News | N. America

USA ABORTION RIGHTS

May 6, 2022
By Clarence Ip/EyePress



Los Angeles, United States - Demonstrators protest outside of the U.S. Courthouse in response to a leaked draft of the Supreme Court's opinion to overturn Roe v. Wade, in Los Angeles, Thursday, May 4, 2022. Clarence Ip/EYEPRESS

News | Europe

RUSSIA INVASION NEW FRONT IN UKRAINE KHARKIV

April 30, 2022
By Kaoru Ng/EyePress



Kharkiv, Ukraine - Aftermath of Russia shelling in Kharkiv, Ukraine, Monday, April 18, 2022. Russia has been relentlessly bombing Kharkiv, Ukraine's second-biggest city, for weeks now. Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelenskyy says it's unlikely to end anytime soon, as civilians who remain there struggle to adapt. (Kaoru Ng/EYEPRESS)

News | Europe

UKRAINE REFUGEES IN POLAND

March 31, 2022
By HW Chan/EyePress



Medyka, Poland - Ukrainian refugees cross the Ukraine-Poland border, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine, in Medyka, Poland, March 24, 2022. The U.N. refugee agency, UNHCR, says more than four million people have now fled Ukraine since Russia launched its invasion on February 24 and sparked Europe's largest refugee crisis since World War II. That number exceeds the worst-case predictions made at the start of the war. According to UNHCR and the U.N. children's agency UNICEF, half of the refugees from Ukraine are children. More than 2.3 million refugees from Ukraine entered Poland, but some have since traveled to other countries. A small number have returned to Ukraine, either to help defend against the Russians or to care for relatives. (HW Chan/EYEPRESS)

News | Europe

GERMANY ANTI-WAR DEMONSTRATION

March 13, 2022
By Alan Siu Mui Lun/EyePress



Berlin, Germany - Thousands of people took once again to the streets in downtown Berlin, German, on Sunday, March 13, 2022 rallying a large anti-war demonstration against Russia invasion of Ukraine. (Alan Siu/EYEPRESS)

News | Europe

UKRAINE EVACUATION IN IRPIN

March 9, 2022
By Kaoru Ng/EyePress



Irpin, Ukraine - Car wreckage after Russian bombardment in Irpin, outside Kyiv, Ukraine, March 7, 2022. Situated 20km (12 miles) north-west of Kyiv, Irpin is near the strategic Hostomel airfield, and the front of the huge Russian convoy assembled near the capital. Kaoru Ng/EYEPRESS

News | Europe

ANTI-WAR RALLY IN AMSTERDAM

March 3, 2022
By Martin Bertrand/EYEPRESS



Amsterdam, Netherlands - Demonstration in support of the Ukrainian people and in opposition to the war waged by Russia against Ukraine in Amsterdam, Netherlands, on Feb 28/, 2022. Martin Bertrand/EYEPRESS

News | Europe

UKRAINE CRISIS KYIV EXODUS

February 26, 2022
By Kaoru Ng/EyePress



Kyiv, Ukraine - Ukrainians wait for train to leave the capital of Kyiv, Ukraine, as Russian military operation begins, on February 24, 2022. Kaoru Ng/EYEPRESS

News | Asia

THAILAND CELEBRATES MAKHA BUCHA DAY

February 17, 2022
By Thikamporn Tamtiang/EYEPRESS



Bangkok, Thailand - Monks light one million lanterns during the Virtual International Magha Puja Ceremony in homage to the Buddha to mark Makha Bucha Day in Bangkok, Thailand, on Wednesday Feb 16, 2022. Hundreds of monks throughout the world jointly chant, meditate and spread loving kindness to everyone for the world peace and safety from COVID-19 via zoom. EYEPRESS/Thikamporn Tamtiang

News | Asia

INDIA COVID SITUATION

February 11, 2022
By Biswaranjan Rout/EYEPRESS



Bhubaneswar, India - A health-worker (inside mobile van) collect swab sample from the people for testing COVID-19 at Capital hospital in Bhubaneswar, India. On Thursday, the health ministry highlighted that there has been a decline in cases and positivity rates across all states. It said the average daily case in the last one week has stood at 96,392 cases. Biswaranjan Rout/EYEPRESS

News | Asia

SOUTH KOREA OPPOSITION PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE PRESS CONFERENCE

January 24, 2022
By Lee Yong-Ho/EyePress



Seoul, South Korea - Yoon Suk-yeol, presidential candidate of the main opposition People Power Party, announces his campaign pledges on national security and foreign affairs at the party headquarters on January 24, 2022. in Seoul, South Korea. Yoon and Lee Jae-myung of the Democratic Party (DP) are running neck-and-neck ahead of the presidential election scheduled for March 9. (EYEPRESS/Lee Yong-ho)

News | Asia

MALAYSIA FLOOD

December 27, 2021
By F.L Wong/EyePress



Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia - Damaged cars are seen after the massive floods at Hulu Langat, the outskirts of Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia on December 26, 2021. The death toll due to the flood disaster in the country has risen to forty-seven, five are still missing. (EyePress Newswire/FL Wong)

News | Asia

THAILAND ANTI-MONARCHY PROTEST

November 15, 2021
By Thikamporn Tamtiang/EYEPRESS



Bangkok, Thailand - Protesters burn effigies of judges from the Thai Constitutional Court during a demonstration in Bangkok on November 14, 2021, after the court ruled that speeches by protest leaders calling for royal reforms amounted to a bid to overthrow the country's monarchy. Thikamporn Tamtiang/EYEPRESS

News | Asia

INDIA BY-ELECTION

October 1, 2021
By Biswaranjan Rout/EYEPRESS



Bhubaneswar, India - Local village voters are seen in the queue with the proper Covid-19 guidelines as they wait to cast their votes on the bi-election as one of a winning candidate had died before the assembly election term ends at Pipili election constituency of Puri district neighbored of the eastern Indian state Odisha’s capital city Bhubaneswar. Local volunteers help voters to cast their votes smoothly as these areas in today surrounded and keep alerts by the police forces after a little bit violence happened before the polling. EYEPRESS/Biswaranjan Rout

News | China

THAILAND TAXI GRAVEYARD COMES TO LIFE WITH CAR TOP FARM

September 16, 2021
By Thikamporn Tamtiang/EyePress



Bangkok, Thailand - A mass graveyard for flamboyantly coloured cabs in Bangkok, Thailand, comes to life with mini vegetable gardens and frog ponds set up on top of the taxi to help feed out-of-work drivers. The site is owned by Ratchapruk Taxi Garage, which has seen most of its drivers quit Bangkok for their home villages because fares have dried up following lockdown restrictions. Thailand imposed tough restrictions to deal with a deadly spike in Covid cases in recent months, including a night-time curfew. The eggplants, chillies, cucumbers, courgettes and basil grown on the cars -- along with the frogs -- will help feed the out-of-work drivers and employees. EYEPRESS/Thikamporn Tamtiang

People | Asia

BANGLADESH SCHOOLS REOPEN AFTER 18-MONTH COVID SHUTDOWN

September 12, 2021
By Md Niamul Hossain Rifat/EYEPRESS



Barishal, Bangladesh - Students attend a class at the Rasulpur Government Primary School in Barishal, Bangladesh, on Sunday Sept 12, 2021. Schools all over Bangladesh are are open on Sunday Sept 12, 2021 after 18-month of closure due to the Covid19 situation in the country, one of the world's longest coronavirus shutdowns. The resumption came after UNICEF warned that prolonged school closures during the Covid-19 crisis were worsening inequities for millions of children across South Asia. EYEPRESS/Niamul Hossain Rifat

News | Asia

CAMBODIA KHMER ROUGE LEADER TRIAL

August 19, 2021
By ECCC/EYEPRESS



Phnom Penh, Cambodia - Khieu Samphan, the last living member of former Cambodian leader Pol Pot's inner circle, attends an international tribunal hearing his appeal Wednesday Aug 18, 2021 in Cambodia. The 90-year-old defendant denied at the Khmer Rouge Tribunal in the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC) located in Phnom Penh the complicity in the genocide committed under the brutal Khmer Rouge government, telling that he was being judged as a proxy for the entire radical communist regime. ECCC via EYEPRESS