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  • 19 SEPTEMBER 2018 - BANGKOK, THAILAND: Motorcycle taxis in front of a wall of graffiti at the Queen Sirikit MRT (subway) stop.      PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 16 JUNE 2015 - NARATHIWAT, NARATHIWAT, THAILAND: A family on a motorcycle in a market in rural Narathiwat, Thailand.      PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 17 JUNE 2015 - PATTANI, THAILAND:    A Thai Muslim family riding a motorcycle in rural Pattani, one of the Thailand's Deep South provinces. PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 16 FEBRUARY 2017 - BANGKOK, THAILAND: A motorcycle taxi driver reads a newspaper while he waits for a fare on a street corner on Ekkamai (Sukhumvit Soi 63) in Bangkok.      PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 17 JUNE 2015 - PATTANI, THAILAND:    A Thai Muslim family riding a motorcycle in rural Pattani, one of the Thailand's Deep South provinces. PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 01 AUGUST 2013 - BANGKOK, THAILAND: A dog on his owner's motorcycle at a stoplight on Ratchadamnoen Nok Avenue in the Dusit district of Bangkok.   PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 16 FEBRUARY 2017 - BANGKOK, THAILAND: A motorcycle taxi driver reads a newspaper while he waits for a fare on a street corner on Ekkamai (Sukhumvit Soi 63) in Bangkok.      PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 30 JANUARY 2013 - PHNOM PENH, CAMBODIA:  A family on a motorcycle navigates through traffic in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. Motorcycles are used as family transportation in most of Southeast Asia.    PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 05 APRIL 2012 - HANOI, VIETNAM:   People load up a motorcycle in a market in Hanoi, the capital of Vietnam. Motorcycles are the main means of transportation for millions of VIetnamese who use them for everything from personal transport to delivery vehicles.   PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 03 JULY 2006 - PHNOM PENH, CAMBODIA: Motorcycle traffic on Sisowath Quay, the main riverfront boulevard in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. Photo by Jack Kurtz
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  • 09 MARCH 2006 - HO CHI MINH CITY, VIETNAM: Motorcycle traffic in Ho Chi Minh City (formerly Saigon) Vietnam. Vietnam's recent economic expansion has led to prosperity not seen since the US  war in Vietnam in the 1960s and when most people once got around on bicycles, now many are buying motorcycles and scooters. This has led to increased pollution and constant traffic jams. PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 09 MARCH 2006 - HO CHI MINH CITY, VIETNAM: Motorcycle traffic in Ho Chi Minh City (formerly Saigon) Vietnam. Vietnam's recent economic expansion has led to prosperity not seen since the US  war in Vietnam in the 1960s and when most people once got around on bicycles, now many are buying motorcycles and scooters. This has led to increased pollution and constant traffic jams. PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 09 MARCH 2006 - HO CHI MINH CITY, VIETNAM: Motorcycle traffic in Ho Chi Minh City (formerly Saigon) Vietnam. Vietnam's recent economic expansion has led to prosperity not seen since the US  war in Vietnam in the 1960s and when most people once got around on bicycles, now many are buying motorcycles and scooters. This has led to increased pollution and constant traffic jams. PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 04 ARIL 2017 - BANGKOK, THAILAND: Motorcycle taxi drivers (called "motosai" locally) play chess while they wait for fares in the Thonburi section of Bangkok.       PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 04 ARIL 2017 - BANGKOK, THAILAND: Motorcycle taxi drivers (called "motosai" locally) play chess while they wait for fares in the Thonburi section of Bangkok.       PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 31 JANUARY 2013 - PHNOM PENH, CAMBODIA: A Cambodian family rides a motorcycle past a market in Phnom Penh. Motorcycles are frequently used for family transportation in Southeast Asia.  PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 30 JANUARY 2013 - PHNOM PENH, CAMBODIA:  A family on a motorcycle navigates through traffic in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. Motorcycles are used as family transportation in most of Southeast Asia.    PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 30 JANUARY 2013 - PHNOM PENH, CAMBODIA:  Buddhist monks on a motorcycle taxi in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. Motorcycles are used as informal taxis in much of Southeast Asia.    PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 05 APRIL 2012 - HANOI, VIETNAM:   People load up a motorcycle in a market in Hanoi, the capital of Vietnam. Motorcycles are the main means of transportation for millions of VIetnamese who use them for everything from personal transport to delivery vehicles.   PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 09 MARCH 2006 - HO CHI MINH CITY, VIETNAM: Motorcycle traffic in Ho Chi Minh City (formerly Saigon) Vietnam. Vietnam's recent economic expansion has led to prosperity not seen since the US  war in Vietnam in the 1960s and when most people once got around on bicycles, now many are buying motorcycles and scooters. This has led to increased pollution and constant traffic jams. PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 09 MARCH 2006 - HO CHI MINH CITY, VIETNAM: Motorcycle traffic in Ho Chi Minh City (formerly Saigon) Vietnam. Vietnam's recent economic expansion has led to prosperity not seen since the US  war in Vietnam in the 1960s and when most people once got around on bicycles, now many are buying motorcycles and scooters. This has led to increased pollution and constant traffic jams. PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 09 MARCH 2006 - HO CHI MINH CITY, VIETNAM: Motorcycle traffic in Ho Chi Minh City (formerly Saigon) Vietnam. Vietnam's recent economic expansion has led to prosperity not seen since the US  war in Vietnam in the 1960s and when most people once got around on bicycles, now many are buying motorcycles and scooters. This has led to increased pollution and constant traffic jams. PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 09 MARCH 2006 - HO CHI MINH CITY, VIETNAM: Motorcycle traffic in Ho Chi Minh City (formerly Saigon) Vietnam. Vietnam's recent economic expansion has led to prosperity not seen since the US  war in Vietnam in the 1960s and when most people once got around on bicycles, now many are buying motorcycles and scooters. This has led to increased pollution and constant traffic jams. PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 16 MARCH 2006 - KAMPONG CHAM, KAMPONG CHAM, CAMBODIA: Buddhist monks on the back of a motorcycle in the city of Kampong Cham  in central Cambodia on the Mekong River. Motorcycles are frequently used as taxis in rural southeast Asia.  PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 04 APRIL 2013 - BANGKOK, THAILAND: Motorcycle taxi drivers play checkers while they wait for customers at a taxi stand in Bangkok. Thailand's economic expansion since the 1970 has dramatically reduced both the amount of poverty and the severity of poverty in Thailand. At the same time, the gap between the very rich in Thailand and the very poor has grown so that income disparity is greater now than it was in 1970. Thailand scores .42 on the "Ginni Index" which measures income disparity on a scale of 0 (perfect income equality) to 1 (absolute inequality in which one person owns everything). Sweden has the best Ginni score (.23), Thailand's score is slightly better than the US score of .45.   PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 15 MARCH 2013 - BAN SOMSANOUK, LAOS: A couple on a motorcycle cross a bridge over the Nam Ou River in Ban Somsanouk near Luang Prabang, Laos.   PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 08 MARCH 2006 - HO CHI MINH CITY, VIETNAM: Motorcycle traffic in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. HCMC is still widely known as Saigon. Many people wear face masks because of the air pollution in Ho Chi Minh City. PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 26 DECEMBER 2017 - HANOI, VIETNAM: A motorcycle on a street in the Old Quarter of Hanoi.       PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 21 JUNE 2016 - DON KHONE, CHAMPASAK, LAOS: There are no markets on Don Khone so a couple of motorcycle owners have turned their bikes into rolling convenience stores. Don Khone Island, one of the larger islands in the 4,000 Islands chain on the Mekong River in southern Laos. The island has become a backpacker hot spot, there are lots of guest houses and small restaurants on the north end of the island.       PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 21 JUNE 2016 - DON KHONE, CHAMPASAK, LAOS: There are no markets on Don Khone so a couple of motorcycle owners have turned their bikes into rolling convenience stores. Don Khone Island, one of the larger islands in the 4,000 Islands chain on the Mekong River in southern Laos. The island has become a backpacker hot spot, there are lots of guest houses and small restaurants on the north end of the island.       PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 21 JUNE 2016 - DON KHONE, CHAMPASAK, LAOS: There are no markets on Don Khone so a couple of motorcycle owners have turned their bikes into rolling convenience stores. Don Khone Island, one of the larger islands in the 4,000 Islands chain on the Mekong River in southern Laos. The island has become a backpacker hot spot, there are lots of guest houses and small restaurants on the north end of the island.       PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 19 JANUARY 2016 - BURI RAM, BURI RAM, THAILAND: People on a motorcycle duck raindrops during an unseasonal thunderstorm in Buri Ram, Thailand.    PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 19 JANUARY 2016 - BURI RAM, BURI RAM, THAILAND: People on a motorcycle duck raindrops during an unseasonal thunderstorm in Buri Ram, Thailand.    PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 14 AUGUST 2015 - BANGKOK, THAILAND:  A worker loads frozen fish onto his motorcycle in an alley next to Saphan Pla fish market in Bangkok. He was delivering the fish to a customer. Saphan Pla fish market is the wholesale fish market that serves Bangkok. Most of the fish sold in Saphan Pla is farmed raised fresh water fish. The market is open 24 hours but it's busiest in the middle of the night and then again from about 7.30 until 11 in the morning.       PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 01 JULY 2015 - BANG LUANG, CHAI NAT, THAILAND:  A person rides their motorcycle over the Chao Phraya Dam in Chai Nat province. The reservoir behind the dam is at less than 10 percent of capacity. Central Thailand is contending with drought. By one estimate, about 80 percent of Thailand's agricultural land is in drought like conditions and farmers have been told to stop planting new acreage of rice, the area's principal cash crop. Water in reservoirs are below 10 percent of their capacity, a record low. Water in some reservoirs is so low, water no longer flows through the slipways and instead has to be pumped out of the reservoir into irrigation canals. Farmers who have planted their rice crops are pumping water out of the irrigation canals in effort to save their crops. Homes have collapsed in some communities on the Chao Phraya River, the main water source for central Thailand, because water levels are so low the now exposed embankment is collapsing. This is normally the start of the rainy season, but so far there hasn't been any significant rain.    PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 01 JULY 2015 - BANG LUANG, CHAI NAT, THAILAND:  A person rides their motorcycle over the Chao Phraya Dam in Chai Nat province. The reservoir behind the dam is at less than 10 percent of capacity. Central Thailand is contending with drought. By one estimate, about 80 percent of Thailand's agricultural land is in drought like conditions and farmers have been told to stop planting new acreage of rice, the area's principal cash crop. Water in reservoirs are below 10 percent of their capacity, a record low. Water in some reservoirs is so low, water no longer flows through the slipways and instead has to be pumped out of the reservoir into irrigation canals. Farmers who have planted their rice crops are pumping water out of the irrigation canals in effort to save their crops. Homes have collapsed in some communities on the Chao Phraya River, the main water source for central Thailand, because water levels are so low the now exposed embankment is collapsing. This is normally the start of the rainy season, but so far there hasn't been any significant rain.    PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 27 JUNE 2015 - BANGKOK, THAILAND:   A motorcycle on a bridge while boats pass on Khlong Bang Luang in the Bang Luang neighborhood of the Thonburi section of Bangkok. The Bang Luang neighborhood lines Khlong (Canal) Bang Luang in the Thonburi section of Bangkok on the west side of Chao Phraya River. It was established in the late 18th Century by King Taksin the Great after the Burmese sacked the Siamese capital of Ayutthaya. The neighborhood, like most of Thonburi, is relatively undeveloped and still criss crossed by the canals which once made Bangkok famous. It's now a popular day trip from central Bangkok and offers a glimpse into what the city used to be like.       PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 03 JUNE 2015 - KULAI, JOHORE, MALAYSIA: MOHAMMAD RAFIQ, a Rohingya refugee from Myanmar rides his motorcycle home after a day of picking up empty plastic bottles on the side of Malaysian highways. He said he makes about 1,000 Malaysian Ringgit a month (about $270 US). He came to Malaysia as refugee, this menial work is the only work he can find. The UN says the Rohingya, a Muslim minority in western Myanmar, are the most persecuted ethnic minority in the world. The government of Myanmar insists the Rohingya are illegal immigrants from Bangladesh and has refused to grant them citizenship. Most of the Rohingya in Myanmar have been confined to Internal Displaced Persons camp in Rakhine state, bordering Bangladesh. Thousands of Rohingya have fled Myanmar and settled in Malaysia. Most fled on small fishing trawlers. There are about 1,500 Rohingya in the town of Kulai, in the Malaysian state of Johore. Only about 500 of them have been granted official refugee status by the UN High Commissioner for Refugees. The rest live under the radar, relying on gifts from their community and taking menial jobs to make ends meet. They face harassment from Malaysian police who, the Rohingya say, extort bribes from them.    PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 03 JUNE 2015 - KULAI, JOHORE, MALAYSIA: MOHAMMAD RAFIQ, a Rohingya refugee from Myanmar rides his motorcycle home after a day of picking up empty plastic bottles on the side of Malaysian highways. He said he makes about 1,000 Malaysian Ringgit a month (about $270 US). He came to Malaysia as refugee, this menial work is the only work he can find. The UN says the Rohingya, a Muslim minority in western Myanmar, are the most persecuted ethnic minority in the world. The government of Myanmar insists the Rohingya are illegal immigrants from Bangladesh and has refused to grant them citizenship. Most of the Rohingya in Myanmar have been confined to Internal Displaced Persons camp in Rakhine state, bordering Bangladesh. Thousands of Rohingya have fled Myanmar and settled in Malaysia. Most fled on small fishing trawlers. There are about 1,500 Rohingya in the town of Kulai, in the Malaysian state of Johore. Only about 500 of them have been granted official refugee status by the UN High Commissioner for Refugees. The rest live under the radar, relying on gifts from their community and taking menial jobs to make ends meet. They face harassment from Malaysian police who, the Rohingya say, extort bribes from them.    PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 03 JUNE 2015 - KULAI, JOHORE, MALAYSIA: MOHAMMAD RAFIQ, a Rohingya refugee from Myanmar rides his motorcycle home after a day of picking up empty plastic bottles on the side of Malaysian highways. He said he makes about 1,000 Malaysian Ringgit a month (about $270 US). He came to Malaysia as refugee, this menial work is the only work he can find. The UN says the Rohingya, a Muslim minority in western Myanmar, are the most persecuted ethnic minority in the world. The government of Myanmar insists the Rohingya are illegal immigrants from Bangladesh and has refused to grant them citizenship. Most of the Rohingya in Myanmar have been confined to Internal Displaced Persons camp in Rakhine state, bordering Bangladesh. Thousands of Rohingya have fled Myanmar and settled in Malaysia. Most fled on small fishing trawlers. There are about 1,500 Rohingya in the town of Kulai, in the Malaysian state of Johore. Only about 500 of them have been granted official refugee status by the UN High Commissioner for Refugees. The rest live under the radar, relying on gifts from their community and taking menial jobs to make ends meet. They face harassment from Malaysian police who, the Rohingya say, extort bribes from them.    PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 13 MAY 2015 - SAMUT SONGKRAM, SAMUT SONGKRAM, THAILAND:    A family rides a motorcycle through Samut Songkram (also called Mae Klong), Thailand.     PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 27 FEBRUARY 2015 - PHNOM PENH, CAMBODIA: A family on a motorcycle in Phnom Penh.  PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 26 FEBRUARY 2015 - PHNOM PENH, CAMBODIA:   A motorcycle taxi takes a couple of Buddhist monks on a ferry crossing the Mekong River on the outskirts of Phnom Penh.  PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 26 FEBRUARY 2015 - PHNOM PENH, CAMBODIA:  A man on a motorcycle takes sugar cane towards Phnom Penh.   PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 25 FEBRUARY 2015 - PHNOM PENH, CAMBODIA: Buddhist monks ride a motorcycle in Phnom Penh.     PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 25 FEBRUARY 2015 - PHNOM PENH, CAMBODIA: A motorcycle in traffic on Sisowath Quay in Phnom Penh.    PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 14 JANUARY 2015 - BANGKOK, THAILAND: A Buddhist monk pays his motorcycle taxi driver after getting a ride into the Ban Krua neighborhood of Bangkok. After months of relative calm following the May, 2014 coup tensions are increasing in Bangkok. The military backed junta has threatened to crack down on anyone who opposes the unelected government and relations with the United States have worsened after US diplomats called the continued prosecution of the formerly elected government deposed by the coup a political act rather than a criminal one. PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 02 MARCH 2014 - MYAWADDY, KAYIN, MYANMAR (BURMA):  A family rides their motorcycle in Myawaddy, Myanmar. Myawaddy is separated from the Thai border town of Mae Sot by the Moei River. Myawaddy is the most important trading point between Myanmar (Burma) and Thailand.   PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 10 JANUARY 2014 - BANGKOK, THAILAND:   A woman on the back of a motorcycle checks her smart phone.    PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 12 AUGUST 2013 - MACAU: A man rides a motorcycle between street food stalls in Macau. Macau, also spelled Macao, is one of the two special administrative regions of the People's Republic of China (PRC), the other being Hong Kong. Macau lies on the western side of the Pearl River Delta across from Hong Kong to the east, bordered by Guangdong province to the north and facing the South China Sea to the east and south. The territory's economy is heavily dependent on gambling and tourism, but also includes manufacturing.     PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 30 MAY 2013 - BANGKOK, THAILAND:    A man rides a motorcycle through market stalls in Bobae Market in Bangkok. Bobae Market is a 30 year old famous for fashion wholesale and is now very popular with exporters from around the world. Bobae Tower is next to the market and  advertises itself as having 1,300 stalls under one roof and claims to be the largest garment wholesale center in Thailand.  PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 27 APRIL 2013 - BANGKOK, THAILAND:   A family rides a motorcycle in Talat Noi. The Talat Noi neighborhood in Bangkok started as a blacksmith's quarter. As cars and buses replaced horse and buggy, the blacksmiths became mechanics and now the area is lined with car mechanics' shops. It is one the last neighborhoods in Bangkok that still has some original shophouses and pre World War II architecture. It is also home to a  Teo Chew Chinese emigrant community.         PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 08 CHIANG MAI, CHIANG MAI, THAILAND:    A woman wears a breathing mask while she drives her motorcycle through Chiang Mai, Thailand. Many people in Chiang Mai and nothern Thailand wearing masks because of the air pollution caused by smoke from fires in the area. The "burning season," which roughly goes from late February to late April, is when farmers in northern Thailand burn the dead grass and last year's stubble out of their fields. The burning creates clouds of smoke that causes breathing problems, reduces visibility and contributes to global warming. The Thai government has banned the burning and is making an effort to control it, but the farmers think it replenishes their soil (they use the ash as fertilizer) and it's cheaper than ploughing the weeds under.   PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 08 CHIANG MAI, CHIANG MAI, THAILAND:    A woman wears a breathing mask while she drives her motorcycle through Chiang Mai, Thailand. Many people in Chiang Mai and nothern Thailand wearing masks because of the air pollution caused by smoke from fires in the area. The "burning season," which roughly goes from late February to late April, is when farmers in northern Thailand burn the dead grass and last year's stubble out of their fields. The burning creates clouds of smoke that causes breathing problems, reduces visibility and contributes to global warming. The Thai government has banned the burning and is making an effort to control it, but the farmers think it replenishes their soil (they use the ash as fertilizer) and it's cheaper than ploughing the weeds under.   PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 04 APRIL 2013 - BANGKOK, THAILAND: Motorcycle taxi drivers play checkers while they wait for customers at a taxi stand in Bangkok. Thailand's economic expansion since the 1970 has dramatically reduced both the amount of poverty and the severity of poverty in Thailand. At the same time, the gap between the very rich in Thailand and the very poor has grown so that income disparity is greater now than it was in 1970. Thailand scores .42 on the "Ginni Index" which measures income disparity on a scale of 0 (perfect income equality) to 1 (absolute inequality in which one person owns everything). Sweden has the best Ginni score (.23), Thailand's score is slightly better than the US score of .45.   PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 04 APRIL 2013 - BANGKOK, THAILAND: Motorcycle taxi drivers play checkers while they wait for customers at a taxi stand in Bangkok. Thailand's economic expansion since the 1970 has dramatically reduced both the amount of poverty and the severity of poverty in Thailand. At the same time, the gap between the very rich in Thailand and the very poor has grown so that income disparity is greater now than it was in 1970. Thailand scores .42 on the "Ginni Index" which measures income disparity on a scale of 0 (perfect income equality) to 1 (absolute inequality in which one person owns everything). Sweden has the best Ginni score (.23), Thailand's score is slightly better than the US score of .45.   PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 15 MARCH 2013 - BAN DAN NGUYEN: A man ties a pig to his motorcycle in the village of Ban Dan Nguyen. He was taking the market to sell it but stopped in the village to visit with friends.   PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 12 MARCH 2013 - ALONG HIGHWAY 13, LAOS:  A couple on a motorcycle heads north on Highway 13. The paving of Highway 13 from Vientiane to near the Chinese border has changed the way of life in rural Laos. Villagers near Luang Prabang used to have to take unreliable boats that took three hours round trip to get from the homes to the tourist center of Luang Prabang, now they take a 40 minute round trip bus ride. North of Luang Prabang, paving the highway has been an opportunity for China to use Laos as a transshipping point. Chinese merchandise now goes through Laos to Thailand where it's put on Thai trains and taken to the deep water port east of Bangkok. The Chinese have also expanded their economic empire into Laos. Chinese hotels and businesses are common in northern Laos and in some cities, like Oudomxay, are now up to 40% percent. As the roads are paved, more people move away from their traditional homes in the mountains of Laos and crowd the side of the road living off tourists' and truck drivers.    PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 30 JANUARY 2013 - PHNOM PENH, CAMBODIA:  A bakery worker delivers bread on the a motorcycle near Phnom Penh, Cambodia. Cambodians and Vietnamese consume a lot of French style baguettes, a remnant of their time as a French colony.     PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 30 JANUARY 2013 - PHNOM PENH, CAMBODIA:  A bakery worker delivers bread on the a motorcycle near Phnom Penh, Cambodia. Cambodians and Vietnamese consume a lot of French style baguettes, a remnant of their time as a French colony.     PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 25 OCTOBER 2012 - PATTANI, PATTANI, THAILAND:   A Muslim family on a motorcycle in Pattani, Thailand. More than 5,000 people have been killed and over 9,000 hurt in more than 11,000 incidents, or about 3.5 a day, in Thailand's three southernmost provinces and four districts of Songkhla since the insurgent violence erupted in January 2004, according to Deep South Watch, an independent research organization that monitors violence in Thailand's deep south region that borders Malaysia.   PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 14 OCTOBER 2012 - BANGKOK, THAILAND:    A motorcycle delivery driver makes his way down an alley in Bangkok's Chinatown on the first day of the Vegetarian Festival. The Vegetarian Festival is celebrated throughout Thailand. It is the Thai version of the The Nine Emperor Gods Festival, a nine-day Taoist celebration beginning on the eve of 9th lunar month of the Chinese calendar. During a period of nine days, those who are participating in the festival dress all in white and abstain from eating meat, poultry, seafood, and dairy products. Vendors and proprietors of restaurants indicate that vegetarian food is for sale by putting a yellow flag out with Thai characters for meatless written on it in red.   PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 30 MARCH 2012 - HANOI, VIETNAM:   A man sits on his motorcycle in an alley in the Old Quarter of Hanoi, Vietnam.  PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 09 MARCH 2006 - HO CHI MINH CITY, VIETNAM: A flower vendor making a delivery by motorcycle in Ho Chi Minh City (formerly Saigon) Vietnam. Photo by Jack Kurtz
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  • Mar. 15, 2009 -- LUANG PRABANG, LAOS: A jerry rigged car ferry takes a truck and motorcycle across the Mekong River in Luang Prabang, Laos. The Mekong is the artery of Laos and slices the country into east and west but there are few bridges across the river so most people cross on boats.  Photo by Jack Kurt
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  • Mar. 15, 2009 -- LUANG PRABANG, LAOS: A man rides his motorcycle off of a jerry rigged car ferry across the Mekong River in Luang Prabang, Laos. The Mekong is the artery of Laos and slices the country into east and west but there are few bridges across the river so most people cross on boats.  Photo by Jack Kurtz
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  • FEB 24, 2001 - SAN CRISTOBAL DE LAS CASAS, CHIAPAS, MEXICO: Supporters of  the EZLN (Zapatistas) ride a motorcycle through San Cristobal de las Casas, Chiapas, Mexico, with a pro-Zapatista banner made from a bedsheet, during a Zapatista march, Feb. 24, 2001. The march was to mark the beginning of the Zapatista's caravan from San Cristobal de las Casas to Mexico City. About 3,000 Zapatistas participated in the march through San Cristobal. The Zapatistas went to Mexico City to press their demands for the passage of the San Andres Accords, signed between the Zapatistas and the Mexican government in 1996 but stalled in the Mexican congress by the formerly ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party. © Jack Kurtz  INDIGENOUS   POVERTY   GLOBALIZATION    POVERTY  WAR   HUMAN RIGHTS    CIVIL RIGHTS
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  • 24 APRIL 2003 -- Motorcyclists parade through downtown Laughlin, NV, during the Laughlin River Run. The Laughlin River Run is an annual motorcycle rally that draws up to 50,000 people to Laughlin, a small casino town on the Colorado River. PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 08 MARCH 2006 - HO CHI MINH CITY, VIETNAM: Men on a sidewalk play a board game while a friend leans against a motorcycle in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. HCMC is still widely known as Saigon. PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 19 JANUARY 2016 - BURI RAM, BURI RAM, THAILAND: People on a motorcycle duck raindrops during an unseasonal thunderstorm in Buri Ram, Thailand.    PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 01 JULY 2015 - BANG LUANG, CHAI NAT, THAILAND:  A person rides their motorcycle over the Chao Phraya Dam in Chai Nat province. The reservoir behind the dam is at less than 10 percent of capacity. Central Thailand is contending with drought. By one estimate, about 80 percent of Thailand's agricultural land is in drought like conditions and farmers have been told to stop planting new acreage of rice, the area's principal cash crop. Water in reservoirs are below 10 percent of their capacity, a record low. Water in some reservoirs is so low, water no longer flows through the slipways and instead has to be pumped out of the reservoir into irrigation canals. Farmers who have planted their rice crops are pumping water out of the irrigation canals in effort to save their crops. Homes have collapsed in some communities on the Chao Phraya River, the main water source for central Thailand, because water levels are so low the now exposed embankment is collapsing. This is normally the start of the rainy season, but so far there hasn't been any significant rain.    PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 27 FEBRUARY 2015 - PHNOM PENH, CAMBODIA:  A motorcycle pulled tuk-tuk is used as a bus in rural Cambodia.   PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 27 FEBRUARY 2015 - PHNOM PENH, CAMBODIA: A soft drink vendor in her motorcycle driven soft drink stand in Phnom Penh.   PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 06 JUNE 2014 - IRRAWADDY DELTA,  AYEYARWADY REGION, MYANMAR: A man brings a Buddhist monk into Pantanaw on a motorcycle. Pantanaw is a town in the Irrawaddy Delta (or Ayeyarwady Delta) in Myanmar. The region is Myanmar's largest rice producer, so its infrastructure of road transportation has been greatly developed during the 1990s and 2000s. Two thirds of the total arable land is under rice cultivation with a yield of about 2,000-2,500 kg per hectare. FIshing and aquaculture are also important economically. Because of the number of rivers and canals that crisscross the Delta, steamship service is widely available.   PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 09 MARCH 2013 - ALONG HIGHWAY 13, LAOS:  A man rides his motorcycle across a season bridge over the Nam Song River in Vang Vieng. The bridge connects communities on the west side of the river to Highway 13. The paving of Highway 13 from Vientiane to near the Chinese border has changed the way of life in rural Laos. Villagers near Luang Prabang used to have to take unreliable boats that took three hours round trip to get from the homes to the tourist center of Luang Prabang, now they take a 40 minute round trip bus ride. North of Luang Prabang, paving the highway has been an opportunity for China to use Laos as a transshipping point. Chinese merchandise now goes through Laos to Thailand where it's put on Thai trains and taken to the deep water port east of Bangkok. The Chinese have also expanded their economic empire into Laos. Chinese hotels and businesses are common in northern Laos and in some cities, like Oudomxay, are now up to 40% percent. As the roads are paved, more people move away from their traditional homes in the mountains of Laos and crowd the side of the road living off tourists' and truck drivers.    PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 30 JANUARY 2013 - PHNOM PENH, CAMBODIA:  A bakery worker delivers bread on the a motorcycle near Phnom Penh, Cambodia. Cambodians and Vietnamese consume a lot of French style baguettes, a remnant of their time as a French colony.     PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 08 MARCH 2006 - Motorcycle riders drive around Saigon, Vietnam. Photo by Jack Kurtz / ZUMA Press
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  • 15 MARCH 2006 - CHONG KOH, KANDAL, CAMBODIA: A motorcycle hauling freshly cut sorghum drives through Chong Koh, a village on the Mekong River in central Cambodia. Photo by Jack Kurtz / ZUMA Press
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  • 20 FEBRUARY 2008 -- KANCHANABURI, THAILAND: A woman looks over her shoulder before driving her motorcycle with her sons on it into traffic in the market in Kanchanaburi, Thailand.  Photo by Jack Kurtz
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  • 20 FEBRUARY 2008 -- KANCHANABURI, THAILAND: Girls ride a motorcycle to school in Kanchanaburi, Thailand.  Photo by Jack Kurtz
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  • 25 FEBRUARY 2008 -- MAE SOT, TAK, THAILAND: A Thai family rides their motorcycle on a highway near Mae Sot, Thailand.   Photo by Jack Kurtz
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  • 10 OCTOBER 2020 - DES MOINES, IOWA: US Senator JONI ERNST gets off her motorcycle at a campaign event. Sen. Ernst is on a ride across Iowa. She left Sioux City Saturday morning and stopped in Carroll, IA, before ending the day's ride in Des Moines at Big Barn Harley-Davidson. She had a rally in the parking lot of the Harley-Davidson dealership. The ride is a fundraiser for the Puppy Jake Foundation (which provides service animals to veterans) and the Greater Cedar Rapids Community Foundation’s Derecho Disaster Recovery. About 50 people rode with Sen Ernst from Carroll to Des Moines and another 80 were waiting for her in Des Moines.     PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 27 MAY 2017 - BANGKOK, THAILAND: A motorcycle cuts through traffic on Rama I Street, which was flooded by monsoonal rains. The rainy season in Bangkok usually starts in mid-June but started almost a month early this year. There have been daily thunderstorms and localized flooding throughout central Thailand since the middle of May.     PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 10 OCTOBER 2020 - DES MOINES, IOWA: US Senator JONI ERNST hangs her helmet on her motorcycle's handlebars at a campaign event. Sen. Ernst is on a ride across Iowa. She left Sioux City Saturday morning and stopped in Carroll, IA, before ending the day's ride in Des Moines at Big Barn Harley-Davidson. She had a rally in the parking lot of the Harley-Davidson dealership. The ride is a fundraiser for the Puppy Jake Foundation (which provides service animals to veterans) and the Greater Cedar Rapids Community Foundation’s Derecho Disaster Recovery. About 50 people rode with Sen Ernst from Carroll to Des Moines and another 80 were waiting for her in Des Moines.    PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 10 OCTOBER 2020 - DES MOINES, IOWA: US Senator JONI ERNST hangs her helmet on her motorcycle's handlebars at a campaign event. Sen. Ernst is on a ride across Iowa. She left Sioux City Saturday morning and stopped in Carroll, IA, before ending the day's ride in Des Moines at Big Barn Harley-Davidson. She had a rally in the parking lot of the Harley-Davidson dealership. The ride is a fundraiser for the Puppy Jake Foundation (which provides service animals to veterans) and the Greater Cedar Rapids Community Foundation’s Derecho Disaster Recovery. About 50 people rode with Sen Ernst from Carroll to Des Moines and another 80 were waiting for her in Des Moines.    PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 10 OCTOBER 2020 - DES MOINES, IOWA: US Senator JONI ERNST gets off her motorcycle at a campaign event. Sen. Ernst is on a ride across Iowa. She left Sioux City Saturday morning and stopped in Carroll, IA, before ending the day's ride in Des Moines at Big Barn Harley-Davidson. She had a rally in the parking lot of the Harley-Davidson dealership. The ride is a fundraiser for the Puppy Jake Foundation (which provides service animals to veterans) and the Greater Cedar Rapids Community Foundation’s Derecho Disaster Recovery. About 50 people rode with Sen Ernst from Carroll to Des Moines and another 80 were waiting for her in Des Moines.     PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 10 OCTOBER 2020 - DES MOINES, IOWA: US Senator JONI ERNST gets off her motorcycle at a campaign event. Sen. Ernst is on a ride across Iowa. She left Sioux City Saturday morning and stopped in Carroll, IA, before ending the day's ride in Des Moines at Big Barn Harley-Davidson. She had a rally in the parking lot of the Harley-Davidson dealership. The ride is a fundraiser for the Puppy Jake Foundation (which provides service animals to veterans) and the Greater Cedar Rapids Community Foundation’s Derecho Disaster Recovery. About 50 people rode with Sen Ernst from Carroll to Des Moines and another 80 were waiting for her in Des Moines.     PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 10 OCTOBER 2020 - DES MOINES, IOWA: US Senator JONI ERNST gets off her motorcycle at a campaign event. Sen. Ernst is on a ride across Iowa. She left Sioux City Saturday morning and stopped in Carroll, IA, before ending the day's ride in Des Moines at Big Barn Harley-Davidson. She had a rally in the parking lot of the Harley-Davidson dealership. The ride is a fundraiser for the Puppy Jake Foundation (which provides service animals to veterans) and the Greater Cedar Rapids Community Foundation’s Derecho Disaster Recovery. About 50 people rode with Sen Ernst from Carroll to Des Moines and another 80 were waiting for her in Des Moines.     PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 10 OCTOBER 2020 - DES MOINES, IOWA: US Senator JONI ERNST rides her motorcycle to a campaign event. Sen. Ernst is on a ride across Iowa. She left Sioux City Saturday morning and stopped in Carroll, IA, before ending the day's ride in Des Moines at Big Barn Harley-Davidson. She had a rally in the parking lot of the Harley-Davidson dealership. The ride is a fundraiser for the Puppy Jake Foundation (which provides service animals to veterans) and the Greater Cedar Rapids Community Foundation’s Derecho Disaster Recovery. About 50 people rode with Sen Ernst from Carroll to Des Moines and another 80 were waiting for her in Des Moines.     PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 10 OCTOBER 2020 - DES MOINES, IOWA: US Senator JONI ERNST waves from her motorcycle while she arrives at a campaign event. Sen. Ernst is on a ride across Iowa. She left Sioux City Saturday morning and stopped in Carroll, IA, before ending the day's ride in Des Moines at Big Barn Harley-Davidson. She had a rally in the parking lot of the Harley-Davidson dealership. The ride is a fundraiser for the Puppy Jake Foundation (which provides service animals to veterans) and the Greater Cedar Rapids Community Foundation’s Derecho Disaster Recovery. About 50 people rode with Sen Ernst from Carroll to Des Moines and another 80 were waiting for her in Des Moines.     PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 10 OCTOBER 2020 - DES MOINES, IOWA: US Senator JONI ERNST waves from her motorcycle while she arrives at a campaign event. Sen. Ernst is on a ride across Iowa. She left Sioux City Saturday morning and stopped in Carroll, IA, before ending the day's ride in Des Moines at Big Barn Harley-Davidson. She had a rally in the parking lot of the Harley-Davidson dealership. The ride is a fundraiser for the Puppy Jake Foundation (which provides service animals to veterans) and the Greater Cedar Rapids Community Foundation’s Derecho Disaster Recovery. About 50 people rode with Sen Ernst from Carroll to Des Moines and another 80 were waiting for her in Des Moines.     PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 21 DECEMBER 2017 - HANOI, VIETNAM:  Motorcycle traffic in the old quarter of Hanoi. The old quarter is the heart of Hanoi, with narrow streets and lots of small shops but it's being "gentrified" because of tourism and some of the shops are being turned into hotels and cafes for tourists and wealthy Vietnamese.  PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 21 DECEMBER 2017 - HANOI, VIETNAM:  Motorcycle traffic in the old quarter of Hanoi. The old quarter is the heart of Hanoi, with narrow streets and lots of small shops but it's being "gentrified" because of tourism and some of the shops are being turned into hotels and cafes for tourists and wealthy Vietnamese.  PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 21 DECEMBER 2017 - HANOI, VIETNAM:  Motorcycle traffic in the old quarter of Hanoi. The old quarter is the heart of Hanoi, with narrow streets and lots of small shops but it's being "gentrified" because of tourism and some of the shops are being turned into hotels and cafes for tourists and wealthy Vietnamese.  PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 21 DECEMBER 2017 - HANOI, VIETNAM:  Motorcycle traffic in the old quarter of Hanoi. The old quarter is the heart of Hanoi, with narrow streets and lots of small shops but it's being "gentrified" because of tourism and some of the shops are being turned into hotels and cafes for tourists and wealthy Vietnamese.  PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 27 MAY 2017 - BANGKOK, THAILAND: A motorcycle on Rama I Street, which was flooded by monsoonal rains. The rainy season in Bangkok usually starts in mid-June but started almost a month early this year. There have been daily thunderstorms and localized flooding throughout central Thailand since the middle of May.     PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 27 MAY 2017 - BANGKOK, THAILAND: A motorcycle on Rama I Street, which was flooded by monsoonal rains. The rainy season in Bangkok usually starts in mid-June but started almost a month early this year. There have been daily thunderstorms and localized flooding throughout central Thailand since the middle of May.     PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 27 MAY 2017 - BANGKOK, THAILAND: A motorcycle on Rama I Street, which was flooded by monsoonal rains. The rainy season in Bangkok usually starts in mid-June but started almost a month early this year. There have been daily thunderstorms and localized flooding throughout central Thailand since the middle of May.     PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 25 OCTOBER 2012 - PATTANI, PATTANI, THAILAND:  People ride motorcycles into the early morning sunlight in Pattani, Thailand. Motorcycles are a popular form of transportation in Thailand and frequently used to haul entire families around. Thailand has mandatory helmet laws but they are seldom enforced.    PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 25 OCTOBER 2012 - PATTANI, PATTANI, THAILAND:  People ride motorcycles into the early morning sunlight in Pattani, Thailand. Motorcycles are a popular form of transportation in Thailand and frequently used to haul entire families around. Thailand has mandatory helmet laws but they are seldom enforced.    PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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