Teekhree Silpa-Archa of Thailand competes in the Figure Skating – Women Single Skating Short Program on day 6 of the 9th Asian Winter Games Harbin 2025 at HIC Multifunctional Hall on February 12, 2025 in Harbin, Heilongjiang Province of China. (Photo by Tingshu Wang/Reuters)

China's Sun Jiajun competes during the men's 4x100m medley relay swimming heat at the 19th Asian Games in Hangzhou, China, Tuesday, September 26, 2023. (Photo by Lee Jin-man/AP Photo)

Uzbekistan's Ekaterina Voronina competes during the long jump in the women's heptathlon at the 2022 Asian Games in Hangzhou in China's eastern Zhejiang province on October 1, 2023. (Photo by William West/AFP Photo)

Japan's Miho Nonaka competes in the women's boulder dicipline of the sport climbing Asian qualifier final event for the 2024 Paris Olympics in Jakarta on November 11, 2023. (Photo by Adek Berry/AFP Photo)

Tourist take pictures at Mai Khao Beach, as a plane approaches the Phuket International Airport in Phuket, Thailand March 17, 2016. With its palm-fringed beaches, Buddhist culture and racy nightlife, Thailand has been the poster child for Asian tourism for decades, attracting a range of visitors from backpackers and adventure-seekers, to families and culture vultures. But dark clouds could be forming even as a record of 32 million tourists are expected this year. (Photo by Athit Perawongmetha/Reuters)

People look at French artist Clement Briend's photographic light installation “Divine Trees”, which features images of divine figures highly revered in Asian cultures projected on trees towering over bystanders, during a media preview of the Singapore Night Festival in Singapore August 21, 2014. The Singapore Night Festival begins on Friday. (Photo by Edgar Su/Reuters)

A Pakistani farmer guides his bulls as he competes in a traditional bull race in Khunda village in the northwestern district of Attock, some 80 kilometers from Islamabad on January 3, 2015. Tens of thousands of people gather whenever there is a bull race held in Pakistan which are usually the highlight of festivals organized in rural areas of the Asian country, and attract lots of spectators due to their thrilling nature. The traditional competition attracts landlords and farmers from all around the province where the race is held, and they all bring their fastest and strongest bulls in hopes of gaining a reputation. (Photo by Aamir Qureshi/AFP Photo)

Secondary school students perform a barefoot “pilgrimage of suffering” to support the Occupy Central civil disobedience movement at the Admiralty protest site in Hong Kong November 30, 2014. It has been two months since police first fired tear gas to disperse demonstrators from the main protest site in the Admiralty district next to government offices in the heart of the Asian financial centre. (Photo by Bobby Yip/Reuters)