This monthly gallery features some of the top photojournalism made by Associated Press photographers documenting Asia during the month of September.
A Congress party supporter protesting against gang rape and the killing of a woman in Uttar Pradesh’s Hathras district is detained by police in New Delhi, India, Wednesday, Sept. 30, 2020. (AP Photo/Altaf Qadri)
A 102.39 carat, D color, flawless diamond is displayed by a model at a Sotheby's auction room in Hong Kong Monday, Sept. 28, 2020. (AP Photo/Vincent Yu)
Kashmiri farmers thresh paddy on the outskirts of Srinagar, Indian controlled Kashmir, Sunday, Sept. 13, 2020. (AP Photo/Mukhtar Khan)
A woman wearing white personal protective equipment, reacts as she takes a glimpse of her husband's body, a victim of COVID-19, in Gauhati, India, Thursday, Sept. 10, 2020. (AP Photo/Anupam Nath)
Students attend a ceremony to kick off the new semester in Wuhan High School in Wuhan in central China's Hubei province Tuesday, Sept. 1, 2020. (Chinatopix Via AP)
Women stand next to glowing full moon installations at a park in Seoul, South Korea, Friday, Sept. 18, 2020. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)
An Indian boy cries as a medical worker prepares to collect his swab sample for COVID-19 test at a rural health centre in Bagli, outskirts of Dharmsala, India, Monday, Sept. 7, 2020. (AP Photo/Ashwini Bhatia)
People wearing face masks to protect against the coronavirus cross an intersection in Beijing, Wednesday, Sept. 16, 2020. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)
A worker arranges chairs as they temporarily convert a public school to a COVID-19 quarantine facility in Quezon city, Philippines on Tuesday, Sept. 1, 2020, as the government further eased lockdown restrictions despite the country having the most coronavirus infections in Southeast Asia. (AP Photo/Aaron Favila)
Nepalese protesters defying a government coronavirus lockdown to take part in a religious festival clash with riot police, in Lalitpur, Nepal, Thursday, Sept. 3, 2020. (AP Photo/Niranjan Shrestha)
Commuters travel in an almost empty Delhi metro train in New Delhi, India, Monday, Sept. 7, 2020. (AP Photo/Manish Swarup)
Hong Kong Chief Executive Carrie Lam adjusts her face mask during a press conference on the state of the coronavirus in Hong Kong, Tuesday, Sept. 1, 2020. (AP Photo/Vincent Yu)
Staff members wearing face masks demonstrate the safety measures to media as the massage spa plans to reopened in Hong Kong, Thursday, Sept. 17, 2020. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung)
Environmental activists perform a skit representing the burning earth during a rally marking the Global Day of Climate Action near the government complex in Seoul, South Korea, Friday, Sept. 25, 2020. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)
A health worker arrives to screen people for symptoms of COVID-19 in Dharavi, one of Asia's biggest slums, in Mumbai, India, Friday, Sept. 4, 2020. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool)
Pro-democracy demonstrators raise a three-finger salute, a symbol of resistance, during a protest outside the Parliament in Bangkok, Thailand, Thursday, Sept. 24, 2020. (AP Photo/Sakchai Lalit)
A man trims his beard, while others bathe in the Hooghly River in Kolkata, India, Thursday, Sept. 3, 2020. (AP Photo/Bikas Das)
Locals cheer a gathering of thousands of political party members in support of the recovery efforts from typhoon damage at the plaza of the Kumsusan Palace of the Sun in Pyongyang, North Korea, Tuesday, Sept. 8, 2020. (AP Photo/Jon Chol Jin)
A Kashmir man in personal protective equipment sprays disinfectant to sanitize a wedding tent on the outskirts of Srinagar, Indian controlled Kashmir, Thursday, Sept. 17, 2020. (AP Photo/ Dar Yasin)
Workers remove the stretcher as other prepare to cremate the body of a COVID-19 victim in New Delhi, India, Wednesday, Sept. 16, 2020. (AP Photo/Manish Swarup)
Pro-democracy protesters wear masks usually used to avoid tear gas during a protest in Bangkok, Thailand, Sunday, Sept. 20, 2020. (AP Photo/Wason Wanichakorn)
Ethnic minority children learn to sing at a kindergarten class at an apartment compound built by the Chinese government in Yuexi county, southwest China's Sichuan province on Sept. 11, 2020. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)
A health worker looks out from behind the plastic sheet covered window from where he conducts tests for COVID-19 in New Delhi, India, Saturday, Sept. 5, 2020. (AP Photo/Manish Swarup)
Shadows of standing police officers are cast on the ground at the entrance to the criminal courthouse in Bangkok, Thailand, Thursday, Sept. 3, 2020. (AP Photo/Gemunu Amarasinghe)
A woman walks a pedestrian crossing in the rain Wednesday, Sept. 23, 2020, in Tokyo. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)
A man is rescued from the debris after a residential building collapsed in Bhiwandi in Thane district, a suburb of Mumbai, India, Monday, Sept. 21, 2020. (AP Photo/Praful Gangurde)
A child practices writing during a sidewalk class taught by an Indian couple, Veena Gupta and her husband Virendra Gupta, in New Delhi, India, on Sept. 3, 2020. (AP Photo/Manish Swarup)
Indonesian Muslim women walk near grave marks at the special section of Pondok Ranggon cemetery which was opened to accommodate the surge in deaths during coronavirus outbreak in Jakarta, Indonesia, Thursday, Sept. 24, 2020. (AP Photo/Dita Alangkara)