Our galleries in edition eight cover a whole range of subjects in four different countries.

Charlie Saceda, a staff photographer with the Philippine Star newspaper, has been in the south of the Philippines observing the latest stages of a seven-year campaign by rebels against government forces there.

He is as interested in how the local people are suffering as result of the on-going violence as in the military aspects.

In Indonesia, Freelance photographer Toto Santiko Budi knows all about the poverty that grips large parts of his home country and is determined that the local media should reflect this state of affairs.

So he “adopted” a family in the capital Jakarta and recorded their traumatic experiences as they were forced by the authorities to move from what little home they had next to railway tracks.

Help comes in many forms and for visibly-challenged youngsters in one Chinese area, it swoops down from the skies.

Qui Yan, who is photo director of the Wuhan Evening News in China’s Hubei Province, took his camera to record when an airliner from an American non-profit organization arrived to give children complicated eye surgery.

As a result of their visit to the converted DC10, a dozen young people’s sight was improved.

Finally, for his gallery, Emilio Jose Bonnet went to the circus in Colombia.

But what he found was not the traditional big-top tent.

For this was what is described as the country’s first contemporary circus and they were mixing drama, music, dance and spectacle in a new play.

His images reflect the cast’s boundless enthusiasm and passion.