In 20 pictures: The Asia Pacific this week

News Snapshot:

Three baby Asian small-clawed otter brothers, who were born in August, are welcomed by the public at their debut at Osaka Aquarium Kaiyukan, Japan, on April 24. ( ) An excavator tries to contain a fire as smoke rises from burning garbage at a tip in New Delhi, India, on April 22. ( ) The West Pacific Naval Symposium opened in China's Shandong province on April 22, at an academy that was established in 1953 and has trained more than 100,000 naval officers and sailors — mostly submariners — for the Chinese navy, according to China's official People's Daily. (...