Global Press Journal Connections: The World in Photos

Orkhon Province, Mongolia

Gantushig Uranchimeg, an 11-year-old monk-in-training, participates in a ceremony to worship ritual vases at Khutagt Lama Gandanshadivlan Monastery in Mongolia’s Orkhon province. The ceremony, known as bumba, is meant to bring blessings and wealth to worshippers.

Photo by Khorloo Khukhnohoi

Udvil, Sri Lanka

Veerakathi Navaraththinam wraps cucumbers in palmyra leaves at his garden in Uduvil, a village near Jaffna, Sri Lanka. Farmers harvest cucumbers from March to August and place them in these leaves for sale.

Photo by Vijayatharsiny Vijayakumar

South Delhi, India

Laadli Devi sells jewelry and other accessories at a night market in Khizarabad, a neighborhood in South Delhi, India. Night markets have become more common in Delhi during the coronavirus pandemic. Government officials have allowed small markets to operate in the evening to avoid daytime crowds.

Photo by Aliya Bashir

Kathmandu, Nepal

Priest Santosh Buddhacharya performs puja, a worship ritual, at Swayambhunath stupa in Kathmandu, Nepal. Crowds of Hindu and Buddhist devotees and tourists used to worship at the stupa. But with travel restricted due to the coronavirus, the priests are now the only worshippers.

Photo by Shilu Manandhar

Dalanzadgad, Umnugovi Province, Mongolia

Margad-Erdene Erdenebileg, 18, left, and Yusunkhusel Gantumur, 11, center, wear traditional garments called deels and play the morin khuur, a horsehead fiddle, with members of the Altan Mazaalai band in Dalanzadgad, the capital of Mongolia’s Umnugovi province. The band played at the grand opening of a new theater, where children disinfected their hands and wore face masks and disposable shoe covers.

Photo by Uranchimeg Tsoghuu

Murun, Khuvsgul Province, Mongolia

Otgonsuren Altan-Ochir, 17, paints cloth bags with eco-friendly paints at Tenkhleg, a department store in Murun, Khuvsgul province, Mongolia. Otgonsuren is making an effort to be more environmentally conscious by using these reusable bags.

Photo by Dolgormaa Sandagdorj

Bayandalai, Umnugovi Province, Mongolia

Khurbilguun Sergelen, 14, shears a sheep at his neighbor’s home in Bayan, a neighborhood in the Bayandalai soum of Mongolia’s Umnugovi province. Every June and July, herders in Mongolia shear all their sheep.

Photo by Nansalmaa Oyunchimeg

Dalanzadgad, Umnugovi Province, Mongolia

Budsuren Uyanga, left, 15, and Bilguun-Orshikh Dagvasambuu, 14, demonstrate taekwondo in Dalanzadgad, a soum in Mongolia’s Umnugovi province. The Federation of Olympic Taekwondo was established in Umnugovi in July this year. Adolescent athletes from Ulaanbaatar’s Nuudelchin Taekwondo Club came to Umnugovi and organized a two-day taekwondo demonstration for the launch of the Federation.

Photo by Uranchimeg Tsoghuu

Karaikal, Jaffna, Sri Lanka

From left, Navaneethan Yavinsan, 11, Anandarasa Anandavisahan, 11, Sinharasa Siyanth, 17, and Chandran Kisanth, 12, fly a homemade kite in Karaikal, a village in Jaffna district, Sri Lanka. They say that since evening classes were canceled due to the coronavirus, they spend their leisure time flying kites.

Photo by Vijayatharsiny Vijayakumar

Orkhon Province, Mongolia

From left, Narantsogt Gombosuren, Enkhmanlai Erdenebat and Bat-Erdene Narantsogt build a ger, or Mongolian yurt, at the Gombosuren family’s summer camp in Orkhon district, in northern Mongolia’s Bulgan province. Herder families lead nomadic lives in the countryside as they herd cattle to different seasonal camps throughout the year.

Photo by Khorloo Khukhnohoi

Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia

Odgerel Bayasgalan, 20, tapes the walls of the sports hall at General Education School No. 11 to paint a mural about the love and protection of nature in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia. Mongolia closed its borders to prevent the spread of the coronavirus, but local tourism increases over the summer.

Photo by Myagmarsuren Battur

Erdenet, Orkhon Province, Mongolia

Erdenetsogt Davaajav cooks mutton shashlik, a dish of skewered and grilled cubes of meat, during Naadam, a national festival in Mongolia. During the festival, people visit the Central Stadium in Erdenet, a city in northern Mongolia, to watch wrestling, archery, anklebone shooting and horse racing. People also enjoy traditional foods, such as shashlik, airag (fermented mare’s milk) and khuushuur (a meat pastry or dumpling).

Photo by Khorloo Khukhnohoi

Darkhan-Uhl, Mongolia

Battsetseg Sharavjamts waters vegetables in her greenhouse in Orkhon, a soum in Darkhan-Uul, Mongolia. Battsetseg has grown vegetables at home for five years and uses them to feed her husband and three children.

Photo by Tegshdelger Batbayar

Darkhan, Darkhan-Uhl, Mongolia

Gerelmaa Chuluun, 75, exits an underground pedestrian tunnel on her way home from Darkhan Market in Mongolia’s Darkhan-Uul province. Traffic near the market caused a number of accidents involving pedestrians, so the city built an underground tunnel to provide a safe way for pedestrians to cross the street.

Photo by Tegshdelger Batbayar

Kathmandu, Nepal

Saroj Kafle cuts grass with his sister, Sabina Kafle, to feed his cows in Kathmandu, Nepal. Saroj Kafle says his sales of cow’s milk have decreased since the coronavirus hit Nepal.

Photo by Shilu Manandhar

Erdenet, Orkhon Province, Mongolia

Amarbayasgalan Byambajav trims a tree into a heart shape in Erdenet, a city in Mongolia’s Orkhon province. Every summer, employees in the Department of Gardening and Horticulture reshape the trees in the city center.

Photo by Khorloo Khukhnohoi

Darkhan, Darkhan-Uhl, Mongolia

Nasanbayar Ser-Od, a public-utility employee in Darkhan-Uul province, paints the Swing Bridge in Darkhan, Mongolia. Normally, workers finish improvement projects before June 1 each year, in time for the local Mother and Children’s Day celebrations. This year, the celebration was canceled due to the coronavirus, but workers still completed the improvement projects.

Photo by Tegshdelger Batbayar

Baruun Saikhan Mountains, Mongolia

Janaga Baatar, 13, lights a candle at Gandanchoimzadlin Monastery, a temple in the Baruun Saikhan Mountains in southern Mongolia. Janaga says he has come to the monastery daily for three years to chant Buddhist teachings during his breaks from school.

Photo by Uranchimeg Tsoghuu

Bayandalai, Umnugovi Province, Mongolia

Dentist Chuluunchimeg Tuul treats Khuslent Bayarsaikhan, 12, in Bayandalai, a town in southern Mongolia’s Umnugovi province. There is no dentist in Bayandalai, so people usually travel 86 kilometers (53 miles) to visit a dental clinic in the province’s capital, Dalanzadgad. This year, doctors and nurses in the Healthy Dent program visited Bayandalai for four days to provide free dental treatment for children in first to fifth grade.

Photo by Uranchimeg Tsoghuu

Erdenebulgan, Arkhangai Province, Mongolia

Volunteer Gantugs Namnansuren hands a care package to Jargaltsetseg Nandintsetseg, 12, and Khurelchuluun Batsukh in Erdenebulgan, an area in northern Mongolia’s Arkhangai province. People in Need, an international nonprofit, donated packages to 350 low-income households as part of a campaign to prevent the spread of the coronavirus.

Photo by Odonchimeg Batsukh

Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia

People attend the launch of campaigns for the regular parliamentary election of the Mongolian State Great Khural (Parliament) in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia. The election will be held on June 24, 2020, so the government of Mongolia adopted regulations for campaign activities. They include moving many activities online, cleaning and disinfecting areas where gatherings will be held, keeping a distance of at least 1.5 meters (about 5 feet) between attendees, avoiding physical touch, and wearing face masks.

Photo by Myagmarsuren Battur

Umnugovi Province, Mongolia

Tsengel Tseveen, an employee at Mandalt Construction, replaces gym flooring at the Polytechnical College of Umnugovi province in southern Mongolia. Many institutions are making repairs while they’re closed due to the spread of the coronavirus.

Photo by Uranchimeg Tsoghuu

Erdenebulgan, Arkhangai Province, Mongolia

Gankhuyag Jambaninj is a teacher at Kindergarten No. 5 in Erdenebulgan, an area in northern Mongolia’s Arkhangai province. Even though the kindergarten has been closed since late January due to the coronavirus, teachers are preparing for students to return in September. “Children miss their kindergarten very much,” Gankhuyag says, “so everything should be colorful and clean when they return.”

Photo by Odonchimeg Batsukh

Khuvsgul, Mongolia

Badnaagarav Nyamkhuu, left, and Anu Delgerdalai, 14, combine aloe vera, pure alcohol and essential oil to make hand sanitizer at Anu’s home in Khuvsgul, Mongolia. Badnaagarav, a teacher at Erdmiin Dalai Complex School, has been working with her students to produce and bottle this sanitizer for people who cannot afford their own.

Photo by Dolgormaa Sandagdorj

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Orkhon Province, Mongolia

Udvil, Sri Lanka

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Kathmandu, Nepal

Dalanzadgad, Umnugovi Province, Mongolia

Murun, Khuvsgul Province, Mongolia

Bayandalai, Umnugovi Province, Mongolia

Dalanzadgad, Umnugovi Province, Mongolia

Karaikal, Jaffna, Sri Lanka

Orkhon Province, Mongolia

Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia

Erdenet, Orkhon Province, Mongolia

Darkhan-Uhl, Mongolia

Darkhan, Darkhan-Uhl, Mongolia

Kathmandu, Nepal

Erdenet, Orkhon Province, Mongolia

Darkhan, Darkhan-Uhl, Mongolia

Baruun Saikhan Mountains, Mongolia

Bayandalai, Umnugovi Province, Mongolia

Erdenebulgan, Arkhangai Province, Mongolia

Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia

Umnugovi Province, Mongolia

Erdenebulgan, Arkhangai Province, Mongolia

Khuvsgul, Mongolia