August 22 Photo Brief: Nepal’s Gay Pride parade, Ghost Festival in Hong Kong and crab races in Australia
Nepal’s 4th International Gay Pride parage, the Ghost Festival in Hong Kong, crab races in Australia, tropical storms flood Manila and more in today’s daily brief.
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- Indian police detain a government employee during a demonstration in Srinagar. Indian police in Srinagar detained dozens of protesting government employees as they attempted to reach the residence of Kashmir’s chief minister Omar Abdullah to demand their long pending arrears and an increase in retirement age, said the protesters. (Danish Ismail/Reuters photo)
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- Visitors take photos on the observation deck of the Marina Bay Sands Skypark in Singapore. (Edgar Su/Reuters photo)
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- A party goer is splashed with water after winning a crab race at a pub called the ‘Friend in Hand’ in central Sydney. Crab Racing is held every night at several pubs across Sydney, with up to 30 crabs placed in the centre of a table and then being released to see which one reaches the edge of the table first and declared the winner. The events are popular mainly with overseas visitors who bet on the result to win t-shirts or glasses of beer. (Daniel Munoz/Reuters photo)
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- A privately-built illegal temple-like structure is seen on the top of a 20 story residential block in the southern Chinese city of Shenzhen. A police spokesman said that the elaborate temple-like structure is built illegally on the roof. The temple on top of the building in Shenzhen’s Nanshan district is believed to have been there for at least three years, local media reported. The temple and the inaccessible rooftop had caused concerns over safety issues among some residents. But despite complaints from neighbors, the temple only came into the spotlight after a wealthy physician in Beijing was given 15 days to tear down his illegal villa and garden built atop a 26 story apartment block on August 12. (Tyrone Siu/Reuters photo)
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- A laborer takes a nap on a wooden cart at a wholesale vegetable market in the southern Indian city of Chenna. (Babu/Reuters photo)
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- Lydia Stoker of Lyon & Turnbull stands next to a sculpture by Glasgow born artist George Wyllie titled ‘For Youooo’ ahead of an auction to sell the second rendition of the piece in Edinburgh, Scotland The Lyon & Turnbull sale will take place at The Lighthouse in Glasgow on the 27th of August, and will include a rendition of the straw locomotive which hung from a crane during the Glasgow Garden Festival. (Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images)
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- A boy carries his brother on his back inside a makeshift tent at an evacuation centre for flood victims in Calumpit, Bulacan, north of Manila. The southwest monsoon that wreaked havoc on Metro Manila and nearby areas earlier this week is likely to weaken now that Typhoon Trami made landfall over China. (Erik De Castro/Reuters photo)
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- Zoo keeper Juliane Country holds a two-month-old male panda in her hands at the Zoo in Leipzig, eastern Germany. (Hendrik Schmidt/Getty images)
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- Family members of a victim in Wednesday’s Genting Highlands bus crash cry at a hospital mortuary in Kuala Lumpur. A bus traveling from the Malaysian hilltop gambling resort of Genting Highlands to the capital Kuala Lumpur plunged 200 feet into a ravine killing as many as 32 people, officials said. (Stringer/Reuters photo)
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- Demonstrators sits under a tent as she takes part in a protest in New Delhi. Hundreds of elderly demonstrators held a protest demanding equal pension rights for the elderly of the unorganized sector, a demonstrator said. The unorganized sector in India includes those working as construction, agriculture and mining laborers, as well as domestic helpers. (Ahmad Masood/Reuters photo)
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- Ducks cross a street near the headquarters of German car manufacturer Opel in Ruesselsheim.. (Ralph Orlowski/Reuters photo)
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- A woman affected by flooding due to heavy rains exacerbated by Tropical storm Trami pushes a plastic basin with her son riding on it along a flooded street in the town of Calumpit, Bulacan province, north of Manila. (Ted Aljibe/Getty images)
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- A man cycles a bike over painted lines at the trade fair centre where the Ideen Expo 2013 will take place in Hanover. The fair, opening on August 24, 2013, is organized for children, youth and young adults to arouse their spirit of research and to promote careers in the business of technique and natural sciences. (Julian Stratenschulte/Getty images)
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- Performers dance during a parade for the Hungry Ghost Festival in Hong Kong. The festival, celebrated in the seventh lunar month of the lunar new year calendar among communities in southern China, Malaysia, Singapore, Hong Kong and Taiwan, marks the belief that the “Gates of Hell” are opened to let out the hungry ghosts who then wander in the land of the living while foraging for food. (Philippe Lopez/Getty Images)
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- Participants dance during Nepal’s 4th International Gay Pride parade in Kathmandu, Nepal. Scores of gays, lesbians, transvestites and transsexuals from across the country took part in the rally to spread their campaign for sexual rights in the country. (Prakash Mathema/Getty images)
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- Police arrive at the Intermediate People’s Court before disgraced politician Bo Xilai arrives for his trial in Jinan, Shandong Province. Once one of China’s highest-flying politicians, Bo Xilai found himself in the criminal dock on trial for bribery and abuse of power in the country’s highest-profile prosecution in decades. (Mark Ralston/Getty Images)
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- A warbler hangs in a mist net on a private reserve in East Sussex on in Rye, United Kingdom. The BTO are currently in the process of recording migrating hirnundines and other birds at the reserve. Hirundines comprise of Sand Martins, House Martins and Swallows, all of which roost in high numbers on the reserve over summer before continuing their migratory route back to Africa. (Dan Kitwood/Getty Images)
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