Asia in review

This monthly gallery features some of the top photojournalism made by Associated Press photographers documenting Asia during the month of December.

Children play beside a street lamp in Quezon city, Metro Manila, Philippines on Wednesday, Dec. 18, 2019. (AP Photo/Aaron Favila)

Japanese macaque, also known as snow monkeys, soak in a hot spring at a Hakodate Tropical Botanical Garden in Hakodate, northern Japan, Sunday, Dec. 1, 2019. (Yohei Fukai/Kyodo News via AP)

An ethnic Karen man attends a ceremony marking the 82nd anniversary of the Karen New Year Day in Payathonzu township, Karen State, Myanmar, Thursday, Dec. 26, 2019. (AP Photo/Aung Shine Oo)

Pro-Beijing supporters wave the Chinese national flags during a rally in Hong Kong on Saturday, Dec. 7, 2019. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)

New Zealand's Kane Williamson is airborne as he throws the ball at the stumps during play on day three of the second cricket test between England and New Zealand at Seddon Park in Hamilton, New Zealand, Sunday, Dec. 1, 2019. (AP Photo/Mark Baker)

Two Buddhist monks chat at the Boudhanath Stupa in Kathmandu, Nepal, Thursday, Dec. 12, 2019. The ancient Stupa is an important pilgrimage site for Buddhists. (AP Photo/Niranjan Shrestha)

An annular solar eclipse is seen through a safety glass from Siak, Riau province, Indonesia, Thursday, Dec. 26, 2019 (AP Photo/Rifka Majjid)

Villagers pluck water chestnuts from a pond in Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh state, India, Wednesday, Dec. 4, 2019. (AP Photo/Rajesh Kumar Singh)

A man holds a sign reading "Hong Kong Independence" during a rally in Hong Kong, Monday, Dec. 23, 2019. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)

Workers are silhouetted at a building construction site near Phnom Penh, Cambodia, Thursday, Dec. 26, 2019. (AP Photo/Heng Sinith)

Muslim women watch a solar eclipse through special glasses at the campus of the Faculty of Astronomy of Muhammadiah University of North Sumatra (UMSU) in Medan, Indonesia, Thursday, Dec. 26, 2019. (AP Photo/Binsar Bakkara)

Japan's Akane Yamaguchi hits a return shot against China's Chen Yu Fei during their women's singles badminton semifinal match at the World Tour Finals in Guangzhou in south China's Guangdong province, Saturday, Dec. 14, 2019. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)

Cola, a 10-year-old female orangutan, waits in a cage to be sent back to Indonesia at a Suvarnabhumi Airport in Bangkok, Thailand, Friday, Dec. 20, 2019. (AP Photo/Sakchai Lalit)

An elderly Kashmiri Muslim man prays inside Jamia Masjid in Srinagar, Indian controlled Kashmir, Wednesday, Dec. 18, 2019. (AP Photo/Mukhtar Khan)

A Kashmiri man walks on a snow covered footbridge as it snows in the interiors of Dal Lake Srinagar, Indian controlled Kashmir, Friday, Dec. 13, 2019. (AP Photo/ Dar Yasin)

Residents dressed for Christmas festivities react to tear gas as police confront protesters on Christmas Eve in Hong Kong on Tuesday, Dec. 24, 2019. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung)

Japan's Ruki Tobita jumps, backdropped by the moon, during the Men's Snowboard Big Air in the 2019 FIS Big Air World Cup held at the Big Air Shougang in Beijing on Saturday, Dec. 14, 2019. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)

Thick smoke from wildfires shroud the Opera House in Sydney, Australia, Tuesday, Dec. 10, 2019. . (AP Photo/Rick Rycroft)

A woman enters an exhibition hall featuring an interactive installation artwork titled "Kinesis #3 – Dissolving Field" by Hiroaki Umeda at NTT Intercommunication Center Wednesday, Dec. 11, 2019, in Tokyo. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)

Kashmiri Muslim devotees offer prayer outside the shrine of Sufi saint Sheikh Syed Abdul Qadir Jeelani in Srinagar, Indian controlled Kashmir, Monday, Dec. 9, 2019. Hundreds of devotees have gathered at the shrine for the 11-day festival that marks the death anniversary of the Sufi saint. (AP Photo/Mukhtar Khan)

People living near a building which caught fire look out from a window in New Delhi, India, Monday, Dec. 9, 2019. (AP Photo/Manish Swarup)

Children play on the Marina beach on the Bay of Bengal coast which is blanketed in sea foam in Chennai, India, Sunday, Dec. 1, 2019. (AP Photo/R.Parthibhan)

Kashmiri Muslim children pray as a priest displays a relic of Sufi saint Sheikh Syed Abdul Qadir Jeelani outside his shrine in Srinagar, Indian controlled Kashmir, Monday, Dec. 9, 2019. (AP Photo/Mukhtar Khan)

Indian students of the Jamia Millia Islamia University shout slogans during a protest, in New Delhi, India, Tuesday, Dec. 17, 2019. (AP Photo/Altaf Qadri)

In this photo provided by Michael Schade, tourists on a boat look at the eruption of the volcano on White Island, New Zealand on Monday, Dec. 9, 2019. (Michael Schade via AP)

People celebrate the arrival of the year 2020 at a New Year's Eve countdown event near the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympic headquarters in Bejing, Wednesday, Jan. 1, 2020. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)

A man is silhouetted against the sky during a tour at the new National Stadium Sunday, Dec. 15, 2019, in Tokyo. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)

A student holds a special filter to observe a solar eclipse while eating an ice cream treat at a school in Bangkok, Thailand, Thursday, Dec. 26, 2019. (AP Photo/Sakchai Lalit)

Protesters march around a burning effigy of Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte as they mark International Human Rights Day during a rally near the presidential palace in Manila, Philippines, Tuesday, Dec. 10, 2019. (AP Photo/Gerard Carreon)

A Kashmiri boatman rows his boat on the Dal Lake surrounded by dense fog on a cold morning in Srinagar, Indian controlled Kashmir, Saturday, Dec. 7, 2019. (AP Photo/ Dar Yasin)

A woman jumps in front of a light installation over the Cheonggye stream on the eve of the Christmas Festival which is held from Dec. 13 to Jan. 1, in Seoul, South Korea, Thursday, Dec. 12, 2019. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)

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