Military personnel carry the coffin of Samarn Kunan, a former Thai navy diver who died working to rescue a young soccer team trapped for days in a flooded cave, during his funeral at a temple in Roi Et province, Thailand, July 14, 2018. (Photo by Reuters/Stringer)





A Buddhist monk bathes the shaved head of the rescued Thai boy and a member of “Wild Boars” football team together with their coach at the Phra That Doi Wao Buddhist temple in the Mae Sai district of Chiang Rai province, Thailand during the religious ordination ceremony on July 24, 2018. Thai boys rescued from deep inside a flooded cave in a dramatic mission had their heads shaved on July 24 before a Buddhist ordination ceremony in honour of a diver who died during the operation. (Photo by Panumas Sanguanwong/AFP Photo)





Two girls feed pigeons at the Wat Rakang Temple in Bangkok, Thailand on May 4, 2018. A Thai district chief has clipped the wings of his town's pigeon population by paying residents to trap the birds and organising a cook-off to build support for the cull. The campaign to go after hundreds of thousands of pigeons started earlier this week in the district of Lop Buri province – a region better known for its monkey menace. (Photo by Lillian Suwanrumpha/AFP Photo)





A tourist poses for a photo on Maya Bay, Phi Phi Leh island in Krabi province, Thailand, Thursday, May 31, 2018. The popular tourist destination of Maya Bay in the Andaman Sea will close to tourists for four months from Friday to give its coral reefs and sea life a chance to recover from an onslaught that began nearly two decades ago. (Photo by Sakchai Lalit/AP Photo)





Women dressed in Thai traditional costumes hold durians at a department store in Bangkok, Thailand, April 26, 2018. (Photo by Athit Perawongmetha/Reuters)





People (R) pour water on the hands of elders (L) to ask for blessings and as a sign of respect, during ceremonies to celebrate Songkran, the Thai New Year, in Narathiwat on April 13, 2018. (Photo by Madaree Tohlala/AFP Photo)





A woman dressed in traditional Thai costume offers alms to a Buddhist monk during the Songkran celebrations, to commemorate the Thai New Year in Bangkok, Thailand April 13, 2018. (Photo by Jorge Silva/Reuters)





Danusorn Sdisaithaworn (L), 10, and Gorsak Kong Tawan, 13, rest at an altar made for them at their home after an annual Poy Sang Long procession, part of the traditional rite of passage for boys to be initiated as Buddhist novices, in Mae Hong Son, Thailand April 3, 2018. (Photo by Jorge Silva/Reuters)





Choochart Supkerd, 63, who studies at the School for the Elderly in Chiang Rak Noi subdistrict, poses for a photograph inside his house in Ayutthaya, Thailand, March 28, 2018. Supkerd attended a 12-week course at the school which he said was a welcome relief from his “stressful” life. “It's stressful just living day by day. I don't have an income”, he said. “I receive disabled welfare of 800 baht ($25.60/month)”. The school was a place for him to make friends. “I will probably go back to feeling lonely sometimes but I'm also proud of this, of gaining some knowledge in class that would be useful for my daily life”. (Photo by Athit Perawongmetha/Reuters)





Lertviroj Kowattana, permanent secretary of the Thai Ministry of Agriculture and Cooperatives (C), dressed in a traditional costume, throws rice grains during the annual royal ploughing ceremony in central Bangkok, Thailand, May 14, 2018. (Photo by Athit Perawongmetha/Reuters)





Fruits, desserts and drinks are placed as offerings to the spirits near the Tham Luang caves, where 12 members of an under-16 soccer team and their coach are trapped, in the northern province of Chiang Rai, Thailand, June 26, 2018. (Photo by Chayut Setboonsarng/Reuters)





An Ethnic Kayan also know as a Long Neck girl sits at her parents souvenir shop in the Kayan village at the northern province of Chiang Rai, Thailand, July 16, 2018. (Photo by Soe Zeya Tun/Reuters)





Women use an umbrella during heavy rain fall in Bangkok, Thailand on August 19, 2018. (Photo by Soe Zeya Tun/Reuters)





Chinese tourists visit the Temple of the Emerald Buddha in Bangkok, Thailand on August 19, 2018. (Photo by Soe Zeya Tun/Reuters)





Chinese tourists visit the Temple of the Emerald Buddha in Bangkok, Thailand on August 19, 2018. (Photo by Soe Zeya Tun/Reuters)





Dogs are seen on Anusara's desk as she works in a office of a digital advertising agency which promotes bring-your-dog-to-work in Bangkok, Thailand ob September 27, 2018. (Photo by Soe Zeya Tun/Reuters)





General view of the Train Night Market Ratchada in Bangkok, Thailand August 23, 2018. (Photo by Soe Zeya Tun/Reuters)





Thai artist Maitree Siriboon (R) paints a buffalo mother named 'Riam' during the “Cool Isan!” event as part of the Isan Spirit Festival at ChangChui, the Aircraft Flea Market in Bangkok, Thailand, 28 April 2018. The buffalo painting with India's holi color is live performance under the “Save Thai Buffalo” concept as part of Isan Spirit Festival for to promote tourism in the country's northeast or “Isan” (as in Thai). (Photo by Narong Sangnak/EPA/EFE)





Participants take part in a parade to celebrate Muslim and Buddhist culture in Yi-ngo district of Narathiwat province, Thailand on September 4, 2018. (Photo by Madaree Tohlala/AFP Photo)





People wait as police block the road during an emergency helicopter evacuation in Chiang Rai as divers evacuated some of the 12 boys and their coach trapped at Tham Luang cave in the Mae Sai district of Chiang Rai province, northern Thailand, Tuesday, July 10, 2018. Thai Navy SEALs say all 12 boys and their coach were rescued from the cave, ending an ordeal that lasted more than 2 weeks. (Photo by Vincent Thian/AP Photo)





This photo taken on March 30, 2018, shows a Thai teenager trying out a traditional coffin at the Kid Mai Death Awareness Cafe, an exhibition space built to educate the public about death and Buddhism, in Bangkok. With drinks called “death” and “painful” on the menu and a skeleton splayed out on a couch in the corner, the meet- your- maker theme is alive and well at this open- air lunch spot in the Thai capital. (Photo by Lillian Suwanrumpha/AFP Photo)





An airborne migrant worker kicks a rattan ball during a game of Chinlone in a field flooded by rain water in Bangkok, Thailand, Thursday, May 31, 2018. The popular Burmese sport Chinlone, a combination of sport and dance, is played between two teams consisting of six players each, passing a rattan ball back and forth with feet, knees and heads. (Photo by Gemunu Amarasinghe/AP Photo)