A woman shops on a street in Hong Kong on February 6, 2025. (Photo by Peter Parks/AFP Photo)




A shopkeeper selling shoes waits for customers at a market in Srinagar, India on February 7, 2025. (Photo by Tauseef Mustafa/AFP Photo)




An Afghan boy selling eggs, waits for customers at the Tap-e-Gul Ghundi recreational park in Charikar, Parwan province on April 11, 2025. (Photo by Abdul Shahmim Tanha/AFP Photo)




This aerial photo shows people gathering at a livestock market ahead of the Muslim festival of Eid al-Adha in Maarrat Misrin, north of Idlib, Syria, on June 3, 2025. (Photo by Abdulaziz Ketaz/AFP Photo)




Afghan refugee Hukam Khan, left, waits for customers on his stall at Kababayan Refugee Camp in Peshawar, Pakistan, Tuesday, April 8, 2025. (Photo by Muhammad Sajjad/AP Photo)




Vendors sell flowers near a collapsed building in Mandalay, Myanmar, 12 April 2025. More than 3,000 people have been killed and thousands injured after a 7.7-magnitude earthquake struck the country on 28 March, according to the Myanmar government. (Photo by EPA/Stringer)




A woman selling flowers and vegetables waits for customers at the entrance of a subway station, in Bucharest, Romania, Wednesday, April 16, 2025. (Photo by Vadim Ghirda/AP Photo)




Vietnamese farmers transport harvested lychees to sell to traders at a wholesale market in Luc Ngan district of Vietnam's Bac Giang province on June 18, 2025. (Photo by Nhac Nguyen/AFP Photo)




A woman selling fresh meat wears a raincoat at Khlong Toei Market during a rain storm in Bangkok, Thailand on May 14, 2025. (Photo by Chanakarn Laosarakham/AFP Photo)




An owner of a traditional sandal shop takes his afternoon tea in the historic old city knows as “Al-Balad” in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, on April 21, 2025. (Photo by Hamad I Mohammed/Reuters)




Customers buy watermelons at a fruit market in Lahore, Pakistan on April 7, 2025. (Photo by Arif Ali/AFP Photo)




Snails are displayed to be sold on the side of a highway, in Sousse, Tunisia, March 27, 2025. (Photo by Ons Abid/AP Photo)




Jonathan Olakunle Olanlokun, known as the Nigerian Spiderman, interacts with vendors and buyers at a street market in Osogbo, Osun State, Nigeria, 25 March 2025. Olanlokun, an advocate for sustainable development and environmental activism, wears a Spiderman costume and takes the initiative to clean up waste and garbage in his hometown of Osogbo, aiming to raise public awareness of environmental issues. (Photo by Emmanuel Adegboye/EPA)




A person displays a bag with local citrus fruit, or dalandan, at a market in Quezon City, Metro Manila, Philippines, 31 December 2024. Many Filipinos follow a tradition of having various round-shaped fruits in their homes on New Year's Eve, believing that they will bring prosperity and good fortune for the new year. (Photo by Rolex Dela Pena/EPA)




People gather to buy livestock ahead of the Muslim festival of Eid al-Adha at a traditional market in Bogor, West Java, Indonesia, 22 May 2025. Eid al-Adha, the holiest of the two annual Muslim holidays, marks the yearly pilgrimage (Hajj) to Mecca. Muslims slaughter a sacrificial animal and split the meat into three parts: for family, friends, and the poor. (Photo by Mast Irham/EPA)