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A 6,800-ton South Korean ferry was hoisted to the surface last week nearly three years after it capsized and sank in violent seas off the country’s southwestern coast, an emotional moment for the nation as it searches for closure to one of its deadliest disasters. More than 300 people — most of whom were students on a high school trip — died when the Sewol sank on April 16, 2014, touching off an outpouring of national grief and soul searching about long-ignored public safety and regulatory failures. In other images from the Asia-Pacific region last week, about 50 farmers and activists opposed to a cement factory in Indonesia’s Central Java province encased their feet in concrete during a dayslong protest in Jakarta, the capital.