A Look at Life in Thailand

Thailand’s Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra arrives at the Government House ahead of a royal oath-taking ceremony for her cabinet in Bangkok, Thailand, on September 6, 2024. (Photo by Athit Perawongmetha/Reuters)

A troupe of adolescent traditional Thai Khon dancers perform in front of the Silom Complex mall in Bangkok, Thailand on September 6, 2024. Khon dancers perform in a martial combat-styled choreography, often holding replica weapons, with some performers wearing full face masks as well as ornate headdresses. The Ramakien, an adaptation of the Indian Hindu epic Ramayana, is the source of many of the stories reenacted in Khon performances. Khon dance has been performed in Thailand since the Ayutthaya period. (Photo by Adryel Talamantes/ZUMA Press Wire/Rex Features/Shutterstock)

Rescue workers help stranded people from a flooded area at the border town of Mae Sai, following the impact of Typhoon Yagi, in the northern province of Chiang Rai, Thailand on September 11, 2024. (Photo by SZZW/Reuters)

This handout photo taken and released by the Hill Area and Community Development Foundation on September 11, 2024 shows a car driving through flood waters in Chiang Rai, following heavy rains in the aftermath of Typhoon Yagi. Thai authorities said four people were killed in the kingdom's northern provinces of Chiang Mai and Chiang Rai and the army has been deployed to help around 9,000 flood-hit families. (Photo by Handout/Hill Area and Community Development Foundation/AFP Photo)

A rescue worker uses jet skis to search for victims in flooded areas in Chiang Rai Province, Thailand, Friday, September 13, 2024. (Photo by Sarot Meksophawannakul/AP Photo)

Visitors look at Moo Deng, a two-month-old female pygmy hippo who has recently become a viral internet sensation, alongside her mother Jona, 25, at Khao Kheow Open Zoo in Chonburi province on September 15, 2024. (Photo by Lillian Suwanrumpha/AFP Photo)

Hippo keeper Atthapon Nundee, 31, takes pictures of a two-month-old female pygmy hippo named “Moo Deng” who has recently become a viral internet sensation, at Khao Kheow Open Zoo in Chonburi province, Thailand, on September 16, 2024. (Photo by Athit Perawongmetha/Reuters)

People take pictures while an elephant swims at Khao Kheow Open Zoo in Chonburi, Thailand, on September 16, 2024. (Photo by Athit Perawongmetha/Reuters)

A devotee prays in front of big Buddha statues in the early morning mist, at Wat Phra That Pha Sorn Kaew temple, in Khao Kho, Phetchabun province, Thailand, on September 21, 2024. (Photo by Athit Perawongmetha/Reuters)

Chalet Kulsaree, 32, the owner of Vetmon Cafe (Magic Cafe) decorates a Moo Deng cake (cake in the shape of the pygmy hippo who has recently become a viral internet sensation) at his cafe, in Bangkok, Thailand, on September 25, 2024. (Photo by Athit Perawongmetha/Reuters)

Birds sit in cages during a bird singing competition in Thailand's southern province of Narathiwat on September 25, 2024. Some 2,500 birds from Thailand, Malaysia and Singapore were entered in the annual contest. (Photo by Madaree Tohlala/AFP Photo)

A roadside beautician uses a threading technique to remove hair from a customer in Bangkok, Thailand, Friday, September 27, 2024. (Photo by Sakchai Lalit/AP Photo)

A green cover is set up as firefighters remove bodies from a burnt-out bus that was carrying teachers and students from Wat Khao Phraya school, reportedly resulting in fatalities and injuries, on the outskirts of Bangkok, Thailand, on October 1, 2024. (Photo by Chalinee Thirasupa/Reuters)

Dancers perform the Lion Dance to honor Chinese deities on the eve of the Vegetarian Festival at a Chinese shrine in Bangkok, Thailand, 02 October 2024. The Vegetarian Festival, also known as The Nine Emperor Gods Festival, is an annual Taoist celebration held during the ninth lunar month of the Chinese calendar, falling this year from 03 to 11 October. During the nine-day period, worshippers will abstain from consuming meat and will only consume vegetarian food and make merit, all aimed at cleansing their body and mind. (Photo by Rungroj Yongrit/EPA/EFE)

A family member attends a funeral for children who had been studying in Wat Khao Phraya School and were killed in a bus which was engulfed in a fire while on a school field trip in Bangkok, in Uthai Thani province, Thailand on October 3, 2024. (Photo by Chalinee Thirasupa/Reuters)

A breeder pets a Sphynx cat at Farm Expo 2024 in Bangkok, Thailand, 03 October 2024. The Farm Expo 2024 held on 03 and 06 October, and its a major agricultural showcasing of farming technologies, innovative crops, tools, and livestock development aimed to ensure food security as well as promote smart resource management. (Photo by Rungroj Yongrit/EPA/EFE)

A relative cries in front of the portrait and coffin of a victim of a school bus fire at Wat Khao Phraya Sangkharam School in Uthai Thani, on October 3, 2024. Grieving families wept as they offered prayers for 23 children and their teachers killed in a horrifying Thai school bus fire, as the government vowed a crackdown on unsafe vehicles. (Photo by Chanakarn Laosarakham/AFP Photo)

Thai mahouts dress the twin male-female baby elephants for a ceremony to celebrate the calves being named by the Thai King, at the Ayutthaya Elephant Palace and Royal Kraal in Ayutthaya, Thailand, 04 October 2024. The rare twin male-female baby elephants were celebrated in a ceremony after being named Plai Sappalaksopol and Pang Sakollaksophit, respectively, by the Thai King. The four-month-old twin baby elephants were born on 07 June 2024 by a 36-year-old elephant named Chamchuri. The birth of twin elephants are rare but male-female twin births are extremely rarer, according to Phra Kochaban Foundation for elephant care. (Photo by Rungroj Yongrit/EPA/EFE)

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