A Buddhist monk prepares to collect alms in front of a temple in Bangkok on July 18, 2025. (Photo by Chanakarn Laosarakham/AFP Photo)





A Karen elephant keeper plays with a baby elephant at the Elephant Freedom Village in Chiang Mai, Thailand on July 21, 2025. Karen elephant keepers work to preserve traditional hill tribe methods of human coexistence with animals. (Photo by Valeria Mongelli/Anadolu via Getty Images)





Purawish Bunyagarn, 7 and other children attend “Space & Time Cube +”, a cutting‑edge immersive art and metaverse-inspired experience, in Bangkok, Thailand, on July 23, 2025. (Photo by Chalinee Thirasupa/Reuters)





People rest at a shelter, following recent clashes along the disputed border between the two countries, according to authorities people have been killed across three border provinces, in Surin province, Thailand on July 24, 2025. (Photo by Pansira Kaewplung/Reuters)





A soldier is seen on an Armored Personnel Carrier (APC) on a road near Thailand-Cambodia's border in Sisaket province, the day after the leaders of Cambodia and Thailand agreed to a ceasefire on Monday in a bid to bring an end to their deadliest conflict in more than a decade and ahead of military negotiations, Thailand, on July 29, 2025. (Photo by Athit Perawongmetha/Reuters)





Cambodian migrant workers wait to cross the Ban Laem border checkpoint in large numbers on July 29, 2025 in Chanthaburi, Thailand. Thailand and Cambodia agreed to a ceasefire in talks brokered by Malaysia after deadly clashes along their disputed border that have resulted in at least 35 deaths and displaced over 200,000 people. (Photo by Lauren DeCicca/Getty Images)





Koon Kantho, 68, collects items from her house destroyed during Cambodia's artillery attacks, in Sisaket province, Thailand, on July 29, 2025. (Photo by Athit Perawongmetha/Reuters)





Old landmines recovered from the disputed areas following the Thai-Cambodian border conflict are displayed during a press tour organized by the Royal Thai Army in the border province of Surin on August 20, 2025. A long-running border row between the Southeast Asian neighbours boiled over into conflict in July involving artillery bombardments, air strikes and infantry clashes, killing at least 43 people and forcing more than 300,000 others to flee their homes. (Photo by Lillian Suwanrumpha/AFP Photo)





Thailand's Paetongtarn Shinawatra, who was dismissed as prime minister, leaves following a press conference after the Constitutional Court ruled to remove her from office in a high-profile ethics case, following a leaked phone conversation between her and Cambodia's former leader Hun Sen, at Government House in Bangkok, Thailand, on August 29, 2025. (Photo by Chalinee Thirasupa/Reuters)





Former Thai Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra (L) leaves the Supreme Court after a verdict in the case regarding her father Thaksin Shinawatra’s prolonged hospital stay to avoid a prison sentence in Bangkok, Thailand, 09 September 2025. Thailand’s Supreme Court has ordered former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra to return to prison to serve one more year of a past conviction. The court’s Criminal Division for Holders of Political Positions ruled that Thaksin’s six-month stay in a police hospital in 2023, while serving a reduced sentence for abuse of power and conflict of interest, cannot be counted toward his jail term. (Photo by Rungroj Yongrit/EPA)





Birds sit in cages during a bird singing competition in Thailand's southern province of Narathiwat on September 15, 2025. Some 1,250 birds from Thailand, Malaysia and Singapore were entered in the annual contest. (Photo by Madaree Tohlala/AFP Photo)





A massive sinkhole opens on Samsen Road near Vajira Hospital, in Bangkok, Thailand, on September 24, 2025. (Photo by Chalinee Thirasupa/Reuters)





A vehicle is seen on the edge of a hole in the ground after a road collapsed near a hospital in Bangkok on September 24, 2025. A portion of a busy road in Thailand's capital caved in early on September 24, leaving a hole dozens of meters deep in front of a main hospital and forcing people nearby to evacuate. (Photo by Chanakarn Laosarakham/AFP Photo)





A visitor takes a photo of a parody Mount Rushmore sculpture depicting the faces of Russia's President Vladimir Putin (L), China's President Xi Jinping (2nd L), North Korea's leader Kim Jong-un (2nd R), and US President Donald Trump (R) at “The Summit Camp” camping and outdoors experience at a shopping mall in Bangkok on September 24, 2025. (Photo by Chanakarn Laosarakham/AFP Photo)





A Thai buffalo racer competes in a sprint event during an annual buffalo racing festival in Chonburi, Thailand, Monday, October 6, 2025. (Photo by Sakchai Lalit/AP Photo)





Thai buffalo racers compete in a sprint event during an annual buffalo racing festival in Chonburi, Thailand, Monday, October 6, 2025. (Photo by Sakchai Lalit/AP Photo)





Thai buffalo racers start off a sprint event during an annual buffalo racing festival in Chonburi, Thailand, Monday, October 6, 2025. (Photo by Sakchai Lalit/AP Photo)





A Thai buffalo rider loses his balance and falls in a sprint event during an annual buffalo racing festival in Chonburi, Thailand, Monday, October 6, 2025. (Photo by Sakchai Lalit/AP Photo)





A member of a Thai buffalo racing team tries to control it before a sprint race during an annual buffalo racing festival in Chonburi, Thailand, Monday, October 6, 2025. (Photo by Sakchai Lalit/AP Photo)