This photo provided by the Elephant Nature Park shows three of the roughly 100 elephants who are stuck in rising flood waters at the park in Chiang Mai Province, Thailand, Thursday, October 3, 2024. (Photo by Darrick Thompson/Elephant Nature Park via AP Photo)





A model presents a creation as part of the Issue show, during Paragon Bangkok International Fashion Week in Thailand, Friday, October 4, 2024. (Phoot by Sakchai Lalit/AP Photo)





Sirinnicha Thampradit, a devotee of the Jor Soo Gong Naka shrine, has swords pierced through her cheek as she takes part in a procession during the annual vegetarian festival in Phuket on October 4, 2024. Soon after sunrise in the heart of the old town of the Thai island of Phuket, a swordsman chants an incantation and slowly slides the first of three blades into the right cheek of the woman who sits calmly below him. (Photo by Manan Vatsyayana/AFP Photo)





A model presents a creation as part of the Issue show, during Paragon Bangkok International Fashion Week in Thailand, Friday, October 4, 2024. (Phoot by Sakchai Lalit/AP Photo)





A model presents a creation as part of the Issue show, during Paragon Bangkok International Fashion Week in Thailand, Friday, October 4, 2024. (Phoot by Sakchai Lalit/AP Photo)





A model presents a creation as part of the Issue show, during Paragon Bangkok International Fashion Week in Thailand, Friday, October 4, 2024. (Phoot by Sakchai Lalit/AP Photo)





A model presents a creation as part of the Issue show, during Paragon Bangkok International Fashion Week in Thailand, Friday, October 4, 2024. (Phoot by Sakchai Lalit/AP Photo)





A Thai Buddhist monk wades through floodwaters in Chiang Mai Province, Thailand, Sunday, October 6, 2024 as the city's main river overflowed its banks following heavy seasonal rainfall. (Photo by Wason Wanichakorn/AP Photo)





Young monks attend a memorial service for victims of a school bus fire, at Wat Khao Phraya Sangkharam School, Lan Sak, Uthai Thani province, Thailand, Tuesday, October 8, 2024. (Photo by Chatkla Samnaingjam/AP Photo)





A family member mourns during the cremation ceremony for victims of a school bus fire, at Wat Khao Phraya Sangkharam School, Lan Sak, Uthai Thani province, Thailand, Tuesday, October 8, 2024. (Photo by Chatkla Samnaingjam/AP Photo)





Dancers perform a Dragon dance during the vegetarian festival celebration at Yaowarat the Chinatown in Bangkok on October 8, 2024. The annaul vegetarian festival in Thailand runs from October 3 to October 12, 2024 and worshippers refrain from eating animal products over the nine days and this coincides with the celebration of the nine Chinese Emperor Gods. (Photo by Peerapon Boonyakiat/SOPA Images/Rex Features/Shutterstock)





Visitors check for books during the Book Expo Thailand 2024 in Bangkok, Thailand, 10 October 2024. The Book Expo Thailand 2024 held between 10 to 20 October 2024 with more than two million books from 286 publishing houses present their premium quality of both local and international books for book lovers along with many activities to attract new readers. For the book fair is expected to attract 1.6 million people and will generate about 460 - 480 million Thai baht, (about 13.7 - 14.3 million US dollars or 12.5 - 13 million euro), according to the president of The Publishers and Booksellers Association of Thailand. (Photo by Narong Sangnak/EPA/EFE)





Thai oarsmen take part in a rehearsal of Thailand's King Maha Vajiralongkorn's royal barge procession to mark his 72nd birthday, along the Chao Phraya River in Bangkok, Thailand on October 15, 2024. (Photo by Chalinee Thirasupa/Reuters)





Buddhists throw lotus flowers towards a Buddha statue as they attend the Lotus Throwing Festival, to mark the end of the Buddhist Lent, in Samut Prakan, Thailand on October 15, 2024. (Photo by Chalinee Thirasupa/Reuters)





Pedestrians use the skywalk bridge between shopping malls as BTS trains pass above them in Bangkok on October 16, 2024. (Photo by Lillian Suwanrumpha/AFP Photo)





Thai oarsmen take part in a rehearsal of Thailand's King Maha Vajiralongkorn's royal barge procession to mark his 72nd birthday, along the Chao Phraya River in Bangkok, Thailand, on October 22, 2024. (Photo by Athit Perawongmetha/Reuters)





Thai oarsmen take part in a rehearsal of Thailand's King Maha Vajiralongkorn's royal barge procession to mark his 72nd birthday, along the Chao Phraya River in Bangkok, Thailand, on October 22, 2024. (Photo by Athit Perawongmetha/Reuters)





A woman takes a selfie with the a cafe-staff dressed in a halloween costume at a cafe in Bangkok on October 23, 2024. (Photo by Manan Vatsyayana/AFP Photo)





The artwork “The Head/Devi” by Indian artist Ravinder Reddy on display at the National Museum, as part of the Bangkok Art Biennale 2024 in Bangkok, Thailand, 24 October 2024. The Bangkok Art Biennale 2024 showcases more than 200 artworks created by 76 international and local artists from 39 countries. Held under the slogan “Nurture Gaia”, the event aims to emphasize the importance of nature at a time when global warming has just been raised to the level of Global boiling in 2023, on about nature and ecology, politics, and supernatural powers. The biennale will run from 24 October 2024 to 25 February 2025. (Photo by Narong Sangnak/EPA/EFE)





Thai oarsmen row a royal barge during the Royal Barge Procession along the Chao Phraya River in Bangkok on October 27, 2024. (Photo by Manan Vatsyayana/AFP Photo)