A group of young Thai boys engage in a water gun fight on Rama IV Road in Bangkok, Thailand, Tuesday, April 15, 2008, while celebrating the New Year. The three day event while religious in nature has become more secular over the past years with massive water fights being staged along with other forms of merry making.(AP Photo/David Longstreath)

Thai teenagers, their faces covered with talcum powder, gather on Rama IV Road in Bangkok, Thailand, Tuesday, April 15, 2008, during New Year celebrations. The three day event while religious in nature has become more secular recently with massive water fights being staged along most avenues in Bangkok and around the southeast Asian nation. (AP Photo/David Longstreath)

A group of young Thai boys engage in a water gun fight on Rama IV Road in Bangkok, Thailand, Tuesday, April 15, 2008, while celebrating the New Year.(AP Photo/David Longstreath)

Locals and tourists join a festival for cobra snakes and pythons in Khon Kaen in northeast Thailand. In this picture the snakes are being given a drink offering. (Thai Rath)

Slkavas Nalampang pours water on one of the Buddha statues at the Homestead, Fla. Thai temple, on Sunday, April 13, 2008, during celebrations for Songkran, the Thai New Year. Songkran ('The Water Festival') holiday, goes back to pre-Buddhist rituals during spring festival where water was thrown, as a symbol of luck, as people tried to bring rain to the spring crops. Then it became a religious custom to wash the Buddha statues once a year. Many Thais see the holiday as a time to wash away their sins from the past year. (AP Photo/J. Pat Carter)

Ryan Sheurpukei, 8, is caught in the crossfire of water guns on Sunday, April 13, 2008, during celebrations for Songkran, the Thai New Year, at the temple in Homestead, Fla.(AP Photo/J. Pat Carter)

Tourists participate in a water gun fight during the Songkran Festival celebration at Khaosan road in Bangkok April 12, 2008. The Songkran festival, also known as the water festival, marks the start of Thailand's traditional New Year and is believed to wash away bad luck. REUTERS/Kerek Wongsa (THAILAND)

Western tourists and Thais spray water as the celebrate on the eve of Thailand's New Year on Khao San Road in Bangkok, Thailand, Saturday, April 12, 2008.(AP Photo/David Longstreath)

Thais wait to board buses to leave the capital to celebrate Songkran, the traditional Thai New Year, at a bus terminal in Bangkok, Thailand Friday, April 11, 2008. The annual Songkran festival is held from April 13 through 15. (AP Photo/Apichart Weerawong)

Rescue team members remove the body of a Myanmar immigrant from the truck that was carrying immigrants into Thailand at Ranong province, south of Bangkok April 10, 2008. Fifty-four illegal Myanmar immigrants died of suffocation while being smuggled into Thailand in a refrigerated container near the Thai-Myanmar border, a police officer said on Thursday. REUTERS/Daily Newspaper (THAILAND).

Thailand volunteer rescue workers collect the bodies of dead Myanmar migrant workers Thursday, April 10, 2008, from the back of a seafood van in Ranong, Thailand. Fifty-four migrant workers from Myanmar, most of them women, suffocated in the back of an unventilated seafood truck in southern Thailand while being smuggled to the popular resort island of Phuket, police said Thursday. (AP Photo/Daily News)

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Children in Chiang Mai Province, in the north of Thailand, throw a bucket of water over passing motorcyclists as part of the traditional Songkran Festival. The annual festival isn't supposed to start until Sunday 13th April, but due to the hot weather and long summer holidays, some children have started the festivities early. (Thai Rath)

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Thai farmers harvest rice in Roi Et province in north east Thailand in late November, 2007. Rice growers are facing the threat of theft as rice, the staple food for more than half the world's population, increases dramatically in price. (AFP/File/Pornchai Kittiwongsakul)

A GMG Airlines passenger plane taxies on the runway of Don Muang airport in Bangkok, Thailand Tuesday, April 8, 2008. The Bangladeshi plane made an emergency landing Tuesday in Bangkok after a fight broke out between two passengers during the flight, airport officials said. There were no immediate reports of injuries aboard the aircraft, which was carrying about 70 passengers from Kuala Lumpur in Malaysia to the Bangladeshi capital of Dhaka. (AP Photo/Apichart Weerawong)