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Pupils at Belarmino Elementary School in Manila demand that their teachers come back to teach them

Pupils at a primary school in the Philippine capital, Manila, demand that their teachers come back to teach them after learning of its closure to make way for a new sports complex.

A boy (centre) carries a bag of rubbish he has retrieved from a dump in Cambodia’s capital, Phnom Penh

A child carries a bag of rubbish he has retrieved for recycling from a dump in Cambodia’s capital, Phnom Penh.

Dancers perform at the Xinjiang International Folk Dance Festival in Urumqi

In China’s north-western Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region, dancers perform at an international folk dance festival.

Lawyers begin their march in Karachi

Lawyers from across Pakistan begin a nationwide march to demand the reinstatement of judges dismissed by President Pervez Musharraf during emergency rule last year.

A passerby looks at a woman sleeping in an upright bed secured to the wall of a high-rise building in the Japanese capital, Tokyo.

A passer-by looks at a woman sleeping in an upright bed secured to the wall of a high-rise building in the Japanese capital, Tokyo.




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