Passengers pack the concourse of Hualamphong Train Station in Bangkok at the start of the New Year holidays on the evening of Friday 28th December. The majority of people are migrant workers who are returning to their home provinces. However, there are also many tourists going to destinations such as Chiang Mai for the holidays. All seats on the trains were sold out. (Thai Rath)

The annual Flower Festival in Chiang Rai has recently started and runs until 6th January 2008. The picture shows some beautiful blossoming orchids. (Thai Rath)

Thai school children inspect their burnt school building at a village in Thailand's restive southern province of Pattani December 27, 2007. The 90-student school building was burnt late Wednesday while the roads to the school were filled with standing nails to delay firefighters' access, the school principal said. More than 2,600 people have been killed since violence exploded four years ago in the four southernmost provinces of Yala, Narathiwat, Pattani and Songkhla, an independent Muslim sultanate until annexed by Buddhist Thailand about a century ago. REUTERS/Bazuki Muhammad (THAILAND)

A girl places a red rose in remembrance of those who were lost during a tsunami memorial ceremony in Khao Lak in the southern Thai province of Phang Nga, 26 December 2007. Thailand marked the third anniversary of the 2004 tsunami with a quiet memorial for the 5,400 people who died when the powerful waves engulfed the kingdom's beaches.
(AFP/Thadilok Klongjia)

"Christmas 2007: once a prosperous baby born out of a proud mother; today vegetating in a corner as a bit of trash under the eyes of the traffic-police cops in their booth at 30 meters distance. I am not a doctor but this poor fellow will die within weeks of being undernourished and might be some illnesses like tuberculoses with 3 hospitals nearby: Bangkok Christian Hospital, Queen Sirikit Institute of Medicine / Red Cross Society and Chulalongkorn Hospital, all just at the other side of the road!!! And what can I do? Only observe and publish his picture. What a tragedy!" - Toni/flickr

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Former Thailand Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra speaks during a press conference in Hong Kong Tuesday, Dec. 25, 2007. Thaksin said Tuesday he will 'explore options' in February about a return to Thailand but will not resume his career in politics after being ousted in a bloodless coup d'etat last year.
(AP Photo/Vincent Yu)

Former Thailand's Prime Minister and leader of Chart Thai party, Banharn Silpa-archa talks with reporters in Bangkok, Thailand Monday, Dec. 24, 2007. Chart Thai, which placed third with 39 seats, is likely to be courted by the two top parties as they vie to form a coalition government. He may even be offered the prime minister post again, in return for his party's support. (AP Photo)

Supporters of Thailand's People's Power Party cheer election returns at the party's headquarters Sunday, Dec. 23, 2007, in Bangkok, Thailand. Early returns showed the PPP, which supports former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, taking a lead over the rival Democrat Party. (AP Photo/David Longstreath)

Thai peoples queue up to vote outside a polling station in Bangkok, Thailand Sunday, Dec. 23, 2007. Former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, deposed, exiled and allegedly corrupt, was poised for a comeback-by-proxy as his loyalists seemed likely to win Thailand's national election Sunday.
(AP Photo/Sakchai Lalit)