Asia in review

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

Kashmiri villagers show their hands stained by cleaning and shelling walnuts in Budgham area, northeast of Srinagar, Saturday, Sept. 25, 2021. (AP Photo/Dar Yasin)

Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga is seen through a teleprompter as he speaks during his news conference at his office in Tokyo, Thursday, Sept. 9, 2021. (Kim Kyung-Hoon/Pool Photo via AP)

People crowd a market ahead of the Ganesh Chaturti festival in Mumbai, India, Sunday, Sept. 5, 2021. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool)

An Indian boy dressed as Hindu god Shiva walks on the banks of the River Ganges looking for alms from devotees in Prayagraj, India. Monday, Sept. 20, 2021. (AP Photo/Rajesh Kumar Singh)

South Korean Marine's amphibious assault vehicles sail to shores in a smoke screen for landing during the media day for the 73rd anniversary of Armed Forces Day on Oct. 1, in Pohang, South Korea, Thursday, Sept. 30, 2021. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man, Pool)

Miniature gardens are planted on the rooftops of unused taxis parked in Bangkok, Thailand, Thursday, Sept. 16, 2021. (AP Photo/Sakchai Lalit)

Children play and wrestle on a ghat of the river Yamuna in New Delhi, India, Wednesday, Sept. 29, 2021. (AP Photo/Manish Swarup)

Chinese actress Yao Chen walks the red carpet for the 11th Beijing International Film Festival held on the outskirts of Beijing, China, Monday, Sept. 20, 2021. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)

A Kashmiri woman covers her face with a scarf as she walks past paramilitary soldiers standing guard in a closed market area in Srinagar, Indian controlled Kashmir, Friday, Sept. 3, 2021. (AP Photo/ Dar Yasin)

A couple wearing face masks as a precaution against the coronavirus takes a selfie in the middle of a cosmos field at Olympic Park in Seoul, South Korea, Thursday, Sept. 23, 2021. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)

A worker welds an iron pole at a construction site by the Arabian sea shore in Mumbai, India, Tuesday, Sept. 28, 2021. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool)

A customer uses her mobile phone before the start of a movie as she sits amid physical distancing markers during the first day of reopening at a cinema in Jakarta, Indonesia, Thursday, Sept. 16, 2021. (AP Photo/Tatan Syuflana)

An Indian municipal worker fumigates an area in Prayagraj, Uttar Pradesh, India, Wednesday, Sept. 29, 2021. (AP Photo/Rajesh Kumar Singh)

A Congress party supporter is pushed inside a bus as he is being detained during a protest against repeated hike of fuel and cooking gas prices in New Delhi, India, Thursday, Sept. 2, 2021. (AP Photo/Altaf Qadri)

An exiled Tibetan artist from the Tibetan Institute of Performing Arts holds a mirror for another before presenting a song at an event commemorating the 61st anniversary of the formation of the first parliament in exile, in Dharmsala, India, Thursday, Sept. 2, 2021. (AP Photo/Ashwini Bhatia)

A man uses his smartphone flashlight to light up his bowl of noodles as he eats his breakfast at a restaurant during a blackout in Shenyang in northeastern China's Liaoning Province, Wednesday, Sept. 29, 2021. (AP Photo/Olivia Zhang)

An Indian policeman is comforted as he weeps during a wreath laying ceremony of his colleague Arshad Mir in Srinagar, India, Sunday, Sept. 12, 2021. (AP Photo/Mukhtar Khan)

A woman wears a virtual reality headset as she takes a simulated bobsleigh ride at a booth for Chinese telecom provider China Unicom at the PT Expo in Beijing, Tuesday, Sept. 28, 2021. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)

Two packhorses playfully jostel each other in the rain-soaked main town square in Dharmsala, India, Friday, Sept. 17, 2021. (AP Photo/Ashwini Bhatia)

Models present creations by Chinese designer Zheng Wei in her Mackzheng collection during the China Fashion Week in Beijing, Sunday, Sept. 12, 2021. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)

People wearing protective masks are seen on a train that is traveling through Shinjuku district in Tokyo Wednesday, Sept. 22, 2021. (AP Photo/Kiichiro Sato)

An elderly woman reacts as a health worker inoculates her during a special vaccination drive for homeless and migrant workers against COVID-19 in New Delhi, India, Wednesday, Sept. 15, 2021. (AP Photo/Altaf Qadri)

A female military officer wearing a face mask to help protect from the coronavirus looks at a female member of an honor guard standing on Tiananmen Square during a ceremony to mark Martyr's Day in Beijing, Thursday, Sept. 30, 2021. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)

A model presents a gown from the William Zhang collection by designer Hongwei Zhang during the China Fashion Week held in Beijing, China, Wednesday, Sept. 8, 2021. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)

A former living goddess Kumari, center, watches the annual Indra Jatra festival in Kathmandu, Nepal, Sunday, Sept. 19, 2021. (AP Photo/Niranjan Shrestha)

A boy holds his day's catch of crabs as he walks along the breakwater in Manila, Philippines on Saturday, Sept. 25, 2021. (AP Photo/Aaron Favila)

Members of the Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) Air Force Aviation University's "Red Falcon" Air Demonstration Team perform during the 13th China International Aviation and Aerospace Exhibition, also known as Airshow China 2021, on Tuesday, Sept. 28, 2021, in Zhuhai in southern China's Guangdong province. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)

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This gallery was edited by AP photo editors Courtney Dittmar and Toru Takahashi in Tokyo.

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