A diver wearing a Santa Claus costume swims with a school of fish to welcome the upcoming Christmas at the Sea Life Bangkok Ocean World aquarium in Bangkok, Thailand on December 19, 2023. (Photo by Chalinee Thirasupa/Reuters)





A seven-year-old female orangutan named Shizuka looks on from inside a cage during the repatriation ceremony of confiscated smuggled orangutans from Thailand to Indonesia, at the cargo area of Suvarnabhumi International Airport in Samut Prakan province, Thailand, 21 December 2023. Thailand returned three orangutans that were rescued after being smuggled from Indonesia as part of the country's wildlife trafficking combat initiative under the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wildlife Fauna and Flora (CITES) as well as aimed to strengthen the relationship between the two countries. (Photo by Rungroj Yongrit/EPA)





Students wait for gifts from an elephant dressed in a Santa Claus costume ahead of Christmas celebrations at a school, in Ayutthaya, Thailand on December 22, 2023. (Photo by Artorn Pookasook/Reuters)





People take pictures with a Pokemon-themed Christmas display in front of the Central World shopping mall in Bangkok on December 25, 2023. (Photo by Lillian Suwanrumpha/AFP Photo)





Fireworks explode over the Grand Palace during the New Year celebrations, in Bangkok, Thailand on December 31, 2023. (Photo by Athit Perawongmetha/Reuters)





Fireworks explode during the New Year celebrations, in Bangkok, Thailand on December 31, 2023. (Photo by Chalinee Thirasupa/Reuters)





Fireworks explode over the Grand Palace during the New Year celebrations, in Bangkok, Thailand on January 1, 2024. (Photo by Athit Perawongmetha/Reuters)





Fireworks explode during the New Year celebrations, in Bangkok, Thailand on December 31, 2023. (Photo by Chalinee Thirasupa/Reuters)





Thai Buddhist monks chant during the mass morning alms-giving ceremony to mark the start of the new year at Wat Phra Dhammakaya Temple in Pathum Thani province, Thailand, 01 January 2024. Thousands of devotees gathered in a morning almsgiving ceremony to offer foods and essentials to more than 3,000 Buddhist monks to mark the start of 2024 new year, the year of the dragon. (Photo by Rungroj Yongrit/EPA)





A view of traffic during sunrise in Bangkok, Thailand on January 5, 2024. (Photo by Athit Perawongmetha/Reuters)





Visitors walk through a tunnel made of light installations at the Nasatta Light festival, in Thailand’s Ratchaburi province on January 13, 2024. (Photo by Manan Vatsyayana/AFP Photo)





A relative of a victim by an explosion at a firework factory cries at Rong Chang temple in Suphan Buri province, Thailand, Thursday, January 18, 2024. The blast in central Thailand killed multiple people on Wednesday, according to provincial officials, though the devastation at the scene has made the death toll uncertain. (Phoot by Sakchai Lalit/AP Photo)





In this picture taken on January 20, 2024, a woman takes photographs amid colorful candy-land themed sculptures at the “Great and Grand Sweet Destination”, an ice-cream cafe and theme park in Pattaya. (Photo by Manan Vatsyayana/AFP Photo)





An unconscious monkey is being tattooed for future identification after being sterilized during the macaques population control campaign at a residential community in Bang Khun Thian district, Bangkok, Thailand, 23 January 2024. As part of the Bangkok Metropolitan Administration's campaign to control the urban monkey population, at least one hundred monkeys in Bang Khun Thian district are expected to be caught for sterilization. This is due to the monkeys causing a nuisance to local residents, damaging their houses and assets, and raising fears of disease. The Bang Khun Thian district of Bangkok is situated near the Gulf of Thailand and is home to hundreds of long-tailed macaques that are facing a threat due to urban expansion, with many being hit by cars or attacked by locals when they approach for food. (Photo by Rungroj Yongrit/EPA/EFE)





Former Move Forward Party leader Pita Limjaroenrat reacts on the day Thailand's Constitutional Court delivers its verdict on his media shareholding case, in Bangkok, Thailand, on January 24, 2024. (Photo by Athit Perawongmetha/Reuters)





Supporters of Pita Limjaroenrat celebrate at Constitutional Court in Bangkok, Thailand, Wednesday, January 24, 2024. The court ruled Wednesday that popular politician Pita, who was blocked from becoming prime minister even though his party placed first in last year’s election, did not violate the election law and can retain his seat in Parliament. (Photo by Sakchai Lalit/AP Photo)





Patsaravalee Tanakitvibulpon receives a garland from her supporter on her arrival at Southern Criminal Court in Bangkok, Thailand, Wednesday, January 31, 2024. A Thai court on Wednesday convicted a prominent political activist of defaming the country’s monarchy and sentenced her to a two-year suspended jail term under a controversial law that criminalizes any perceived criticism of the royal institution. (Photo by Sakchai Lalit/AP Photo)





A worker harvests rice in the Sakon Nakhon province of Thailand in the last decade of January 2024. (Photo by Natnattcha Chaturapitamorn/Solent News)





A protester with fake blood on his body raises a three-finger salute in a demonstration to mark the third anniversary of Myanmar’s 2021 military coup, outside of the United Nations office in Bangkok, Thailand on February 1, 2023. (Photo by Chalinee Thirasupa/Reuters)





Myanmar people step on photos of military junta leader, General Min Aung Hlaing, during a gathering at the United Nations on February 01, 2024 in Bangkok, Thailand. On the third anniversary of the military coup, Myanmar citizens gather outside the United Nations in Bangkok, Thailand to draw attention to the conflict that has resulted in the death of over 6,000 civilians and the displacement of approximately 2.5 million. (Photo by Lauren DeCicca/Getty Images)