Looking at region from different perspectives
Professional photojournalists and freelancers submitted their entries under the theme "Changing Asia", focusing on everything from the environment to economics, science and technology to culture.
Spectators use their mobile phones to take photos and videos as two Z-19 helicopters of the People's Liberation Army perform during an aerobatic display at the China Helicopter Exposition in Tianjin on Sept 9, 2015. Wang Huan / For China Daily |
Soldiers transfer a Buddha statue from a damaged temple in Kathmandu, Nepal, on May 3, 2015. A 7.8-magnitude earthquake struck Nepal on April 25, 2015 and killed 8,699 people. Zhang Youqiong / For China Daily |
A staff member repairs a Buddha statue after an explosion in Bangkok on Aug 26, 2015. The blast that rocked the Erawan Shrine on the night of August 17 killed 22 people. Thanis Sudto / For China Daily |
A tourist celebrates Holi Festival at a temple in Malaysia, March 21, 2015. Azman Ghani / For China Daily |
A woman prepares to undergo breast implant surgery in Hefei, Anhui province on Sept 1, 2014. China is the third-biggest market for plastic surgery after the United States and Brazil. Wu Fang / For China Daily |
Jhuthi Bharati, 74, a survivor of the Nepal earthquake poses for a photo at her neighbor's house in a village in Gorkha district, Nepal on June 6, 2015. Probal Rashid / For China Daily |
Veterans in a phalanx attend a parade in Beijing on Sept 3, 2015. China held commemorative activities, including a grand military parade, to mark the 70th anniversary of the end of World War II. Zou Hong / China Daily |
Two homeless people wrapped in a plastic sheet sleep under a footbridge in Gazipur, Bangladesh, on Sept 23, 2015. The photo won the Gold Prize in the photo contest's Daily Life category. Probal Rashid / For China Daily |
People gather to collect drinking water from an NGO in a village in Khulna, Bangladesh, on Aug 27, 2015. Climate change and water pollution have resulted in a lack of clean drinking water in the country. Probal Rashid / For China Daily |
Jia Yuhao (right) and Lyu Xuefeng, who run a hotel in Lhasa in the Tibet autonomous region, have spent more than 1 million yuan ($159,900) in the past 10 years on e-shopping, and 80 percent of the items in the hotel were bought online. The business partners regard e-shopping as a form of self-realization. Huang Qingjun / For China Daily |
Su Bingtian (right) of China and Usain Bolt of Jamaica compete in the men's 100 meters semifinal at the 15th IAAF World Championships at the National Stadium in Beijing on Aug 23, 2015. Wei Xiaohao / China Daily |
(China Daily 05/31/2016 page6)