AP Week in Pictures: Asia

Aug 11, 2022, 10:55 AM | Updated: 11:04 pm

Some parts of a main road along the Han River are flooded due to heavy rain in Seoul, South Korea, Wednesday, Aug. 10, 2022. Cleanup and recovery efforts gained pace in South Korea's greater capital region Wednesday as skies cleared after two days of record-breaking rainfall that unleashed flash floods, damaged thousands of buildings and roads and killed multiple people. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)

(AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)

Visitors pose for a selfie in a sunflower field in Hokuto city of Yamanashi prefecture, Japan, Tuesday, Aug. 9, 2022. The city, known for its longest hours of sunshine per year in Japan, draws many tourists during its sunflower summer festival. (AP Photo/Shuji Kajiyama)

Members of the fishing community make their way through plastic waste on the beach to offer coconut to the sea on the occasion of Narli Pournima, or coconut festival in Mumbai, India, Thursday, Aug. 11, 2022. (AP Photo/Rajanish kakade)

Hindu devotees collect water from the Bagmati river during the Bol Bom pilgrimage at Sudarijaal, on the outskirts of Kathmandu, Nepal, Monday, Aug. 8, 2022. During this pilgrimage, devotees collect water from the Bagmati river and walk miles barefooted before offering the same at the Pashupatinath Shiva temple in Kathmandu. (AP Photo/Niranjan Shrestha)

Secretary of State Antony Blinken stops to feed an Asian elephant during a visit to a COVID-19 vaccination clinic at the Manila Zoo in Manila, Philippines, Saturday, Aug. 6, 2022. Blinken is on a ten-day trip to Cambodia, Philippines, South Africa, Congo, and Rwanda. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, Pool)

Indian paramilitary soldiers detain a lawmaker from India's opposition Congress party during a protest in New Delhi, India, Friday, Aug. 5, 2022. Indian police detained dozens of opposition Congress party lawmakers, including Rahul Gandhi, a party leader, as they tried to march to the president's palace and prime minister's residence to protest soaring prices of fuel and foodstuffs, and a rise in goods and services tax. (AP Photo/Altaf Qadri)

Indian policemen detain a Kashmiri Shiite Muslim for participating in a religious procession during restrictions in Srinagar, Indian controlled Kashmir, Sunday, Aug. 7, 2022. Authorities had imposed restrictions in parts of Srinagar, the region's main city, to prevent gatherings marking Muharram from developing into anti-India protests. (AP Photo/Mukhtar Khan)

Soldiers carry the flag-draped casket of the late former Philippine President Fidel Ramos during his state funeral at the Heroes' Cemetery in Taguig, Philippines, Tuesday, Aug. 9, 2022. Ramos was laid to rest in a state funeral Tuesday, hailed as an ex-general, who backed then helped oust a dictatorship and became a defender of democracy and can-do reformist in his poverty-wracked Asian country. (AP Photo/Aaron Favila)

A shepherd with his flock shelters from the rain under a huge boulder in Dharmsala, India, Monday, Aug. 8, 2022. (AP Photo/Ashwini Bhatia)

A Hindu devotee takes a holy dip with his child before collecting water from the Bagmati river during the Bol Bom pilgrimage at Sudarijaal, on the outskirts of Kathmandu, Nepal, Monday, Aug. 8, 2022. During this pilgrimage, devotees collect water from the Bagmati river and walk miles barefooted before offering the same at the Pashupatinath Shiva temple in Kathmandu. (AP Photo/Niranjan Shrestha)

BY ASSOCIATED PRESS

Aug. 5-11, 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 Hiro Komae in Tokyo.

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AP Week in Pictures: Asia

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