AP Week in Pictures: Asia
Nov. 3-9, 2023
Workers collected marigold flowers in India and trapped fish in Cambodia. Citizens protested the Israel-Hamas war in South Korea and Indonesia. Air pollution grayed skies in India. An assembly line robot killed a worker in South Korea. People mourned the dead following an earthquake in Nepal, and Britain´s Prince William joined a dragon boat event in Singapore.
This photo gallery highlights some of the most compelling images in Asia made or published by The Associated Press in the past week.
The selection was curated by AP photo editor Hiro Komae in Tokyo.
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A woman collects marigold flowers, to be used for rituals and decorations, ahead of Diwali Festival on the outskirts of Jammu, India, Thursday, Nov. 9, 2023. Hindus light lamps, wear new clothes, exchange sweets and gifts and pray to goddess Lakshmi during the festival of lights, that will be celebrated on Nov. 12. (AP Photo/Channi Anand)
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A fisherman casts his net into the flooded water following recent rain in a paddy farm field outside Phnom Penh, Cambodia, Monday, Nov. 6, 2023. Local villagers use their small fishing nets to catch fish during the rainy season for their daily meals. (AP Photo/Heng Sinith)
Supporters for Palestinian people stage a rally to denounce a visit by U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken in front of the Foreign Ministry in Seoul, South Korea, Thursday, Nov. 9, 2023. Heightened tensions on the Korean Peninsula, suspected North Korean cooperation with Russia in its war on Ukraine and concerns about China's growing assertiveness topped U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken's agenda in South Korea on Thursday. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)
People visiting the Akshardham temple are seen through a thick smog in New Delhi, India, Wednesday, Nov. 8, 2023. Primary schools have been ordered shut this week and polluting vehicles and construction banned as a thick cover of smog hangs over the city. (AP Photo/Altaf Qadri)
This photo provided by the South Korea Gyeongsangnam-do Fire Department shows the interior of a vegetable packaging plant after a robot's deadly crush with a worker was reported, in Goseong, South Korea, Wednesday, Nov. 8, 2023. An industrial robot crushed a worker to death at a vegetable packaging plant in South Korea, police said Thursday, as they investigate whether the machine was unsafe or had potential defects. (South Korea Gyeongsangnam-do Fire Department via AP)
A woman holds the lifeless body of her grand child killed in earthquake in Jajarkot district, northwestern Nepal, Sunday, Nov. 5, 2023. Friday night's earthquake in the district killed more than hundred people while more than fifty were killed in the neighboring Rukum district, officials said. (AP Photo/Niranjan Shrestha)
A man wears stickers of Palestinian and Indonesian flags during a rally in support of the Palestinians at the National Monument in Jakarta, Indonesia, Sunday, Nov. 5, 2023. Hundreds of thousands of pro-Palestinian protesters marched through the center of Indonesia's capital on Sunday, calling for an end to Israel's bombardment across the Gaza Strip. (AP Photo/Dita Alangkara)
From left, Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Manet, stands next to his father Hun Sen, former prime minister, Kong Sam Ol, Minister of the Royal Palace, and Sar Kheng, former interior minister, during the country's 70th Independence Day, in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, Thursday, Nov. 9, 2023. The country gained independence from France on Nov. 9, 1953. (AP Photo/Heng Sinith)
Britain's Prince William, center, participates in a dragon boat event in Singapore, Monday, Nov. 6, 2023. (AP Photo/Vincent Thian)
Kashmiri school children play cricket on the outskirts of Srinagar, Indian controlled Kashmir, Tuesday, Nov. 7, 2023. (AP Photo/Mukhtar Khan)
A survivor looks at her earthquake damaged house in Rukum District, northwestern Nepal, Monday, Nov. 6, 2023. The Friday night earthquake in the mountains of northwest Nepal killed more than 150 people and left thousands homeless. (AP Photo/Niranjan Shrestha)
