AP Week in Pictures: Asia
AP Week in Pictures: Asia
A Catholic devotee makes a cross with palm leaves during a Palm Sunday Mass at the St. Joseph Cathedral in Hyderabad, India, Sunday, March 24, 2024. Palm Sunday marks the sixth and last Sunday of the Christian Holy month of Lent. (AP Photo/Mahesh Kumar A.)
Farmer Le Van Tam tends to coffee plants at a coffee farm in Dak Lak province, Vietnam, on Feb. 1, 2024. New European Union rules aimed at stopping deforestation are reordering supply chains. An expert said that there are going to be “winners and losers” since these rules require companies to provide detailed evidence showing that the coffee isn’t linked to land where forests had been cleared. (AP Photo/Hau Dinh)
Shiite Muslim children attend recitation classes of the holy Quran during the fasting month of Ramadan in Srinagar, Indian controlled Kashmir, Thursday, March 28, 2024. Muslims across the world are observing Ramadan, during which they refrain from eating, drinking and smoking from dawn to dusk. (AP Photo/Mukhtar Khan)
Xie Yufeng throws a bird up as he shoots a bead through a tube for it to catch in mid-air, practicing a Beijing tradition that dates back to the Qing Dynasty, outside a stadium in Beijing, Tuesday, March 26, 2024. Today, only about 50-60 people in Beijing are believed to still practice it. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)
A worker attaches a name tag of a Buddhist who made donation for the lantern display installed for upcoming celebrations of Buddha’s birthday on May 15 for the year 2024, at Jogye temple in Seoul, South Korea, Tuesday, March 26, 2024. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)
Schoogirls of Jon U Junior Middle School rehearse for a performance in Moranbong District in Pyongyang, North Korea, on Thursday, March 21, 2024. (AP Photo/Jon Chol Jin)
A dog is carried by its owner as devotees have their palm fronds blessed with holy water at the Antipolo Cathedral in Antipolo, Philippines on Sunday, March 24, 2024. Palm Sunday marks the triumphant entry of Jesus Christ into Jerusalem and ushers in the Holy Week observance among Catholics worldwide. (AP Photo/Aaron Favila)
Environmental activists and volunteers pick up trash from a garbage-strewn river during a river cleanup event in Pecatu, Bali, Indonesia on Friday, March 22, 2024. (AP Photo/Firdia Lisnawati)
Lawyers of losing presidential candidate Ganjar Pranowo carry documents into the Constitutional Court in Jakarta, Indonesia, Saturday, March 23, 2024. Pranowo is mounting a legal challenge alleging widespread irregularities and fraud in the Feb. 14 presidential election. Defense Minister Prabowo Subianto won the election by 58.6% of the votes, according to final results released by the Election Commission. (AP Photo/Achmad Ibrahim)
A camp for internally displaced people in Myanmar is seen across the Moei river from Mae Sot, Tak province, Thailand Monday, March 25, 2024. Thailand delivered its first batch of humanitarian aid to war-torn Myanmar sending ten trucks over the border from the northern province of Tak in what they hope will be a continuing effort to ease the plight of millions of people displaced by fighting. (AP Photo/Sakchai Lalit)
Myanmar military officers march during a parade to commemorate Myanmar’s 79th Armed Forces Day, in Naypyitaw, Myanmar, Wednesday, March 27, 2024. (AP Photo/Aung Shine Oo)
A Catholic devotee makes a cross with palm leaves during a Palm Sunday Mass at the St. Joseph Cathedral in Hyderabad, India, Sunday, March 24, 2024. Palm Sunday marks the sixth and last Sunday of the Christian Holy month of Lent. (AP Photo/Mahesh Kumar A.)
A Catholic devotee makes a cross with palm leaves during a Palm Sunday Mass at the St. Joseph Cathedral in Hyderabad, India, Sunday, March 24, 2024. Palm Sunday marks the sixth and last Sunday of the Christian Holy month of Lent. (AP Photo/Mahesh Kumar A.)
Farmer Le Van Tam tends to coffee plants at a coffee farm in Dak Lak province, Vietnam, on Feb. 1, 2024. New European Union rules aimed at stopping deforestation are reordering supply chains. An expert said that there are going to be “winners and losers” since these rules require companies to provide detailed evidence showing that the coffee isn’t linked to land where forests had been cleared. (AP Photo/Hau Dinh)
Farmer Le Van Tam tends to coffee plants at a coffee farm in Dak Lak province, Vietnam, on Feb. 1, 2024. New European Union rules aimed at stopping deforestation are reordering supply chains. An expert said that there are going to be “winners and losers” since these rules require companies to provide detailed evidence showing that the coffee isn’t linked to land where forests had been cleared. (AP Photo/Hau Dinh)
Shiite Muslim children attend recitation classes of the holy Quran during the fasting month of Ramadan in Srinagar, Indian controlled Kashmir, Thursday, March 28, 2024. Muslims across the world are observing Ramadan, during which they refrain from eating, drinking and smoking from dawn to dusk. (AP Photo/Mukhtar Khan)
Shiite Muslim children attend recitation classes of the holy Quran during the fasting month of Ramadan in Srinagar, Indian controlled Kashmir, Thursday, March 28, 2024. Muslims across the world are observing Ramadan, during which they refrain from eating, drinking and smoking from dawn to dusk. (AP Photo/Mukhtar Khan)
Xie Yufeng throws a bird up as he shoots a bead through a tube for it to catch in mid-air, practicing a Beijing tradition that dates back to the Qing Dynasty, outside a stadium in Beijing, Tuesday, March 26, 2024. Today, only about 50-60 people in Beijing are believed to still practice it. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)
Xie Yufeng throws a bird up as he shoots a bead through a tube for it to catch in mid-air, practicing a Beijing tradition that dates back to the Qing Dynasty, outside a stadium in Beijing, Tuesday, March 26, 2024. Today, only about 50-60 people in Beijing are believed to still practice it. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)
A worker attaches a name tag of a Buddhist who made donation for the lantern display installed for upcoming celebrations of Buddha’s birthday on May 15 for the year 2024, at Jogye temple in Seoul, South Korea, Tuesday, March 26, 2024. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)
A worker attaches a name tag of a Buddhist who made donation for the lantern display installed for upcoming celebrations of Buddha’s birthday on May 15 for the year 2024, at Jogye temple in Seoul, South Korea, Tuesday, March 26, 2024. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)
Schoogirls of Jon U Junior Middle School rehearse for a performance in Moranbong District in Pyongyang, North Korea, on Thursday, March 21, 2024. (AP Photo/Jon Chol Jin)
Schoogirls of Jon U Junior Middle School rehearse for a performance in Moranbong District in Pyongyang, North Korea, on Thursday, March 21, 2024. (AP Photo/Jon Chol Jin)
A dog is carried by its owner as devotees have their palm fronds blessed with holy water at the Antipolo Cathedral in Antipolo, Philippines on Sunday, March 24, 2024. Palm Sunday marks the triumphant entry of Jesus Christ into Jerusalem and ushers in the Holy Week observance among Catholics worldwide. (AP Photo/Aaron Favila)
A dog is carried by its owner as devotees have their palm fronds blessed with holy water at the Antipolo Cathedral in Antipolo, Philippines on Sunday, March 24, 2024. Palm Sunday marks the triumphant entry of Jesus Christ into Jerusalem and ushers in the Holy Week observance among Catholics worldwide. (AP Photo/Aaron Favila)
Environmental activists and volunteers pick up trash from a garbage-strewn river during a river cleanup event in Pecatu, Bali, Indonesia on Friday, March 22, 2024. (AP Photo/Firdia Lisnawati)
Environmental activists and volunteers pick up trash from a garbage-strewn river during a river cleanup event in Pecatu, Bali, Indonesia on Friday, March 22, 2024. (AP Photo/Firdia Lisnawati)
Lawyers of losing presidential candidate Ganjar Pranowo carry documents into the Constitutional Court in Jakarta, Indonesia, Saturday, March 23, 2024. Pranowo is mounting a legal challenge alleging widespread irregularities and fraud in the Feb. 14 presidential election. Defense Minister Prabowo Subianto won the election by 58.6% of the votes, according to final results released by the Election Commission. (AP Photo/Achmad Ibrahim)
Lawyers of losing presidential candidate Ganjar Pranowo carry documents into the Constitutional Court in Jakarta, Indonesia, Saturday, March 23, 2024. Pranowo is mounting a legal challenge alleging widespread irregularities and fraud in the Feb. 14 presidential election. Defense Minister Prabowo Subianto won the election by 58.6% of the votes, according to final results released by the Election Commission. (AP Photo/Achmad Ibrahim)
A camp for internally displaced people in Myanmar is seen across the Moei river from Mae Sot, Tak province, Thailand Monday, March 25, 2024. Thailand delivered its first batch of humanitarian aid to war-torn Myanmar sending ten trucks over the border from the northern province of Tak in what they hope will be a continuing effort to ease the plight of millions of people displaced by fighting. (AP Photo/Sakchai Lalit)
A camp for internally displaced people in Myanmar is seen across the Moei river from Mae Sot, Tak province, Thailand Monday, March 25, 2024. Thailand delivered its first batch of humanitarian aid to war-torn Myanmar sending ten trucks over the border from the northern province of Tak in what they hope will be a continuing effort to ease the plight of millions of people displaced by fighting. (AP Photo/Sakchai Lalit)
Myanmar military officers march during a parade to commemorate Myanmar’s 79th Armed Forces Day, in Naypyitaw, Myanmar, Wednesday, March 27, 2024. (AP Photo/Aung Shine Oo)
Myanmar military officers march during a parade to commemorate Myanmar’s 79th Armed Forces Day, in Naypyitaw, Myanmar, Wednesday, March 27, 2024. (AP Photo/Aung Shine Oo)
March 22-28, 2024
Lawyers file a lawsuit against the presidential election results in Indonesia, Thailand tries to help displaced people in Myanmar, and the Myanmar military holds the annual Armed Forces Day parade.
Christian, Muslim and Buddhist devotees participate in events for the Holy month of Lent in the Philippines, the fasting month of Ramadan in Indian-controlled Kashmir and Buddha’s birthday in South Korea.
Coffee bean farmers and companies work to protect forests in Vietnam, less people practice the historical tradition of training birds to catch beads in China, school pupils practice for a performance on stage in North Korea, environmental volunteers clean water in Bali, Indonesia.
This photo gallery highlights some of the most compelling images in the Asia-Pacific region made or published by The Associated Press in the past week.
The selection was curated by AP photo editor Hiro Komae in Tokyo.
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