Jan. 19, 2023 20:10 PM EST

Ap Week In Pictures: Asia

By The Associated Press
Children practice their dragon dance routines for the upcoming Chinese Lunar New Year celebrations outside the Hok Lay Kiong temple in Bekasi, Indonesia, Friday, Jan, 13, 2023. People of Chinese descent in the world's most populous Muslim country are preparing to celebrate the lunar New Year Year of the Rabbit on Jan. 22. (AP Photo/Achmad Ibrahim) Achmad Ibrahim, ASSOCIATED PRESS
Children practice their dragon dance routines for the upcoming Chinese Lunar New Year celebrations outside the Hok Lay Kiong temple in Bekasi, Indonesia, Friday, Jan, 13, 2023. People of Chinese descent in the world's most populous Muslim country are preparing to celebrate the lunar New Year Year of the Rabbit on Jan. 22. (AP Photo/Achmad Ibrahim)
Women soldiers of Central Reverse Police Force practice march-past for the upcoming Republic day parade in New Delhi, India, Thursday, Jan. 19, 2023. India's Republic day will be celebrated on Jan. 26. (AP Photo/Manish Swarup)
A pair of buffalos lock horns during a traditional buffalo fight held as part of Magh Bihu festivities at Boidyabori village, east of Guwahati, in the northeastern state of Assam, Monday, Jan. 16, 2023. Magh Bihu is the harvest festival of the northeastern Indian state of Assam and is observed in the Assamese month of Magh, that coincides with January. (AP Photo/Anupam Nath)
A woman wails as she waits to receive the body of a relative, victim of a plane crash, at a hospital in Pokhara, Nepal, Monday, Jan 16, 2023. Nepal began a national day of mourning Monday as rescue workers resumed the search for six missing people a day after a plane to a tourist town crashed into a gorge while attempting to land at a newly opened airport, killing at least 66 of the 72 people aboard in the country's deadliest airplane accident in three decades. (AP Photo/Yunish Gurung)
People walk past new year decorations hanging for the upcoming Chinese Lunar New Year, the year of the Rabbit according to the Chinese zodiac, in Taipei, Taiwan, Thursday, Jan. 19, 2023. The new year celebrations will take place on Jan. 22. (AP Photo/Chiang Ying-ying)
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Jan. 13-19, 2022

This photo gallery highlights some of the most compelling images made or published by Associated Press photographers in Asia and Pacific.

The gallery was curated by AP photo editor Masayo Yoshida in Tokyo.

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