• Sri Lankans hold on to the sides of passenger train in Colombo. Train travel is a popular mode of transport in this nation of 20 million people, due to its affordability. Lakruwan Wanniarachchi / AFP
    Sri Lankans hold on to the sides of passenger train in Colombo. Train travel is a popular mode of transport in this nation of 20 million people, due to its affordability. Lakruwan Wanniarachchi / AFP
  • A view of the ongoing construction of the Teles Pires hydroelectric dam along the Teles Pires river. The dam is part of a project involving the construction of six dams to create a navigable waterway for Brazil’s agricultural and mineral commodities from the interior of the country to the Atlantic Ocean. Roosevelt Cassio / Reuters
    A view of the ongoing construction of the Teles Pires hydroelectric dam along the Teles Pires river. The dam is part of a project involving the construction of six dams to create a navigable waterway for Brazil’s agricultural and mineral commodities from the interior of the country to the Atlantic Ocean. Roosevelt Cassio / Reuters
  • An employee works next to hay coming out of a threshing machine during a harvest of wheat crop northwest of Cairo. Egypt, the world’s biggest wheat importer, has bought around 3 million tonnes of local wheat from farmers since the harvest began last April. Asmaa Waguih / Reuters
    An employee works next to hay coming out of a threshing machine during a harvest of wheat crop northwest of Cairo. Egypt, the world’s biggest wheat importer, has bought around 3 million tonnes of local wheat from farmers since the harvest began last April. Asmaa Waguih / Reuters
  • Large-scale housing construction in the suburbs of Beijing. US investment bank Goldman Sachs has advised investors to prepare for a correction in the Chinese property market with a two-year downcycle imminent, likely to have global repercussions. Adrian Bradshaw / EPA
    Large-scale housing construction in the suburbs of Beijing. US investment bank Goldman Sachs has advised investors to prepare for a correction in the Chinese property market with a two-year downcycle imminent, likely to have global repercussions. Adrian Bradshaw / EPA
  • Workers move steel wire at a port in Qingdao. An index of Chinese manufacturing activity saw a sharp improvement in May, hitting a five-month high, but still showed contraction. AFP
    Workers move steel wire at a port in Qingdao. An index of Chinese manufacturing activity saw a sharp improvement in May, hitting a five-month high, but still showed contraction. AFP
  • Motorised mannequins hold signs that read ‘Hire Me’ in Toronto. Canada’s economy unexpectedly shed 28,900 jobs in April, mainly due to steep declines in full-time employment and in the private sector. Mark Blinch / Reuters
    Motorised mannequins hold signs that read ‘Hire Me’ in Toronto. Canada’s economy unexpectedly shed 28,900 jobs in April, mainly due to steep declines in full-time employment and in the private sector. Mark Blinch / Reuters
  • Workers move steel wire at a port in Qingdao. An index of Chinese manufacturing activity saw a sharp improvement in May, hitting a five-month high, but still showed contraction. Wang Zhao / AFP
    Workers move steel wire at a port in Qingdao. An index of Chinese manufacturing activity saw a sharp improvement in May, hitting a five-month high, but still showed contraction. Wang Zhao / AFP
  • An Inmarsat staff in front of a screen showing subscribers using their service throughout the world. Andrew Winning / Reuters
    An Inmarsat staff in front of a screen showing subscribers using their service throughout the world. Andrew Winning / Reuters
  • A man sits inside the Canadian Broadcast Corporation broadcasting centre in Toronto. CBC, Canada’s national public radio and television broadcaster, is going to cut more than 650 jobs in the next two years as it tightens its belt following a slump in ad sales and previous cuts to its funding from the federal government. Mark Blinch / Reuters
    A man sits inside the Canadian Broadcast Corporation broadcasting centre in Toronto. CBC, Canada’s national public radio and television broadcaster, is going to cut more than 650 jobs in the next two years as it tightens its belt following a slump in ad sales and previous cuts to its funding from the federal government. Mark Blinch / Reuters
  • A labourer lifts a basket of crushed bricks as he works at a construction site in Dhaka. Andrew Biraj / Reuters
    A labourer lifts a basket of crushed bricks as he works at a construction site in Dhaka. Andrew Biraj / Reuters
  • Workers move steel wire at a port in Qingdao. An index of Chinese manufacturing activity saw a sharp improvement in May, hitting a five-month high, but still showed contraction. AFP
    Workers move steel wire at a port in Qingdao. An index of Chinese manufacturing activity saw a sharp improvement in May, hitting a five-month high, but still showed contraction. AFP

Business

In pictures: Best business images of the week to May 29, 2014

Liz Claus

May 29, 2014

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From clothing assembly lines in China to motorised mannequins in Canada, here are some of the best business images of the week to May 29, 2014.

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