This monthly gallery features some of the top photojournalism made by Associated Press photographers documenting Asia during the month of May.
A full moon rises over the 9th century Plaosan Temple as a lunar eclipse takes place in Yogyakarta, Indonesia, Wednesday, May 26, 2021. (AP Photo/Kasan Kurdi)
Pandelela Pamg of Malaysia performs a dive during the Women's 10m Platform final at the FINA Diving World Cup in Tokyo, Wednesday, May 5, 2021. (AP Photo/Koji Sasahara)
Buddhists wearing face masks, carry lanterns to celebrate for the upcoming birthday of Buddha on May 19, while maintaining social distancing as a part of precaution against the coronavirus at the Jogye temple in Seoul, South Korea, Thursday, May 6, 2021. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)
A relative comforts wailing son of a person who died of COVID-19, at a crematorium in Srinagar, Indian controlled Kashmir, Friday, May 28, 2021. (AP Photo/ Dar Yasin)
A local athlete ejects spent cartridge shells as he competes in the skeet shooting competition of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Game Shooting test event Tuesday, May 18, 2021 at Asaka Shooting Range in Tokyo. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)
Bangladeshi Muslims offer Eid al-Fitr prayers inside the Baitul Mukarram Mosque in Dhaka, Bangladesh, Friday, May 14, 2021. (AP Photo/Mahmud Hossain Opu)
A one horned Rhinoceros walks its newborn baby as wild buffalos graze in the Pobitora wildlife sanctuary on the outskirts of Gauhati, India, Monday, May 31, 2021. (AP Photo/Anupam Nath)
Village women who have taken refuge at a cyclone shelter prepare a meal in Balasore district in Odisha, India, Tuesday, May 25, 2021. (AP Photo)
Workers wearing face masks to protect against COVID-19 do group exercises at a park in Beijing, Tuesday, May 25, 2021. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)
A COVID-19 patient receives oxygen outside an emergency ward at a government run hospital in Kathmandu, Nepal, Thursday, May 13, 2021. (AP Photo/Niranjan Shrestha)
A man is silhouetted during his morning exercise in Chres village on the outskirts of Phnom Penh, Cambodia, Friday, May 21, 2021. (AP Photo/Heng Sinith)
Impoverished Sri Lankans salvage wreck washed off to the shore from the burning Singaporean ship MV X-Press Pearl which is anchored off Colombo port at Kapungoda, out skirts of Colombo, Sri Lanka, Wednesday, May 26, 2021. (AP Photo/Eranga Jayawardena)
A man wearing a protective mask stands in front of an electronic stock board showing Japan's Nikkei 225 index at a securities firm Wednesday, May 12, 2021, in Tokyo. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)
An elderly Kashmiri woman, center, reacts to the news of the killing of two suspects rebels after a gun battle between government forces and suspected rebels on the outskirts of Srinagar, Indian controlled Kashmir, Monday, May 17, 2021. (AP Photo/Mukhtar Khan)
A man in a protective suit stands next to the burning pyre of a person who died of COVID-19, at a crematorium in Srinagar, Indian controlled Kashmir, Friday, May 28, 2021. (AP Photo/ Dar Yasin)
A woman rides her bicycle through a heavy mist in a park as the sun rises in Sydney, Australia, Tuesday, May 25, 2021. (AP Photo/Mark Baker)
A Kashmiri doctor in protective suit takes a nasal swab sample of a nomad to test for COVID-19 in Budgam southwest of Srinagar, Indian controlled Kashmir, Tuesday, May 18, 2021. (AP Photo/ Dar Yasin)
A woman wearing a face mask to protect against COVID-19 walks along the shadow of a building at a shopping and office complex in Beijing, Friday, May 28, 2021. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)
An eye of an activist shown on a TV screen and a picture depicting a man blocking a line of tanks at the 1989 pro-democracy movement in Beijing are displayed at the "June 4 Memorial Museum" run by pro-democracy activists in Hong Kong on Sunday, May 30, 2021. (AP Photo/Vincent Yu)
Motorists queue up to cross Suramadu Bridge connecting Java and Madura Island, as they head to their home villages to celebrate Eid al-Fitr holiday that marks the end of Ramadan, in Surabaya, East Java, Indonesia, Wednesday, May 12, 2021. (AP Photo/Trisnadi)
A health worker conducts a COVID-19 swab test on a resident as they monitor cases at a village in Quezon City, Philippines on Monday, May 31, 2021. (AP Photo/Aaron Favila)
Andreas Sargent Larsen and Eduard Cristian Timbretti Gugiu, of Italy, perform a dive the men's synchronized 10-meter platform preliminary at the FINA Diving World Cup Saturday, May 1, 2021, at the Tokyo Aquatics Centre in Tokyo. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)
A protester wears a mask as a precaution against the coronavirus during an anti-Israel rally outside the U.S. Embassy in Jakarta, Indonesia, Thursday, May 20, 2021. (AP Photo/Achmad Ibrahim)
A villager walks holding an umbrella as dark clouds loom over during a drizzle in Balasore district in Odisha, India, Tuesday, May 25, 2021. (AP Photo)
Hurricanes Brayden Iose runs in to score a try as Waratahs Jack Maddocks, right, attempts a tackle during the Super Rugby Transtasman game between the Waratahs and the Hurricanes at the Sydney Cricket Ground in Sydney, Australia, Friday, May 14, 2021. (AP Photo/Mark Baker)
An Indian doctor checks a man who recovered from COVID-19 and is now infected with black fungus at the Mucormycosis ward of a government hospital in Hyderabad, India, Thursday, May 20, 2021. (AP Photo/Mahesh Kumar A.)
In an aerial view, workers bury a coffin containing the body of a COVID-19 victim at a cemetery reserved for those who died of complications related to coronavirus in Medan, North Sumatra, Indonesia, Sunday, May 2, 2021. (AP Photo/Binsar Bakkara)
A visitor wearing a face mask takes a close look at an artwork "Untitled, 2019" created by American visual artist Helen Pashgian at Art Basel in Hong Kong Wednesday, May 19, 2021. (AP Photo/Vincent Yu)
This gallery was edited by AP photo editors Courtney Dittmar in New York and Toru Takahashi in Tokyo.