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  • At the point where Nam Ruak river meets Mekong river, the border of Burma (left), Laos (right) and Thailand (bottom) are meeting. That is the "official" center of the Golden Triangle. Sop Ruak is the Thai town located there and it is often called Golden Triangle.
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  • Woman waiting to cross the river via the illegal crossing of people and goods between Burma and Thailand on a inflated track-tire tube that is pushed back and forth through the river on a regular basis, a few hundrends of meters away from the bridge that is the official border crossing.
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  • People escaping from the summer heat in the river-like swimming pool of TOSHIMAEN water park. The water moves around in the circle river, taking with it people floating in life-belts or people walking in it following the flow. Tokyo - JAPAN
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  • View of the Kanda river in Ochanomizu, Tokyo
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  • Illegal crossing of people and goods between Burma (oposit side) and Thailand (this side) on a inflated track-tire tube that is pushed back and forth through the river on a regular basis, a few hundrends of meters away from the bridge that is the official border crossing.
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  • Fishermen's boats on Mecong river between Thailand and Laos near Sop Ruak town
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  • Illegal crossing of people and goods between Burma and Thailand on a inflated track-tire tube that is pushed back and forth through the river on a regular basis, a few hundrends of meters away from the bridge that is the official border crossing.
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  • Park next to a river in Chenjiagou where it is said that master Chen Wangting created Tajiquan.
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  • Carpets hanging out to dry after been washed  in Vovousa village.
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  • Vovousa village is located in the forest of Pindos mountain range.
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  • Statues showing Taijiquan postures at the museum of Taijiquan in Chenjiagou village
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  • Older building of the museum of Taijiquan in Chenjiagou village with pictures of taijiquan postures. At he lower part of the picture a maquette showing the plan for development of Chenjiagou village.
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  • The inner yard of his house where Chen Changxing used to teach his students Taijiquan. There is still a very heavy stone there that it is said that the students used to lift as part of their trainning. The house of Chen Changxing is now a museum.
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  • Grandmasters Chen Xiaowang and Chen Xiaoxing (center left and right) during a visit to their family's ancestral graves where together with other members of their family they pay their respects to their ancestors with a ceremony.
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  • Grandmaster Chen Xiaowang teaching foreignTaijquan teachers and students during a seminar at the Chenjiagou Taijiquan School. Grandmaster Chen Xiaowang is a world famous Chinese Taijiquan teacher, who was born and rased in Chenjiagou. Since 1990 he left China and started promoting Taiji around the world. He is recognized as one of four "Buddha's Warrior Attendants," the four outstanding exponents of the 19th generation in Chenjiagou village.
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  • Grandmaster Chen Xiaowang teaching Chinese Taijiquan teachers during a seminar at the Chenjiagou Taijiquan School. Grandmaster Chen Xiaowang is a world famous Chinese Taijiquan teacher, who was born and rased in Chenjiagou. Since 1990 he left China and started promoting Taijiquan around the world. He is recognized as one of four "Buddha's Warrior Attendants," the four outstanding exponents of the 19th generation in Chenjiagou village.
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  • Grandmaster Chen Xiaowang teaching Chinese Taijiquan teachers during a seminar at the Chenjiagou Taijiquan School. Grandmaster Chen Xiaowang is a world famous Chinese Taijiquan teacher, who was born and rased in Chenjiagou. Since 1990 he left China and started promoting Taijiquan around the world. He is recognized as one of four "Buddha's Warrior Attendants," the four outstanding exponents of the 19th generation in Chenjiagou village.
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  • Wang Ling Fan (12) on her dormitory bed. She is a cousin of master Chen Ziqiang. She has been living and stusying at the Chenjiagou School of Taijiquan for 3 years and she will sty untill she becomes 20 years old.
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  • Traditional clothes hanging to air as they had been kept in storage in Vovousa village.
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  • Vovousa village is located in the forest of Pindos mountain range.
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  • The house of one of the greatest masters of Chen style Tai Chi Quan, Chen Chang Xing (1771-1853), the 14th generation standard bearer of the art, has been transformed to a museum. There the statues of Chen Chang Xing and Yang Lu Chan tell an old story. "Taiji Quan (Tai Chi Chuan), or the system of taiji martial arts, has its origins in the Village, dating to Chen Wan Ting (1600-1680), a patriarch caught at the turn of the dynastic change in the 17th century. In the old days, the art was well guarded and not taught outside the Village, nor to anyone who was not of the Chen stock from the Village. In the early 1800's, a Chen Village native, Chen Dehu who owned the Taihetang Drugstore in Yongnian, returned home with his family to retire. A young man, Yang Lu Chan (1799-1872), who was working for the family, was brought along as he was well-liked. There are many versions of how this young man, an outsider, managed to break through the clan barrier to learn the art, and become a disciple of Chen Chang Xing (1771-1853), the 14th generation standard bearer of the art. Whichever the case, Yang proved to be of exceptional talents. He mastered the art and took it outside the village. Chenjiagou
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  • Grandmaster Chen Xiaowang with one of his official students, outside a temple after a ceremony to accept a number of students as his official students and new members of the Chen family.
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  • Grandmaster Chen Xiaowang in the mausoleum of the founder of Taijiquan and 9th generation of Chen family Chen Wangting (1600-1680), during a ceremony to accept a number of students as his official students and new members of the Chen family.
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  • Grandmaster Chen Xiaowang in the mausoleum of the founder of Taijiquan and 9th generation of Chen family Chen Wangting (1600-1680), during a ceremony to accept a number of students as his official students and new members of the Chen family.
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  • Grandmaster Chen Xiaowang guided by one of his students to the mausoleum of the founder of Taijiquan and 9th generation of Chen family Chen Wangting (1600-1680) where he will take part in a ceremony to accept a number of students as his official students and new members of the Chen family.
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  • Grangmaster Chen Xiaowang loughing after being prased by a local politician who came to visit him at the Chenjiagou Taijiquan School. Chen Xiaowang lives abroad and he only spends limited time in China. During that time he is very busy teaching but also having various meetings to help promote Taijiquan and his village Chenjiagou. He has helped to build a new museum of Taijiquan there and make his village known internationaly via his students in many countries around the world where he is teaching seminars.
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  • Chinese teachers practicing during a breack at a seminar taught by Grandmaster Chen Xiaowang in Chenjiagou Taijiquan School.
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  • Master Chen Xiaoxing, executive president of Chenjiagou Taijiquan School, granding awards to Taijiquan teachers after a demonstration at the Chenjiagou Taijiquan School
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  • Monument in Chenjiagou village with the symbol of Taiji (Yin-Yang)
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  • Poster with members of the Chen family with the  four "Buddha's Warrior Attendants," the four outstanding exponents of the 19th generation in Chenjiagou at the bottom of it. I is located in the center of the village very near the Chenjiagou Taijiquan School.
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  • Street market in Chenjoagou village
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  • Street market in Chenjoagou village
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  • Students trainning outdoors at  the Taijiquan school in Chenjiagou village. Most students of the school live at the dormitories and rooms of the school untill they complete their studies.
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  • Students trainning outdoors at  the Taijiquan school in Chenjiagou village
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  • Taijiquan demonstration by students of the Taijiquan school in Chenjiagou  village.
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  • The symbol of Taiji (yin-yang) in one of the rooms of the museum of Taijiquan in Chenjiagou village.
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  • Older building of the museum of Taijiquan in Chenjiagou village with pictures of taijiquan postures and display of weapons used in taijiquan.
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  • The house of one of the greatest masters of Chen style Tai Chi Quan, Chen Chang Xing (1771-1853), the 14th generation standard bearer of the art, has been transformed to a museum. There the statues of Chen Chang Xing and Yang Lu Chan tell an old story. "Taiji Quan (Tai Chi Chuan), or the system of taiji martial arts, has its origins in the Village, dating to Chen Wan Ting (1600-1680), a patriarch caught at the turn of the dynastic change in the 17th century. In the old days, the art was well guarded and not taught outside the Village, nor to anyone who was not of the Chen stock from the Village. In the early 1800's, a Chen Village native, Chen Dehu who owned the Taihetang Drugstore in Yongnian, returned home with his family to retire. A young man, Yang Lu Chan (1799-1872), who was working for the family, was brought along as he was well-liked. There are many versions of how this young man, an outsider, managed to break through the clan barrier to learn the art, and become a disciple of Chen Chang Xing (1771-1853), the 14th generation standard bearer of the art. Whichever the case, Yang proved to be of exceptional talents. He mastered the art and took it outside the village. Chenjiagou
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  • The inner yard of his house where Chen Changxing used to teach his students Taijiquan. There is still a very heavy stone there that it is said that the students used to lift as part of their trainning. The house of Chen Changxing is now a museum.
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  • A chinese student of Taijiquan standing by the wall were it is said that Yang Lu-chan used to secretly watch master Chen Changxing teaching taijiquan to his students at that inner yard of his house. It is said that Chen family's taijiquan was only taught to its members so Yang Lu-chan chose this way to learn but he was later accepted by master Chen Changxing as his official student. He later developed his own style of Taijiquan which is known as Yang style. The house of Chen Changxing is now a museum.
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  • Grandmaster Chen Xiaowang in the mausoleum of the founder of Taijiquan and 9th generation of Chen family Chen Wangting (1600-1680), during a ceremony to accept a number of students as his official students and new members of the Chen family.
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  • Grandmaster Chen Xiaowang giving a speach outside the mausoleum of the founder of Taijiquan and 9th generation of Chen family Chen Wangting (1600-1680), where he will take part in a ceremony to accept a number of students as his official students and new members of the Chen family.
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  • Grandmaster Chen Xiaowang presenting some of his calligraphy works to foreign and Chinese students during a seminar at the Chenjiagou Taijiquan School. Calligraphy is very important for him as he considers it almost equal to his Taijiquan skill.
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  • Grandmaster Chen Xiaowang teaching foreignTaijquan teachers and students during a seminar at the Chenjiagou Taijiquan School. Grandmaster Chen Xiaowang is a world famous Chinese Taijiquan teacher, who was born and rased in Chenjiagou. Since 1990 he left China and started promoting Taiji around the world. He is recognized as one of four "Buddha's Warrior Attendants," the four outstanding exponents of the 19th generation in Chenjiagou village.
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  • Grandmaster Chen Xiaowang teaching Chinese Taijiquan teachers during a seminar at the Chenjiagou Taijiquan School. Grandmaster Chen Xiaowang is a world famous Chinese Taijiquan teacher, who was born and rased in Chenjiagou. Since 1990 he left China and started promoting Taijiquan around the world. He is recognized as one of four "Buddha's Warrior Attendants," the four outstanding exponents of the 19th generation in Chenjiagou village.
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  • Grandmaster Chen Xiaowang teaching Chinese Taijiquan teachers during a seminar at the Chenjiagou Taijiquan School. Grandmaster Chen Xiaowang is a world famous Chinese Taijiquan teacher, who was born and rased in Chenjiagou. Since 1990 he left China and started promoting Taijiquan around the world. He is recognized as one of four "Buddha's Warrior Attendants," the four outstanding exponents of the 19th generation in Chenjiagou village.
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  • Grandmaster Chen Xiaowang teaching Chinese Taijiquan teachers during a seminar at the Chenjiagou Taijiquan School. Grandmaster Chen Xiaowang is a world famous Chinese Taijiquan teacher, who was born and rased in Chenjiagou. Since 1990 he left China and started promoting Taijiquan around the world. He is recognized as one of four "Buddha's Warrior Attendants," the four outstanding exponents of the 19th generation in Chenjiagou village.
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  • The gate of the Chenjiagou Taijiquan School, in Chenjiagou village.
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  • Street scene in front of the gate (right) of the Chenjiagou Taijiquan School, in Chenjiagou village.
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  • Taijiquan student (left) talking with teacher Chen Hui (right) before a demonstration at Chenjiagou Taijiquan School.
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  • Evening trainning is double sword at the Chenjiagou Taijiquan School
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  • Chenjiagou's residents are mainly farmers and the village is surrounded by fields.
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  • The oldest shop of Chenjiagou village.
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  • Street market in Chenjoagou village
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  • Wan Jian Yu (27) in his room. He has been living and studying at the Chenjiagou School of Taijiquan for 4 months already and he wants to stay for at least a year. He has done many jobs with his latest being a designer for advertising but he wants to become a Taijiquan teacher.
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  • Yao Mingwei (32) at the balcony outside his room, overlooking at the main yeard of the Taijiquan school. He comes from north China and after spending time woring in Dubai, he quit his job and decided to come back to China to study Tai Chi so that he can become a teacher. He spent 6 months living and studying at the Chenjiagou school of Taijiquan.
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  • Master Chen Ziqiang, Vice president and chief coach of the Chenjiagou Taijiquan school. He is the 20th generation lineage holder of Chen family Taijiquan.
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  • Teacher Chen Hui showing pushing hands techniques to students which are trainning outdoors at  the Taijiquan school in Chenjiagou village. Most students of the school live at the dormitories and rooms of the school untill they complete their studies.
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  • Taijiquan demonstration by students of the Taijiquan school in Chenjiagou  village.
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  • Grandmaster Chen Xiaowang (left) and master Chen Ziqiang (right) during a visit to their family's ancestral graves where together with other members of their family they will pay their respects to their ancestors with a ceremony.
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  • Grandmaster Chen Xiaowang during a demonstration at the Chenjiagou Taijiquan School. Grandmaster Chen Xiaowang is a world famous Chinese Taijiquan teacher, who was born and rased in Chenjiagou. Since 1990 he left China and started promoting Taiji around the world. He is recognized as one of four "Buddha's Warrior Attendants," the four outstanding exponents of the 19th generation in Chenjiagou.
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  • Evening trainning is Taijiquan wrestling at the Chenjiagou Taijiquan School
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  • Street market in Chenjoagou village
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  • Master Chen Ziqiang, Vice president and chief coach of the Chenjiagou Taijiquan school. He is the 20th generation lineage holder of Chen family Taijiquan.
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  • Early morning warming up for students of the Taijiquan school in Chenjiagou village. Most students of the school live at the dormitories and rooms of the school untill they complete their studies.
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  • Students of the Taijuquan school practicing with the Tai Chi fan in the yard of the school
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  • Picture of Yang Lu-chan, the founder of Yang style Taijiquan in the room where he used to live at the house of master Chen Changxing from who he learned Chen style Taijiquan. The house of Chen Changxing is now a museum.
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  • Master Chen Ziqiang during a demonstration at the Chenjiagou Taijiquan School. He is Vice president and chief coach of the Chenjiagou Taijiquan school. He is the 20th generation lineage holder of Chen family Taijiquan.
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  • Students trainning outdoors at  the Taijiquan school in Chenjiagou village. Most students of the school live at the dormitories and rooms of the school untill they complete their studies.
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  • Evening street restaurant in Chiang Saen, a sleepy town on the banks of Mekong river. Laos can be clearly seen on the other side of the river and the town also has a port where the ships that travel along the river come to trade.
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  • People escaping from the summer heat in the river-like swimming pool of TOSHIMAEN water park. The water moves around in the circle river, taking with it people floating in life-belts or people walking in it following the flow. Tokyo
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  • Girl at riverfront of Tonle Sap river in Phnom Penh. The river-front is a place where many Cambodians go for a night out but also street children hung out. They sleep there do part time jobs like selling books to foreigners or begging and often get picked up by traffickers or pedophiles.
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  • French middle-aged man with young prostitute he just picked up on the riverfront, on a boat-bar that every night cruses Tonle Sap river along Phnom Penh.
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  • Old Japanese couple wearing yukata on the bridge over Takaragawa river, on the way to the hot springs of the Takaragawa onsen (hot spring), in Gunma prefecture north of Tokyo - JAPAN 8 July 2006
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  • TAEKO TERAMAE Hiroshima A-bomb survivor, sitting at a riverbank inside the Peace Memorial Park, in front of the remains of the A-bomb Dome. On the 6th of August 1945 she was in her third year of  Shintoku girls' high school and was engaged in a in the telephone exchange service as a mobilized student at the Hiroshima Central Telephone Office. She was at work when the bomb fell and she was badly injured by pieces of broken glass that cut her face, resulting in loosing eyesight on her right eye. She survived by swimming to cross a river to a safer area, with the help of one of her teachers who later died. She is one of the survivors who tell their stories in the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum.
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  • Swimming isn't allowed as there are waves and probably also currents at that point as a river flows in to the sea.<br />
Yuigahama beach in Kamakura is one of the most popular beaches near Tokyo. It takes about one and a half hour to reach it by train from central Tokyo and it is usually crowded on weekends and on public holidays.
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  • Old Japanese couple wearing yukata on the bridge over Takaragawa river, on the way to the hot springs of the Takaragawa onsen (hot spring), in Gunma prefecture north of Tokyo - JAPAN 8 July 2006
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  • Man with birdcage in the fishermen's village that is attached to the city of Narathiwat, on the banks of Bang Nara river.
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  • Fishermen returning from fishing on their traditional hand-painted boats called Kolae. Most fisherment in Narathiwat live in a small fishermen's village that is attached to the city, on the banks of Bang Nara river. Kolae boats are mainly found in Narathiwat and Patani provinces of south Thailand.
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  • Fishermen returning from fishing on their traditional hand-painted boats called Kolae. Most fisherment in Narathiwat live in a small fishermen's village that is attached to the city, on the banks of Bang Nara river. Kolae boats are mainly found in Narathiwat and Patani provinces of south Thailand.
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  • TAEKO TERAMAE Hiroshima A-bomb survivor, sitting at a riverbank inside the Peace Memorial Park, in front of the remains of the A-bomb Dome. On the 6th of August 1945 she was in her third year of  Shintoku girls' high school and was engaged in a in the telephone exchange service as a mobilized student at the Hiroshima Central Telephone Office. She was at work when the bomb fell and she was badly injured by pieces of broken glass that cut her face, resulting in loosing eyesight on her right eye. She survived by swimming to cross a river to a safer area, with the help of one of her teachers who later died. She is one of the survivors who tell their stories in the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum.
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  • TAEKO TERAMAE Hiroshima A-bomb survivor, sitting at a riverbank inside the Peace Memorial Park, in front of the remains of the A-bomb Dome. On the 6th of August 1945 she was in her third year of  Shintoku girls' high school and was engaged in a in the telephone exchange service as a mobilized student at the Hiroshima Central Telephone Office. She was at work when the bomb fell and she was badly injured by pieces of broken glass that cut her face, resulting in loosing eyesight on her right eye. She survived by swimming to cross a river to a safer area, with the help of one of her teachers who later died. She is one of the survivors who tell their stories in the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum.
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  • The river Takaragawa passing through the Takaragawa onsen (hot spring) in Gunma prefecture north of Tokyo - JAPAN 8 July 2006
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  • Street children by Tonle Sap river in Phnom Penh. The river-front is a place where many Cambodians go for a night out but also street children hung out. They sleep there do part time jobs like selling books to foreigners or begging and often get picked up by traffickers or pedophiles.
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  • Couple walking towards a bridge over Sumida river
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  • The second archer dressed in Kamakura era clothes, walking through the suvenir area in front of the Senso-ji shrine in Asakusa, on his way to the location by the river where he will take part in Yabusame
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  • Night view of the Tsukiji fish market as seen at 1 am from the Katsidoki bridge on Sumida river.  Tsukiji fish market  is the biggest wholesale fish and seafood market in the world and also one of the largest wholesale food markets of any kind. The market is located in Tsukiji in central Tokyo, and is a major attraction for foreign visitors.
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  • Bridge over the Dasha river with prayer scarves and prayer flags..LAMBRANG MONASTERY IN XIAHE - CHINA.copyright: Androniki Christodoulou.
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  • Pilgrim relaxing by Dasha river..LAMBRANG MONASTERY IN XIAHE - CHINA.copyright: Androniki Christodoulou
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  • Night view of the Tsukiji fish market as seen at 1 am from the Katsidoki bridge on Sumida river.  Tsukiji fish market  is the biggest wholesale fish and seafood market in the world and also one of the largest wholesale food markets of any kind. The market is located in Tsukiji in central Tokyo, and is a major attraction for foreign visitors.
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  • Night view of the Tsukiji fish market as seen at 1 am from the Katsidoki bridge on Sumida river.  Tsukiji fish market  is the biggest wholesale fish and seafood market in the world and also one of the largest wholesale food markets of any kind. The market is located in Tsukiji in central Tokyo, and is a major attraction for foreign visitors.
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  • boat-bars that every night cruse Tonle Sap river along Phnom Penh. Many prostitutes meet clients in those bars
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  • Rady (18) at a rehabilitation center of an NGO that deals with raped and sexually trafficked children. Rady was born in a refugee camp in Thailand and grew up with her father and her step mother together with their 6 other children. When she was around 14 her family returned to Cambodia to live in very pure conditions in villages in Kompong Thom and Banteay Meanchey provinces. When she was 15 and a half she was working in a bakery shop to help her family but the shop closed and she was left without a job. Poverty in combination with her father's alcoholism and her step-mother's gambling, created many conflicts between them and Rady and that made her feel unwanted. She then decided to leave secretly for Phnom Penh where she was planning to meet one aunt who she was hoping could help her find a job. On arrival in Phnom Penh, she discovered that she had lost her aunt's phone number and she started searching for her with the help of a moto-taxi driver. She couldn't find her and after spending a night with the driver's family she went to the river-front where as she was wandering by herself a Moslem woman approached her and offered to help her find a job. Rady followed her and the woman sold her to a brothel that was at "the building", a run-down appartment block occupied by squatters. At that time Rady didn't even know what a brothel was. There Rady's virginity was sold to a Japanese man. After that Rady stayed at the brothel for one and a half month but she wouldn't receive any more clients because she became sick and was constantly vomiting. The owner of the brothel didn't want to let her go because she had payed money to buy her, but eventually she did when Rady asked for help form a visiting NGO person who was distributing condoms there. Rady spent 2 years at that NGO and when she left to go back to her family, the NGO helped her start her own business by providing her with a machine with which she could produce juice from sugarcane. The business went well until she
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  • Rady (18) at a rehabilitation center of an NGO that deals with raped and sexually trafficked children. Rady was born in a refugee camp in Thailand and grew up with her father and her step mother together with their 6 other children. When she was around 14 her family returned to Cambodia to live in very pure conditions in villages in Kompong Thom and Banteay Meanchey provinces. When she was 15 and a half she was working in a bakery shop to help her family but the shop closed and she was left without a job. Poverty in combination with her father's alcoholism and her step-mother's gambling, created many conflicts between them and Rady and that made her feel unwanted. She then decided to leave secretly for Phnom Penh where she was planning to meet one aunt who she was hoping could help her find a job. On arrival in Phnom Penh, she discovered that she had lost her aunt's phone number and she started searching for her with the help of a moto-taxi driver. She couldn't find her and after spending a night with the driver's family she went to the river-front where as she was wandering by herself a Moslem woman approached her and offered to help her find a job. Rady followed her and the woman sold her to a brothel that was at "the building", a run-down appartment block occupied by squatters. At that time Rady didn't even know what a brothel was. There Rady's virginity was sold to a Japanese man. After that Rady stayed at the brothel for one and a half month but she wouldn't receive any more clients because she became sick and was constantly vomiting. The owner of the brothel didn't want to let her go because she had payed money to buy her, but eventually she did when Rady asked for help form a visiting NGO person who was distributing condoms there. Rady spent 2 years at that NGO and when she left to go back to her family, the NGO helped her start her own business by providing her with a machine with which she could produce juice from sugarcane. The business went well until she
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  • People living in a slam behind "the building", a run-down apartment block occupied by squatters. Many young girls that grow up in poverty in that slam are easily drown in to prostitution before they reach adulthood, either in the brothels situated in "the building" or they pick up their clients in bars and at the river-front of Phnom Penh. Cambodia
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  • Mother and child at a slam behind "the building", a run-down apartment block occupied by squatters. Many young girls that grow up in poverty in that slam are easily drown in to prostitution before they reach adulthood, either in the brothels situated in "the building" or they pick up their clients in bars and at the river-front of Phnom Penh. Cambodia
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  • Achaeology museum of Olympia. The Temple of Zeus' East pediment.<br />
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It depicts the chariot race between Oinomaos and Pelops. They appear in the moments before the race, in a calm and ordered composition. In the center of the group, Zeus is the ultimate observer is flanked by the two heroes and their wives. Next to them are their horses and chariots (now lost) and several auxiliary figures. The reclining figures at the two ends of the pediment represent the two rivers of Olympia, Alpheios and Kladeos.
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