Thai Buddhist monks walk in line to collect morning alms during a rite to mark the End of Buddhist Lent at Wat Benchamabophit Dusitwanaram, also known as the Marble Temple in Bangkok, Thailand, 07 October 2025. The end of Buddhist Lent falls on the full moon day of the eleventh lunar month to mark the end of the three-month Buddhist Lent period, in which monks remain in one place to meditate and pray, while laymen may give up meat or alcohol and observe other ascetic practices. (Photo by Rungroj Yongrit/EPA)





La-iat Taengsong, 70, rests on the roof of his house, which is submerged on the banks of flooded Noi river, affected by heavy rainfall and overflowing rivers, with Ayutthaya as one of the worst-hit areas, at Sena district, in Ayutthaya province, Thailand, on October 8, 2025. (Photo by Chalinee Thirasupa/Reuters)





Buddhist devotees walk with a float during a parade celebrating the end of the Buddhist Lent in Thailand's southern province of Narathiwat on October 8, 2025. (Photo by Madaree Tohlala/AFP Photo)





Nichakorn Sri-ampai, 5, swims through a flooded area outside her home, affected by heavy rainfall and overflowing rivers, with Ayutthaya as one of the worst-hit areas, at Sena district, in Ayutthaya province, Thailand, on October 8, 2025. (Photo by Chalinee Thirasupa/Reuters)





Customers trade gold behind a window displaying gold prices at the Hua Seng Heng gold shop in Bangkok, Thailand, 09 October 2025. Thailand’s gold prices continue to surge, following global trends as the spot price of gold surpassed 4,000 USD per ounce for the first time, with investors turning to the precious metal amid global political and economic uncertainty. (Photo by Rungroj Yongrit/EPA)





The Dragon Dance performs to worship Chinese gods and deities on the eve of the Vegetarian Festival at a Chinese shrine in Bangkok, Thailand, 20 October 2025. The Vegetarian Festival, also known as the Nine Emperor Gods Festival, is an annual Taoist celebration held during the ninth lunar month of the Chinese calendar, which falls this year from 21 to 29 October. During the nine-day period, worshippers abstain from eating meat, consume only vegetarian food, and perform merit-making rituals to cleanse both body and mind. (Photo by Boonyakiat/Sopa Images/Rex Features/Shutterstock)





People hold portraits of Thailand's former Queen Sirikit as they gather in front of Chulalongkorn Hospital, where she passed away, in Bangkok on October 25, 2025. Thailand's former Queen Sirikit, the mother of the current King Vajiralongkorn and wife of the nation's longest-reigning monarch, died late on October 24 at the age of 93, the palace said. (Photo by Chanakarn Laosarakham/AFP Photo)





Thai police line up in front of the Grand Palace ahead of the arrival of the royal motorcade in Bangkok on October 26, 2025, as the body of Thailand's former queen Sirikit body is transported from Chulalongkorn Hospital to the Grand Palace for the start of funeral rites. The year-long funeral ceremony of Thailand's former queen Sirikit started on October 26, with grieving royalists saluting the procession bringing her body to lie in state at Bangkok's Grand Palace. (Photo by Chanakarn Laosarakham/AFP Photo)





Devotees take part in the 200th anniversary of the Vegetarian Festival in Phuket, Thailand on October 27, 2025. (Photo by Andre Malerba/ZUMA Press Wire/Rex Features/Shutterstock)





A mosaic portrait of the Queen Mother Sirikit is displayed as students practice flipping boards, at Assumption College in Bangkok, Thailand, Tuesday, November 4, 2025. (Photo by Sakchai Lalit/AP Photo)





People gather around an artificial pond for releasing krathongs, or floating baskets, at Wat Arun Buddhist temple during the Loy Krathong festival in Bangkok on November 5, 2025. (Photo by Lillian Suwanrumpha/AFP Photo)





Diners at the Pa Jit restaurant take vdo fish in the aisles that come from floods from the Tha Chin River in Thailand's Nakhon Pathom province, west of Bangkok, Thailand, Friday, November 14, 2025. (Photo by Sakchai Lalit/AP Photo)





Floodwaters cover a Buddhastatue of at Wat Taku Buddhist temple in Bang Ban district in the central Thai province of Ayutthaya on November 14, 2025. (Photo by Lillian Suwanrumpha/AFP Photo)





A man sits on a boat as children push it on a flooded road near Tha-It mosque on the banks of the Chao Phraya River after increased discharge from the Chao Phraya Dam, in Nonthaburi province on the outskirts of Bangkok, Thailand, on November 14, 2025. (Photo by Chalinee Thirasupa/Reuters)





People take a boat from their flooded neighbourhood through the Wat Intharam Buddhist temple complex in Bang Ban district in the central Thai province of Ayutthaya on November 14, 2025. (Photo by Lillian Suwanrumpha/AFP Photo)





Flood waters cover a Buddha statue at Wat Taku Buddhist temple in Bang Ban district in the central Thai province of Ayutthaya on November 14, 2025. (Photo by Lillian Suwanrumpha/AFP Photo)





Buddha statues are pictured above flood waters at Wat Choeng Tha Buddhist temple in Ayutthaya on November 14, 2025. (Photo by Lillian Suwanrumpha/AFP Photo)





Flood waters are seen at Wat Taku Buddhist temple in Bang Ban district in the central Thai province of Ayutthaya on November 14, 2025. (Photo by Lillian Suwanrumpha/AFP Photo)





People gather alongside boats at the entrance of Wat Intharam Buddhist temple as their homes are inundated by flooding in Bang Ban district in the central Thai province of Ayutthaya on November 14, 2025. (Photo by Lillian Suwanrumpha/AFP Photo)