Thai Buddhist monks receive donations from devotees during a morning alms ritual to mark the end of the Buddhist Lent, known as “Awk Phansa day”, at Golden Mount temple in Bangkok, Thailand, 30 October 2023. (Photo by Narong Sangnak/EPA)





A participant wearing costume attends Halloween night at Khaosan Road, a hub for backpackers, in Bangkok, Thailand on October 31, 2023. (Photo by Chalinee Thirasupa/Reuters)





A participant wearing a costume attends a Halloween night at Khaosan Road, a hub for backpackers, in Bangkok, Thailand on October 31, 2023. (Photo by Chalinee Thirasupa/Reuters)





A participant wearing a costume attends Halloween night at Khaosan Road, a hub for backpackers, in Bangkok, Thailand on October 31, 2023. (Photo by Chalinee Thirasupa/Reuters)





A girl wearing a costume attends Halloween night at Khaosan Road, a hub for backpackers, in Bangkok, Thailand on October 31, 2023. (Photo by Chalinee Thirasupa/Reuters)





Participants wearing costumes attend Halloween night at Khaosan Road, a hub for backpackers, in Bangkok, Thailand on October 31, 2023. (Photo by Chalinee Thirasupa/Reuters)





This aerial photograph taken on November 4, 2023 shows tourists travelling aboard the popular “Floating train” taking photographs along the railway tracks during a stop in the middle of Pasak Jolasid Dam, Thailand's biggest reservoir in Lopburi province. A lone boatman watched the spectacle of Thailand's so-called “floating train” as selfie-seeking passengers soaked up the water views after disembarking from carriages stopped on a narrow bridge. (Photo by Manan Vatsyayana/AFP)





A man feeds a seagull at Bang Pu seaside resort in Samut Prakan province on the outskirts of Bangkok, Thailand on November 8, 2023. (Photo by Athit Perawongmetha/Reuters)





Thai Buddhist monks line up for a morning alms, while the believer of the Lord Brahma are worship mark the religious ceremony for to mark the 67th establishment anniversary of the Erawan shrine in Bangkok, Thailand, 09 November 2023. The ceremony is held every year in the early morning of 09 November to worship the Lord Brahma statue to commemorate it being enshrined on 09 November 1956. (Photo by Narong Sangnak/EPA)





This screenshot of a handout video taken and released on November 21, 2023 by Thailand's Department of National Parks, Wildlife and Plant Conservation (DNP) shows captured iguanas at a wildlife sanctuary in Nakhon Nayok province. Thailand has captured more than 150 rogue iguanas that were rampaging through the countryside, raiding farms and damaging the local environment, officials said. (Photo by Thailand's Department of National Parks, Wildlife and Plant Conservation (DNP)/Handout via AFP Photo)





Monkeys climb onto tourists during the annual Monkey Festival in Lopburi province, Thailand on November 26, 2023. (Photo by Chalinee Thirasupa/Reuters)





A woman holds a Krathong, a floating baskets made with leaves and flowers, before placing them in a park's lagoon during the Loy Krathong festival, held as a symbolic apology and to express gratitude to the goddess of the river for the water, in Bangkok, Thailand on November 27, 2023. (Photo by Chalinee Thirasupa/Reuters)





Krathongs (floating baskets) made with leaves and flowers, remain in a park lagoon after the Loy Krathong festival, which is held as a symbolic apology and expression of gratitude to the goddess of the river, and to thank for the water in Bangkok, Thailand on November 27, 2023. (Photo by Chalinee Thirasupa/Reuters)





Lights are projected on a canal during a Loy Krathong celebration to encourage people to use digital krathongs instead of traditional ones, to reduce waste, in Bangkok, Thailand on November 27, 2023. (Photo by Thomas Suen/Reuters)





A water monitor lizard swims in the Tapi River during heavy rainfall on November 27, 2023. Heavy rain and flooding take place in Surat Thani, Thailand, a tropical area increasingly affected by climate change during the south's rainy season. (Photo by Matt Hunt/SOPA Images/Rex Features/Shutterstock)





This photo taken on November 27, 2023 shows municipal workers collecting “Krathong” or floating baskets released into the Chao Phraya river marking the annual Loy Krathong festival celebrations, during a clean-up drive in Bangkok. The Loy Krathong festival, celebrated in Thailand by releasing decorative baskets into rivers and ponds, was given an environmentally sustainable twist in the Thai capital on November 27 as clean-up workers removed the floats from waterways and digital projections sought to replace the still-popular traditional physical offerings. (Photo by Manan Vatsyayana/AFP Photo)





Thailand’s Uthen Kukheaw returns the ball against Kosovo’s Adrien Uka during the men’s singles group stage match on the first day of the World Teqball Championships in Bangkok on November 29, 2023. (Photo by Lillian Suwanrumpha/AFP Photo)





A model walks the runway during the Don Cristobal show at Thailand Fashion Week SS24 on November 30, 2023 in Bangkok, Thailand. (Photo by Jack Taylor/Getty Images)





Parliament member Rukchanok Srinork of Thailand's opposition Move Forward party arrives at criminal court for the verdict for allegedly violating the lese majeste law in Bangkok, Thailand, Wednesday, December 13, 2023. A court in Thailand convicted and sentenced Wednesday the recently elected lawmaker to six years in prison for defaming the monarchy under a controversial law that guards the royal institution. (Photo by Sopha Saelee/AP Photo)





In this photo released by the Office of the Narcotics Control Board on Sunday, December 17, 2023, acting secretary-general of the Office of the Narcotics Control Board Phanurat Lukboon, third right, talks to reporters as bags containing methamphetamine pills are displayed during a news conference in Chiang Rai province, Thailand. A number of suspected drug smugglers were killed and about 2 million methamphetamine tablets seized in a northern Thai border town near Myanmar after a shootout with Thai soldiers, Thai officials said. (Photo by Office Of The Narcotics Control Board via AP Photo)