In this Thursday, Sept. 1, 2016 photo, a supporter of the China national soccer team with his face painted in the China’s national color during the soccer match against South Korea for the 2018 FIFA World Cup qualifier at Seoul World Cup Stadium in Seoul, South Korea.
(AP Photo/Lee Jin-man, File)
In this Wednesday, Aug. 31, 2016 photo, students wave the Malaysian flag during the 59th National Day celebrations at the Independence Square in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Malaysia gained its independence on Aug. 31, 1957.
(AP Photo/Joshua Paul, File)
In this Saturday, Sept. 3, 2016 photo, U.S. President Barack Obama, and Chinese President Xi Jinping, walk together at West Lake State Guest House in Hangzhou in eastern China’s Zhejiang province.
(AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, Pool, File)
In this Saturday, Sept. 3, 2016 photo, a man who has been cured of leprosy weaves a blue-bordered sari, worn by nuns of the Missionaries of Charity, at Gandhiji Prem Nivas, or Gandhiji House of Love, in Titagarh, north of Kolkata, India. The center is a leprosy hospital, rehabilitation and vocational training cendter run by Missionaries of Charity, the order founded by Mother Teresa.
In this Tuesday, Aug. 30, 2016 photo, Nepalese crowd around a statue of Buddha during Pancha Dan festival in Kathmandu, Nepal. Pancha Dan, the festival of five summer gifts, is a day when devotees donate five essential commodities necessary for well being, including rice grain, salt and money. (AP Photo/Niranjan Shrestha, File)
In this Sunday, Aug. 28, 2016 photo, a model displays creations by Santosh Parekh during the Lakme Fashion Week in Mumbai, India.
(AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool, File)
In this Wednesday, Aug. 31, 2016 photo, Panama’s Luis Concepcion celebrates in the air after beating Japan’s Kohei Kono at their WBA world super flyweight title bout in Tokyo. Concepcion won the title by a unanimous decision.
(AP Photo/Toru Takahashi, File)
In this Thursday, Sept. 1, 2016 photo, a worker sweeps red carpet before the arrival of Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi in New Delhi, India. El-Sissi is on a three day official visit to India.
(AP Photo/Manish Swarup, File)
Ahead of the canonization of Mother Teresa just two decades after her death, people touched by her life in the eastern Indian city of Kolkata, where she lived and worked for close to 50 years, were filled with pride. Mother Teresa was traveling from the city, then called Calcutta, to Darjeeling in 1946 when she decided to start the Missionaries of Charity order. Since its establishment in 1950, the order has set up hundreds of shelters that care for some of the world’s neediest.
In other images from the Asia-Pacific region last week, President Barack Obama and Chinese President Xi Jinping delivered documents to U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon formally entering their countries into the Paris climate agreement. The document certifies that the countries have taken all necessary domestic steps needed to join the agreement.
Scientists trying to predict the future path of the Zika virus say that 2.6 billion people living in parts of Asia and Africa could be at risk of infection, based on a new analysis of travel, climate and mosquito patterns in those regions. Some of the most vulnerable countries include India, China, the Philippines, Indonesia, Nigeria, Vietnam, Pakistan and Bangladesh, according to the research.
Malaysia marked 59 years since its independence from Britain with a grand parade in Kuala Lumpur. Police said they foiled possible attacks on the eve of Independence Day with the detention of three suspected Islamic State group members.
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This gallery was curated by Associated Press photo editor Hiroshi Otabe in Tokyo.
