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Noriah Daud, right, the mother of late co-pilot Ahmad Hakimi Hanapi, who perished aboard flight MH17 downed in eastern Ukraine, attends a burial ceremony in Putrajaya, outside Kuala Lumpur. (AFP photo)
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Shanty houses are seen next to Jakarta's skyscraper buildings. (AFP photo)
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A Cambodian man throws his fishing net onto a canal for catching fish in Phneath village on the outskirts of Phnom Penh. (AP photo)
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Zoo owner Manny Tangco kisses a Japanese Koi carp, while children look on inside an aquarium at a zoo in Manila. (AFP photo)
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A female dog feeds two-day-old tiger cubs and her puppy at a zoo in Hefei, Anhui province. (Reuters photo)
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Ecuador's Betzaida Ayovi Cabezas Lisseth competes during the women's +63-kilogramme weightlifting event at the 2014 Nanjing Youth Olympic Games in Nanjing, Jiangsu province. (Reuters photo)
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Hitchbot sits on a chair in the Inner Habour in Victoria, Canada. (EPA photo)