• A man enjoys an electronic cigarette in Miami, Florida. As the popularity of e-cigarettes continue to grow, leading US tobacco companies are annoucing plans to launch their own e-cigarettes. Joe Raedle / Getty Images / AFP
    A man enjoys an electronic cigarette in Miami, Florida. As the popularity of e-cigarettes continue to grow, leading US tobacco companies are annoucing plans to launch their own e-cigarettes. Joe Raedle / Getty Images / AFP
  • Employees work at the assembly line of the Honda Amaze car inside the company’s manufacturing plant in Tapukara, in the Indian state of Rajasthan. Anindito Mukherjee / Reuters
    Employees work at the assembly line of the Honda Amaze car inside the company’s manufacturing plant in Tapukara, in the Indian state of Rajasthan. Anindito Mukherjee / Reuters
  • Employees stand beside the Honda Amaze after giving it the final touches near the assembly line of the company’s manufacturing plant in Tapukara, in the Indian state of Rajasthan. Anindito Mukherjee / Reuters
    Employees stand beside the Honda Amaze after giving it the final touches near the assembly line of the company’s manufacturing plant in Tapukara, in the Indian state of Rajasthan. Anindito Mukherjee / Reuters
  • A customer jumps on piles of steel coils at a steel market in Jiaxing, Zhejiang. Global steel production fell slightly in January as the Chinese New Year holiday slowed industrial activity in the top steel producing country. William Hong / Reuters
    A customer jumps on piles of steel coils at a steel market in Jiaxing, Zhejiang. Global steel production fell slightly in January as the Chinese New Year holiday slowed industrial activity in the top steel producing country. William Hong / Reuters
  • Men work on the Panama Canal locks in Cocoli, near Panama City. A Spanish-led consortium resumed work to expand the Panama Canal, which handles five per cent of global seaborne trade, after an acrimonious two-week stalemate over US$1.6 billion in cost overruns. Rodrigo Arangua / AFP
    Men work on the Panama Canal locks in Cocoli, near Panama City. A Spanish-led consortium resumed work to expand the Panama Canal, which handles five per cent of global seaborne trade, after an acrimonious two-week stalemate over US$1.6 billion in cost overruns. Rodrigo Arangua / AFP
  • A visitor checks his mobile phone during the first day of the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona on February 24. David Ramos / Getty Images
    A visitor checks his mobile phone during the first day of the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona on February 24. David Ramos / Getty Images
  • An Afghan ironsmith works at shop at the bird market in Kabul on February 25. Afghanistan’s economy has improved significantly since the fall of the Taliban in 2001, but despite international asistance the country needs to overcome challenges including low revenue collection and job creation, corruption, weak government capacity and poor public infrastructure. Wakil Kohsar / AFP
    An Afghan ironsmith works at shop at the bird market in Kabul on February 25. Afghanistan’s economy has improved significantly since the fall of the Taliban in 2001, but despite international asistance the country needs to overcome challenges including low revenue collection and job creation, corruption, weak government capacity and poor public infrastructure. Wakil Kohsar / AFP
  • JK Shin, the president and chief executive of Samsung, looks before presenting the new Samsung Gear Fit and the new samsung Galaxy S5 during the first day of the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona on February 24. The annual Mobile World Congress hosts some of the world’s largest communication companies, with many unveiling their latest phones and gadgets. David Ramos / Getty Images
    JK Shin, the president and chief executive of Samsung, looks before presenting the new Samsung Gear Fit and the new samsung Galaxy S5 during the first day of the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona on February 24. The annual Mobile World Congress hosts some of the world’s largest communication companies, with many unveiling their latest phones and gadgets. David Ramos / Getty Images
  • People queue for subsidised bread at a bakery in the Suez Canal city of Port Said, northeast of Cairo using a smart card. A device resembling a credit card swiper is revolutionising some of Egypt’s politically explosive bread lines and may help achieve the impossible – cutting crippling food import bills. Mohamed Abd El Ghany / Reuters
    People queue for subsidised bread at a bakery in the Suez Canal city of Port Said, northeast of Cairo using a smart card. A device resembling a credit card swiper is revolutionising some of Egypt’s politically explosive bread lines and may help achieve the impossible – cutting crippling food import bills. Mohamed Abd El Ghany / Reuters
  • A worker collects tobacco leafs at San Juan y Martinez municipality, Pinar del Rio province in Cuba. The 16th edition of the ‘Festival of Havana Cigars’ will start on February 24 in Havana as a homage to main Cuban tobacco and cigar brands such as ‘Hoyo de Monterrey’, ‘Partagas’ or ‘Trinidad’. Alejandro Ernesto / EPA
    A worker collects tobacco leafs at San Juan y Martinez municipality, Pinar del Rio province in Cuba. The 16th edition of the ‘Festival of Havana Cigars’ will start on February 24 in Havana as a homage to main Cuban tobacco and cigar brands such as ‘Hoyo de Monterrey’, ‘Partagas’ or ‘Trinidad’. Alejandro Ernesto / EPA
  • A farmer walks past a vegetable field near newly-built residential buildings in Jiaxing, Zhejiang province. Average new home prices in China’s 70 major cities rose 9.6 per cent in January 2014 from a year earlier, easing from the previous month’s 9.9 per cent rise. William Hong / Reuters
    A farmer walks past a vegetable field near newly-built residential buildings in Jiaxing, Zhejiang province. Average new home prices in China’s 70 major cities rose 9.6 per cent in January 2014 from a year earlier, easing from the previous month’s 9.9 per cent rise. William Hong / Reuters

Business

In pictures: Some of the best business images of the week

Liz Claus

February 27, 2014

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From queues in Egypt for subsidised bread to a thick haze covering Seoul in South Korea, The National’s Business section presents some of the the best images in the world.

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