This monthly gallery features some of the top photojournalism made by Associated Press photographers documenting Asia during the month of March.
Attendees wear masks during a children's fashion show in Beijing on Sunday, March 28, 2021. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)
A Japanese macaque, also known as a snow monkey, soaks in a hot spring in Jigokudani valley in Nagano Prefecture, northwest of Tokyo Saturday, March 6, 2021. (AP Photo/Kiichiro Sato)
A woman wearing a protective suit pushes a cart at the arrival area of Manila's International Airport, Philippines on Wednesday, March 17, 2021. (AP Photo/Aaron Favila)
A Hindu holy man takes a holy bath before praying during Shivratri festival at Pashupatinath temple premises in Kathmandu, Nepal, Thursday, March 11, 2021. (AP Photo/Niranjan Shrestha)
Kashmiri Muslim devotees pray as the head priest displays a relic believed to be a hair from the beard of Islam's Prophet Muhammad at the Hazratbal shrine on the Friday following Mehraj-u-Alam, believed to mark the ascension of Prophet Muhammad to heaven, in Srinagar, Indian controlled Kashmir, Friday, March 19, 2021. (AP Photo/Dar Yasin)
Anti-coup school teachers in their uniform and traditional Myanmar-hats participate in a demonstration in Mandalay, Myanmar, Wednesday, March 3, 2021. (AP Photo)
People wearing protective masks to help curb the spread of the coronavirus walk across a street under a canopy of cherry blossoms Sunday, March 28, 2021, in Tokyo. (AP Photo/Kiichiro Sato)
Indian army women recruits, right, pull the rope as they compete with men in tug of war as part of their training during a media visit in Bengaluru, India, Wednesday, March 31, 2021. (AP Photo/Aijaz Rahi)
Police officers who fled Myanmar following a military coup rest at an undisclosed location bordering Myanmar, in the northeastern Indian state of Mizoram, Thursday, March 18, 2021. (AP Photo/Anupam Nath)
Rohingya refugees look at the remains of Monday's fire at the Rohingya refugee camp in Balukhali, southern Bangladesh, Tuesday, March 23, 2021. (AP Photo/ Shafiqur Rahman)
Hindu devotees throw colored powder and dance as they celebrate "Holi," the festival of colors in Prayagraj, India, Tuesday, March 30, 2021. (AP Photo/Rajesh Kumar Singh)
A Rohingya refugee boy looks through a torn blanket used as a partition at a makeshift camp on the outskirts of Jammu, India, Sunday, March 7, 2021. (AP Photo/Channi Anand)
A cyclist and motorists move past office buildings amid a sandstorm during the morning rush hour in the central business district in Beijing, Monday, March 15, 2021. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)
A rickshaw puller rests on the back of his cycle rickshaw at a market in Prayagraj, India, Wednesday, March 3, 2021. (AP Photo/Rajesh Kumar Singh)
The roof of a structure is visible as floodwaters cover large areas northwest of Sydney, Australia, Wednesday, March 24, 2021. (Lukas Coch/Pool Photo via AP)
Indians smear colored powder on each other as they celebrate Holi in Jammu, India, Sunday, March 28, 2021. Holi, the Hindu festival of colors, also heralds the arrival of spring. (AP Photo/Channi Anand)
Delegates wearing face masks to help curb the spread of the coronavirus applaud as Chinese President Xi Jinping arrives for the opening session of Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, Thursday, March 4, 2021. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)
Bangladeshi students clash with police during a protest in Dhaka, Bangladesh, Monday, March 1, 2021. (AP Photo/Mahmud Hossain Opu)
A man wearing a face mask walks on a street during lunchtime in Tokyo on Thursday, March 4, 2021. (AP Photo/Hiro Komae)
A holy man smokes marijuana in the courtyard of Pashupatinath temple during Shivratri festival in Kathmandu, Nepal, Thursday, March 11, 2021. (AP Photo/Niranjan Shrestha)
Myanmar nationals living in Thailand participate in a candle light vigil gesture with a three-finger sign of resistance against the Myanmar military coup in front of the United Nations building in Bangkok, Thailand, Thursday, March 4, 2021. (AP Photo/Sakchai Lalit)
A model presents a creation inspired by traditional Chinese clothing from fashion brand Chuyan during China Fashion Week in Beijing, Saturday, March 27, 2021. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)
Friends and relatives mourn Saturday, March 27, 2021, over the body of Kyaw Htet Aung, 17, who was fatally shot in the neck by soldiers in Dala Township, Yangon, Myanmar. (AP Photo)
A resident holds his nose and portable radio as he tries to avoid the disinfectants used on their village as a precaution against the spread of COVID-19 in Manila, Philippines on Monday, March 15, 2021. (AP Photo/Aaron Favila)
An anti-coup protester peaks out from a makeshift barricades in Yangon, Myanmar Thursday, March 11, 2021. (AP Photo)
A staff member checks the temperature of students as they arrive to attend their school in Srinagar, Indian controlled Kashmir, Monday, March 15, 2021. (AP Photo/Mukhtar Khan)
A man and a woman walk near a replica of a lone pine tree that initially survived the 2011 tsunami that flattened the surrounding coastal forest, in Rikuzentakata, Iwate Prefecture, northern Japan Thursday, March 4, 2021. The tree, which eventually died of seawater exposure, was known as the "Miracle Pine," and townspeople treated, reinforced and then preserved it as a memorial and symbol of hope for the region. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)
Anti-coup protesters run to avoid military forces during a demonstration in Yangon, Myanmar, Wednesday March 31, 2021. (AP Photo)
A man and a woman stand with the backdrop of the Olympic rings floating in the water in the Odaiba section in Tokyo, Wednesday, March 3, 2021. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)
Children of migrant waste pickers play in a slum in New Delhi, India, Wednesday, March 10, 2021. (AP Photo/Altaf Qadri)
Anti-coup protesters stand behind a line of women's clothing hanging across a road to deter security personnel from entering the protest area in Yangon, Myanmar Tuesday, March 9, 2021. (AP Photo)
A health worker takes a swab sample to test for COVID-19 at a court premise in Mumbai, India, Wednesday, March 24, 2021.(AP Photo/Rajanish Kakade)
Campers are seen from the opening of a tent as they watch Mount Sinabung erupting in Karo, North Sumatra, Indonesia, Thursday, March 11, 2021. (AP Photo/Binsar Bakkara)
This gallery was edited by AP photo editors Courtney Dittmar in New York and Toru Takahashi in Tokyo.