Monday 3 August 2015

AP PHOTOS: Editor selections from Asia

In this July 31, 2015 file photo, a woman lights candles in celebration at Dashiarchhara, in Kurigram enclaves, Bangladesh. At the stroke of midnight Friday, tens of thousands of stateless people who were stranded for decades along the poorly defined border between India and Bangladesh will finally get to choose their citizenship, as the two countries swapped more than 150 pockets of land to settle the demarcation line dividing them.
In this July 31, 2015 file photo, a woman lights candles in celebration at Dashiarchhara, in Kurigram enclaves, Bangladesh. At the stroke of midnight Friday, tens of thousands of stateless people who were stranded for decades along the poorly defined border between India and Bangladesh will finally get to choose their citizenship, as the two countries swapped more than 150 pockets of land to settle the demarcation line dividing them.