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AP Week in Pictures: Asia

A girl plays on a trampoline at a local fair in Paror, about 40 kilometers (25 miles) south of Dharmsala, India, Tuesday, March 22, 2022. These local fairs, once an annual feature, are slowly returning after being cancelled during the Covid pandemic. (AP Photo/Ashwini Bhatia) A Gray heron flying in front of the moon in the early morning in Kapar on the outskirt of Selangor state, Malaysia, Saturday, March 19, 2022. (AP Photo/Vincent Thian) Community workers wearing protective suits watch over a masked resident twirling a dragon shaped ribbon near a barricaded coronavirus testing site setup outside the Drum Tower, Wednesday, March 23, 2022, in Beijing, China. A fast-spreading variant known as "stealth omicron" is testing China's zero-tolerance strategy, which had kept the virus at bay since the deadly initial outbreak in the city of Wuhan in early 2020. (AP Photo/Andy Wong) A worker checks the electric wires to hang lanterns for upcoming celebration of Buddha's birthday on May 8 at Jogye temple in Seoul, South Korea, Tuesday, March 22, 2022. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon) A security guard wearing a protective suit adjusts his face shield as he stands watch over a barricaded community that was locked down for health monitoring following the COVID-19 case detected in the area, Tuesday, March 22, 2021, in Beijing, China. (AP Photo/Andy Wong) A woman and a child wearing face masks walk along a street in Hong Kong, Tuesday, March 22, 2022. Hong Kong reported 14,063 new coronavirus infections on Monday, the lowest in over three weeks. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung) Indian paramilitary soldiers detain an opposition Congress party supporter during a protest against rising inflation and price hike of essential commodities in New Delhi, India, Wednesday, March 23, 2022. (AP Photo/Altaf Qadri) Members of Japan's lower house of parliament applaud as Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy delivers a virtual address to Japanese lawmakers in Tokyo, Wednesday, March 23, 2022. (Behrouz Mehri/Pool Photo via AP) A relative of passengers onboard the China Eastern Flight 5735 cries as she is escorted near the crash site, Thursday, March 24, 2022, in Shentian village, southwestern China's Guangxi province. The search area was expanded Thursday in a "blanket search" for the second black box from a China Eastern passenger plane that crashed in southern China with 132 people on board earlier this week, state media said. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan) In this photo released by Xinhua News Agency, Emergency workers using sniff dogs to conduct search for the black box near the debris at the China Eastern flight crash site in Tengxian County in southern China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, Tuesday, March 22, 2022. The search area was expanded Thursday in a "blanket search" for the second black box from a China Eastern passenger plane that crashed in southern China with 132 people on board earlier this week, state media said. (Jiang Huaipeng/Xinhua via AP) People celebrate Holi, the Hindu festival of colors, in Prayagraj, in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, India, India, Saturday, March 19, 2022. The festival, a celebration of warm weather, good harvests and the defeat of evil, brings out millions of people to throw powder at one another and play with water balloons and squirt guns. (AP Photo/Rajesh Kumar Singh) A reveller smeared in colored powder dances during Holi festival in Hyderabad, India, Friday, March 18, 2022. Holi also heralds the arrival of spring. (AP Photo/Mahesh Kumar A.)
AP Week in Pictures: Asia