AP Week in Pictures: Asia

Sep 15, 2022, 6:43 AM | Updated: 6:48 pm

Protesters light up flares during a rally demanding that the government revoke its decision to raise fuel prices in Jakarta, Indonesia, Tuesday, Sept. 13, 2022. Prices of gasoline and diesel fuel jumped by about 30% earlier this month after President Joko Widodo's administration cut fuel subsidies to reduce the country's multibillion-dollar budget deficit. (AP Photo/Dita Alangkara)

(AP Photo/Dita Alangkara)

A man bows as another leave flowers outside the British Embassy following the death of Queen Elizabeth II, Friday, Sept. 9, 2022, in Tokyo. Queen Elizabeth II, Britain's longest-reigning monarch and a rock of stability across much of a turbulent century, died Thursday after 70 years on the throne. She was 96. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)

An idol of elephant-headed Hindu god Ganesha is taken for immersion on the final day of the ten-day long Ganesh Chaturthi festival in Mumbai, India, Friday, Sept. 9, 2022. The festival is a celebration of the birth of Ganesha, the Hindu god of wisdom, prosperity and good fortune. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool)

A security guard wearing a face mask stands watch at an entrance gate of a public park in Beijing, Monday, Sept. 12, 2022. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)

Living god Ganesh looks out from a window during the annual Indra Jatra festival in Kathmandu, Nepal, Friday, Sept. 9, 2022. The girl child revered as the living goddess was pulled around the main parts of the capital Friday by devotees on a wooden chariot as tens of thousands of people lined up in the old city to get a glimpse and blessing. (AP Photo/Niranjan Shrestha)

The Sydney Opera House is illuminated in honour of Queen Elizabeth II in Sydney, Australia, Friday, Sept. 9, 2022. Queen Elizabeth II, Britain's longest-reigning monarch and a rock of stability in a turbulent era for her country and the world, died Thursday, Sept. 8 after 70 years on the throne. She was 96. (AP Photo/Mark Baker)

Flowers and a tribute are set up next to wax figures of the late Queen Elizabeth II and her husband Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, at the i-City Red Carpet Wax Museum in Shah Alam, on the outskirts of Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Sunday, Sept. 11, 2022. (AP Photo/Vincent Thian)

A woman takes selfie photos in a field of sunflowers at a park in Yeoncheon, South Korea, Monday, Sept. 12, 2022. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)

A model showcases a creation by a Chinese designer during the Young Talent Award Eeka Prize for the China Fashion Week in Beijing, Sunday, Sept. 11, 2022. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)

BY ASSOCIATED PRESS

Sept. 9-15, 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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