Heavy and perilous balancing acts across Asia
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A traffic jam, one of five key issues Egyptian President Mohamed Mursi outlined in his Al Nhada (Renaissance) project, is pictured in old Cairo on Oct 8, 2012, a day after his 100th day in power. -- PHOTO: REUTERS
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A man transports fodder on his bullock cart on the outskirts of Faisalabad on June 19, 2012. -- PHOTO: REUTERS
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A man transports ducks on a motorcycle to a market in Nam Ha province, outside Hanoi on May 31, 2012. -- PHOTO: REUTERS
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Men use ropes to try and right a supply truck overloaded with wheat straw, used as animal feed, along a road in Dargai, in the Malakand district, about 165km north-west of Pakistan's capital Islamabad on April 13, 2012. -- PHOTO: REUTERS
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A man rides a motorcycle carrying six children on their way back home from school at Greater Noida in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh on Sept 10, 2010. -- PHOTO: REUTERS
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An overcrowded train leaves Dhaka's Airport rail station ahead of the Muslim festival Eid-al-Adha on Dec 20, 2007. -- PHOTO: REUTERS
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A man rides a tricycle loaded with lounge chairs along a road in Beijing on June 5, 2012. -- PHOTO: REUTERS
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A vendor pulls a cart loaded with various rattan chairs for sale on a street in Shanghai on May 22, 2009. -- PHOTO: REUTERS
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A man pushes an auto-rickshaw loaded with plastic balls to sell at a wholesale market in New Delhi on Nov 10, 2011. -- PHOTO: REUTERS
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North Koreans look at a Chinese boat for tourists on Yalu River near the North Korean town of Sinuiju on July 27, 2010. -- PHOTO: REUTERS
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A cycle-rickshaw puller moves the wreckage of a car to a scrap yard in the eastern Indian city of Siliguri on Feb 2, 2010. -- PHOTO: REUTERS
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An enterprising Chinese man pulls a bicycle cart packed high with bags of recyclable plastic containers in Shanghai on July 25, 2002. -- PHOTO: REUTERS
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A family with their belongings onboard a vehicle flees ahead of monsoon rains, while looking for higher grounds in Karampur, some 70km from Sukkur, located in Pakistan's Sindh province on July 10, 2011. -- PHOTO: REUTERS
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A man yawns while riding on a donkey cart loaded with recyclable materials in Changzhi, Shanxi province on Nov 6, 2009. -- PHOTO: REUTERS
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A woman carries styrofoam for recycling on her bicycle in a street in Shanghai on Oct 5, 2006. -- PHOTO: REUTERS
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A migrant worker pulls a cart loaded with discarded plastic foam for recycling in Nanjing, Jiangsu province on Feb 7, 2009. -- PHOTO: REUTERS
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Bangladeshi labourers pull a cart of used containers to the market in Dhaka on April 26, 2007. -- PHOTO: REUTERS
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An enterprising Chinese man pushes his bicycle loaded with recyclable plastic containers for resale to a nearby depot in Shanghai on Dec 12, 2003. -- PHOTO: REUTERS
A traffic jam, one of five key issues Egyptian President Mohamed Mursi outlined in his Al Nhada (Renaissance) project, is pictured in old Cairo on Oct 8, 2012, a day after his 100th day in power. -- PHOTO: REUTERS
A man transports fodder on his bullock cart on the outskirts of Faisalabad on June 19, 2012. -- PHOTO: REUTERS
A man transports ducks on a motorcycle to a market in Nam Ha province, outside Hanoi on May 31, 2012. -- PHOTO: REUTERS
Men use ropes to try and right a supply truck overloaded with wheat straw, used as animal feed, along a road in Dargai, in the Malakand district, about 165km north-west of Pakistan's capital Islamabad on April 13, 2012. -- PHOTO: REUTERS
A man rides a motorcycle carrying six children on their way back home from school at Greater Noida in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh on Sept 10, 2010. -- PHOTO: REUTERS
An overcrowded train leaves Dhaka's Airport rail station ahead of the Muslim festival Eid-al-Adha on Dec 20, 2007. -- PHOTO: REUTERS
A man rides a tricycle loaded with lounge chairs along a road in Beijing on June 5, 2012. -- PHOTO: REUTERS
A vendor pulls a cart loaded with various rattan chairs for sale on a street in Shanghai on May 22, 2009. -- PHOTO: REUTERS
A man pushes an auto-rickshaw loaded with plastic balls to sell at a wholesale market in New Delhi on Nov 10, 2011. -- PHOTO: REUTERS
North Koreans look at a Chinese boat for tourists on Yalu River near the North Korean town of Sinuiju on July 27, 2010. -- PHOTO: REUTERS
A cycle-rickshaw puller moves the wreckage of a car to a scrap yard in the eastern Indian city of Siliguri on Feb 2, 2010. -- PHOTO: REUTERS
An enterprising Chinese man pulls a bicycle cart packed high with bags of recyclable plastic containers in Shanghai on July 25, 2002. -- PHOTO: REUTERS
A family with their belongings onboard a vehicle flees ahead of monsoon rains, while looking for higher grounds in Karampur, some 70km from Sukkur, located in Pakistan's Sindh province on July 10, 2011. -- PHOTO: REUTERS
A man yawns while riding on a donkey cart loaded with recyclable materials in Changzhi, Shanxi province on Nov 6, 2009. -- PHOTO: REUTERS
A woman carries styrofoam for recycling on her bicycle in a street in Shanghai on Oct 5, 2006. -- PHOTO: REUTERS
A migrant worker pulls a cart loaded with discarded plastic foam for recycling in Nanjing, Jiangsu province on Feb 7, 2009. -- PHOTO: REUTERS
Bangladeshi labourers pull a cart of used containers to the market in Dhaka on April 26, 2007. -- PHOTO: REUTERS
An enterprising Chinese man pushes his bicycle loaded with recyclable plastic containers for resale to a nearby depot in Shanghai on Dec 12, 2003. -- PHOTO: REUTERS
(REUTERS) - Heavy loads are no deterrent for those committed to making it to their destination.
Featured here are images taken from mainly the Asian region as people skilfully manage to overload their vehicles with anything from plastic balls to live ducks to lounge chairs.
