Rare golden tigresses Ava and Luna lie in a cage at Chiang Mai Night Safari, in Chiang Mai province, Thailand, on November 26, 2024. (Photo by Warodom Nimmanahaeminda/Reuters)





The big Buddha statues are seen at Wat Phra That Pha Sorn Kaew temple, Khao Kho district, Phetchabun province, Thailand, on December 17, 2024. (Photo by Athit Perawongmetha/Reuters)





A 12 meter-tall statue of Young-hee, the iconic doll from Netflix's South Korean TV series “Squid Game”, is seen on a barge in front of Wat Arun temple on the Chao Prayer River ahead of the launch of Season 2, in Bangkok on December 19, 2024. (Photo by Lillian Suwanrumpha/AFP Photo)





A Thai mahout and elephant, both dressed as Santa Claus, distribute gifts to students during a Christmas celebration at Jirasartwitthaya School in the world heritage city in Ayutthaya, Thailand, 24 December 2024. The annual event is held to celebrate the Christmas festive season and to promote tourism in Ayutthaya. (Photo by Rungroj Yongrit/EPA/EFE)





A man lights a candle during a memorial for the 20th anniversary of the Indian Ocean tsunami at a tsunami wave-shaped monument erected for the victims of the 2004 tsunami in Ban Nam Khem, a southern fishing village destroyed by the wave, in Phang Nga province, Thailand, on December 26, 2024. (Photo by Reuters/Stringer)





People look at portraits of tsunami victims at the Ban Nam Khem Tsunami Memorial wall in the southern Thai province of Phang Nga on December 26, 2024. Emotional ceremonies began across Asia on December 26 to remember the 220,000 people who died two decades ago when a tsunami devastated coastal areas around the Indian Ocean, in one of the worst natural disasters in human history. (Photo by Lillian Suwanrumpha/AFP Photo)





People pray to celebrate the 2025 new year at a temple in Bangkok, Thailand, on December 31, 2024. (Photo by Patipat Janthong/Reuters)





Tourist boats wait for New Year fireworks to start on the Chao Phraya river in Bangkok, Thailand, on December 31, 2024. (Photo by Patipat Janthong/Reuters)





Thai people pray inside coffins as a Buddhist monk performs a rite during the New Year's resurrection ceremony at Wat Takien temple in Nonthaburi province, on the outskirts of Bangkok, Thailand, 01 January 2025. The resurrection ceremony rituals are performed at a Buddhist temple where Thai devotees lie in coffins symbolizing the concepts of death and rebirth in hopes of ushering in a new year filled with luck and the fulfillment of their wishes. (Photo by Rungroj Yongrit/EPA/EFE)





Devotees pray as they lie down inside coffins to get rid of bad luck and to be reborn again for a fresh start in the New Year at a temple in Nonthaburi, on the outskirts of Bangkok, Thailand on January 1, 2025. (Photo by Athit Perawongmetha/Reuters)





A drone view shows dragon and cat figures created by Thunyapong Jaikum, a Thai farmer and artist, in rice fields in Chiang Rai province, north of Thailand, on January 11, 2025. (Photo by Artorn Pookasook/Reuters)





A child watches divers perform an underwater dragon dance during a special seasonal performance to celebrate the upcoming Chinese Lunar New Year at the Sea Life Bangkok Ocean World aquarium in Bangkok, Thailand, 16 January 2025. The Chinese Lunar New Year, also known as the Spring Festival, falls on 29 January 2025, marking the beginning of the Year of the Snake. (Photo by Narong Sangnak/EPA)





A view of the city amid air pollution during sunrise as Bangkok announces request for cooperation from government and private sector workers to stay or work from home (WFH) due to the PM2.5 dust situation, in Bangkok, Thailand, on January 20, 2025. (Photo by Chalinee Thirasupa/Reuters)





Ruchaya Nillakan (L) and Nuttimon Sanyamast (C), same-sеx couple, attend their marriage registration event at Paragon shopping mall in Bangkok on January 23, 2025. A high-profile gay couple married in Thailand on January 23 as the kingdom's same-sеx marriage law went into effect, an AFP journalist saw, among the first of hundreds expected to do so. (Photo by Chanakarn Laosarakham/AFP Photo)





Thai actors Apiwat “Porsch” Apiwatsayree (L) and Sappanyoo “Arm” Panatkool pose for pictures after registering their same-sеx marriage at the Phra Nakhon district office in Bangkok on January 23, 2025. A high-profile gay couple married in Thailand on January 23 as the kingdom's same-s*x marriage law went into effect, an AFP journalist saw, among the first of hundreds expected to do so. (Photo by Chanakarn Laosarakham/AFP Photo)





School children take part in a traditional lion dance to celebrate the upcoming lunar new year in the southern Thai province of Narathiwat on January 25, 2025. (Photo by Madaree Tohlala/AFP Photo)





A woman poses for photographs with Lunar New Year decorations at a shopping mall in Bangkok on January 26, 2025 ahead of the Year of the Snake which falls on January 29. (Photo by Manan Vatsyayana/AFP Photo)





Members of EngKor troupe, engaged in traditional Thai-Chinese performance art, prepare backstage ahead of their show on the eve of Lunar New Year at a department store in Bangkok, Thailand, on January 28, 2025. (Photo by Athit Perawongmetha/Reuters)





Lion dancers perform on the eve of Lunar New Year at a department store in Bangkok, Thailand, on January 28, 2025. (Photo by Athit Perawongmetha/Reuters)





Women whisper to Chinese statues as they pray at a Chinese temple on Lunar New Year in Bangkok, Thailand, on January 29, 2025. (Photo by Athit Perawongmetha/Reuters)