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Traffic jams in Jakarta are known for their epic proportions. More than 1000 new cars a day are added to the millions already there and the city has no mass transport system. In a few years most of the traffic will be standing in an endless traffic jam most of the day. Radical decisions and massive investments are needed to avoid such a bleak future.© Kees Metselaar 2012

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© Kees Metselaar 1/1/2012

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Most traditional dried food stores in Western District on Hong Hong Island have dried geckos for sale. Mostly in pairs of a male and a female tied together. Apparently they became more populair because of unfounded claims that they are a cure against HIV/AIDS, cancer and other illnesses. The trade in geckos from Malaysia, Indonesia and the Philippines has skyrocketed in recent years and there is

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Remember Kai Tak, the old inner city airport in Hong Kong with its fabulous approach low over Kowloon City. Now my prints for sale at Picture This in Hong Kong.© Kees Metselaar 1995

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Going home from the City Super in the Hong Kong Mass Transit Railway.© Kees Metselaar 2011

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Nine people died early this morning in a fire in the Mong Kok area of Hong Kong. Old buildings divided up in so called cage homes have been a fire trap for years. 17 years ago I made this picture of Mrs Yeung living in her cage home in the same area as where the fire was today. The government has been promising for years to look into the problem but nothing much has changed. Ultra high property

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Not enough excitement in your life? Become a window cleaner in Bangkok. Abseiling with a sponge.© Kees Metselaar 2011

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The news from Syria is bloody and disconcerting. The country is slowly inching towards civil war says the BBC. I went there years ago and remember mostly the diversity and beauty of the place. Here a boy in Damascus with a poster of the former dictator Assad, father of the present one and above the remains of the ancient city of Palmyra.© Kees Metselaar 1989

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Very sad news. The Bayram Hotel in the thriving city of Van in East Turkey has collapsed after a very strong new earthquake last night. It is unclear at this moment how many people were staying in the hotel.I stayed there a few months ago before the first earthquake which apparently weakened the building. On the photos a very proud Resat Bayram showing the history of the hotel in photographs, the

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By an oil slick from a stranded leaking container ship on Mount Manganui beach on the shores of the Bay of Plenty. Here the beach in happier days.© Kees Metselaar

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Leaked figures on the Dutch economy, a week before the government presents its annual budget, show a state deficit twice the expected size. Are dark clouds gathering above the Dutch economy as here some days ago above the headquarters of the Dutch Central Bank in Amsterdam.© Kees Metselaar, September 2011

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Back in a Turkish bus some months ago in the outskirts of Istanbul.© Kees Metselaar July 2011

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On Libyan National TV, together with other Arab Spring channels available in the Bumrungrad Hospital which caters for a lot of patients from the Middle East.© Kees Metselaar 2011

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With Turkish Airlines.© Kees Metselaar 2011

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Still on the phone.Officially forbidden in Turkey by the way.© Kees Metselaar 2011

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On the way to Antalya.© Kees Metselaar 2011

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As seen from the 33rd floor of the Alexandra House in Hong Kong Central.

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The summer has started.© Kees Metselaar 2011

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Keeping Bondi Beach clean.© Kees Metselaar 2011

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They take recycling very serious in Australia.© Kees Metselaar 2011

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Another one of the Icebergs Swimming Club on Bondi Beach in Sydney.Young members are called Ice Cubes.© Kees Metselaar 2011

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Bondi Icebergs Swimming Club on Bondi Beach in Sydney. The home of Winter Swimming since 1929.© Kees Metselaar 2011

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Een nieuwe Toentertijd in PhotoQ: Iedere zondag in Dhaka.© Kees Metselaar 1990

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Tai Ping Shan street opposite Sunny's Corner.© Kees Metselaar yesterday 2011

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Thai Prime Minister Abhisit after his keynote address a week ago at the FCCT Correspondents' Dinner in the Grand Ballroom of the Intercontinental Hotel in Bangkok.© Kees Metselaar 2011

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View from Soi Tonson.© Kees Metselaar 2010

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Another image from my new exhibition in the Foreign Correspondents' Club in Hong Kong.It is called A Week in the Life of a Supertanker.© Kees Metselaar

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My new exhibition in the Foreign Correspondents' Club in Hong Kong is hanging.It is called A Week in the Life of a Supertanker and the opening is coming Tuesday, 8 March from 6 pm till 7.30 at the main bar. © Kees Metselaar

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The Christchurch Cathedral in all its glory before yesterday's terrible earthquake toppled the spire and wrecked the roof. See on this video how it looks like now.© Kees Metselaar 2005

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© Kees Metselaar 2011

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© Kees Metselaar 2010

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Jervois Street, Sheung Wan© Kees Metselaar 2009

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From the Eastern & Oriental Hotel in Georgetown. No December Deep Freeze here like in Europe. © Kees Metselaar 2010

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The results of a shark fin massacre laid out to dry on the pavement of Fung Mat Road in Hong Kong Island. First detected by Hong Kong photographer Alex Hofford.© Kees Metselaar 2010

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Grey wall in Bangkok from the series Urban Chaos.© Kees Metselaar 2009

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At Suvarnabhumi International Airport in Bangkok.© Kees Metselaar 2010

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In case you forgot. Emergency rule is still in place in Bangkok and three surrounding provinces. Soldiers are still patrolling in central Bangkok as here at Chidlom Skytrain station.© Kees Metselaar 2010

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Expectations were high yesterday that Aung San Suu Kyi would be freed from house arrest in Rangoon. Today is the official last day of her18 month sentence.We were there before, more than 15 years ago in 1995. Here two images of her after being released the first time around. With the press and laughing with her supporters from her home gate.© Kees Metselaar 1995

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Kelebek corset shop on Istlikal Avenue in the Beyoglu district of Istanbul is the last of its kind. Classy undergarments sold in a fast modernizing city.© Kees Metselaar 2010

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The view from old Istanbul of the Galata Bridge and the Galata Tower. It has not changed much since I came here for the first time in 1975 and it is one of my favourite views in one of my favourite cities.© Kees Metselaar 2010

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Monks waiting for a fast boat along the Chao Phraya River in Bangkok.© Kees Metselaar Dec. 2009

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© Kees Metselaar 1996Shark finning has been going on for a long time but with the economic growth of especially China the numbers of killed sharks are exploding.Paul Hilton and Alex Hofford, based in Hong Kong, have now produced a book and short film 'Man & Shark', which explores the practice of shark-finning.Look at http://www.manandshark.com/In Hong Kong I live in Sheung Wan, shark fin

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Lamma Island's behemoth in the beautiful bay opposite Hung Shing Yeh Beach. This coal-fired powerplant was built in the seventies. The third chimney was added in the nineties. Lamma is one of the bigger islands in Hong Kong.© Kees Metselaar 2009

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The Mekong river in Laos seen from my flight from Hong Kong to Bangkok a few days ago.Majestic and muddy it flows from Tibet to Vietnam, through Burma, Laos, Thailand and Cambodia over a distance of 4350 km.© Kees Metselaar 2010

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Arriving in Herat in the West of Afghanistan from Iran was quite magical in 1978. Very few cars, men on horseback and no war.The so-called communists under the leadership of Taraki had taken power in the capital Kabul just a month earlier but in the rest of the country it seemed very quiet. We could travel all over the place.© Kees Metselaar 1978

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On Aberdeen Street close to the crossing with Hollywood Road. Fantastic fruit and you should try his fresh orange juice.© Kees Metselaar

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Here still hoping for a Dutch victory in the World Cup final against Spain. © Kees Metselaar 12/07/2010

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Dutch embassy in Bangkok dressed up in orange. They show the World Cup final between Spain and the the Netherlands on a big screen tonight and expect more than 1000 people.© Kees Metselaar 2010

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No this is not me. Saw this daring photographer on the Peak in Hong Kong some years ago. I could never do this.© Kees Metselaar

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Of APC tracks at the Rajaprasong crossing in Bangkok.It is two weeks today after the military crackdown.© Kees Metselaar 2010

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Central World Mall in Bangkok before the inferno of last week.© Kees Metselaar 2009

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Plenty of space around the pool in a Bangkok hotel after the crackdown on the Red Shirts in the area.© Kees Metselaar 2010

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The Central World mall burns and troops entered our quiet street. © Kees Metselaar 19/05/2010

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No tourists but soldiers outside the Bangkok Patpong bars.The army occupied the area to stop the "red-shirt" anti government protesters.© Kees Metselaar 2010

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© Kees Metselaar 2010

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Kennedy Town.© Kees Metselaar 2010

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Next to Macau Ferry Terminal. © Kees Metselaar Nov. 27, 2009

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New Street, Sheung Wan, 1 December 2009© Kees Metselaar

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On the 9th of November it is 20 years ago that the Wall in Berlin stopped blocking the East Germans from visiting West Berlin and the rest of Germany. Less than a year later both Germanies were reunified.Here the Berlin Wall in its deadly glory in 1983.© Kees Metselaar 1983

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On the way to the Star Ferry.© Kees Metselaar Sept. 2009

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Yesterday about 700 protesters, including journalists, politicians and residents, marched on the Hong Kong office of the Chinese government carrying placards saying "reporting the news is not a crime".They were reacting to Chinese police treatment in Urumqi of three Hong Kong reporters who said they were punched, kicked and tied up.Journalists led the march in Hong Kong demanding an apology and

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© Kees Metselaar 2009

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Visiting the New Peoples Army guerillas in the mountains of North Luzon in 1988 was a strange mixture of farce and revolutionary tourism. See the photographs and story (in Dutch) in Toentertijd on the Photoq website.© Kees Metselaar 1988

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City Council Boat at the Amsterdam Gay Parade last Saturday.© Kees Metselaar 2009

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In Hong Kong is always good for wild views from the Peak.© Kees Metselaar 2009

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There are not many left anymore but now and then you will still see the fearless bicycle delivery man in Central Hong Kong.© Kees Metselaar 2009

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Banners with that text were carried during the 1st July Democracy March in Hong Kong. Liu Xiao Bo was taken from home by the police in China last December and arrested officially on June 23, 2009 on suspicion of "inciting subversion of state power". He is a leading member of the Charter 08.This is a manifesto signed by more than 300 intellectuals promoting political reform in the country. ©

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Many species of open ocean shark are under serious threat says an assessment by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN). Many are caught and killed for their fins and Hong Kong is a paradise for lovers of shark fin soup.Around Wing Lok Street, Ko Shing Street and Des Voeux Road West you will find many shops selling shark fin.© Kees Metselaar 2009

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A record 150,000 candle-bearing people came to Victoria Park in Hong Kong last night to commemorate those killed in the 1989 Tiananmen massacre in Beijing.© Kees Metselaar 2009

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Our best friend, and great photographer, just died in Hong Kong.Here at his 65th birthday party at the Foreign Correspondents' Club with his loving wife Annie.© Kees Metselaar 2006

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Aceh, at the far north of Sumatra Island, was a dangerous place in 1990. A brutal war was waged against Acehnese separatists by the Indonesian army and not much was known about it in the rest of the world. I went there for the now dead magazine Asiaweek and the story about how I did that is published on the Dutch photography website PhotoQ.See also my other pictures from Aceh in 1999 and 2005.©

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Spring Green in West Friesland.The landscape I grew up with.© Kees Metselaar 2009

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Sondhi Limthongkul, the leader of the Thai "yellow shirt" protest movement was shot this morning in Bangkok. He survived with minor injuries.This picture was taken during his campaign to bring down then-Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra.Last week the red-shirted supporters of Thaksin paralysed Bangkok with demonstrations and fights with the security forces.© Kees Metselaar 2005

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Gigantic building site in the centre of Hong Kong where the HMS Tamar of the British armed forces used to be. This new Central Harbourfront will house the Central Government Complex. In the back the International Commerce Centre in Kowloon. This 118 story (484 m) skyscraper will become the tallest building in Hong Kong upon completion in 2010.© Kees Metselaar 2009

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Killings by death squads is on the rise again in Mindanao in the south of the Philippines according to Human Rights Watch. Their report "You Can Die Any Time" details the involvement of the police and local authorities in the killings of alleged drug dealers, petty criminals, street children and others.In the 1980's Davao, the biggest city of Mindanao was already famous for its death squads. For

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In Jervois Street, Sheung Wan, Hong Kong.© Kees Metselaar 2009

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Home castle on my favourite street in Sheung Wan on Hong Kong Island.© Kees Metselaar 2009

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The financial tsunami has not stopped containerships ploughing through the Lamma Channel in Hong Kong on their way to China and Japan. The difference with before is that more often than not the containers are empty.© Kees Metselaar 2009

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The population of Hong Kong rose to 7,008,900 at the end of 2008, topping 7 million for the first time, according to statistics released Monday by the government.Here Central Hong Kong during rush hour.© Kees Metselaar 2006

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Israeli settler in Hebron West Bank during the first intifada in 1987.More photos and adventures of my first visit to Israel in photoq.© Kees Metselaar 1987

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The Wing Woo Ho store has finally closed last Friday. It has been doing business in Central for more than 80 years.Mr. Kwan Moon-chui here in the front of his traditional grocery and preserved-food store on Wellington Street in Central Hong Kong.His shop and the very popular outside market in neighbouring Graham Street are set for a controversial urban renewal plan.Old houses and shops will

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Tourists from mainland China at Repulse Bay Beach in Hong Kong.© Kees Metselaar Dec. 2008

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Through the shrubs you can just see the three chimneys of the coal-fired power plant on Lamma Island.© Kees Metselaar 2009

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Hong Kong Victoria Harbour last Wednesday afternoon.Did the Flying Dutchman finally come ashore?© Kees Metselaar Jan. 14, 2009

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Famine and drought in the Sudan in 1985 was my first big story abroad. See the pictures and publications in Photoq, the Dutch website on photography.© Kees Metselaar 1985

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New Year's Day parade of the Falun Gong (Dafa) in Hong Kong. Staunch opponents of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and since 1999 forbidden on the mainland.© Kees Metselaar 1/1/2009

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The Hong Kong Business of Design Week this year had the Netherlands as important partner. More than 100 important designers and companies contribute under the "Dutch Design - An Open Mind" banner.Philips with an orange car vacuum cleaner.© Kees Metselaar 11 Dec. 2008

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Opening of the photographic exhibition "Fall" from the Dutch artist/photographer Erwin Olaf in the Art Statements Gallery in the centre of Hong Kong.© Kees Metselaar 27/11/08

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This Starbucks under a JF Investment Centre in Jardine House in Hong Kong looks closed or not been opened yet. The coffee chain is not doing well during this financial crisis. Its share price more than halved and profits melted away.McDonald's is still doing fine. They opened up their 1,000th outlet in China last week and its shares hardly moved down this year.Maybe it is in their slogan "i'm

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Troops of President Ferdinand Marcos defending the presidential palace in Manila in February 1986.Posted again because of the publication of "The Last Day of Marcos" written by me in Photoq, the Dutch website with info, news and columns on photography in the Netherlands.

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Fish drying on Des Voeux Road West, Sheung Wan, Hong Kong.© Kees Metselaar 2008

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See my story in Photoq:http://www.photoq.nl/articles/columns/toentertijd/How to cover a big news story in the pre-digital and pre-internet era.© Kees Metselaar 1991

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The Hang Seng Index in the Hong Kong stock market went down today with 7.2 %. Worldwide markets are tumbling down. No end in sight yet.© Kees Metselaar 10/10/08

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Fortis is the largest European bank to be bailed out because of the credit market turmoil. The Belgian, Dutch and Luxembourg governments bought nearly half of its banking subsidiaries.The pictures were made last november during a Fortis sponsored "Holland Village" right in the centre of Hong Kong's financial district.© Kees Metselaar 2007

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Thousand of nervous customers of the Bank of East Asia in Hong Kong were queueing up yesterday and last night to withdraw their deposits. Apparently a rumour was spread the day before that the 90 year old and Hong Kong's fifth-largest bank was in trouble. The trouble was supposedly connected with the US subprime mortgage crisis.The Hong Kong Monetary authority and the Hong Kong government gave

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With the Eurostar from Brussels to London. Here in the French Belgium border zone. Unfortunately the service has stopped yesterday (September 11, 2008). A fire broke out in the Channel Tunnel.© Kees Metselaar August 14, 2008

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West Friesland, close to the city of Hoorn, from the Amsterdam-Enkhuizen train.© Kees Metselaar, August 13, 2008.

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Des Voeux Road West crossing Sutherland Street on Hong Kong Island.© Kees Metselaar June 2008

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Traditional style noodleshop in central Hong Kong at the corner of Staunton and Aberdeen Street in SoHo.© Kees Metselaar 2008

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Wah Kwong's Very Large Crude Carrier 'Venture Spirit' in the Yiu Lian Shipyard in Shekou in Southern China.After five years at sea the huge ship is subjected to a thourough inspection and maintenance of the underwater parts.The hull is shot blasted before a new coat of paint is sprayed on.More pictures on the Wah Kwong Maritime Transport website.© Kees Metselaar 2008

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