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00011663 : ERITREA Shelab - Women at an orthodox divine service at the Refugee Camp in Shelab, where 8000 Eritreans live after being deported from Ethiopia.
00011662 : INDIA Mumbai (Bombay) - Hindu and Christian religious iconography competing for space on a Bombay wall.
00011661 : THAILAND Ratchburi - Floating vegetable market along the klongs of Damnoensaduak.
00011660 : MALI - Vaccination in village clinic.
00011659 : VIETNAM Nam Ha Province - Farmer smoking a bamboo pipe and watching an ox work, in his fields beside the Red River, south of Hanoi.
00011658 : VIETNAM - Bored pupils in a village school between Hanoi and Haiphong.
00011657 : VIETNAM - Cigarette vendors on a ferry in the Mekong Delta near My Tho.
00011656 : VIETNAM - Motor plough in paddy fields west of Hanoi (with Chinese engine).
00011655 : CHINA Chengdu, Sichuan Province - Doctor and patient in the Chengdu College of Traditional Chinese Medicine, a general hospital where both traditional and modern (Western) medicine are practised.
00011654 : CHINA Chengdu, Sichuan Province - Traction of the neck in the Chengdu College of Traditional Chinese Medicine, a general hospital where both traditional and modern (Western) medicine are practised.
00011653 : INDONESIA - Trainers coming off the production line in a Nike factory.
00011652 : INDONESIA - Trainers coming off the production line in a Nike factory. The worker on the right is pregnant.
00011651 : SRI LANKA Kandy - A decorated elephant in the procession at the Esala Perahera, an annual religious ritual.
00011650 : INDIA Udaipur, Rajasthan - Holy cow decorated with hand prints for Diwali, the festival of light.
00011649 : MACEDONIA Gostivar - Roma (gypsy) slum area.
00011648 : MACEDONIA Skopje - Roma (gypsy) wedding in slum area. Guests dancing in the street.
00011647 : ROMANIA - Orphanage. The children are kept inside all the time.
00011646 : ROMANIA - Street children living in a park and sniffing glue.
00011645 : ROMANIA Bucharest - Street child living in a heating duct during a harsh winter.
00011644 : ROMANIA Bucharest - Mother with her son, whose legs have been amputated, walking through the snow.
00011643 : ROMANIA Bucharest - Street children living in a heating duct during a harsh winter. Their nearest neighbour is a branch of McDonald's.
00011642 : ROMANIA Bucharest - Street children living in a heating duct during a harsh winter, having a shower.
00011641 : ROMANIA Bucharest - Street child sniffing glue.
00011640 : ROMANIA Bucharest - Street child living in a heating duct during a harsh winter. The cardboard box which acts as a roof is labelled ‘Vogue, Italy’.
00011639 : ROMANIA Bucharest - Street child having a shower in a centre for homeless kids run by the NGO Aidrom.
00011638 : ROMANIA Bucharest - Street child sniffing glue. His home is a derelict building.
00011637 : ZIMBABWE Harare - Woman in office working on a computer.
00011636 : MALAWI Lilongwe - A white woman passes a boy begging in a parking lot.
00011635 : MALAWI - Going to the market in town to sell wood.
00011634 : MALAWI - Woman with a seedling, part of an NGO-funded reforestation project.
00011633 : MALAWI - NGO project distributing food aid in small village.
00011632 : MALAWI - Aid distribution of maize in small village.
00011631 : MALAWI - Aid distribution of maize in small village.
00011630 : MALAWI - Women collecting water from the local well.
00011629 : MALAWI - Villagers collecting water.
00011628 : MALAWI - Villagers collecting water.
00011627 : BANGLADESH Mirpur - Young man working in a brick factory. He carries up to fourteen bricks at a time on his head.
00011626 : MALAWI - Family planning outreach worker.
00011625 : KENYA - Family planning clinic in marketplace.
00011624 : BANGLADESH - Woman receiving a Depo Provera contraceptive injection, effective for three months.
00011623 : NIGERIA - Family planning poster.
00011622 : DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO - Rough diamonds found around Mbuji-Mayi. Democratic Republic of Congo (formerly Zaire).
00011621 : BOLIVIA Potosi - Aymara Indian man chewing coca leaves.
00011620 : INDONESIA Sumatra - Displaced Acehmese villagers in a Mosque.
00011619 : CHINA Xinjiang Province - Propaganda poster for the one child family.
00011618 : ETHIOPIA Addis Ababa - Family planning clinic. More than 90% of local women are estimated to have been circumcised.
00011617 : PHILIPPINES - Couple visiting a family planning clinic.
00011616 : PAKISTAN - A Kashmiri refugee outside a makeshift mosque, looking towards his faraway homeland.
00011615 : INDONESIA Jakarta - Bus ploughs through flooded streets in the centre of town.
00011614 : INDONESIA - Clerical workers at a factory.
00011613 : INDONESIA - Lighting up a cigarette in the staff canteen at bottling factory.
00011612 : INDONESIA - Workers praying in a factory mosque.
00011611 : INDONESIA - Management meeting at a bottling factory.
00011610 : INDONESIA - Staff rest area at a bottling factory.
00011609 : INDONESIA - Treating waste water at a bottling factory.
00011608 : INDONESIA - Treating waste water at a bottling factory.
00011607 : INDONESIA - Flag raising ceremony at a factory.
00011606 : INDONESIA - Pep session for workers before their afternoon shift at a bottling factory.
00011605 : INDONESIA - Quality control in the lab of a bottling factory.
00011604 : INDONESIA - Production line at a bottling factory.
00011603 : INDONESIA - Workers at a factory mosque.
00011602 : INDONESIA Jakarta - Girls on a pro-Islam, anti-capitalism demonstration.
00011601 : INDONESIA - Production line at a bottling factory.
00011600 : INDONESIA Jakarta - Girls on a pro-Islam, anti-capitalism demonstration.
00011599 : INDONESIA East Kalimantan - Transmigration to rainforest area.
00011598 : INDONESIA Central Borneo - Election ballot box being taken upstream by boat to Tg Lokang, a remote village. The crew have to struggle over the rapids.
00011597 : INDONESIA Central Borneo - Election ballot box being taken upstream by boat to Tg Lokang, a remote village.
00011596 : USA Barrow, Alaska United States of America - Inupiat Eskimo at whaling camp looking through binoculars.
00011595 : GHANA Dehia, Central Region - Local family planning agent making home visit.
00011594 : CHILE Ventanas - State-owned copper smelter.
00011593 : CHINA Beijing - Cyclists in the morning rush hour.
00011592 : CHINA Shanghai - Child playing on slide next to Mickey Mouse, part of a window display in the Walt Disney store on Nanjing Lu.
00011591 : CHINA Beijing - Large suburban mansion (and statue) belonging to member of the new rich, a wholesaler of electrical parts. Comes complete with giant jacuzzi, and a bathroom with two toilets side by side.
00011590 : CHINA Beijing - Old woman pushing cart of collected cardboard to sell for recycling, passing behind the Gulou (Drum Tower).
00011589 : CHINA Beijing - Old man acting as street guardian sitting by window display for lingerie shop on Wangfujiang.
00011588 : CHINA Beijing - Contrast: modern woman in hot pants passing aging porter in vest and baggy shorts.
00011587 : CHINA Beijing - The Great Hall of the People facing onto Tiananmen Square. The building is used for state functions and hosts the People's Congress.
00011585 : CHINA Beijing - Couple out shopping.
00011584 : CHINA Beijing - Temple of Heaven.
00011583 : CHINA Beijing - Panjiayuan weekend market. Selling antiquities of dubious provenance - perhaps stolen, perhaps faked.
00011582 : CHINA Beijing - Mother and son passing polluting factory on city outskirts.
00011581 : CHINA Beijing - Vase being unwrapped at Panjiayuan market.
00011579 : CHINA Beijing - Panjiayuan market. Potential buyers looking at an antique incense burner decorated with dragons. Fakes are common, as are stolen objects.
00011578 : CHINA Beijing - Panjiayuan market. Stalls selling antiques, a mixture of real antiquities of uncertain origin and fakes.
00011577 : CHINA Beijing - Antiques for sale at Panjiayuan market in south of city. Buyer beware - many objects are stolen or fake, and anything truly antique would have to be smuggled out of the country.
00011576 : CHINA Beijing - Elderly man on outing in wheelchair with relatives. Due in part to the one child policy, China's urban population is aging rapidly, and health care is no longer free.
00011575 : CHINA Beijing - Security guard protecting local Konka brand colour televisions.
00011574 : CHINA Beijing - Men carrying load on pole passing an advertisement for NEC mobile telephones in the Xidan district.
00011573 : CHINA Beijing - Women passing stretch limousine parked outside a luxury restaurant and karaoke bar.
00011572 : CHINA Beijing - School group on Tiananmen Square, including overweight girl, an increasing phenomenon resulting from the culture of 'Little Emperors' produced by the one-child policy.
00011571 : CHINA Beijing - Rush hour cyclists waiting at traffic lights.
00011570 : CHINA Beijing - Punk style youth.
00011569 : CHINA Nr. Beijing - Old peasant smoking pipe at precipitous section of the Great Wall at Simatai.
00011568 : CHINA Beijing - Old hutong housing close to the Bell Tower, in one of the few remaining old quarters of the city. In recent years many hutongs have been pulled down and replaced with modern housing.
00011567 : CHINA Beijing - Mother and child at street market with snack of meat on sticks.
00011566 : CHINA Beijing - Man pulling cart through hutongs in remaining old quarter of the city, close to the Bell Tower (visible in the distance).
00011565 : CHINA Beijing - Customer at Muslim-run butcher’s stall handling the meat.
00011564 : CHINA Beijing - Cheap food stall in winter, selling noodle soup and steamed dumplings.
00011563 : CHINA Beijing - Businessman using mobile phone.
00011562 : CHINA Beijing - Couple posing in a city park for romantic wedding photos.
00011561 : CHINA Beijing - Policeman controlling bicycle traffic on Tiananmen Square.
00011560 : CHINA Beijing - Patriotic citizen posing with Chinese flag on Tiananmen Square, with hand on heart. Sun Yatsen portrait on display for National Day celebrations.
00011559 : CHINA Beijing - Parents crossing the road with their daughter. A good example of the one-child family.
00011558 : CHINA Beijing - Contrast - people travelling on the back of a cart, next to bus carrying advertising for mobile phones.
00011557 : CHINA Beijing - New China: man using mobile phone passing Volkswagen car advertisement.
00011556 : CHINA Beijing - Stall selling toys, including luxury model Mercedes-Benz, the preferred car of senior Party officials.
00011555 : CHINA Beijing - Hutong housing. Traditional housing designed for a single family, occupied by several in extremely cramped conditions. Inner courtyard with laundry drying. In recent years many hutongs have been pulled down and replaced with modern buildings.
00011554 : CHINA Beijing - Chef pouring boiling water out of a samovar (water boiler) decorated with a dragon, at street food market.
00011553 : CHINA Beijing - Cheap romance: couple sharing bowl of noodles from street food stall.
00011552 : CHINA Beijing - Child in crowd being carried by his father.
00011551 : CHINA Beijing - Remaining hutongs, ancient city alleys, in the old quarter of the city. In recent years many hutongs have been pulled down and replaced by modern buildings. View from the Drum Tower to the Bell Tower.
00011550 : CHINA Beijing - Young woman on terrace of Starbucks coffee shop.
00011549 : CHINA Beijing - International trade between former enemies. Russian woman trader overseeing the packing of clothing for export to Russia.
00011548 : CHINA Beijing - Old man with chained monkey for sale at bird and cricket market.
00011547 : CHINA Beijing - Man in suit in crowded downtown street.
00011546 : CHINA Beijing - Traffic on the newly-broadened Chaoyangmen road passing the new, curved Foreign Ministry building at right.
00011545 : CHINA Beijing - View at dusk over the city centre towards Tiananmen Square, with sun setting in pollution haze.
00011544 : CHINA Beijing - A bored mother and daughter stuck in a queue of cars while journeying by taxi.
00011543 : CHINA - President Jiang Zemin giving a keynote speech from Tiananmen Gate. Every television channel showed live coverage of celebrations marking the 50th anniversary of the founding of the People’s Republic of China. Interestingly, Jiang switched from his usual Western clothing to a Mao suit for the occasion, perhaps to emphasise the natural linkage from Mao to Deng Xiaoping to himself.
00011542 : CHINA - President Jiang Zemin waving from Tiananmen Gate with senior PLA officer behind him. Every television channel showed live coverage of celebrations marking the 50th anniversary of the founding of the People’s Republic of China. Interestingly, Jiang switched from his usual Western clothing to a Mao suit for the occasion, perhaps to emphasise the natural linkage from Mao to Deng Xiaoping to himself.
00011541 : CHINA Beijing - Tiananmen Gate reflected in pool of water from melted snow on Tiananmen Square.
00011540 : CHINA Beijing - People on Tiananmen Square during annual National Day celebrations in which an image of Sun Yatsen takes centre stage on the square. Sun Yatsen is regarded as the father of modern China, and is perhaps the only 20th Century figure to be honoured both on the mainland and in Taiwan.
00011539 : CHINA Beijing - PLA soldiers at attention in front of Tiananmen Gate.
00011538 : CHINA Beijing - PLA soldiers marching with fixed bayonets in grounds of the Forbidden City.
00011537 : CHINA Beijing - Deng Xiaoping, architect of China's economic reforms, waving from a float ready for the 50th Anniversary of the People's Republic of China, on Tiananmen Square. Behind is a float representing the Tibetan Autonomous Region, with the Chinese national flag flying from the Himalayas.
00011536 : CHINA Beijing - Good socialist citizens acting as volunteer security guards, during official celebrations of the 50th anniversary of the formation of the People’s Republic of China.
00011535 : CHINA Beijing - Ceremony held on Tiananmen Square to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the formation of the People’s Republic of China. A patriotic girl poses for a photo with a PLA soldier guarding a float.
00011534 : CHINA Beijing - Buying antiques at Panjiayuan weekend market.
00011533 : CHINA Beijing - Increasing permissiveness manifested in sexually suggestive magazine covers.
00011532 : CHINA Beijing - Diverse images of women on a news stand - Chinese version of Elle magazine, and another publication showing propaganda image of PLA women saluting in front of Tiananmen Gate.
00011531 : CHINA Beijing - Patriotic girl holding the flag of the People’s Republic of China.
00011530 : CHINA Beijing - Swedish interiors store Ikea.
00011529 : CHINA Beijing - Old woman looking through window into Swedish interiors store Ikea.
00011528 : CHINA Beijing - Poor man reading newspaper in front of Tarzan cinema poster.
00011527 : CHINA Beijing - Bargain hunters trawling through sale items in Swedish interiors store Ikea.
00011526 : CHINA Beijing - Man leaving Swedish interiors store Ikea laden down with sale purchases
00011525 : CHINA Beijing - Patriotic girl holding the flag of the People’s Republic of China.
00011524 : CHINA Beijing - Benetton advert using Chinese punk image in a department store. A shop assistant protests at having her picture taken
00011523 : CHINA Beijing - Bargain hunters trawling through sale items in Swedish interiors store Ikea.
00011522 : CHINA Shanghai - Women performing tai-chi on the Bund at sunrise, with colonial architecture behind, including the Peace Hotel (with Green pyramid on roof).
00011521 : CHINA Beijing - Car advertising and cyclists.
00011520 : CHINA Beijing - Car advertising and cyclists.
00011519 : CHINA Shanghai - Industrial pollution.
00011518 : CHINA Shanghai - Couple embracing on the Bund.
00011517 : CHINA Shanghai - Loaded barges in Suzhou Creek, with Pudong financial district skyscrapers and TV Tower behind.
00011516 : CHINA Shanghai - 'Antiques' market.
00011515 : CHINA Shanghai - Newly weds on Pudong waterfront for wedding photo session, posing in front of the Jin Mao Tower, China’s tallest building.
00011514 : CHINA Shanghai - Overview of the Bund, with old and new architecture.
00011513 : CHINA Shanghai - Restaurant worker (left) buying fresh vegetables at street market in what remains of the old quarter.
00011512 : CHINA Shanghai - Man smoking cigarette by image of the Jin Mao Tower, China’s tallest building, which lies across the Huangpu River from where he sits.
00011511 : CHINA Shanghai - Man sleeping on board under advertising for new development, in the Pudong financial district..
00011510 : CHINA Shanghai - Labourer looking up at 'Shanghai' written on exterior of construction site, as he paints it yellow.
00011509 : CHINA Shanghai - Young woman sitting next to Ronald McDonald while she waits for her boyfriend to return with ice cream.
00011508 : CHINA Shanghai - Hand using chopsticks on advertising hoarding.
00011507 : CHINA Shanghai - Youth eating on a cheap restaurant stool.
00011506 : CHINA Shanghai - Breakfast food stall, with deep-fried dough sticks in foreground, in the old quarter.
00011505 : CHINA Shanghai - School boy on an over-crowded public bus in rush hour.
00011504 : CHINA Shanghai - Crowd gathered around men playing cards at an antiques market.
00011503 : CHINA Shanghai - Young woman using mobile phone and carrying a Moschino bag.
00011502 : CHINA Shanghai - Young women being prepared for their wedding photos in a hair salon.
00011501 : CHINA Shanghai - Young woman being prepared for wedding photos in a salon being watched by curious pedestrians on Nanjing Lu.
00011500 : CHINA Shanghai - Young boys fighting over a place to sit down.
00011499 : CHINA Shanghai - Shareholders watching share prices in securities company.
00011498 : CHINA Shanghai - Morning exercises at primary school, during assembly in courtyard.
00011497 : CHINA Shanghai - Old men passing the day together in Renmin Park. Shanghai has an ageing population, due in part to the one-child policy.
00011496 : CHINA Shanghai - Migrant labourers in search of work congregate outside the main railway station, sleeping on rice sacks containing their belongings.
00011495 : CHINA Shanghai - Ducks hanging out in an alley ready for a restaurant's oven.
00011494 : CHINA Shanghai - Cyclists wearing capes in heavy rain.
00011493 : CHINA Shanghai - Skyscrapers of the new financial district in Pudong, including the Jin Mao Tower at right.
00011492 : CHINA Shanghai - Shipping in port, with Yangpu Bridge in the distance.
00011491 : CHINA Shanghai - Old buildings being demolished in the Pudong district, with skyscrapers of new financial centre rising behind.
00011490 : CHINA Shanghai - Polluting factories next to Huangpu river, with ships and barges transporting coal.
00011489 : CHINA Shanghai - Old man performing morning exercises on the Bund, facing towards the rising sun and the new skyscrapers of Pudong District, including the 457m Oriental Pearl TV Tower.
00011488 : CHINA Shanghai - A brand new luxury housing development in Pudong relfects China's new found wealth.
00011487 : CHINA Shanghai - Laundry drying in an old quarter scheduled for demolition in Pudong District, close to China's tallest building, the 88-storey Jin Mao Tower.
00011486 : CHINA Shanghai - Advertising for American Budweiser beer on Nanjing Lu, the most famous shopping street in China.
00011485 : CHINA Shanghai - Advert for American Triumph push-up bras showing through window of subway train carriage on the city's new metro system.
00011484 : CHINA Shanghai - Shopping crowds on Nanjing Lu, the most famous commercial street in China, pedestrianised in 1999.
00011483 : CHINA Shanghai - Crowds on the pedestrianised Nanjing Lu, with the Orient TV Tower in Pudong visible behind.
00011482 : CHINA Shanghai - Shopping crowds on Nanjing Lu, the most famous commercial street in China, pedestrianised in 1999. In the distance the Pearl TV Tower is visible.
00011481 : CHINA Shanghai - Cyclists passing advertising for Apple Macintosh computers, stressing ease of connection to internet with iMac models.
00011480 : CHINA Shanghai - Happy women sitting in a Big Mac - advertising for McDonald's on toy train on Nanjing Lu.
00011479 : CHINA Shanghai - Street trader keeping an eye out for the police, beneath a poster using Chinese actress Gong Li.
00011478 : CHINA Shanghai - Mother and child on a bus with advertising for baby products.
00011477 : AFGHANISTAN Nr. Gardez - Northern Alliance troops on their way to support US forces fighting the Taliban/al Qaeda at Shah-e-Kot.
00011476 : AFGHANISTAN Nr. Gardez - Northern Alliance troops on their way to support US forces fighting the Taliban/al Qaeda at Shah-e-Kot.
00011475 : AFGHANISTAN - Northern Alliance tanks on the road from Kabul to Gardez to support US forces fighting the Taliban/al Qaeda at Shah-e-Kot.
00011474 : AFGHANISTAN South - A local man riding his Honda motorbike on the road between Gardez and Zormat watches an American B52 bomber attack Al Qaeda/Taliban positions in the nearby Shahi-kat Mountains.
00011473 : AFGHANISTAN Nr. Sholgarah - Camels and donkeys transport wheat food aid (distributed by French NGO, Solidarite) to villages.
00011472 : AFGHANISTAN Nr. Sholgarah - Gul Shah says that she and her family have been reduced to eating boiled grass. Her husband disappeared leaving her as the head of the family. Kangri village.
00011471 : AFGHANISTAN Balkh Province - Mountainous landscape in the north of the country. Distribution of food aid has been compounded by the inaccessibility of villages such as these.
00011470 : AFGHANISTAN Sholgarah - Akhtar Muhammed with his son Sher (10), whom he has sold to a wealthy farmer for a period of 6 years, for the payment of 46 pounds of wheat per month. Sher says he still cries at night. His brother Baz (5) was also sold to another farmer for half the amount.
00011469 : AFGHANISTAN North - Destroyed homes in the village of Kangri, near Sholgarah.
00011468 : AFGHANISTAN Gardez - A shop-keeper displays a fake bank note offering a 150 million Afghani ($4700) reward for anybody who provides the address of an al Qaeda member. These leaflets were printed and distributed by the security department of the Paktia government.
00011467 : AFGHANISTAN Gardez - Graffiti daubed on a Western journalist's hire car outside the Irina Hotel in Gardez warning them against visiting the nearby town of Zarmat following alleged threats to kidnap journalists. Nearby, a Canadian reporter had earlier been injured in a grenade attack on her convoy.
00011466 : AFGHANISTAN - Northern Alliance troops on their way to support US forces fighting the Taliban/Al Qaeda at Shah-e-Kot, near Gardez.
00011465 : AFGHANISTAN South - A local man riding his Honda motorbike on the road between Gardez and Zormat watches an American B52 bomber attack Al Qaeda/Taliban positions in the nearby Shahi-kat Mountains.
00011464 : AFGHANISTAN Spina Takht, nr. Gardez - A US Army Chinook helicopter flies into Shahi Kot Valley carrying troops participating in the stepped-up ground offensive against Al Qaeda and Taliban forces, following a B52 bomb attack.
00011463 : AFGHANISTAN Sholgarah - Abdul Hamid, a market porter, poses with three boys (from left: Amruddin (9), Noor Agha (8) and Malik (11)) that he bought from an impoverished farmer.
00011462 : AFGHANISTAN North - Kangri Village, near Sholgarah. Gul Shah sits by a bowl of grass, which she boils before eating. She says that her husband has disappeared.
00011461 : AFGHANISTAN North - 25 year old Qarma Khan sits in her tent in the Sar-e-pol IDP camp. She says that hunger has made her unable to walk. Her one year old son died because she was unable to produce breast milk.
00011460 : ST. LUCIA - Engineer working on electricity lines.
00011459 : CHINA Sichuan Province - Naxi minority child smoking a cigarette.
00011458 : PHILIPPINES Jakarta - Passers-by and passengers helping to start a stalled bus. One of them is wearing the Arsenal football shirt of Holland’s Dennis Bergkamp.
00011457 : BANGLADESH - Flooding near the Bay of Bengal.
00011456 : BANGLADESH Mirpur - A child labourer at a brick factory stands covered in sweat and dust.
00011455 : SOUTH KOREA Seoul - Motorbike laden down with goods in the city centre.
00011454 : KOSOVO Prizren District - A village near the Albanian border.
00011453 : BOSNIA HERCEGOVINA - Displaced people on the road to Zenica, with all the possessions they could salvage tied to a horse-drawn cart.
00011452 : ISRAEL West Bank, Palestine - Branch of the Al Quds Bank in Nablus.
00011451 : KUWAIT - Prawns being unloaded from a truck.
00011450 : UNITED KINGDOM Liskeard, Cornwall, England Great Britain UK - Incineration plant for cattle infected with BSE ('Mad Cow Disease').
00011449 : BOLIVIA Siglo, nr. Potosi - Women selling coca leaf to miners at the entrance to a tin mine.
00011448 : BOLIVIA Curva - Villagers in traditional dress holding a community meeting on the hillside.
00011447 : BOLIVIA - Harvesting coca leaf.
00011446 : INDONESIA Jakarta - Female workers leaving a Nike factory.
00011445 : CHINA - Obesity is a growing problem in China, where once it was rare. Changing diet and lifestyles are blamed for the rising number of overweight people.
00011444 : TURKEY Golcuk - Children's toys abandoned in the street after a tidal wave swept through the town following the earthquake.
00011443 : INDIA Kashmir - Elite Indian soldiers of the Rashtriya Rifles, the main operational force in Kashmir. Most are Sikhs from Punjab, another area with a history of civil conflict.
00011442 : INDIA Kashmir - Hizbul Mujahedin guerillas at prayer in the Pir Panjal mountains, with their weapons close at hand.
00011441 : SOUTH AFRICA Witwatersrand - Worker in a gold mine.
00011440 : SOUTH AFRICA - The Harmony gold mine.
00011439 : SOUTH AFRICA - The Harmony gold mine.
00011438 : BURMA Maymyo (Myanmar) - Burmese Army soldiers.
00011437 : BURMA Rangoon (Yangon) (Myanmar) - Daw Aung San Suu Kyi addressing a crowd outside her home.
00011436 : BURMA Mandalay (Myanmar) - Guard watching prisoners undergoing forced labour at Mandalay Palace.
00011435 : BURMA Nr. Rangoon (Yangon) (Myanmar) - Burmese Army soldier.
00011434 : BURMA Rangoon (Yangon) (Myanmar) - Aung San Suu Kyi, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate and General Secretary of the National League for Democracy, addressing a crowd outside her home.
00011433 : BURMA Rangoon (Yangon) (Myanmar) - Aung San Suu Kyi at a National League for Democracy rally outside her home.
00011432 : BURMA Rangoon (Yangon) (Myanmar) - Burmese Army Generals, the rulers of the country now known as Myanmar.
00011431 : BURMA (Myanmar) - Burmese Army troops.
00011430 : SOMALIA - Flooding in the Juba river basin. Boys using a makeshift polystyrene boat to travel through their village.
00011429 : SOUTH AFRICA Nr. Johannesburg - Miners on their way underground by lift in a gold mine.
00011428 : SOUTH AFRICA - Woman collecting firewood in township.
00011427 : SOUTH AFRICA - Archbishop Desmond Tutu praying in Pietermaritzburg Cathedral.
00011426 : ANGOLA - Community meeting for inhabitants of shanty settlement.
00011425 : YEMEN Sana'a - Colourfully veiled women selling traditional flat bread.
00011424 : YEMEN Sana'a - Girls' school. Society demands that girls are veiled from puberty onwards.
00011423 : YEMEN - Woman wearing a sitara and lithma.
00011422 : YEMEN - Woman wearing a sitara and mahmouk selling traditional flat bread.
00011421 : YEMEN - Woman wearing a sitara.
00011420 : YEMEN Sana'a - A woman in a full-length veil in the Old City.
00011419 : YEMEN Sana'a - Electrical store.
00011418 : BURMA Rangoon (Yangon) (Myanmar) - Roadside poster proclaiming the 'People's Desire', which seems to tally uncannily with the desires of the Generals. Such propaganda is a common sight throughout the country.
00011417 : PAKISTAN Islamabad - Boys and young men studying the Koran in a madrassah (Islamic school).
00011416 : PAKISTAN Islamabad - Boys studying the Koran in a madrassah (Islamic school).
00011415 : PAKISTAN Islamabad - A boy studying the Koran in a madrassah (Islamic school).
00011414 : PAKISTAN Islamabad - Boys and young men studying the Koran in a madrassah (Islamic school).
00011413 : SOMALIA Merka - The town of Merka, 4 hours drive south of Mogadishu, was under the control of the fundamentalist group, Al Ittihad Al Isamiya (Unity of Islam ) in the early 1990s. The area is still a hotbed of fundamentalism.
00011412 : SOMALIA Nr. Mogadishu - The TNG - Transitional National Government - is forming a new national police force. So far 3500 former militiamen, often from rival clans, have joined the new force, seen here in the Lafole Training Camp.
00011411 : SOMALIA Mogadishu - Al Barakaat spokesman, Mohamud Mohammad, at the company's head office. In November 2001, Washington froze the funds of al Barakaat, Somalia's main bank, for suspected links with al-Qaeda. For people relying on remittances from family abroad, this has had a devastating effect.
00011410 : SOMALIA Mogadishu - A homemade American flag flies from the roof of a house in the 'Bosnia' district. These men say they would welcome a US invasion of their country. Somalia has been without a central government since 1991. Instead, warlords supported by heavily armed militias have ruled the country.
00011409 : SOMALIA Mogadishu - The Shingani district in central Mogadishu is in ruins after years of factional fighting. Somalia has been without a central government since 1991. Instead, warlords supported by heavily armed militias have ruled the country.
00011408 : SOMALIA Merka - The town of Merka, 4 hours drive south of Mogadishu, was under the control of the fundamentalist group, Al Ittihad Al Isamiya (Unity of Islam ) in the early 1990s. The area is still a hotbed of fundamentalism.This man, brandishing a portrait of Osama Bin Laden and an axe, says he will chop the head off any Americans he might see.
00011407 : SOMALIA Mogadishu - Abdi Rahman, 42, was shot through the head by stray gunfire. Such injuries are common in a city ruled by heavily-armed militias. His sister-in-law Halima sits by his bed in Medina Hospital, the only wholly-functioning hospital in Mogadishu.
00011406 : SOMALIA Mogadishu - Kifah Aden and her mother Binti Ali. Kifah was blinded at the age of six by a rocket fired by an American helicopter during the night of 3rd October 1993 (the notorious 'Black Hawk Down' mission). Four of the family were killed and five, including Kifah and Binti, injured by shelling of their home near the Bakara Market.
00011405 : SOMALIA Mogadishu - Kifah Aden was blinded at the age of six by a rocket fired by an American helicopter during the night of 3rd October 1993 (the notorious 'Black Hawk Down' mission). Four of her family were killed and four others injured by shelling of their home.
00011404 : SOMALIA Mogadishu - In November 2001, Washington froze the funds of al Barakaat, Somalia's main bank, for suspected links with al-Qaeda. Women passing the company's head office near Bakara Market.
00011403 : SOMALIA Mogadishu - In November 2001, Washington froze the funds of al Barakaat, Somalia's main bank, for suspected links with al-Qaeda.
00011402 : SOMALIA Mogadishu - In November 2001, Washington froze the funds of al Barakaat, Somalia's main bank, for suspected links with al-Qaeda. For people relying on remittances from family abroad, such as Muhammad Abdi, this has had a devastating effect. He has nine children, and the financial support he received from his sister in Sweden was crucial to the family. Since October 2001 he has not had any money.
00011401 : SOMALIA Mogadishu - In November 2001, Washington froze the funds of al Barakaat, Somalia's main bank, for suspected links with al-Qaeda. For people relying on remittances from family abroad, such as Muhammad Abdi, this has had a devastating effect.
00011400 : SOMALIA Mogadishu - In November 2001, Washington froze the funds of al Barakaat, Somalia's main bank, for suspected links with al-Qaeda. For people relying on remittances from family abroad, this has had a devastating effect. Sign in the lobby of the company's head office.
00011399 : SOMALIA Mogadishu - Binti Ali was injured by American forces during the night of 3rd October 1993 (the notorious 'Black Hawk Down' mission). Four of her family were killed and five injured by shelling of their home.
00011398 : SOMALIA Mogadishu - Binti Ali with a certificate issued by the Benadir hospital confirming the treatment given to her family, who were injured by American forces during the night of 3rd October 1993 (the notorious 'Black Hawk Down' mission). Four of the family were killed and five injured by shelling of their home.
00011397 : SOMALIA Mogadishu - A certificate issued by the Benadir hospital confirming the treatment given to the family of Binti Ali, who were injured by American forces during the night of 3rd October 1993 (the notorious 'Black Hawk Down' mission). Four of the family were killed and five injured by shelling of their home.
00011396 : SOMALIA Mogadishu - The streets of the old town in the Hamarwein quarter. Armed militia men are a common sight in the city.
00011395 : UGANDA Kampala - Market.
00011394 : UGANDA Kampala - Pharmacy.
00011390 : INDONESIA West Papua (Irian Jaya) - The Grasberg mine at Tembagapura, run by the Freeport McMoRan company at an altitude of 4000 metres in the highlands of West Papua. It has the largest known reserves of gold in the world and one of the largest of copper.
00011389 : VIETNAM - Detail of a mural celebrating 50 years of the Vietnamese army, showing American prisoners of war.
00011388 : DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO East - Bushmeat. Okabale, a pygmy from the Mabili tribe, cooking a monkey. Democratic Republic of Congo (formerly Zaire).
00011387 : PHILIPPINES Manila - Rally protesting against American military bases. One of the protesters wears an Elvis T-shirt.
00011386 : ISRAEL Jerusalem - A Palestinian cameraman films two Israeli soldiers monitoring a demonstration at the troubled site of Har Homa, where a new settlement was being developed.
00011385 : INDIA Varanasi (Benares), Uttar Pradesh - A woman collecting water from a communal well.
00011384 : ARGENTINA Humhuaca - Cactus.
00011383 : SOMALILAND - Men listening intently to the BBC World Service on the radio, as the declaration of independence of the Republic of Somaliland is announced.
00011382 : MONGOLIA Ulaan Bator - Ganden Monastery and city-centre yurts.
00011381 : MONGOLIA Ulaan Bator - Trader in the Stock Exchange.
00011380 : MONGOLIA Ulaan Bator - Porter waiting for custom, leaning against the Beijing-Moscow Trans-Mongolian train.
00011379 : MONGOLIA Ulaan Bator - Child collecting water from the river. Her nomadic family is wintering in a stockade on the fringes of the city (which is in the background, left, masked in a pollution haze).
00011378 : MONGOLIA Ulaan Bator - Street kids washing a rich man’s car, hoping for a tip.
00011377 : MONGOLIA Ulaan Bator - Rescued street kids looking out the window of their shelter, with home-made teddy bears above.
00011376 : MONGOLIA Ulaan Bator - An American Evangelical missionary preacher preaches to his congregation through a translator while wearing tradtional Mongolian dress.
00011375 : MONGOLIA Ulaan Bator - Mongolian Buddhists circling the stupa at Ganden Monastery, the woman is about to prostrate herself full length on the ground. Since the fall of the Soviet Union there has been a great religious revival.
00011374 : MONGOLIA Ulaan Bator - Chauffeur cleaning a car outside the Stock Exchange.
00011373 : MONGOLIA Ulaan Bator - Rescued street child.
00011372 : MONGOLIA Ulaan Bator - Government bildings next to Suhkbaatar Square.
00011371 : MONGOLIA Ulaan Bator - Rescued street children now being looked after at a shelter.
00011370 : MONGOLIA Ulaan Bator - Coal-fired power station and pipes carrying hot water to the city.
00011369 : MONGOLIA Ulaan Bator - Supervisor in a garment factory checking quality of cashmere sweater produced for export.
00011368 : MONGOLIA Ulaan Bator - Buddhist monks blessing grain.
00011367 : MONGOLIA Ulaan Bator - An old woman praying at the Owoo shrine, with Ganden Monastery visible in the distance.
00011366 : MONGOLIA Ulaan Bator - Coal-fired power station emitting air pollution.
00011365 : MONGOLIA Ulaan Bator - An old woman praying at Owoo shrine, with Ganden Monastery visible in the distance.
00011364 : MONGOLIA Ulaan Bator - Dealer on the floor of the stock exchange.
00011363 : MONGOLIA Ulaan Bator - Massive coal fired power plant in the industrial quarter of the city.
00011362 : MONGOLIA Ulaan Bator - Currency trader on his mobile phone at the ‘Dollar Market’.
00011361 : MONGOLIA Ulaan Bator - Families queueing for water from a public tap. They face a three-hour wait in temperatures just above freezing.
00011360 : MONGOLIA Ulaan Bator - Ganden Monastery with a light sprinkling of snow.
00011359 : MONGOLIA Ulaan Bator - Women working in the Gobi cashmere factory.
00011358 : MONGOLIA Ulaan Bator - Ganden Monastery.
00011357 : MONGOLIA Ulaan Bator - Buddhist circling a stupa in prayer. Ganden Monastery.
00011356 : MONGOLIA Ulaan Bator - Shrine above Ganden Monastery.
00011355 : MONGOLIA - Fetching water from the river.
00011354 : MONGOLIA Ulaan Bator - Wrapped up against the winter chill, women walking in the city beneath Soviet-style apartment blocks.
00011353 : MONGOLIA - Mother and children carrying water home from the river.
00011352 : MONGOLIA Ulaan Bator - Gobi cashmere factory.
00011351 : MONGOLIA Ulaan Bator - Child washing a rich man's car, hoping for a tip.
00011350 : MONGOLIA Ulaan Bator - Rescued children who had been abandoned by their parents.
00011349 : MONGOLIA - Ex-street kids in a classroom at the Christina Noble centre.
00011348 : MONGOLIA - 34 year old street dweller with two of her children in a shelter. The baby on the left is only 18 days old.
00011347 : COLOMBIA Cartagena - Local man at the market.
00011346 : UZBEKISTAN Samarkand - Muslim women selling unleavened bread at the Sunday market.
00011345 : CHINA Chengdu, Sichuan Province - Nurses preparing a bed for a patient just brought in with a broken hip, in the Bayi Orthopaedic Hospital.
00011344 : SOMALIA Mogadishu - Gunmen loyal to Somali warlord General Mohamed Farrah Aidid (Aideed) cruise the streets in their ‘Technical’, a converted pick-up truck with a heavy machine gun mounted on its back, near the Green Line dividing the city.
00011343 : TIBET Gansu Province - Young Tibetan monks playing at Labram monastery.
00011342 : SAUDI ARABIA Daharan - A US Marine, looking somewhat uncomfortable as he sits in front of portraits of the Saudi Royal Family. Around 5000 American soldiers have been stationed in Saudi Arabia since the beginning of the Gulf War. Their continued presence close to some of Islam’s most holy sites is one of the most controversial issues in Middle East politics.
00011341 : CHINA Chengdu, Sichuan - The Chengdu College of Traditional Chinese Medicine, a hospital where the staff work with both traditional and modern Western-style treatment.
00011340 : CHINA Chengdu, Sichuan - Massage room in the Chengdu College of Traditional Chinese Medicine, a hospital where the staff work with both traditional and modern Western-style treatment.
00011339 : CHINA Chengdu, Sichuan - The Chengdu College of Traditional Chinese Medicine, a hospital where the staff work with both traditional and modern Western-style treatment.
00011338 : CHINA Chengdu, Sichuan - The Chengdu College of Traditional Chinese Medicine, a hospital where the staff work with both traditional and modern Western-style treatment.
00011337 : CHINA Chengdu, Sichuan - Feeding time for a young patient in Bayi Orthopaedic Hospital.
00011336 : CHINA Chengdu, Sichuan - Ophthalmology department in a general hospital.
00011335 : CHINA Chengdu, Sichuan - Ophthalmology department in a general hospital.
00011334 : BURKINA FASO - Maize crop.
00011333 : LIBERIA - Car, wrecked during the war, on a railway crossing outside Monrovia.
00011332 : LIBERIA Monrovia - A child being checked for undernourishment by measuring his height and weight.
00011331 : BURMA Kachin State (Myanmar) - Chained prisoners, among them political detainees, crouch before beginning another day of forced labour. They are constructing a new market hall (owned by the army) in Myitkyina, the state capital.
00011330 : LIBERIA Monrovia - Movie posters outside a cinema, including that much-loved classic ‘The Rise and Fall of Idi Amin’.
00011329 : MALI - Healthcare in the Niger river area: village clinic near Segou.
00011328 : MALI - Healthcare in the Niger river area: Midwife (with her own child on her back) and her assistant with their equipment in the village of Kakata.
00011327 : BURMA Rangoon (Yangon) (Myanmar) - Propaganda poster for the National Convention. On the sign, among others, are symbols representing "justice" (centre left) and the navy, army and air force (lower left).
00011326 : BURMA Mandalay (Myanmar) - Child labourer in a silk weaving mill.
00011325 : BURMA Mandalay (Myanmar) - Old man out walking, with pagodas visible in the background.
00011324 : BURMA Kachin State (Myanmar) - Chained prisoners, among them political detainees, at a forced labour camp. They are constructing a new market hall (owned by the army) in Myitkyina, the state capital.
00011323 : INDIA Karnataka - Young girl looking out from the window of her rural home. She is not allowed to show herself to male strangers.
00011322 : INDIA Mumbai (Bombay) - A brothel on the Falkland Road, the city’s main red light district. The woman on the left is the ‘Madam’.
00011321 : INDIA Mumbai (Bombay) - Falkland Road is the city’s main red light district. A former prostitute (left), now working for the anti-AIDS organisation IHO, with a prostitute and her son. The woman wants to pay for the condoms she has just received, but the health worker tells her that they are free.
00011320 : INDIA Gujarat - Child labourer in a textile factory in Surat.
00011319 : BURMA (Myanmar) - Karen civilians bringing supplies of weapons and food to the Karen National Liberation Army (KNLA) at the Saw Hta front.
00011318 : CAMBODIA Nr. Poipet - Sign warning of landmines along the road from Battambang to the Thai border. Refugees, repatriated from Thailand and finding that their original land has been appropriated by others (sometimes the army) often end up in these risky areas. The rice harvest is a dangerous task.
00011317 : CAMBODIA - Under-age prostitute in a brothel in Poipet, on the Thai border. Many of Cambodia’s sex workers have AIDS or are HIV-positive, and many of them are minors.
00011316 : CAMBODIA - Prostitutes in a brothel in Poipet, on the Thai border. Many of Cambodia’s sex workers have AIDS or are HIV-positive, and many of them are minors. The girl in the middle is only about 14 years old.
00011315 : CAMBODIA Phnom Malai - Soth Choeurn, a 43 year old farmer, being treated in a clinic funded by Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF). It is the second time in his life that he has stepped on a landmine. The first time, 10 years earlier, he lost his right leg. Now, his left leg and a little finger have had to be amputated. Behind his head sit his anxious wife and child.
00011314 : CAMBODIA Sisophon - A clinic for venereal diseases supported by Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF). Preventing and curing such diseases is not only important in itself, but also because people with other sexually-transmitted diseases have a much-increased risk of contracting AIDS.
00011313 : CAMBODIA Sisophon - Woman patient in a clinic for venereal diseases funded by Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF). The clinic also provides sex education classes. The risk of contracting AIDS is dramatically higher for people who already have another sexually-transmitted disease.
00011312 : CAMBODIA Sisophon - Demonstration of condoms for patients waiting to be treated in a clinic for venereal diseases. The clinic is supported by Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF).
00011311 : CAMBODIA Sisophon - A child plays with a wooden penis as patients wait for treatment in a clinic for venereal diseases. The clinic is funded by Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF), which also provides sex education classes.
00011310 : CAMBODIA Nr. Siem Reap (Siam Reap) - Demonstrating the use of condoms in a sex education class in the community centre in the village of Samroung. The project is supported by Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF).
00011309 : CAMBODIA Siem Reap (Siam Reap) - Landmine victim in the military hospital of Siem Reap.
00011308 : CAMBODIA Siem Reap (Siam Reap) - A young landmine victim eating by the light of an oil lamp in Siem Reap hospital. A surgeon from Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) has recommended his leg be amputated, but the patient refused and is going to leave the hospital to find a traditional barefoot doctor. The surgeon says this will almost certainly lead to his death.
00011307 : CAMBODIA Siem Reap (Siam Reap) - Doctor examining a patient in Siem Reap hospital. The light, held by the injured man’s friend, comes from an oil lamp made out of a can of Heineken beer.
00011306 : CAMBODIA - Young boy with his mother, a land mine victim, in Kompong Chnang hospital. There is nobody else to take care of him.
00011305 : CAMBODIA - Passengers on the train between Phnom Penh and Battambang. They travel on the two anti-mine wagons in front of the locomotive, which are not supposed to be occupied.
00011304 : CAMBODIA - Soldier about to board the Phnom Penh-Battambang train, which an army group travels with to guard against attacks.
00011303 : CAMBODIA Phnom Penh - Soldier about to board the Phnom Penh-Battambang train, which an army group travels with to guard against attacks.
00011302 : CAMBODIA - Children jumping into the river from a bridge on the road between Phnom Penh and Battambang.
00011301 : CAMBODIA Phnom Penh - Boats at the confluence of the Mekong and Tonle Sap rivers, transporting people and goods across the water.
00011300 : CAMBODIA - Soldiers from the government army cross the remains of a dam, built in the 1970s by the Khmer Rouge.
00011299 : CAMBODIA Siem Reap (Siam Reap) - Girl with high fever, caused by malaria, in the hospital in Siem Reap. She is too feverish and therefore too passive to chase away the flies on her face.
00011298 : CAMBODIA Siem Reap (Siam Reap) - Terminally ill tuberculosis patient in the TB ward of the hospital in Siem Reap.
00011297 : CAMBODIA Siem Reap (Siam Reap) - Tuberculosis patient in the TB ward of the hospital in Siem Reap. With her shawl, she tries to prevent herself from spreading the disease.
00011296 : CAMBODIA Siem Reap (Siam Reap) - Tuberculosis patient in the TB ward of Siem Reap hospital.
00011295 : CAMBODIA Phnom Penh - Students of the Laboratory School in Phnom Penh looking through microscopes.
00011294 : SOUTH AFRICA North Cape - Irrigation of dry land near Goodhouse.
00011293 : HONG KONG China - Women on a shopping spree.
00011292 : ZIMBABWE Harare - Methodist Sunday mass.
00011291 : ZIMBABWE Harare - Heroes' Acre, memorial to the war of Independence.
00011290 : CHINA - Girl drinking Coca Cola.
00011289 : SOUTH AFRICA Johannesburg - Clothes workshop in Soweto, run by the Somema women's co-operative.
00011288 : CHINA Henan Province - Typical flat farmland on the Yellow River floodplain.
00011287 : CHINA Huaiyang, Henan Province - Peasant woman making an offering of gold ingots (made of paper) which they place on a fire in front of Fuxi's tomb. Fuxi temple has become the centre of a growing fertility cult in direct opposition to the government’s ‘one child family’ policy.
00011286 : CHINA Huaiyang, Henan Province - Family praying before Fuxi's tomb in thanks for the birth of a son (wearing the red sash). According to Chinese legend Fuxi was the ancestor of the human race. In recent years a fertility cult has grown up around Fuxi temple in direct opposition to the government’s ‘one child family policy’.
00011285 : CHINA Huaiyang, Henan Province - Pilgrims from Anhui (120km distant) praying before Fuxi's tomb. Fuxi temple has become the centre of a growing fertility cult in direct opposition to the government’s ‘one child family’ policy.
00011284 : CHINA Huaiyang, Henan Province - Peasant woman offering a shrine to burn as thanks to Fuxi for prayers which have been answered. Fuxi temple has become the centre of a growing fertility cult in direct opposition to the government’s ‘one child family’ policy.
00011283 : CHINA Huaiyang, Henan Province - Pilgrims from Anhui (120km distant) praying before Fuxi's tomb. According to Chinese legend he is the ancestor of the human race. A fertility cult has grown up around Fuxi temple in direct opposition to the government’s ‘one child family policy’.
00011282 : CHINA Huaiyang, Henan Province - Pilgrims praying in the temple grounds on a traditional geometric pattern. Fuxi temple has