A typhoon in the Philippines and a deadly attack on rangers in Thailand were featured events on Oct 19, 2015.
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A resident stands with his rescued sow and suckling piglets as people wade through a flooded highway in Santa Rosa town, Nueva Ecija province, north of Manila, a day after typhoon Koppu hit Aurora province. — AFP
A soldier holds up uniform clothings as he walks past the site where rangers were attacked by insurgents in Sai Buri district, Pattani. Two security officials were killed and five others injured. — Reuters
Diplomats and international organisation representatives attend a briefing by Consitution Drafting Committee chairman Norachit Sinhaseni at the Foreign Ministry on the progress of the draft constitution. — Pawat Laopaisarntaksin
Homebuyers contact the Government Housing Bank at its headquarters on the first day of a scheme with relaxed mortgage conditions. — Pornprom Satrabhaya
Cambodia's King Norodom Sihamoni (left) greets Prime Minister Hun Sen, (right) and Interior Minister Sar Kheng (centre) at Phnom Penh International Airport. The king left Cambodia for his four-day visit to Vietnam. — AP
Kuo Kai-wen, director of the seismology centre, points at a map to show where a magnitude 5.2 earthquake shook parts of Taiwan at the Central Weather Bureau in Taipei. — EPA
Nepalese children play on a swing popularly known as the "Dashain Ping" on the seventh day of the Hindu festival of Dashain in Lalitpur on the outskirts of Kathmandu. People of all ages play on a swing in towns and villages while marking the festival, which is celebrated for 15 days in honour of the Hindu goddess of power Durga. — AFP
Packets of pictures given by participants that will be delivered to each family's members living in North Korea during a reunion are scattered as a volunteer checks them at a hotel used as a waiting place in Sokcho, South Korea. The reunion of 90 South Koreans and 96 North Koreans, the 20th of its kind, will be held at a resort in the North. — Reuters
A participant jumps off a platform for a wingsuit flight from Tianmen Mountain in Zhangjiajie, central China's Hunan province, on Oct 18. Some 16 participants from 12 countries are taking part in the extreme sport event. — AFP
A view shows an ice flow floating on a lake in front of the Solheimajokull Glacier, Iceland, where the ice has receded by more than one kilometre since annual measurements began in 1931. — Reuters
