Year in Photos: Asia

Every year, Associated Press editors choose a selection of photos that best documents the year’s top news, feature and sports stories as chronicled by photojournalists around the world. 

Below is a gallery featuring the top photos of 2017 from AP photographers across Asia curated by AP Deputy News Director, Production & Presentation, Asia-Pacific Charles Dharapak.

In this Nov. 5, 2017, photo, newly arrived Rohingya Muslims carry yellow plastic drums they used as flotation aids and listen to Bangladeshi authorities, not pictured, after swimming across the Naf river at Shah Porir Dwip, Bangladesh. The Naf river is a natural border between Myanmar and Bangladesh. Several young Rohingya Muslims escaping the violence in their homeland of Myanmar are now so desperate that they are swimming to safety into neighboring Bangladesh. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)

A Rohingya Muslim man carries an elderly woman and walks towards a camp for refugees after crossing over the border from Myanmar into Bangladesh in Teknaf, Bangladesh, Friday, Sept. 29, 2017. More than a month after Myanmar's refugees began spilling across the border, the U.N. says more than half a million have arrived. (AP Photo/Gemunu Amarasinghe)

In this Nov. 12, 2017, photo, Rohingya Muslims travel on a raft made with plastic containers on which they crossing over the Naf river from Myanmar into Bangladesh, near Shah Porir Dwip, Bangladesh. Many of the refugees who have been flooding into Bangladesh to escape the Myanmar military say they're hopeful that a visit to the region by Pope Francis will help bring peace. Francis will be treading a difficult diplomatic line on his visit to Bangladesh and Myanmar, where he is due to arrive Monday afternoon. (AP Photo/A.M. Ahad)

A Rohingya Muslim man Naseer Ud Din holds his infant son Abdul Masood, who drowned when the boat they were traveling in capsized just before reaching the shore, as his wife Hanida Begum cries upon reaching the Bay of Bengal shore in Shah Porir Dwip, Bangladesh, Thursday, Sept. 14, 2017. Nearly three weeks into a mass exodus of Rohingya fleeing violence in Myanmar, thousands were still flooding across the border Thursday in search of help and safety in teeming refugee settlements in Bangladesh. (AP Photo/Dar Yasin)

A Rohingya Muslim woman Zahida Banoo holds her son Mohammad Noor, left, and daughter Shah Heer as she poses for a photograph on the way to her shelter in Kutupalong refugee camp, Bangladesh, Friday, Sept. 15, 2017. With Rohingya refugees still flooding across the border from Myanmar, those packed into camps and makeshift settlements in Bangladesh were becoming desperate for scant basic resources as hunger and illness soared. (AP Photo/Dar Yasin)

An injured Rohingya Muslim woman and her relatives rush to a hospital on an autorickshaw, near Kutupalong, Bangladesh, on Sept. 4, 2017. While crossing into Bangladesh, the elderly woman stepped on a land mind that blew off her right leg, witnesses said. Myanmar’s military has been accused of planting land mines in the path of Rohingya Muslims fleeing violence in its western Rakhine state. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)

In this Wednesday, Sept. 6, 2017 photo, Muslim protesters are seen through razor wire barricades during a rally against the persecution of Rohingya Muslims outside the Myanmar's Embassy in Jakarta, Indonesia. Several thousand people marched in Indonesia's capital on Wednesday, calling on the government of the world's most populous Muslim nation to put more pressure on Myanmar to halt the persecution of its Rohingya Muslim minority. (AP Photo/Tatan Syuflana)

Myanmar's leader Aung San Suu Kyi talks to Pope Francis at a meeting in Naypyitaw, Myanmar, Tuesday, Nov. 28, 2017. (AP Photo/Aung Shine Oo)

Pope Francis waves to faithful as he arrives arrives to celebrate mass and the ordination of new priests in Dhaka, Bangladesh, Friday, Dec. 1, 2017. Pope Francis ordained 16 priests during a Mass in Bangladesh on Friday, the start of a busy day that will bring him face-to-face with Rohingya Muslim refugees from Myanmar and the reality of Islamic extremism in South Asia. (AP Photo/Aijaz Rahi)

School students stand on a truck as their transport to go to school with the Mount Agung volcano spews smoke and ash in Karangasem, Bali, Indonesia, Tuesday, Nov. 28, 2017. Indonesia authorities raised the alert for the rumbling volcano to highest level on Monday and closed the international airport on the tourist island of Bali stranding some thousands of travelers.(AP Photo/Firdia Lisnawati)

Protesters set off fireworks during a candle light vigil calling for impeached President Park Geun-hye's arrest in Seoul, South Korea, Saturday, March 11, 2017. South Korean police on Saturday braced for more violence between opponents and supporters of ousted President Park Geun-hye, who was stripped of her powers by the Constitutional Court over a corruption scandal that has plunged the country into a political turmoil. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)

South Korea's presidential candidate Moon Jae-in of the Democratic Party raises his hands in front of the media as his party leaders, members and supporters watch on television local media's results of exit polls for the presidential election at National Assembly in Seoul, South Korea, Tuesday, May 9, 2017. Exit polls forecast that liberal candidate Moon win the election Tuesday to succeed ousted President Park Geun-hye. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)

In this Monday, Jan. 2, 2017 photo, Japan's Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko wave to well-wishers from the palace balcony during a New Year's public appearance with his family members at the Imperial Palace in Tokyo. Akihito, in a rare address in August 2016, indicated his wish to abdicate, citing concerns that his age and health conditions may start limiting his ability to fulfill his duties. (AP Photo/Shizuo Kambayashi, File)

WWII veteran Marvin Strombo, right, and Tatsuya Yasue, 89-year-old farmer, hold a Japanese flag with autographed messages which was owned by his brother Sadao Yasue, who was killed in the Pacific during World Work II, during a ceremony in Higashishirakawa, in central Japan's Gifu prefecture Tuesday, Aug. 15, 2017. Strombo has returned to the fallen soldier's family the calligraphy-covered flag he took from the man's body 73 years ago. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)

Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte reacts during a press conference at the Malacanang presidential palace in Manila, Philippines on Monday, March 13, 2017. The Philippine president has ordered the military to assert his country's ownership of a vast offshore region off its northeastern coast where Chinese survey ships have been sighted last year and alarmed defense officials. (AP Photo/Aaron Favila)

Philippine Navy commandos aboard a gunboat patrol the periphery of Lake Lanao as smoke rises from the "Main Battle Area" where pro-Islamic group militants are making a final stand amid a massive military offensive of Marawi city in southern Philippines Thursday, Oct. 19, 2017. Two days after President Rodrigo Duterte declared the liberation of Marawi city, the military announced the killing of 13 more suspected militants in the continuing military offensive. (AP Photo/Bullit Marquez)

Debris fly as Philippine Air Force fighter jets bomb suspected positions of Muslim militants as fighting continues in Marawi city, southern Philippines Friday, June 9, 2017. It’s unclear how many people remain trapped in Marawi as government troops battle Muslim militants led by the so-called "Maute" group but army officers have put the figure this week at anywhere from 150 to 1,000. (AP Photo/Aaron Favila)

Amidst the ruins at "Ground Zero" Philippine troops return to their deployment after attending the ceremony wherein President Rodrigo Duterte declared the liberation of Marawi city in southern Philippines after almost five months of the siege by pro-Islamic State group militants Tuesday, Oct. 17, 2017. Gunfire rang out sporadically and explosions thudded as Philippine soldiers fought Tuesday to gain control of the last pocket of Marawi controlled by Islamic militants as President Duterte declared the southern city liberated from "terrorist influence." (AP Photo/Bullit Marquez)

In this Monday, April 17, 2017, photo, two North Korean soldiers look at the south side as a South Korean soldier, center, stand guard while U.S. Vice President Mike Pence visited the border village of Panmunjom which has separated the two Koreas since the Korean War, South Korea. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un arrives for the official opening of the Ryomyong residential area, Thursday, April 13, 2017, in Pyongyang, North Korea. Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, speaking Thursday at a parliamentary panel on national security and diplomacy, warned that North Korea may be capable of firing a missile loaded with sarin nerve gas toward Japan. (AP Photo/Wong Maye-E)

In this Thursday, July 6, 2017, file photo, soldiers gather in Kim Il Sung Square in Pyongyang, North Korea, to celebrate the test launch of North Korea's first intercontinental ballistic missile two days earlier. Threatening to fire a volley of missiles toward a major U.S. military hub _ and the home to 160,000 American civilians _ may seem like a pretty bad move for a country that is seriously outgunned and has an awful lot to lose. But pushing the envelope, or just threatening to do so, is what North Korea does best. (AP Photo/Jon Chol Jin, File)

A North Korean student salutes the audience at the start of a performance at the Mangyongdae Children's Palace on Friday, April 14, 2017, in Pyongyang, North Korea. Amid rising regional tensions, Pyongyang residents have been preparing for North Korea's most important holiday: the 105th birth anniversary of Kim Il Sung, the country's late founder and grandfather of current ruler Kim Jong Un. (AP Photo/Wong Maye-E)

In this Sept. 4, 2017 photo, portraits of late North Korean leaders Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il hang on a wall as a woman stands in a room of a dormitory for workers with the seafood processing factory Hunchun Pagoda, in the city of Hunchun in northeastern China's Jilin province. The workers wake up each morning on metal bunk beds in fluorescent-lit Chinese dormitories, North Koreans outsourced by their government to process seafood that ends up in American stores and homes. Privacy is forbidden. They cannot leave their compounds without permission. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)

Hong Kong's chief executive elect Carrie Lam stands behind a red ribbon before making a statement after meeting with current chief executive Leung Chun-ying at government headquarters in Hong Kong, Monday, March 27, 2017. The candidate favored by China's Communist leadership was chosen as Hong Kong's new leader a day earlier, in the first such vote since huge pro-democracy protests erupted over the semiautonomous Chinese city's election system in 2014. (AP Photo/Vincent Yu)

New members of the Politburo Standing Committee, from left, Han Zheng, Wang Huning, Li Zhanshu, Xi Jinping, Li Keqiang, Wang Yang, Zhao Leji stand together at Beijing's Great Hall of the People Wednesday, Oct 25, 2017. The seven-member Standing Committee, the inner circle of Chinese political power, was paraded in front of assembled media on the first day following the end of the 19th Communist Party Congress. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)

From left, Hong Kong's young democracy leaders Lester Shum, Joshua Wong and Alex Chow pose for photographers in front of the High Court in Hong Kong, Thursday, Dec. 7, 2017. Hong Kong's young democracy leader Joshua Wong faces a possible new prison sentence in a case stemming from 2014 protests in the semiautonomous Chinese city. He's among a group of activists awaiting sentencing Thursday afternoon following their convictions months earlier. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung)

A poster featuring a image of jailed Chinese Nobel Peace laureate Liu Xiaobo and his detained wife Liu Xia, which is composed by photos of their supporters are displayed during a demonstration in Hong Kong, Saturday, April 1, 2017 as they send a blessings for Liu Xia's birthday. The protesters demanded to release Liu Xiaobo and Liu Xia. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung)

Protesters burn a poster of U.S. President Donald Trump during a rally outside the U.S. Embassy in Jakarta, Indonesia, Monday, Dec. 11, 2017. Hundreds of people staged the protest in the Indonesian capital of Jakarta to denounce Trump's decision to recognize Jerusalem as Israel's capital. (AP Photo/Dita Alangkara)

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, former U.S. President Barack Obama and U.S. President Donald Trump impersonators, from right, Howard, Reggie Brown and Dennis Alan, take rest at a cafe as they promote the Hong Kong Rugby Sevens in Hong Kong, Friday, April 7, 2017. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung)

In this Monday, Feb. 20, 2017 photo, Donald Tsang, center, former leader of Hong Kong, is escorted in a prison bus leaving the high court after sentencing and mitigation after his conviction last week for misconduct in public office, in Hong Kong. Tsang was found guilty by a jury of one count of misconduct in public office over a luxury apartment in mainland China, making him the highest ranking current or former official to be convicted for corruption in the Asian financial hub. (AP Photo/Vincent Yu, File)

In this March 1, 2017, photo, Vietnamese Doan Thi Huong, center, a suspect in the ongoing investigation into the assassination of Kim Jong Nam, is escorted by police from Sepang court in Sepang, Malaysia. Appearing calm and solemn, two young women accused of smearing VX nerve agent on Kim Jong Nam, the estranged half brother of North Korea's leader, were charged with murder. (AP Photo/Daniel Chan)

Indonesian Siti Aisyah, center, is escorted by police at Kuala Lumpur International Airport in Sepang, Malaysia, Tuesday, Oct. 24, 2017. The two women accused of killing Kim Jong Nam, the North Korean leader’s half brother, toured the Malaysian airport Tuesday as participants in their murder trial visited the scene of the attack. (AP Photo/Sadiq Asyraf)

Models display creations by Tokuko Maeda during the 2017 Autumn/Winter Collection at the Tokyo Fashion Week in Tokyo, Thursday, March 23, 2017. (AP Photo/Shizuo Kambayashi)

In this Feb. 1, 2017 photo, Anjali Lama, a transgender model from Nepal, holds a scarf up with another model as they wait to walk the ramp during Lakme Fashion week in Mumbai, India. Growing up as the fifth son in a poor farming family in rural Nepal the dream to be a fashion model came late in life. First came a long, painful struggle to accept that he felt deeply female. It was a chance encounter with a group of transgender women that turned Lama's life around by putting her in touch with the Blue Diamond Society, an advocacy group for Nepal's LGBT community. In 2005 she came out to her friends and family as a transgender woman. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool)

A man wearing the British flag shorts jogs at King George V Memorial Park in Hong Kong on Friday, June 2, 2017. Two decades after Hong Kong was handed to China, many residents continue to live their lives as before, holding onto old habits and routines as well as beliefs inspired by the former British colonial rulers, such as democracy, freedom of speech and justice. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung)

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Hospitality staff members laugh as they stand on Tiananmen Square before the closing ceremony of China's 19th Party Congress at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, Tuesday, Oct. 24, 2017. The ruling Communist Party on Tuesday formally lifted Xi Jinping's status to China's most powerful ruler in decades, setting the stage for the authoritarian leader to tighten his grip over the country while pursuing an increasingly muscular foreign policy and military expansion. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)

In this Monday, March 20, 2017 photo, high-rise buildings are partly covered by heavy fog at Hong Kong's Victoria Harbour. Fog blanketing Hong Kong is common in springtime and may greatly affect shipping and aviation. (AP Photo/Vincent Yu, File)

A boy lies in a pool of tomatoes during the 2017 Tomato Festival in Hwacheon, South Korea, Saturday, Aug. 5, 2017. The festival runs from Aug. 4 to Aug. 7. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)

A couple wearing Japanese traditional kimonos pose for a wedding photo by a rapeseed oil field at Hamarikyu Garden in Tokyo, Friday, Feb. 10, 2017. The flowers are expected to remain in full bloom until the end of March. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)

Seabirds perch on electric cables beside a river in Manila, Philippines on Friday, Feb. 17, 2017. Many birds fly over Pasig river and Manila bay to search for food. (AP Photo/Aaron Favila)

An Olive-backed Sunbird feeds its two babies insects in their nest in Klang, Selangor, Malaysia on Saturday, Jan. 21, 2017. Sunbirds, a group of very small passerine birds, feed largely on nectar, although they will also take insects, especially when feeding their young. Sunbirds are found in tropical Africa, India, and the forests of Southeast Asia, including the Philippines. (AP Photo/Vincent Thian)

Wild elephants chase back Indian villagers who were trying to chase them away from their Misamari village on the outskirts of Gauhati, Assam state, India, Thursday, Feb. 9, 2017. Three wild elephants from nearby Amchang wildlife sanctuary entered the village in search of food Thursday. (AP Photo/Anupam Nath)

Flowers placed by villagers are seen on the carcass of one among two endangered Asian elephants that were hit and killed by a passenger train near a railway track in Thakur Kuchi village on the outskirts of Gauhati, Assam state, India, Sunday, Nov. 19, 2017. Wildlife warden Prodipta Baruah says the elephants were part of a herd of about 15 that had ventured into the area in search of food before dawn Sunday. (AP Photo/Anupam Nath)

A full grown female leopard looks up from inside a deep well that it fell into near a residential area on a hill on the outskirts of Gauhati, India, Wednesday, Dec.13, 2017. Veterinarian and forest officials tranquilized and rescued the leopard before sending it to the state zoological park in Gauhati. (AP Photo/Anupam Nath)

Two years old female giant panda cub Nuan Nuan, scratch her head at the Giant Panda Conservation Center in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Thursday, Oct. 5, 2017. The cub, the offspring of Xing Xing and Liang Liang, two giant pandas on loan to Malaysia from China in 2014, will return to China on Nov. 14. (AP Photo/Vincent Thian)

In this Wednesday, June 28, 2017, photo, people get drenched as pigeons fly during a monsoon season high tide at the Arabian Sea coast in Mumbai, India. Monsoon season in India begins in June and ends in October. (AP Photo/Rajanish Kakade)

In this Thursday, Aug. 10, 2017 photo, a tranquilized male orangutan holds on to a tree as it's being rescued from a swath of forest located too close to a palm oil plantation at Tripa peat swamp in Aceh province, Indonesia. Conservationists from Sumatran Orangutan Conservation Program (SOCP) relocated the orangutan they named "Black" to a reintroduction center in Jantho, Aceh Besar where he will join about 100 other primates that have been released in the jungle there to establish a new wild population. (AP Photo/Binsar Bakkara)

In this Feb. 10, 2017 photo, a tamer tries to control a bull during the Jallikattu festival, in the village of Allanganallur, near Madurai, Tamil Nadu state, India. One by one the bulls are led to a small shack at one end of the packed arena and the back door is shut. The bull runs out into the crowds as spectators cheer loudly and commentary on the bull run plays loudly over a microphone. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)

In this Friday, June 16, 2017, file photo, a group of Myanmar Buddhist monks walk to collect their morning "alms" or offerings in Yangon, Myanmar. (AP Photo/Thein Zaw, File)

A Thai Buddhist monk with a tattooed back listens to the Tibetan spiritual leader Dalai Lama during a religious talk at the Tsuglagkhang temple in Dharmsala, India, Wednesday, June 7, 2017. Each year the Tibetan leader talks to young Tibetans on Buddhist philosophy and selected texts. The three-day talk ended Wednesday. (AP Photo/Ashwini Bhatia)

In this Saturday, Aug. 5, 2017, photo, visitors pose for a photo with a 3D image at an art exhibition by Japanese artist Masashi Hattori in Kawasaki, near Tokyo. (AP Photo/Koji Sasahara)

Passengers walk past South Korean army soldiers during an anti-terror drill as part of Ulchi Freedom Guardian exercise, at a subway station in Seoul, South Korea, Tuesday, Aug. 22, 2017. As North Korea vowed "merciless retaliation" against U.S.-South Korean military drills it claims are an invasion rehearsal, senior U.S. military commanders on Tuesday dismissed calls to pause or downsize exercises they called crucial to countering a clear threat from Pyongyang. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)

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In this Saturday, May 13, 2017, photo, members of the honor guard hold flags as they wait for the arrival of visiting Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban during a welcome ceremony outside the Great Hall of the People in Beijing. Orban is in Beijing to attend the Belt and Road Forum on May 14-15. (AP Photo/Andy Wong, File)

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Japanese Air Self-Defense Force (JASDF) display PAC-3 surface-to-air interceptors at the U.S. Yokota Air Base in Fussa, on the outskirts of Tokyo Tuesday, Aug. 29, 2017. The pre-planned training took place the same morning North Korea fired a missile over Japan. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)

A member of the Royal Malaysian Police Special Tactical Unit takes part in a drill to prepare for the upcoming Southeast Asian Games at KL Sentral in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Thursday, July 20, 2017. Kuala Lumpur will be the host city of the 29th SEA Games and the 9th ASEAN Para Games on Aug. 19-30. (AP Photo/Vincent Thian)

Mourners hold aloft the portraits of late Thai King Bhumibol Adulyadej during his funeral procession and royal cremation ceremony, in Bangkok, Thailand, Thursday, Oct. 26, 2017. Tearful Thais clad in black mourned on Bangkok's streets or at viewing areas around the nation Thursday as elaborate funeral ceremonies steeped in centuries of royal tradition were held for King Bhumibol following a year of mourning. (AP Photo/Sakchai Lalit)

Smoke rises from the royal crematorium of Thailand's late King Bhumibol Adulyadej in Bangkok, Thailand, early Friday, Oct. 27, 2017. The funeral for Bhumibol takes place over five days and began Wednesday with his son, King Maha Vajiralongkorn, performing Buddhist merit-making rites before chanting monks and officials in immaculate white uniforms. (AP Photo/Wason Wanichakorn)

A man prepares palm sugar from the palm juice he collected from trees during its harvesting season at Samroang village on the north side of Phnom Penh, Cambodia, Thursday, Dec. 14, 2017. Some villagers earn up to $7 a day collecting palm juice as part of their daily income. (AP Photo/Heng Sinith)

A hospital staff member checks newly arrived oxygen cylinders at Baba Raghav Das Medical College Hospital in Gorakhpur, in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, Saturday, Aug. 12, 2017. Parents of at least 35 children who have died in the state-run hospital over the past three days have alleged that the fatalities were due to the lack of a sufficient oxygen supply in the children's ward. District Magistrate Rajiv Rautela said Saturday that the deaths of the children being treated for different ailments were due to natural causes. He denied that an insufficient oxygen supply led to their deaths. (AP Photo/Rajesh Kumar Singh)

46-year-old Manthala weeps as she hears the news of the death of her one-month-old son Roshan at Baba Raghav Das Medical College Hospital in Gorakhpur, in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, Saturday, Aug. 12, 2017. Parents of at least 35 children who have died in the state-run hospital over the past three days have alleged that the fatalities were due to the lack of a sufficient oxygen supply in the children's ward. District Magistrate Rajiv Rautela said Saturday that the deaths of the children being treated for different ailments were due to natural causes. He denied that an insufficient oxygen supply led to their deaths. (AP Photo/Rajesh Kumar Singh)

In this Wednesday, Oct. 5, file 2016 photo, Indian spiritual guru, who calls himself Saint Dr. Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh Ji Insan, arrives for a press conference ahead of the release of his new film "MSG, The Warrior Lion Heart," in New Delhi, India. Several cities in north India were under a security lock down Thursday ahead of a verdict in a rape trial involving the controversial and hugely popular spiritual leader. (AP Photo/Tsering Topgyal)

Dera Sacha Sauda sect members overturn an OB van on the streets of Panchkula, India, Friday, Aug. 25, 2017. Deadly riots have broken out in a north Indian town after a court convicted their guru, who calls himself Saint Dr. Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh Ji Insaan, of raping two of his followers. Mobs also attacked journalists and set fire to government buildings and railway stations. (AP Photo/Altaf Qadri)

In this Monday, Feb. 6, 2017 photo, Bangladeshi people walk across a temporary bridge as smoke emits from tannery waste at the highly polluted Hazaribagh tannery area in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Pure Earth a nongovernmental organization that addresses industrial pollution put Hazaribagh on its Top 10 list of polluted places, along with Chernobyl, although similar problems of pollution and dangerous working conditions exist at tannery clusters in the Philippines and India as well. (AP Photo/A.M. Ahad, File)

A family member performs rituals over the body of Srinivas Kuchibhotla, a 32-year-old engineer who was killed in an apparently racially motivated shooting in a crowded Kansas bar, at a crematorium in Hyderabad, India, Tuesday, Feb.28, 2017. According to witnesses, the gunman yelled "get out of my country" at Kuchibhotla and Alok Madasani before he opened fire at Austin's Bar and Grill in Olathe, Kansas, a suburb of Kansas City, on Wednesday evening. Both men had come to the U.S. from India to study and worked as engineers at GPS-maker Garmin. (AP Photo/Mahesh Kumar A.)

An Indian woman reacts to camera as she works at a brick kiln with her face covered to protect from dust on the eve of International Women's Day in Hyderabad, India, Tuesday, March 7, 2017. (AP Photo /Mahesh Kumar A.)

Hindu priests throw color powders at the devotees inside Banke Bihari temple, dedicated to Lord Krishna, during Holi festival celebrations in Vrindavan, India, Wednesday, March 8, 2017. Holi, the festival of colors, celebrates the arrival of spring. (AP Photo/Manish Swarup)

Kashmiri students and other protesters attack an Indian police vehicle as they clash in Srinagar, Indian controlled Kashmir, Monday, April 24, 2017. Tensions between Kashmiri students and Indian law enforcement have escalated since April 15, when government forces raided a college in Pulwama, about 30 kilometers (19 miles) south of Srinagar, to scare anti-India activists. (AP Photo/Mukhtar Khan)

In this Wednesday, April 26, 2017 photo, a Bangladeshi man is silhouetted against the headlight of a car as he walks past smoke rising from a manhole on a hot summer evening in Dhaka, Bangladesh. (AP Photo/ A. M. Ahad)

In this Nov. 27, 2017, photo, a man looks outside the window of an apartment where migrant workers stayed in the outskirts of Beijing. Authorities in Beijing have been evicting domestic migrant workers from the capital in droves, triggering a public outcry over the harsh treatment of people the city depends on to build their skyscrapers, care for their children and take on other lowly-paid work. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)

Indian Dalit man Sachin kumar, 21, who was attacked by a group of people while returning from a rally, recovers at a government hospital in Meerut, about 65 kilometers from New Delhi, India, Wednesday, May 24, 2017. Police rushed forces to a north Indian town on Wednesday and arrested dozens of people to stop clashes that erupted when upper caste Hindus fired on Dalits belonging to the lowest rung of India's caste hierarchy. Police officer Aditya Mishra said the Dalits were attacked while they were returning from a rally led by their leader Mayawati in Saharanpur, a town in Uttar Pradesh state. (AP Photo/Manish Swarup)

Indian ragpickers wait to collect recyclable materials as a truck prepares to unload garbage at a garbage dumping site on the outskirts of Gauhati, Assam state, India, Monday, June 5, 2017. Monday marks World Environment Day. (AP Photo/Anupam Nath)

Indian armed forces and their families members perform Yoga on the deck of the Indian Naval aircraft carrier Viraat to mark International Yoga Day in Mumbai, India, Wednesday, June 21, 2017. Yoga practitioners took a relaxing break to bend, twist and pose Wednesday morning for the annual event celebrating the practice, especially in the country where it began. (AP Photo/Rajanish Kakade)

An Indian man tries to protect his child from the pelting rain by covering him with his shirt as he pushes a handcart in Jammu, India, Wednesday, July 12, 2017. The monsoon season in India lasts from June to September is very crucial for India's agriculture sector that accounts for more than 13 percent of the economy and provides work for about half of the country's 1.25 billion people. (AP Photo/Channi Anand)

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi inspects a guard of honor before addressing the nation from the ramparts of Red Fort to celebrate Independence Day in New Delhi, India, Tuesday, Aug. 15, 2017. India commemorated its Independence in 1947 from British colonial rule, on Tuesday. (AP Photo/Manish Swarup)

Delegates interact during the Global Entrepreneurship Summit in Hyderabad, India, Tuesday, Nov. 28, 2017. The event co-hosted by the United States and India and attended by U.S. presidential adviser and daughter Ivanka Trump and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi runs from Nov. 28-30. (AP Photo/Manish Swarup)

In this Wednesday, Jan. 11, 2017 photo, an employee smokes at the window of a high-rise building in a Tokyo's business area. (AP Photo/Shuji Kajiyama)

In this Tuesday, Aug. 15, 2017 photo, Indians fly kites on rooftops during Independence Day celebrations in the old quarters of New Delhi, India. The annual tradition of flying kites over the Indian capital on Independence Day takes a painful toll on birds that fall victim to their razor-sharp strings. It happens mostly to pigeons but also to crows, eagles and parrots. (AP Photo/Tsering Topgyal)

Municipal workers try to retrieve the lid of a manhole to prevent pedestrians from falling in, in Mumbai, India, Wednesday, Sept. 20, 2017. Incessant rainfall in India's commercial capital has affected air and rail traffic, and schools and colleges remained shut for the day. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool)

In this Monday, Nov. 6, 2017, photo, Nguyen Thi Vui paddles her boat in the flooded streets of Hoi An, Vietnam. A powerful typhoon that rocked Vietnam has killed dozens of people and caused extensive damage to the country's south-central region ahead of the APEC summit that will draw leaders from around the world, the government said Monday. (AP Photo/Hau Dinh)

An Indian laborer rests after work as push carts and cycle rickshaws make their way through a crowded street at the old quarters of New Delhi, India, Tuesday, Oct. 10, 2017. (AP Photo/Tsering Topgyal)

In this Thursday, Nov. 9, 2017, photo, a woman drives a scooter through the morning fog to drop off a child at school in Greater Noida, near New Delhi, India. A thick gray haze has enveloped India's capital region as air pollution hit hazardous levels. As winter approaches, a thick, soupy smog routinely envelops most parts of northern India, caused by dust, the burning of crops, emissions from factories and the burning of coal and piles of garbage as the poor try to keep warm. (AP Photo/R S Iyer)

Indian motorists ride past a thick blanket of smog and dust on the outskirts of New Delhi, India, Friday, Nov. 10, 2017. Thick smog has constricted India's capital this week, smudging landmarks from view and angering residents. Many are frustrated at the lack of meaningful action by authorities. The air was the worst it has been all year in New Delhi, with microscopic particles that can affect breathing and health spiking, at times, to 75 times the level considered safe by the World Health Organization. (AP Photo/Altaf Qadri)

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In this Wednesday, July 26, 2017, file photo, two men practice martial arts techniques at a public park in Beijing. Beijing is dotted with urban parks that offer a quieter, greener respite from the crowded streets of China's capital. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein, File)

A city bus crew member stands next to his vehicle as he is illuminated red by the tail lights of other vehicles in rush hour traffic in Jakarta, Indonesia, Friday, May 19, 2017. (AP Photo/Dita Alangkara)

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In this Nov. 20, 2017, file photo, model Stella Maxwell of New Zealand is made up at backstage before the Victoria's Secret fashion show inside the Mercedes-Benz Arena in Shanghai, China. (AP Photo/Andy Wong, File)

Participants assist each other in greased-pole climbing competition held as a part of independence day celebration at Ancol Beach in Jakarta, Indonesia, Thursday, Aug 17, 2017. Contestants race up to grab items ranging from buckets to bicycles hanging from the top of the poles as prize. Indonesia is celebrating its 72th anniversary of independence from the Netherlands. (AP Photo/Achmad Ibrahim)

Iris Mittenaere of France, right, and Raquel Pelissier of Haiti hold hands moments before the winner was announced in the Miss Universe 2016 coronation Monday, Jan. 30, 2017, at the Mall of Asia in suburban Pasay city south of Manila, Philippines. Mittenaere was crowned the new Miss Universe 2016.(AP Photo/Bullit Marquez)

In this Nov, 20, 2017, photo, veiled members of India's Rajput community listen to a speech by their leader as they gather to protest against the release of the Bollywood film "Padmavati" in Mumbai, India. The film has been in trouble since the beginning of the year, with fringe groups in the western state of Rajasthan attacking the film's set, threatening to burn down theaters that show it and even physically attacking the director in January. A member of India's Hindu nationalist ruling party has offered a 100 million rupee ($1.5 million) reward to anyone who beheads the lead actress and the director of the yet-to-be released film over its alleged handling of the relationship between a Hindu queen and a Muslim ruler. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool)

An evacuee stands inside her own section as hundreds of evacuees continue to be housed for almost five months now in a multi-purpose hall at Balo-i township, Lanao del Norte province after fleeing the besieged city of Marawi Tuesday, Oct. 17, 2017 in southern Philippines. There was joy among evacuees at news of the two Muslim militant leaders Isnilon Hapilon and Omarkhayam Maute being killed by Philippine troops Monday. (AP Photo/Bullit Marquez)

A man walks down the stairs in the Central, a business district of Hong Kong, Thursday, Nov. 9, 2017. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung)

A man walks through an underpass in New Delhi, India, Wednesday, Nov.29, 2017. (AP Photo/R S Iyer)

In this Saturday, May 27, 2017, file photo, students perform a prayer on the first day of the holy fasting month of Ramadan at Ar-Raudlatul Hasanah Islamic boarding school in Medan, North Sumatra, Indonesia. During Ramadan, the holiest month in Islamic calendar, Muslims refrain from eating, drinking, smoking and sex from dawn to dusk. (AP Photo/Binsar Bakkara)

China Politics

Hospitality staff walk towards the Great Hall of the People during a plenary session of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) in Beijing, Friday, March 10, 2017. China's top leadership as well as thousands of delegates from around the country are gathered at the Chinese capital for the annual legislative meetings. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)

In this Friday, March 24, 2017 photo, police officers clash with Muslim hardliners during a protest against the construction of a Catholic church in Bekasi, Indonesia. Indonesian police fired tear gas to disperse the protesters as they tried to force their way into the Santa Clara church, which has been under construction since November. (AP Photo/Achmad Ibrahim)

In this March 20, 2017 photo, an activist has skewers wrapped around his head with rubber bands during a rally against the operation of a cement factory in Kendeng, West Java, outside the presidential palace in Jakarta, Indonesia. Kendeng farmers have battled against plans for the factory for years, saying it could taint their water. The factory is now more or less complete and the owner, state-owned PT Semen Indonesia, has said it would create jobs and boost the local economy. (AP Photo/Dita Alangkara)

In this Nov. 20, 2017 photo, Indian kushti wrestlers fight in the ring, during their daily training at an akhada, a kind of wrestling hostel at Sabzi Mandi, in New Delhi, India. Like many traditions in rapidly modernizing India, kushti wrestling faces the threat of being left behind. But for many poor families, the ancient sport provides a glimmer of hope. (AP Photo/Dar Yasin)

China Manufacturing

FILE - In this Aug. 31, 2017 file photo, a child rides past bicycles from bike-sharing companies parked along a sidewalk in Beijing. A report says China???s factory activity expanded in September at the fastest pace in five years, indicating a healthy outlook for the world???s second-biggest economy. (AP Photo/Andy Wong, File)

Riders compete in the Women's Scratch Race at the World Track Cycling championships in Hong Kong, Wednesday, April 12, 2017. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung)

All Blacks centre Anton Linert-Brown, right, is tackled by British and Irish Lions Ben Te'o during the first test between the British and Irish Lions and the All Blacks at Eden Park in Auckland, New Zealand, Saturday, June 24, 2017. (AP Photo/Mark Baker)

Japan's Aguri Shimizu soars through the air during the Individual Gundersen LH / 10 km event of the FIS Nordic Combined World Cup competition in Pyeongchang, South Korea, Sunday, Feb. 5, 2017. The World Cup competition is also a test event for the PyeongChang 2018 Winter Olympics. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)

The Week That Was In Asia Photo Gallery

In this Saturday, April 8, 2017, file photo, Sauber driver Antonio Giovinazzi of Italy crashes into the wall during the qualifying session for the Chinese Formula One Grand Prix at the Shanghai International Circuit in Shanghai, China. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein, File)

Runners compete during the Men's 400-meter semi-final at the 29th South East Asian Games in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Thursday, Aug. 24, 2017. (AP Photo/Vincent Thian)

South Korea's Lee Dae-ho is hit by a pitch off Taiwan's pitcher Pan Wei Lun during the second inning of their first round game of the World Baseball Classic at Gocheok Sky Dome in Seoul, South Korea, Thursday, March 9, 2017. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)

In this Monday, Dec. 26, 2016 photo, the yacht Loyal makes its way through the heads during the start of the Sydney Hobart yacht race in Sydney, Australia. The 88 yachts started in the annual 628-nautical mile race to Australia's island state of Tasmania. (AP Photo/Rick Rycroft)

United States' Serena Williams serves to Britain's Johanna Konta during their quarterfinal at the Australian Open tennis championships in Melbourne, Australia, Wednesday, Jan. 25, 2017. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung)

Kim Chol Gwang of North Korea competes as fans of the North Korean team chant during the men's 500 meters heat of short track speed skating competition at the Asian Winter Games at Makomanai Indoor Skating Rink in Sapporo, northern Japan, Tuesday, Feb. 21, 2017. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)

In this Saturday, May 20, 2017, photo, Japan's Shiro Ken, right, lands a right on the face of Mexican champion Ganigan Lopez in the third round of their WBC light flyweight boxing world title match in Tokyo, Saturday, May 20, 2017. Ken won the title by a 2-0 decision. (AP Photo/Toru Takahashi)

Japan's Naoki Nakamura soars through the air in his second round jump at the ski jumping men's large hill individual at the Asian Winter Games in Sapporo, northern Japan, Friday, Feb. 24, 2017.(AP Photo/Shuji Kajiyama)

Sri Lanka's Dilshan Munaweera looses his bat as he is bowled by India's Kuldeep Yadav during their Twenty20 cricket match in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Wednesday, Sept. 6, 2017. (AP Photo/Eranga Jayawardena)

Ferrari driver Kimi Raikkonen, right, of Finland collides with teammate Sebastian Vettel of Germany at the start of the Singapore Formula One Grand Prix on the Marina Bay City Circuit Singapore, Sunday, Sept. 17, 2017. (AP Photo/Yong Teck Lim)

The Week That Was In Asia Photo Gallery

In this Tuesday, Oct. 3, 2017, file photo, Rafael Nadal of Spain serves against Lucas Pouille of France during their men's singles match in the China Open tennis tournament at the Diamond Court in Beijing. (AP Photo/Andy Wong, File)

In this Tuesday, Oct. 10, 2017, photo, MotoGP rider Tito Rabat, left, of Spain steers his mini electric motorcycle as he leads the pack of riders during a fan event at the Twin Ring Motegi circuit ahead of the MotoGP Japanese Motorcycle Grand Prix in Motegi, north of Tokyo. (AP Photo/Shizuo Kambayashi)

A Nepalese army soldier demonstrates his horse riding skills during the Ghode Jatra festival, an annual horse festival in Kathmandu, Nepal, Monday, March 27, 2017. According to legend, the festival is held to celebrate the victory over a demon named Tundi and people believe that the clamor of horses' hooves during the festival keeps the demon's spirit away. (AP Photo/Niranjan Shrestha)

In this Thursday, June 15, 2017, photo, India's HS Prannoy plays against Malaysia's Lee Chong Wei during the second round of Indonesia Open badminton championship in Jakarta, Indonesia. (AP Photo/Dita Alangkara)

United States' Serena Williams makes a backhand return to Britain's Johanna Konta during their quarterfinal at the Australian Open tennis championships in Melbourne, Australia, Wednesday, Jan. 25, 2017. (AP Photo/Aaron Favila)

British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson plays cricket at a cricket academy in Kolkata, India, Thursday, Jan. 19, 2017. Johnson, who is in India on a two-day visit, said Wednesday that his country would like to forge a free trade agreement with India as it prepares to leave the European Union. (AP Photo/Bikas Das)

In this Saturday, Feb. 11, 2017 photo, India, right, and Bangladesh cricket fans with faces painted in the colors of their national flags shout to cheer for their teams during the third day of the cricket test match between India and Bangladesh in Hyderabad, India. (AP Photo/Aijaz Rahi)

India's Ashish Nehra catches the ball as he prepares to bowl his final over in his last international cricket match, during the first Twenty20 match against New Zealand in New Delhi, India, Wednesday, Nov. 1, 2017. (AP Photo/Altaf Qadri)

In this Nov. 26, 2017, photo, India's captain Virat Kohli looks skywards as he celebrates scoring double century during the third day of their second test cricket match against Sri Lanka in Nagpur, India. (AP Photo/Rajanish Kakade)

In this Thursday, May 4, 2017, photo, workers build a large replica of the Statue of Liberty at a workshop in Jakarta, Indonesia. The sculpture which costs 170 million Rupiah (U.S $ 17,000) to make will be installed at a public park to attract visitors. (AP Photo/Tatan Syuflana)

Muslim men nap as they wait to break their fast after Friday prayer at the Istiqlal Mosque in Jakarta, Indonesia, Friday, June 9, 2017. Muslims across the world are observing the holy fasting month of Ramadan, where they refrain from eating, drinking and smoking from dawn to dusk. (AP Photo/Tatan Syuflana)

Exile Tibetans climb high on poles to tie multicolored flags with Buddhist prayers printed on them on the third day of the Tibetan New Year called 'Losar' in Dharmsala, India, Wednesday, March 1, 2017. Tibetans believe that the prayer flags representing the five elements: earth, fire, sky, water and wind, spread prayers on wind. (AP Photo/Ashwini Bhatia)

Workers prepare to install advertisements in a display case on the streets of Beijing, China, Wednesday, Nov. 22, 2017. Digital advertisement continues to grow in China, one of the world's largest ad market, where consumers embrace mobile technology and increasingly spend more time online. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)

In this Aug. 31, 2017 photo, local residents watch performance at a makeshift theater during the "Hungry Ghost Festival" in Hong Kong. Countless hungry and restless ghosts are roaming Hong Kong, and the world, to visit their living ancestors, at least according to Chinese convention. In traditional Chinese belief, the seventh month of the lunar year is reserved for the Hungry Ghost festival, or Yu Lan, a raucous celebration marked by feasts and music.(AP Photo/Kin Cheung)

A Hindu holy woman lights an oil lamp during Shivaratri festival in Kathmandu, Nepal, Friday, Feb. 24, 2017. Shivaratri, or the night of Shiva, is dedicated to the worship of Lord Shiva, the Hindu god of death and destruction. (AP Photo/Niranjan Shrestha)

In this Thursday, March 28, 2017 photo, Cheung Chi-fong, 80, sleeps in his tiny “coffin home” where he cannot stretch out his legs in Hong Kong. In wealthy Hong Kong, there’s a dark side to a housing boom, with hundreds of thousands of people forced to live in partitioned shoebox apartments, “coffin homes” and other “inadequate housing.(AP Photo/Kin Cheung)

A passenger jeepney travels along a wet road during rains in metropolitan Manila, Philippines on Tuesday, Sept. 26, 2017. Passenger jeepneys, often dubbed as the "King of the Road" in the Philippines now faces new challenges as the government will soon implement the Public Utility Vehicle modernization program which aims to rid them of their aging diesel engines and also add more safety modifications, including public wifi and on-board CCTV. The program will affect some 600,000 Filipino drivers in the country. (AP Photo/Aaron Favila)

In this Monday, June 26, 2017, file photo, commuters make their way through a mist covered Hagley Park in central Christchurch, New Zealand. Residents of New Zealand's South Island woke to temperatures as low as minus four degrees celsius (28 degrees Fahrenheit) for the start to their working week. (AP Photo/Mark Baker)

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This gallery was curated by AP Deputy News Director, Production & Presentation, Asia-Pacific Charles Dharapak.

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