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Mar. 17, 2023 10:57 AM EST

Ap Week In Pictures: Asia

By The Associated Press

Janet Yeoh, mother of actress Michelle Yeoh, celebrates after her daughter won in the best actress category during the 95th Academy Awards in Los Angeles, as seen in a live view event at a cinema in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Monday, March 13, 2023. (AP Photo/Vincent Thian)

Vincent Thian, ASSOCIATED PRESS

Janet Yeoh, mother of actress Michelle Yeoh, celebrates after her daughter won in the best actress category during the 95th Academy Awards in Los Angeles, as seen in a live view event at a cinema in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Monday, March 13, 2023. (AP Photo/Vincent Thian)

A woman hugs another returning on one of the few overseas flight arriving at the Beijing Capital International Airport in Beijing, Tuesday, March 14, 2023. China will reopen its borders to tourists and resume issuing all visas Wednesday after a three-year halt during the pandemic as it sought to boost its tourism and economy. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)

A woman laborer carries garbage in a box on her head in market in Guwahati, India, Tuesday, March 14, 2023. (AP Photo/Anupam Nath)

Spectators are packed at the stand waiting for the start of the Pool B game between Japan and Australia at the World Baseball Classic (WBC) at the Tokyo Dome Sunday, March 12, 2023, in Tokyo. The Japanese government relaxed its mask-wearing guidelines on Monday, but the vast majority of fans at the Tokyo Dome for the WBC game still wore them. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)

Customers watch a "villain hitting" ceremony on the day of "ging zat," as pronounced in Cantonese, which on the Chinese lunar calendar literally means "awakening of insects," under the Canal Road Flyover in Hong Kong on Monday, March 6, 2023. (AP Photo/Louise Delmotte)

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March 10-16, 2023

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

The gallery was curated by AP photo editor Hiro Komae in Tokyo.

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