Clearing illegal vendors from Khao San road and PM Prayut at Shwedagon are among key events featured on Oct 10, 2014.
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City Hall officials are on duty before adviser Pol Maj Gen Wichai Sangprapai launched a campaign to crack down on illegal vendors to return pavements to pedestrians on Khao San road. — Chanat Katanyu
Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha (centre right) and his wife Naraporn offer flowers at Myanmar's Landmark Shwedagon pagoda in Yangon. — AP
A Ban Nong Bua villager in Surin's Srikhoraphum district calls on authorities to repair a road left in shambles for 12 years. She made her point by showing she could take a bath from the water on the road. More than 30 local people including students joined the event. — Nopparat Kingkaew
Vietnamese national flags hung outside a tenement house in Hanoi. Many activities will be held to celebrate the 60th anniversary of Hanoi Liberation Day, including a 15-minute firework shows at 30 different venues in the capital. — EPA
A portrait of Norodom Sihanouk is displayed at the Royal Palace as workers build a framework to put up a giant portrait of him, ahead of events to commemorate the second anniversary of his death, in Phnom Penh. The late Cambodian king died on Oct 15, 2012, in Beijing at the age of 89. — Reuters
Former North Korean defectors hold a balloon containing anti-North Korea leaflets as they prepare to release them toward the North, near the demilitarised zone in Paju. — Reuters/Lim Byung-sik/Yonhap
Huge waves generated by typhoon Vongfong hit the coast in Tamagusuku, Nanjo city, on the island of Okinawa. The Japan Meteorological Agency warned of high waves and strong winds in wide areas of Japan as Vongfong is on course to strike the archipelago. — EPA
Chair of the Norwegian Nobel Committee Thorbjorn Jagland holds portraits of Nobel laureates Kailash Satyarthi (left) and Malala Yousafzai, in Oslo. Teen education advocate Yousafzai of Pakistan and children's rights activist Satyarthi of India have won the 2014 Nobel Peace Prize. — EPA
Angela Merkel (left) and Li Keqiang review a guard of honor during an official welcoming ceremony at the Chancellery in Berlin. The Chinese premier meets the German Chancellor for this year's third top-level talks between the export powers. — AFP
A member of a sanitation team wearing a protective suit cleans inside the resident's building of Teresa Romero, a Spanish nurse, and her husband Javier Limon in Alcorcon, several days after they were admitted to a Madrid hospital fearing infection with the deadly Ebola virus. — AFP
An airport worker wears a protective face mask in the arrivals area of the Los Angeles International Airport as the United States announced increased passenger screenings against the Ebola virus. — AFP
