30 MAY 2015 – BANGKOK, THAILAND: A worker for a local electrical utility strings power lines by walking along existing power lines along Ekkamai Soi 63 in Bangkok. Most of the electricity consumed in Bangkok is generated in Laos and Myanmar. In 2013, the Bangkok Metropolitan Region consumed about 40 per cent of the Thailand’s electricity, even though the BMR is only 1.5 per cent of the country’s land area and about 22 per cent of its population. PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ