Members of a Thai bomb squad unit inspect the site of a car bomb attack by suspected Muslim militants in front of a highway department office in Narathiwat province on December 29, 2010. An early morning car bomb in the restive south wounded seven people despite intelligence warning, police said. (Getty Images)

In this photo released on Tuesday, Dec 28, 2010 by Intercon Hua Hin Resort, World No. 1 tennis player Caroline Wozniacki of Denmark gets massage from a Thai masseuse at a hotel in Hua Hin, southern Thailand. Wozniacki is in Thailand to play against World no. 3 Kim Clijsters of Belgium in an exhibition match title "84 World Tennis Invitation" in Hua Hin on Sunday, Jan. 1, 2011. (AP)

Two wild tapirs, which are close to extinction in Thailand and Malaysia, represent an exciting encounter for tourists on a trek in the Bantad mountain range in Tambon Klong Sai Kao of Kong Ra District in Phatthalung. A forestry official said it is estimated there are just ten wild tapirs living in the province. (Bangkok Post)

People of Ban Saphan Hin Village in Tambon Laem Klad of Muang district, Trat province, drag the body of an Irrawaddy dolphin ashore for burial at a local dolphin graveyard. Fishermen spotted the dead dolphin floating about 100 meters offshore. The decaying animal measured about two meters long and weighed over 100 kilograms. It is among 41 dolphins found dead off Tambon Laem Klad this year (Bangkok Post)

A Thai mahout directs his elephant at Jirasartwitthaya school in Ayutthaya, Thailand, as elementary school students watch a show featuring elephants dressed as Santa Claus Friday, Dec. 24, 2010. The Christmas event has been held for at least five years at the Thai school where the majority of the students are Buddhist. (AP)

Elementary school students at Jirasartwitthaya school in Ayutthaya, Thailand, reach out to receive presents from elephants dressed as Santa Friday, Dec. 24, 2010. The Christmas event has been held for at least five years at the Thai school where the majority of the students are Buddhist. (AP)

Thai hotel workers dressed in Santa Claus costumes while sitting on a decorated vehicle touring around to give out gifts to residents for Christmas in Bangkok on December 22, 2010. (Getty Images)

Relatives of injured victims in Monday's bus crash walk in the tarmac as Malaysian army personnel carry a coffin to a Thai army plane at Subang airport outside Kuala Lumpur December 22, 2010. The Malaysian bus carrying 37 Thai tourists hit a road divider and overturned, killing 26 people, as it descended from a popular hill resort. (Reuters)

Relatives from Thailand are joined by Buddhist monks as they pray over coffins of victims of the Monday's bus crash at a hospital's morgue in Ipoh, in Malaysia's northern state of Perak December 22, 2010. A Malaysian bus carrying tourists from Thailand hit a road divider and overturned, killing 26 people, state news agency Bernama reported on Monday. (Reuters)

Fire and rescue department staff inspect the wreckage of a tourist bus which crashed in the Cameron Highlands in the northern state of Perak. Twenty-eight people, mostly Thai tourists, were killed in what is being described as Malaysia's worst coach accident. (AFP/BangkokPost)

Bright flowers dazzle in the sunlight on a 69-rai former cornfield transformed into a floral exhibition. 'Wang Nam Khieo Flora Fantasia", organized by the Horticultural Science Society of Thailand and local state and private agencies, is running in Nakhon Ratchasima's Wang Nam Khieo district until the end of February. (Thitiwannamontha/Bangkok Post)