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The bamboo rail transporting firewood in Cambodia. -- CAROLINE CHIA/THE STRAITS TIMES
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Students run to catch a train as it pulls up of Bangkok's Hualamphong Train Station. -- CAROLINE CHIA/THE STRAITS TIMES
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Some tables placed on the island of loose pebble between two railway tracks act as a gathering place for Bangkok folk living near the railway station. -- CAROLINE CHIA/THE STRAITS TIMES
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A station staff takes a nap at Bangkok's Hualamphong Train Station. -- CAROLINE CHIA/THE STRAITS TIMES
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Ms Phai, a food vendor, selling fermented mince pork to passengers on a train before it pulls out of the station. -- CAROLINE CHIA/THE STRAITS TIMES
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Looking out from our train window as we travelled from Bangkok to Aranyaprathet. -- CAROLINE CHIA/THE STRAITS TIMES
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The former Poipet Railway Station in Cambodia is houses many families who moved in after trains services there were destroyed. -- CAROLINE CHIA/THE STRAITS TIMES
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Cambodians with their carts wait in line to cross the border between Thailand and Cambodia at Poipet. -- CAROLINE CHIA/THE STRAITS TIMES
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Chief of Train, Mr Kong Thom,55, takes a nap amidst boxes of milk powder and ketchup on the freight train as it travels from Sisophon to Phnom Penh. -- CAROLINE CHIA/THE STRAITS TIMES
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Mr Leng Savath, 56, the freight train driver in Cambodia. He sometimes gets to drive the train only once a month. -- CAROLINE CHIA/THE STRAITS TIMES
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Children at an abandoned train carriage that is now houses a 3 generation family. -- CAROLINE CHIA/THE STRAITS TIMES
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Chan Sreynoch, 23, with her husband Touh Sopheak, 24, and son, Khon Bopha, 7 months, in their home- an abandoned wooden train carriage. -- CAROLINE CHIA/THE STRAITS TIMES
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Cambodians taking the bamboo rail from one village to another. The bamboo 'train' plys along a stretch of 30km. -- CAROLINE CHIA/THE STRAITS TIMES
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Cows are being transported by the bamboo rail to Battambang market to be slaughtered. -- CAROLINE CHIA/THE STRAITS TIMES
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The interior of a passenger train in Cambodia. The country has only one passenger trains service that travels between Phnom Penh and Battambang. -- CAROLINE CHIA/THE STRAITS TIMES
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A train officer closes the gantry at a Hanoi train crossing as motorbikes whizz around her. -- CAROLINE CHIA/THE STRAITS TIMES
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Giang Thi Mao, 14, holds on to one end of a friendship band as it is being pleated. Mao, from the Black Hmong tribe, spends her summer holidays with friends and foreigners visiting Sapa. -- CAROLINE CHIA/THE STRAITS TIMES
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(Left - Right) Ly Thi Chau, 13, Ly Thi Zao, 11, Giang Thi Mao,14, and Giang Thi Chan,12, from the Black Hmong tribe in Sapa, spend most of their day along the streets speaking to foreigners. -- CAROLINE CHIA/THE STRAITS TIMES
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Hmong girls gather outside a restaurant to watch TV in Sapa. -- CAROLINE CHIA/THE STRAITS TIMES
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Nguyen Van To, 12, takes a break from shovelling sand as his father steers their boat to the sand collection point along the banks of Perfume River. -- CAROLINE CHIA/THE STRAITS TIMES
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Vietnamese labourers pulling sacks of peanuts to be exported to China towards the Vietnam- China border at Lao Cai, Vietnam. -- CAROLINE CHIA/THE STRAITS TIMES
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