The Associated PressIn this Saturday, Sept. 14, 2019, file photo, police detain a man after fights broke out between pro-China supporters and anti-government protesters outside the Amoy Plaza in the Kowloon Bay district in Hong Kong. Skirmishes broke out Saturday at a shopping mall in Hong Kong between supporters of the ongoing protests for democratic reforms in the semiautonomous Chinese territory and people backing the central government in Beijing. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung, File)
Forest fires rage in Indonesia, sending noxious haze around Southeast Asia.
In other images from the Asia-Pacific region this week, a man braves tear gas fired by police in Hong Kong as violence flares anew during ongoing protests.
In India, people move on boats past submerged houses on the River Ganges, where heavy monsoon rains have caused floods that have forced the evacuation of thousands of people.
In Nepal, a priest covers the ears of a girl revered as a living goddess as soldiers fire a gun as a part of rituals during the Indra Jatra festival.
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This gallery was curated by Associated Press photo editor Toru Takahashi in Tokyo.
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