As large parts of Asia celebrate the arrival of the Lunar New Year on Feb. 8, it's in with the year of the monkey.
Japan already bid farewell to the year of the sheep as 2016 began. But before the lunar year past fully recedes into memory, we take a look back at the people and events that made headlines across Asia, for good and for bad.
Our choice last time around for worst year in Asia went to Myanmar's Muslim Rohingya minority — persecuted at home and increasingly ignored by business and political leaders hungry to engage with the new Myanmar. Time will tell whether their plight will be any better under a parliament now led by the party of one-time democracy activist and icon Aung San Suu Kyi.