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  • A man pushes his cart selling hot chilli sauce through the busy roads of central Jakarta.<br />
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  • A young boy pushes himself down the Ganges River in Kolkata.<br />
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  • A man pushes a trickle carrying metal sheets in an industrial estate in Kolkata.<br />
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  • MONGOLIA. Ulaan Baatar. “We have been living on the streets for 10 years and in this garage for 1 year”, said Battur,55, the grandfather of the family who, in his youth, studied Mongolian Language and Literature at one of the capital’s Universities. Divorcing from his wife in the 1990’s turned him to drink and hence onto the street. As the global financial crisis grips Asia, Mongolia is feeling the implications first hand as the country suffers from rising inflation pushing the price of food and fuel ever upwards. For the country’s homeless, who live in sewers and abandoned garages in the capital and already face extreme discrimination and are denied access to basic health and social care, their lives are hanging in the balance. 2008
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  • MONGOLIA. Ulaan Baatar. Huga (left),6, Battur (centre),55, and Otguntugs (right), 28, in their garage-home playing with their dog. As the global financial crisis grips Asia, Mongolia is feeling the implications first hand as the country suffers from rising inflation pushing the price of food and fuel ever upwards. For the country’s homeless, who live in sewers and abandoned garages in the capital and already face extreme discrimination and are denied access to basic health and social care, their lives are hanging in the balance. 2008
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  • MONGOLIA. Ulaan Baatar. Otguntugs (left) the father and Ounsuren (right) the mother, wait for a local market to open so that they can buy vodka early in the morning. As the global financial crisis grips Asia, Mongolia is feeling the implications first hand as the country suffers from rising inflation pushing the price of food and fuel ever upwards. For the country’s homeless, who live in sewers and abandoned garages in the capital and already face extreme discrimination and are denied access to basic health and social care, their lives are hanging in the balance. 2008
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  • MONGOLIA. Ulaan Baatar. Battur,55,  searches for bottles through piles of refuse, mainly found outside apartment buildings throughout the city.As the global financial crisis grips Asia, Mongolia is feeling the implications first hand as the country suffers from rising inflation pushing the price of food and fuel ever upwards. For the country’s homeless, who live in sewers and abandoned garages in the capital and already face extreme discrimination and are denied access to basic health and social care, their lives are hanging in the balance. 2008
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  • MONGOLIA. Ulaan Baatar. Otguntugs (left) the father, Ounsuren (centre) the mother and their son Huyga eating breakfast. As the global financial crisis grips Asia, Mongolia is feeling the implications first hand as the country suffers from rising inflation pushing the price of food and fuel ever upwards. For the country’s homeless, who live in sewers and abandoned garages in the capital and already face extreme discrimination and are denied access to basic health and social care, their lives are hanging in the balance. 2008
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  • MONGOLIA. Ulaan Baatar. Battur (left),55, and his grandson Huyga (left),6, walk the streets looking for bottles that they can sell to recycling centres. The family's day revolves around a cycle of walking the streets, collecting bottles, drinking vodka, finding any food they can and just making it through the day.As the global financial crisis grips Asia, Mongolia is feeling the implications first hand as the country suffers from rising inflation pushing the price of food and fuel ever upwards. For the country’s homeless, who live in sewers and abandoned garages in the capital and already face extreme discrimination and are denied access to basic health and social care, their lives are hanging in the balance. 2008
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  • MONGOLIA. Ulaan Baatar. Ulaan Baatar is the coldest capital city in the world, with winter temperatures dropping to as low as minus 40 degrees Centigrade. With no heating in their garage-home, the family must huddle together as much as possible in order to share their body heat. As the global financial crisis grips Asia, Mongolia is feeling the implications first hand as the country suffers from rising inflation pushing the price of food and fuel ever upwards. For the country’s homeless, who live in sewers and abandoned garages in the capital and already face extreme discrimination and are denied access to basic health and social care, their lives are hanging in the balance. 2008
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  • MONGOLIA. Ulaan Baatar. A delicate bracelet hangs from the wrist of the grandfather Battur,55. He is among 50% of Mongolians whose religion is Buddhist Lamaist.As the global financial crisis grips Asia, Mongolia is feeling the implications first hand as the country suffers from rising inflation pushing the price of food and fuel ever upwards. For the country’s homeless, who live in sewers and abandoned garages in the capital and already face extreme discrimination and are denied access to basic health and social care, their lives are hanging in the balance. 2008
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  • MONGOLIA. Ulaan Baatar. Otguntugs,28, (right) and Ounsuren (left), 36, in their garage-home. <br />
As the global financial crisis grips Asia, Mongolia is feeling the implications first hand as the country suffers from rising inflation pushing the price of food and fuel ever upwards. For the country’s homeless, who live in sewers and abandoned garages in the capital and already face extreme discrimination and are denied access to basic health and social care, their lives are hanging in the balance. 2008
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  • MONGOLIA. Ulaan Baatar. Huyga,6, collecting bottles and paper trash in order to sell to local recycling centres. As the global financial crisis grips Asia, Mongolia is feeling the implications first hand as the country suffers from rising inflation pushing the price of food and fuel ever upwards. For the country’s homeless, who live in sewers and abandoned garages in the capital and already face extreme discrimination and are denied access to basic health and social care, their lives are hanging in the balance. 2008
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  • MONGOLIA. Ulaan Baatar. Huyga (centre),6, and his grandfather Battur,55, walk the streets looking for bottles that they can collect and sell to local recycling centres. As the global financial crisis grips Asia, Mongolia is feeling the implications first hand as the country suffers from rising inflation pushing the price of food and fuel ever upwards. For the country’s homeless, who live in sewers and abandoned garages in the capital and already face extreme discrimination and are denied access to basic health and social care, their lives are hanging in the balance. 2008
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  • MONGOLIA. Ulaan Baatar. Huyga,6, prepares to go out and collect bottles and rubbish in order to sell to local recycling stations. As the global financial crisis grips Asia, Mongolia is feeling the implications first hand as the country suffers from rising inflation pushing the price of food and fuel ever upwards. For the country’s homeless, who live in sewers and abandoned garages in the capital and already face extreme discrimination and are denied access to basic health and social care, their lives are hanging in the balance. 2008
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  • MONGOLIA. Ulaan Baatar. Battsetseg (right), 36, waits on the streets of Ulaan Baatar for her husband who went out looking for work earlier that morning. With no way of communicating with oneanother, she walks and waits, hoping to meet him. Life on the sreets is unpredictable however, so she spends many hours walking the streets alone, waiting.<br />
As the global financial crisis grips Asia, Mongolia is feeling the implications first hand as the country suffers from rising inflation pushing the price of food and fuel ever upwards. For the country’s homeless, who live in sewers and abandoned garages in the capital and already face extreme discrimination and are denied access to basic health and social care, their lives are hanging in the balance. 2008
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  • MONGOLIA. Ulaan Baatar. Battsetseg, 36, waits on the streets of Ulaan Baatar for her husband who went out looking for work earlier that morning. With no way of communicating with oneanother, she walks and waits, hoping to meet him. Life on the sreets is unpredictable however, so she spends many hours walking the streets alone, waiting.<br />
As the global financial crisis grips Asia, Mongolia is feeling the implications first hand as the country suffers from rising inflation pushing the price of food and fuel ever upwards. For the country’s homeless, who live in sewers and abandoned garages in the capital and already face extreme discrimination and are denied access to basic health and social care, their lives are hanging in the balance. 2008
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  • MONGOLIA. Ulaan Baatar. Otguntugs,28, (right) and Ounsuren (left), 36, use what money they have from collecting bottles to purchase cheap Russian Vodka which they drink in order to stave off the bitter cold that embraces Ulaan Baatar for large portions of the year.<br />
As the global financial crisis grips Asia, Mongolia is feeling the implications first hand as the country suffers from rising inflation pushing the price of food and fuel ever upwards. For the country’s homeless, who live in sewers and abandoned garages in the capital and already face extreme discrimination and are denied access to basic health and social care, their lives are hanging in the balance. 2008
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  • MONGOLIA. Ulaan Baatar. Battar, 55, waits for breakfast to cook on a bitterly cold winter morning. As the global financial crisis grips Asia, Mongolia is feeling the implications first hand as the country suffers from rising inflation pushing the price of food and fuel ever upwards. For the country’s homeless, who live in sewers and abandoned garages in the capital and already face extreme discrimination and are denied access to basic health and social care, their lives are hanging in the balance. 2008
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  • MONGOLIA. Ulaan Baatar. Huyga, 6. The family worry most about the future of their child. Street people suffer discrimination  and social stigma from many areas of societyand find it almost impossible to find jobs. Huyga's future is uncertain but on asking what he wanted to be when he was older he revealed; "I want to be a lama [buddhist monk]. The life is good and I can get a lot of food".  As the global financial crisis grips Asia, Mongolia is feeling the implications first hand as the country suffers from rising inflation pushing the price of food and fuel ever upwards. For the country’s homeless, who live in sewers and abandoned garages in the capital and already face extreme discrimination and are denied access to basic health and social care, their lives are hanging in the balance. 2008
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  • MONGOLIA. Ulaan Baatar. A morning’s work can yield around 100 bottles, for which they can get some 1000 Mongolian Tugrik. Barely US$1. As the global financial crisis grips Asia, Mongolia is feeling the implications first hand as the country suffers from rising inflation pushing the price of food and fuel ever upwards. For the country’s homeless, who live in sewers and abandoned garages in the capital and already face extreme discrimination and are denied access to basic health and social care, their lives are hanging in the balance. 2008
    Mongolia_Homeless_15.JPG
  • MONGOLIA. Ulaan Baatar. Ounsuren,36, stands and waits for food to be cooked near the family's garage-home.As the global financial crisis grips Asia, Mongolia is feeling the implications first hand as the country suffers from rising inflation pushing the price of food and fuel ever upwards. For the country’s homeless, who live in sewers and abandoned garages in the capital and already face extreme discrimination and are denied access to basic health and social care, their lives are hanging in the balance. 2008
    Mongolia_Homeless_11.JPG
  • MONGOLIA. Ulaan Baatar. Ounsuren,36,  searches for bottles through piles of refuse, mainly found outside apartment buildings throughout the city.<br />
As the global financial crisis grips Asia, Mongolia is feeling the implications first hand as the country suffers from rising inflation pushing the price of food and fuel ever upwards. For the country’s homeless, who live in sewers and abandoned garages in the capital and already face extreme discrimination and are denied access to basic health and social care, their lives are hanging in the balance. 2008
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  • MONGOLIA. Ulaan Baatar. Otguntugs ,28, scours the streets in the early hours of the morning looking for plastic and glass bottles that he can re-sell to recycling stations.<br />
As the global financial crisis grips Asia, Mongolia is feeling the implications first hand as the country suffers from rising inflation pushing the price of food and fuel ever upwards. For the country’s homeless, who live in sewers and abandoned garages in the capital and already face extreme discrimination and are denied access to basic health and social care, their lives are hanging in the balance. 2008
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  • MONGOLIA. Ulaan Baatar. The family together in their garage-home. As the global financial crisis grips Asia, Mongolia is feeling the implications first hand as the country suffers from rising inflation pushing the price of food and fuel ever upwards. For the country’s homeless, who live in sewers and abandoned garages in the capital and already face extreme discrimination and are denied access to basic health and social care, their lives are hanging in the balance. 2008
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  • MONGOLIA. Ulaan Baatar. Battar (left), 55, eats breakfast on a bitterly cold winter morning. As the global financial crisis grips Asia, Mongolia is feeling the implications first hand as the country suffers from rising inflation pushing the price of food and fuel ever upwards. For the country’s homeless, who live in sewers and abandoned garages in the capital and already face extreme discrimination and are denied access to basic health and social care, their lives are hanging in the balance. 2008
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  • MONGOLIA. Ulaan Baatar. 6-year year old Huyga, sleeping soundly, alone in the darkness whilst his parents and grandfather go out and search the street for bottles. Leaving their child is an obvious risk, especially as rumours abound about homeless children being abducted from the street in recent years. As the global financial crisis grips Asia, Mongolia is feeling the implications first hand as the country suffers from rising inflation pushing the price of food and fuel ever upwards. For the country’s homeless, who live in sewers and abandoned garages in the capital and already face extreme discrimination and are denied access to basic health and social care, their lives are hanging in the balance. 2008
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  • MONGOLIA. Ulaan Baatar. Battsetseg, 36, has lived underground in her sewer-home for the past 10 years with her husband an family. Havng ran out of money in the 1990's, during the country's worst economic downturn, she was forced onto the streets. As the global financial crisis grips Asia, Mongolia is feeling the implications first hand as the country suffers from rising inflation pushing the price of food and fuel ever upwards. For the country’s homeless, who live in sewers and abandoned garages in the capital and already face extreme discrimination and are denied access to basic health and social care, their lives are hanging in the balance. 2008
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  • MONGOLIA. Ulaan Baatar. A young child its on the main high-street that runs through the capital, begging for money. As the global financial crisis grips Asia, Mongolia is feeling the implications first hand as the country suffers from rising inflation pushing the price of food and fuel ever upwards. For the country’s homeless, who live in sewers and abandoned garages in the capital and already face extreme discrimination and are denied access to basic health and social care, their lives are hanging in the balance. 2008
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  • MONGOLIA. Ulaan Baatar. A man lowers himself into a sewer, which he lives in with his wife and children. Underground is warmer and gives street-people th chance to escape the cold Mongolian nights. As the global financial crisis grips Asia, Mongolia is feeling the implications first hand as the country suffers from rising inflation pushing the price of food and fuel ever upwards. For the country’s homeless, who live in sewers and abandoned garages in the capital and already face extreme discrimination and are denied access to basic health and social care, their lives are hanging in the balance. 2008
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  • MONGOLIA. Ulaan Baatar.  An abandoned garage, within a normal residential area, serves as a home to one family of homeless people. With no heating, temperatures inside the garage are about the same as outside.<br />
As the global financial crisis grips Asia, Mongolia is feeling the implications first hand as the country suffers from rising inflation pushing the price of food and fuel ever upwards. For the country’s homeless, who live in sewers and abandoned garages in the capital and already face extreme discrimination and are denied access to basic health and social care, their lives are hanging in the balance. 2008
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  • MONGOLIA. Ulaan Baatar. Battsetseg, 36, in her sewer-home where she has lived for the past 10 years with her family underneath the streets of the capital. As the global financial crisis grips Asia, Mongolia is feeling the implications first hand as the country suffers from rising inflation pushing the price of food and fuel ever upwards. For the country’s homeless, who live in sewers and abandoned garages in the capital and already face extreme discrimination and are denied access to basic health and social care, their lives are hanging in the balance. 2008
    Mongolia_Homeless_01.JPG
  • MONGOLIA. Ulaan Baatar. 6-year year old Huyga, sleeping soundly, alone in the darkness whilst his parents and grandfather go out and search the street for bottles. Leaving their child is an obvious risk, especially as rumours abound about homeless children being abducted from the street in recent years. As the global financial crisis grips Asia, Mongolia is feeling the implications first hand as the country suffers from rising inflation pushing the price of food and fuel ever upwards. For the country’s homeless, who live in sewers and abandoned garages in the capital and already face extreme discrimination and are denied access to basic health and social care, their lives are hanging in the balance. 2008
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  • MONGOLIA. Ulaan Baatar. 8 a.m. The family use what money they have from collecting bottles to purchase cheap Russian Vodka which they drink in order to stave off the bitter cold that embraces Ulaan Baatar for large portions of the year.<br />
As the global financial crisis grips Asia, Mongolia is feeling the implications first hand as the country suffers from rising inflation pushing the price of food and fuel ever upwards. For the country’s homeless, who live in sewers and abandoned garages in the capital and already face extreme discrimination and are denied access to basic health and social care, their lives are hanging in the balance. 2008
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  • MONGOLIA. Ulaan Baatar. Huyga takes a rest in the family's garage-home. The family worry most about the future of their child. Street people suffer discrimination  and social stigma from many areas of societyand find it almost impossible to find jobs. Huyga's future is uncertain but on asking what he wanted to be when he was older he revealed; "I want to be a lama [buddhist monk]. The life is good and I can get a lot of food".<br />
As the global financial crisis grips Asia, Mongolia is feeling the implications first hand as the country suffers from rising inflation pushing the price of food and fuel ever upwards. For the country’s homeless, who live in sewers and abandoned garages in the capital and already face extreme discrimination and are denied access to basic health and social care, their lives are hanging in the balance. 2008
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  • MONGOLIA. Ulaan Baatar. Early in the morning the family lights a fire in order to boil a soup which consists of any food they have leftover from the previous day. As the global financial crisis grips Asia, Mongolia is feeling the implications first hand as the country suffers from rising inflation pushing the price of food and fuel ever upwards. For the country’s homeless, who live in sewers and abandoned garages in the capital and already face extreme discrimination and are denied access to basic health and social care, their lives are hanging in the balance. 2008
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  • A Chinese construction team at the side of a road on the Tibetan Plateau. China's "western development strategy" is seeing a push to bring an improved infrastructure to the region. Many worry it will lead to a slow disappearance of local Tibetan culture.
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  • A Chinese construction team at the side of a road on the Tibetan Plateau. China's "western development strategy" is seeing a push to bring an improved infrastructure to the region. Many worry it will lead to a slow disappearance of local Tibetan culture.
    Asia-Threatened-Headwaters-12-26-432.JPG
  • A Chinese construction team at the side of a road on the Tibetan Plateau. China's "western development strategy" is seeing a push to bring an improved infrastructure to the region. Many worry it will lead to a slow disappearance of local Tibetan culture.
    Asia-Threatened-Headwaters-12-26-435.JPG
  • Flood waters push onto industrial land at Dongting Lake, Hunan Province. Dongting Lake has decreased in size in recent decades as a result of land reclamation and damming of the Yangtze. China. 2010
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  • A man pushes his bike across a bridge on the banks of the Ganges River in Kolkata.<br />
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  • Flood water pushes onto industrial land near Dongting Lake, Hunan Province. Dongting Lake has decreased in size in recent decades as a result of land reclamation and damming of the Yangtze. China. 2010
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  • A man pushes his bike through a sandstorm on the outskirts of the isolated town of Hongsibao, which lies 150km south of Ningxia's capital Yinchuan. It is completely surrounded by dry and arid land and is officially titled the 'Hongsibao Development Zone Poverty Reduction Project'. Some 200,000 people have been relocated to the town from local mountainous areas, suffering as a result of the harsh, dry climes and increasing desertification.
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  • A man pushes his bike through a sandstorm on the outskirts of the isolated town of Hongsibao, which lies 150km south of Ningxia's capital Yinchuan. It is completely surrounded by dry and arid land and is officially titled the 'Hongsibao Development Zone Poverty Reduction Project'. Some 200,000 people have been relocated to the town from local mountainous areas, suffering as a result of the harsh, dry climes and increasing desertification.
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  • An Indonesian boy pushes his bike along a flood-wall in the port area of northern Jakarta.
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  • A schoolchild sits on the back of an electric scooter, as a woman pushes a bicycle along the road in central Beijing. Electric vehicles are very popular with local residents who see them as a cheaper and more convenient alternative to regular cars. 18th May, 2016
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  • A child pushes a chemical barrel down the street, outside of a leather factory, in the Jajmau area of Kanpur.
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  • A fisherman pushes his boat along the Ganges River. Waste water in the foreground from nearby tanneries has contributed to the severe degradation of local water resources near the city of Kanpur. The city is notorious for having some of the country's worst water pollution which is created by the local leathery tannery industry.
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  • Shopping malls and new developments in downtown Jakarta are contributing to the sinking of the city as their weight pushes down on ground that is depleted of groundwater. Land is sinking at rates of up to 30cm per year in some parts of the city.
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  • High-rise office buildings and new developments in downtown Jakarta are contributing to the sinking of the city as their weight pushes down on ground that is depleted of groundwater. Land is sinking at rates of up to 30cm per year in some parts of the city.
    Jakarta-Sinking-City-13-10-389.JPG
  • High-rise office buildings and new developments in downtown Jakarta are contributing to the sinking of the city as their weight pushes down on ground that is depleted of groundwater. Land is sinking at rates of up to 30cm per year in some parts of the city.
    Jakarta-Sinking-City-13-10-360.JPG
  • Floods in the streets of Yueyang City next to Dongting Lake, Hunan Province. Dongting Lake has decreased in size in recent decades as a result of land reclamation and damming of the Yangtze. Summer flooding pushes water into the city. China. 2010
    Dongting-Lake-China-10-12-054.JPG
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