AP Week in Pictures: Asia

Jul 21, 2022, 6:03 AM | Updated: 6:10 pm

Police men guard outside the official residence of the president the day after Ranil Wickremesinghe was elected president in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Thursday, July 21, 2022. Sri Lanka's prime minister was elected president Wednesday by lawmakers who opted for a seasoned, veteran leader to lead the country out of economic collapse, despite widespread public opposition. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool)

(AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool)

Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama arrives at the airport in Leh, Ladakh, India, Friday, July 15, 2022. The visit is also his first since India split the high-altitude region from disputed Kashmir and took direct control of it in 2019 while revoking the entire territory's semiautonomous status. A year after that change, Indian and Chinese troops came close to war in Ladakh and ever since they have been locked in a military standoff along their disputed border. (AP Photo/Tenzin Choejor)

An Agriculture Ministry official uses a blowgun to give vaccine to cows during a vaccination campaign to prevent the spread of a the highly infectious foot-and-mouth disease at a farm in Denpasar, Bali, Indonesia on Thursday, July 21, 2022. Thousands of cattle are covered in blisters from highly infectious foot-and-mouth disease in Indonesia, sounding the alarm for the country, its Southeast Asian neighbors and Australia. (AP Photo/Firdia Lisnawati)

Sri Lankan wait in queue to buy petrol at a fuel station, in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Sunday, July 17, 2022. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool)

A dhobi, or a washerman hangs cloths for drying after washing them on the banks of the River Gomti in Lucknow, northern Uttar Pradesh state, India, Sunday, July 17, 2022. Dhobis are traditional laundry workers who wash clothes by hand and dry them in the sun, an occupation which has been in existence for generations. This practice is still popular in many parts of India, despite of modern technology. (AP Photo/ Rajesh Kumar Singh)

Journalists attend a preview of the Apollo RT6, a fully electric vehicle with an "optional" steering wheel that can be removed or installed when required, Wednesday, July 20, 2022, in Beijing. Chinese search engine and artificial intelligence firm Baidu on Thursday, July 21 unveiled its latest electric autonomous driving vehicle that it says will be soon be part of its robotaxi fleet, as China pushes forward with its autonomous driving ambitions. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)

A tribal Khasi boy walks through a paddy field at Moronga village, along the Assam-Meghalaya state border, India, Tuesday, July 19, 2022. (AP Photo/Anupam Nath)

Tears roll down the cheeks of a protester as she attends a peaceful sit down protest demanding the ouster of Prime Minister and Acting President Ranil Wickremesinghe outside president's office in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Wednesday, July 20, 2022. Sri Lanka's Parliament is voting by secret ballot Wednesday for a new president to lead the country out of a deep political, economic and humanitarian crisis. (AP Photo/Eranga Jayawardena)

Protesters shouts slogans demanding acting president and prime minister Ranil Wickremesinghe resign in Colombo, Sri Lanka, in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Tuesday, July 19, 2022. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool)

BY ASSOCIATED PRESS

July 15-21, 2022

This photo gallery highlights some of the most compelling images made or published by Associated Press photographers in Asia and Pacific.

The gallery was curated by AP photo editor Masayo Yoshida in Tokyo.

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