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Greepeace activists dressed as orangutans stage a protest at the entrance of the Nestle offices in Croydon, London, to denounce Nestle over the use of palm oil in their products, which comes from Indonesia's biggest producer Sinar Mas. Sinar Mas rejected claims of environmental vandalism on Thursday, after Nestle, the world's biggest food company, dropped it as a supplier, linking the company's signature Kit Kat confectionary to the destruction of orangutan habitats through deforestation casused by Indonesia's palm oil production. -- PHOTO: AFP




A Cambodian man collects water for domestic use during the dry season, from a river in Kandal province on the outskirts of Phnom Penh on Thursday. Severe drought has hit Southeast Asian countries, parching the region's major river, Mekong, whose water level has dropped to only 33 centimeters, the lowest in 50 years. -- PHOTO: REUTERS




One of 22 hot air balloons flies over at the start of the Putrajaya Hot Air Balloon Fiesta in Putrajaya, Malaysia. Twenty two balloons from ten countries participated in the annual event. -- PHOTO: AP