Thai officials salute to the portrait of the King while they take the oath of allegiance to become lawful civil servants to mark Thai King Maha Vajiralongkorn's 72nd birthday at Sanam Luang outside the Grand Palace in Bangkok, Thailand, 28 July 2024. Thai King Maha Vajiralongkorn Bodindradebayavarangkun celebrates his 72nd birthday on 28 July 2024. (Photo by Rungroj Yongrit/EPA/EFE)





Government officials take selfies in front of a portrait of Thailand’s King Maha Vajiralongkorn during celebrations to mark his 72nd birthday, outside the Grand Palace in Bangkok on July 28, 2024. (Photo by Chanakarn Laosarakham/AFP Photo)





Thailand's King Maha Vajiralongkorn and Queen Suthida leave the Grand Palace after a religious ceremony to mark his 72nd birthday in Bangkok, Thailand on July 28, 2024. (Photo by Patipat Janthong/Reuters)





A visitor seen touching an Iguana during the Thailand Reptile and Exotic Pet Expo at Central Ladprao the shopping mall in Bangkok on August 3, 2024. (Photo by Peerapon Boonyakiat/SOPA Images/Rex Features/Shutterstock)





Jockeys compete in Chonburi's annual buffalo race festival, in Chonburi province, Thailand, on August 4, 2024. (Photo by Chalinee Thirasupa/Reuters)





Jockeys compete during the annual Buffalo Racing festival on August 4, 2024. The annual Buffalo Racing Festival held among rice farmers in Chonburi city marks the beginning of a new rice growing period at the start of the rainy season in Thailand. (Photo by Peerapon Boonyakiat/SOPA Images/Rex Features/Shutterstock)





Former Move Forward party leader Pita Limjaroenrat looks on as he arrives at the party headquarters after Thailand's Constitutional Court delivered its verdict on a case seeking the dissolution of the opposition group over its call for lese-majeste reform, in Bangkok, Thailand, on August 7, 2024. (Photo by Chalinee Thirasupa/Reuters)





A child (L) stands behind a banner of Thailand's taekwondo gold medallist Panipak Wongpattanakit while waiting to greet athletes on their return to Thailand from the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, at Suvarnabhumi International Airport in Bangkok on August 13, 2024. (Photo by Chanakarn Laosarakham/AFP Photo)





Recently dismissed Thailand's Prime Minister, Srettha Thavisin speaks to members of media after Thailand's Constitutional Court ruled on dismissal case at the Government House, in Bangkok, Thailand on August 14, 2024. (Photo by Chalinee Thirasupa/Reuters)





Pheu Thai Party's leader Paetongtarn Shinawatra reacts after the Thai parliament confirmed her as the country's next prime minister, in Bangkok, Thailand on August 16, 2024. (Photo by Chalinee Thirasupa/Reuters)





Thailand's new Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra, known by her nickname “Ung Ing” and daughter of former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra, reacts during a press conference in Bangkok on August 16, 2024. Thai lawmakers on August 16 appointed the 37-year-old daughter of billionaire Thaksin Shinawatra as prime minister, elevating a third member of the influential but divisive clan to the nation's top job. (Photo by Chanakarn Laosarakham/AFP Photo)





A handout photo made available by the Royal Thai Government shows Thailand's newly elected Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra (C) receiving a royal command appointment to become prime minister, in front of a portrait of the King, at the Pheu Thai Party's headquarters in Bangkok, Thailand, 18 August 2024. The ruling Pheu Thai Party leader Paetongtarn Shinawatra, the youngest daughter of the coup-ousted former premier Thaksin Shinawatra, succeeded in the parliamentary vote to become Thailand's 31st prime minister and the country's youngest prime minister in history. (Photo by The Royal Thai Government/EPA/EFE)





Paetongtarn Shinawatra, Thailand's prime minister, greets supporters after a news conference following a royal endorsement in Bangkok, Thailand, on Sunday, August 18, 2024. The youngest daughter of former Thai leader Thaksin Shinawatra won a parliamentary vote to become the Southeast Asian nations next prime minister, capping a tumultuous period that saw a court oust her predecessor and dissolve the top opposition party. (Photo by Andre Malerba/Bloomberg)





Thailand's former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, left, and his daughter and newly elected Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra arrive before the royal endorsement ceremony appointing Paetongtarn as Thailand's new prime minister at Pheu Thai party headquarters in Bangkok, Thailand, Sunday, August 18, 2024. (Photo by Sakchai Lalit/AP Photo).





Thailand Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra speaks after receiving a royal endorsement from Thai King Maha Vajiralongkorn to become the 31st Prime Minister, at the Pheu Thai party headquarters in Bangkok, Thailand on August 18, 2024. (Photo by Pheu Thai Party via Reuters)





A worker pulls a cart loaded with goods for sale at a market in Chinatown, Bangkok, Thailand, 20 August 2024. Thailand's Gross Domestic Product (GDP) figures expanded by 2.3 percent in the second quarter after accelerating from a 1.6 percent growth in the first quarter of 2024. The growth was driven by stronger private consumption, government consumption, tourism and exports while the country's economic outlook for the entire 2024 is forecasted to grow by 2.3 to 2.8 percent with a median estimate of 2.5 percent, according to Danucha Pichayanan, the Secretary-general of the National Economic and Social Development Council (NESDC), the Thai government's planning agency. (Photo by Rungroj Yongrit/EPA/EFE)





Rescue workers search the wreckage of a small aircraft a day after it crashed as five tourists from China and four Thais, including the two pilots, all presumed dead, in Bang Pakong, Chachoengsao province, Thailand, on August 23, 2024. (Photo by Patipat Janthong/Reuters)





Contestants in the Miss International Queen, a transgender beauty pageant, in Pattaya, Thailand, on Saturday, August 24, 2024. (Photo by Andre Malerba/ZUMA Press Wire/Rex Features/Shutterstock)





A visitor is seen in a kaleidoscope room as a part celebrations marking the 50th anniversary of Hello Kitty at Central shopping mall in Bangkok, Thailand, Wednesday, August 28, 2024. (Photo by Sakchai Lalit/AP Photo)





Fire dancers perform at a beach on the Thai island of Koh Samui on August 29, 2024. (Photo by Lillian Suwanrumpha/AFP Photo)