Asia in review

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

A boy plays in smoke from fumigation being carried out by a municipal worker at a residential area in Ahmedabad, India, Thursday, Dec. 3, 2020. (AP Photo/Ajit Solanki)

A visitor walks by Christmas decorations at a mall in Beijing, Thursday, Dec. 24, 2020. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)

A Kashmiri boatman rows his boat in the interiors of the Dal Lake surrounded by dense fog on a cold morning in Srinagar, Indian controlled Kashmir, Indian controlled Kashmir, Thursday, Dec. 3, 2020. (AP Photo/ Dar Yasin)

Police in riot gear stand guard as they face pro-democracy protesters during a rally Thursday, Dec. 10, 2020 in Bangkok, Thailand. (AP Photo/Gemunu Amarasinghe)

A woman wearing a face mask as a precaution against the coronavirus passes by a mural of a shopping center in Seoul, South Korea, Monday, Dec. 7, 2020. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)

Farmer Brijender Singh, 24, looks at his mobile phone while sitting on his tractor parked on a highway during a protest at the Delhi-Haryana state border, India, Wednesday, Dec. 2, 2020. (AP Photo/Altaf Qadri)

The Tokyo Skytree, the tallest tower in Japan, is illuminated with the color of the Olympic Torch, to commemorate 100 days until the torch relay begins, Tuesday, Dec. 15, 2020, in Tokyo. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)

A nomadic Gujjargirl looks out from her temporary shelter on the outskirts of Jammu, India, Thursday, Dec. 3, 2020. (AP Photo/Channi Anand)

A medical worker in a protective suit walks at a coronavirus testing center in Hong Kong, Tuesday, Dec. 8, 2020. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung)

Elderly women farmers sit at the back of a trailer as they participate in a protest against new farm laws at the Delhi-Haryana state border, on the outskirts of New Delhi, India, Sunday, Dec. 27, 2020. (AP Photo/Manish Swarup)

Indian farmer Ram Singh Patel, right, and his wife Kantee Devi brush their teeth as they get ready for the day in Fatehpur district, 180 kilometers (112 miles) south of Lucknow, India, Saturday, Dec. 19, 2020. (AP Photo/Rajesh Kumar Singh)

A Sri Lankan Christian family grieves as municipal cemetery workers carry the body of their family member who died of COVID-19 for cremation in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Friday, Dec. 11, 2020. (AP Photo/Eranga Jayawardena)

A wild tusker walks in the Agoratoli range at Kaziranga national park east of Gauhati, in the northeastern state of Assam, Friday, Dec. 4, 2020. (AP Photo/Anupam Nath)

Security guards change shift under a screen showing Chinese President Xi Jinping delivering a speech for the evening news broadcast in Beijing Thursday, Dec. 31, 2020. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)

A Christian woman, partially wearing a face mask as a precaution against the coronavirus, leaves after attending a Christmas mass at a church in Gauhati, India, Friday, Dec. 25, 2020. (AP Photo/Anupam Nath)

A woman, wearing a face mask to help curb the spread of the coronavirus, walks at a shopping and office complex in Beijing, Wednesday, Dec. 16, 2020. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)

Indian farmer Surender Singh sits on a chair and gets a massage, next to a truck parked on a highway as part of protests against new farm bills, at the Delhi-Haryana state border, India, Tuesday, Dec. 1, 2020. (AP Photo/Altaf Qadri)

An employee of Kyugetsu, a Japanese traditional doll company, poses with special "hagoita" battledores featuring President-elect Joe Biden with President Donald Trump and Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga Thursday, Dec. 3, 2020, in Tokyo. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)

A woman, wearing a face mask to help curb the spread of the coronavirus, walks on a street during the morning rush hour in Beijing, Wednesday, Dec. 16, 2020. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)

A man and a woman walk past near the Olympic rings floating in the water in the Odaiba section Tuesday, Dec. 1, 2020, in Tokyo. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)

Protesting farmer leaders shout slogans as they sit on a day long hunger strike at the Delhi- Haryana border, outskirts of New Delhi, Monday, Dec. 14, 2020. (AP Photo/Manish Swarup)

Stranded commuters of a local train look out as supporters of left parties block a train track during a nationwide shutdown called by thousands of Indian farmers protesting new agriculture laws, in Kolkata, India, Tuesday, Dec. 8, 2020. (AP Photo/Bikas Das)

An Indian man baths after performing rituals on the banks of river Brahmaputra in Gauhati, India, Thursday, Dec. 24, 2020. (AP Photo/Anupam Nath)

An Indian farmer rests inside his truck at the site of a protest on a highway at the Delhi-Haryana state border, India, Thursday, Dec. 3, 2020. (AP Photo/Manish Swarup)

A medical worker is assisted by a colleague to have her rubber gloves sprayed with disinfectant at a walk-through coronavirus test site at Genomik Solidaritas Indonesia Laboratory in Jakarta, Indonesia, Monday, Dec. 14, 2020. (AP Photo/Dita Alangkara)

An Indian worker decorates the church ahead of Christmas in Hyderabad, India, Monday, Dec. 21, 2020. (AP Photo/Mahesh Kumar A.)

A Samajwadi Party supporter shouts slogans as she is detained by police for trying to enforce a nationwide farmers' strike in Prayagraj, Tuesday, Dec. 8, 2020. (AP Photo/Rajesh Kumar Singh)

An employee wearing a face mask as a precaution against the coronavirus uses an umbrella to take shelter from the snow at the Gyeongbok Palace, one of South Korea's well-known landmarks, in Seoul, South Korea, Sunday, Dec. 13, 2020. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)

A man dressed as Santa Claus sanitizes a narrow lane in Dharavi, one of Asia's biggest slums, in Mumbai, India, Saturday, Dec. 19, 2020. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool)

Fireworks explode over the Sydney Opera House and Harbour Bridge as New Year celebrations begin in Sydney, Australia, Thursday, Dec. 31, 2020. (AP Photo/Mark Baker)

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