Through the lens: Eye on Asia for the second week of August

Bangladeshis block an intersection in Dhaka on Aug. 4 to demand justice for people arrested and killed during recent nationwide protests against a quota system for government jobs. The death toll among both protesters demanding Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina resign and supporters of the government had risen to at least 150. (Photo by Getty Images)

A shopping center set ablaze by antigovernment protesters in Dhaka on Aug. 4. (Photo by AP)

Protestors vandalize the presidential palace in Dhaka after Hasina fled the country on Aug. 5. The head of the military, Gen. Waker-Uz-Zaman, said he was "taking full responsibility" and would form an interim government. (Photo by Getty Images)

Antigovernment protesters throng the road in front of the presidential palace on Aug. 5. (Photo by Getty Images)

Crowds swarm the presidential palace in Dhaka on Aug. 5. (Photo by Getty Images)

A man photographs a display showing Japan's benchmark Nikkei Stock Average in Osaka on Aug. 5, when the Nikkei 225 recorded its worst-ever daily sell-off, losing 4,451.28 points amid panic-selling triggered by fears of a possible U.S. recession and the yen's strength. (Photo by Yo Inoue)

Thai jockeys compete in the annual water buffalo race in Chonburi province, south of Bangkok, on Aug. 4. (Photo by Reuters)

A man reacts after seeing the body of his father in a flooded area along the Bagmati River in Kathmandu on July 31 following heavy rains in Nepal. (Photo by Reuters)

Villagers in buckets harvest water chestnuts in Huaian, in China's Jiangsu province, on July 31. (Photo by Getty Images)

A dog escapes the heat at Wan Wan Beach on Aug. 1 in Toyooka, Japan. The dogs-only beach on Hyogo prefecture's Sea of Japan coast is open every summer in July and August. (Photo by Getty Images)

A repairman fixes a ceiling fan at his workshop on a hot summer day in Sopore, in the territory of Jammu and Kashmir, on July 31. He said he has repaired more fans than usual this year. (Photo by Getty Images)

The head of Turkey's religious authority, Ali Erbas, reads the Friday sermon before the funeral prayer in absentia for Hamas political chief Ismail Haniyeh, who was killed in Iran, at the Grand Hagia Sophia Mosque on Aug. 2 in Istanbul. (Photo by Getty Images)

Indian Army personnel and volunteers lift a portion of a bridge during its reconstruction on Aug. 1, a day after landslides hit the Chooralmala area in the Wayanad district of the southern state of Kerala. (Photo by Reuters)

The Milky Way over the Sri Lankan city of Badulla on Aug. 4. (Photo by Getty Images)