4 AUG 2014

A day in photos

A new look of Government House, a new train for the Purple line and a fight against a python are the main features of Aug 4, 2014.

 
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A day in photos
Workers speed up decorating the Government House compound to welcome a new government to be formed after the National Legislative Assembly selects a prime minister. (Photo by Jiraporn Kuhakan)
A day in photos
The Mass Rapid Transit Authority of Thailand shows a Japanese-made train car to be used on the Purple Line from Bang Yai of Nonthaburi to Tao Pun planned for a test run in late 2015. (Photo by Apichart Jinakul)
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Rescue workers capture a python from a food shop in Muang district of Phitsanulok after it swallowed a pet dog of the shop owner. The snake was released to nature. (Photo by Chinawat Singha)
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Fake monks solicit for money at a market in tambon Phe in Rayong's Muang district. All were later rounded up by police. (Photo by Jumphol Nikomruk)
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Monks walk past grocery shops as they collect morning alms at a local bazaar flooded by the overflowing Bago River at a low-lying part in Bago, 80 kilometres northeast of Yangon. (AP photo)
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An Indonesian man packs up usable building materials as the slum area next to railway tracks where he lives in was just evicted by the city government in Jakarta. (AP photo)
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Overseas Filipino worker Wency Ledesma and another worker show the photos taken with their cellphones, of an armed Libyan rebel and the war-torn Benghazi in Libya upon arrival at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport. (AP photo)
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Paramilitary policemen take out an injured victim after an earthquake in Ludian county, Yunnan province, China, on Aug 3, 2014. The death toll rose to at least 391 with some 1,800 injured. (EPA photo)
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A fisherman transports a dead whale shark after it was caught in fishermen's net, in Yangzhi county, Fujian province on Aug 1, 2014. (Reuter's photo)
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A South Korean quarantine officer (right) checks body temperature of a passenger against the possible infection of Ebola virus at the Incheon International Airport in Incheon. (AP photo)
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Britain's Prince William (left) speaks from a lecturn during a ceremony at the Cointe Allies' Memorial in Liege, Belgium, commemorating the 100th anniversary of the start of the First World War. The ceremony pays homage to the victims of the war, both soldiers and civilians, from Belgium and abroad, who lost their lives on Belgian soil. (AP photo)