Pro-government demonstrators gather to support Prime Miinister Somchai Wongsawat outside city hall Sunday, Nov. 30, 2008 in Bangkok, Thailand. About 5,000 people took part in the demonstration. (AP Photo/Apichart Weerawong)

Pro-government female demonstrators shout and cheer during a rally to support Prime Miinister Somchai Wongsawat outside city hall Sunday, Nov. 30, 2008 in Bangkok, Thailand.

Passengers disembark from a special Singapore airlines flight to U-Tapao military airport on November 30, 2008, 165 kilometers south of Bangkok, Thailand. Thailand's anti-government protesters continue their siege into the sixth day closing both of Bangkok's International airports. Demonstrators from the People's Alliance for Democracy (PAD) have been in Suvarnabhumi international airport since Tuesday and Don Mueang domestic airport since Wednesday. Air traffic in Bangkok has come to a halt with flights being diverted to the military airport in U-Tapao. Thailand is being hit hard economically due to the on-going political crisis during the holiday season, with millions of dollars of lost revenue due to loss of tourism. (Getty Images)

A monkey enjoys fruits and vegetables during the Monkey Buffet Festival, in front of the Pra Prang Sam Yot temple in Lopburi province, 150km (94 miles) north of Bangkok, November 30, 2008. More than 2,000kg of fruits and vegetables were used during the annual festival to promote tourism. (ThaiFestivalBlogs.com/Richard Barrow)

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Foreign passengers who have been stranded in Thailand for days make their way through the departure area of the U-Tapao military airport, southeast of Bangkok, during their evacuation. Explosions early Sunday at sites occupied by anti-government protesters injured at least 51 people, further raising tensions as police struggle to end a paralysing blockade of Bangkok's airports.(AFP/Christophe Archambault)

Foreign passengers who have been stranded in Thailand for days waiting at check-in counters of the Vietnam-era U-Tapao military airport, southeast of Bangkok, during their evacuation. Not even the dancing girls provided by a local hotel could cheer thousands of travellers as they tried to flee protest-hit Thailand through this Vietnam-era airbase. (AFP/Christophe Archambault)

A women gives free hair cut during a rally at Suvarnabhumi airport in Bangkok, Thailand, Saturday, Nov. 29, 2008. Thailand's prime minister pledged to use peaceful means to end the siege of the capital's airports by anti-government protesters and demoted the national police chief amid speculation he disagreed with government policy.(AP Photo/Vincent Thian)

Protesters cook food to feed the ranks of supporters at the Suvarnabhumi airport in Bangkok, on November 29. Defiant protesters have ignored orders to leave Bangkok's besieged airports and are faced off with Thai police, raising fears of clashes as crippling anti-government demonstrations escalated. (AFP/Hoang Dinh Nam)

Anti-government protesters sets up a barrier in front of Don Mueang airport in Bangkok, Thailand, Friday, Nov. 28, 2008. Thailand's government prepared to crack down on protesters occupying the capital's two airports, but called on the public not to panic as rumors of a coup swept through the city. (AP Photo/Wason Wanichakorn)

Anti-government protesters stand guard behind the barrier in front of Don Mueang airport in Bangkok, Thailand, Friday, Nov. 28, 2008. (AP Photo/Sakchai Lalit)

Unidentified Thai guests walk towards a bus after being rescued from Oberoi Trident Hotel where suspected militants are holed up in Mumbai, India, Friday, Nov. 28, 2008. Masked Indian commandos dropped from helicopters Friday onto the roof of a Jewish center in Mumbai where Muslim militants were holed up, possibly with hostages, as sharpshooters kept up a steady stream of fire at the five-story building. The attack came as commandoes scoured two luxury hotels room-by-room for survivors and holed-up militants, more than a day after a chain of attacks across India's financial center by suspected Muslim militants left people dead. (AP Photo/Altaf Qadri)

An unidentified Thai guest wipes her tears as she sits inside a bus after being rescued from Oberoi Trident Hotel where suspected militants are holed up in Mumbai, India, Friday, Nov. 28, 2008. (AP Photo/Altaf Qadri)

Thai Prime Minister Somchai Wongsawat speaks during meeting with his cabinet in Chiang Mai province, 700 km (435 miles) north of Bangkok November 27, 2008. PM Wongsawat declared a state of emergency on Thursday at two Bangkok airports besieged by anti-government protesters, a minister said, as rumours of a coup swirled round the capital. (REUTERS/STRINGER)

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Thailand's Prime Minister Somchai Wongsarat makes an address in this image taken from TV on Wednesday Nov. 26, 2008. Thailand's prime minister went on television to reject his army chief's call that he step down to end the country's political crisis. Wongsawat, who returned just hours earlier from an overseas trip, said Wednesday night that Thailand had been damaged by months of anti-government protests. (AP Photo/NBT,via AP Television)

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Stranded western tourists and others wait for bus transportation Wednesday, Nov. 26, 2008, at Suvarnabhumi airport in Bangkok, Thailand. Thousands of tourists were stranded Tuesday night when members of the People Alliance for Democracy swarmed the airport causing it to shutdown. (AP Photo/David Longstreath)

Stranded western tourists wait for transportation to hotels Wednesday, Nov. 26, 2008. (AP Photo/David Longstreath)

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Miss Thailand 2008 contestants visit Sukhothai Historical Park. (missthailand.mediathai.net)

Anti-government protester is helped after being injured from a bomb thrown to a crowd by an unidentified man at Suvarnabhumi airport, in the early hours of Wednesday Nov. 26, 2008. Parts of Bangkok's main international airport had been sieged by anti-government protesters who demand the resignation of Thailand's Prime Minister, Somchai Wongsawat. (AP Photo/Sakchai Lalit)

Anti-government protester is helped after being injured from a bomb thrown to a crowd by an unidentified man at Suvarnabhumi airport, in the early hours of Wednesday Nov. 26, 2008. (AP Photo/Sakchai Lalit)

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Thai riot policemen patrol inside Suvarnabhumi airport, Bangkok in the early hours of Wednesday Nov. 26, 2008 after anti government protesters besieged the airport. Outbound flights at Suvarnabhumi International Airport were temporarily suspended at 9 p.m. Tuesday, authorities said, shortly before hundreds of demonstrators some masked and armed with metal rods broke through police lines and spilled into the passenger terminal. Airport manager Serirat Prasutanon said airport authorities had tried to negotiate with the protesters "but to no avail. " "For the safety for passengers, we have to stop flights out of the airport temporarily until the situation returns to normal," he said in a statement, adding that incoming flights were still operating. The anti government protesters are demanding the resignation of Thailand's Prime Minister, Somchai Wongsawat. (AP Photo/Wason Wanichakorn)

Thai riot policemen patrol next to tourist sleep inside Suvarnabhumi airpor, Bangkok in the early hours of Wednesday Nov. 26, 2008 after anti government protesters besieged the airport. (AP Photo/Wason Wanichakorn)

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Anti-government protesters block the entrance to Suvarnabhumi international airport Tuesday, Nov. 25, 2008 in Bangkok, Thailand. The protesters block the airport in an attempt to disrupt Prime Minister Somchai Wongsawat who supposed to return on Wednesday from an APEC summit in Peru. (AP Photo)

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Supporters of the People's Alliance for Democracy surround and beat a man, third left, who is wearing the clothing of a motorcycle taxi driver, in Bangkok, Thailand Tuesday, Nov. 25, 2008. Thai anti-government demonstrators fired shots at government supporters as the rival sides clashed Thursday afternoon on a major highway in the Thai capital of Bangkok. The fighting began when government supporters began throwing rocks at a truck carrying members of the People's Alliance for Democracy as it was returning from Bangkok's old airport, where the group had been holding a rally. (AP Photo/TPBS via APTN)

Supporters of the People's Alliance for Democracy roam around as a motorcycle is burnt background during a fight against the rival side in Bangkok, Thailand Tuesday, Nov. 25, 2008. (AP Photo/TPBS via APTN)

Anti-government demonstrators march to Thailand's Parliament Monday, Nov. 24, 2008, in Bangkok. The group, which calls itself the People's Alliance for Democracy, is calling on the end of the current government which they claim is a puppet administration of former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra. (AP Photo/Wason Wanichakorn)

Anti-government leaders Sondhi Limthongkul, right, and Pibhop Dhongchia, left, are flanked by guards as they lead a march on Thailand's Parliament Monday, Nov. 24, 2008, in Bangkok. (AP Photo/David Longstreath)

Anti-government demonstrators shout slogans as they march on Thailand's Parliament Monday, Nov. 24, 2008, in Bangkok. (AP Photo/David Longstreath)

An anti-government demonstrator screams obscenities at soldiers as they guard Thailand's Parliament Monday, Nov. 24, 2008, in Bangkok. (AP Photo/David Longstreath)

Thailand's Prayad Marksaeng holds up the trophy on the 18th green during the awarding ceremony of the 2008 Dunlop Phoenix golf tournament in Miyazaki, South of Japan, Sunday, Nov. 23, 2008. (AP Photo/Katsumi Kasahara)

Paramedics wheel an injured man to a hospital after a grenade attack on protesters at the Government House in Bangkok November 22, 2008. The grenade blast wounded 8 protesters occupying the Thai prime minister's office on Saturday, raising tension on the eve of a major anti-government rally, police and protest leaders said. REUTERS/Stringer (THAILAND).

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Policemen inspect the scene of a grenade attack on protesters at the Government House in Bangkok November 22, 2008. The grenade blast wounded 8 protesters occupying the Thai prime minister's office on Saturday, raising tension on the eve of a major anti-government rally, police and protest leaders said. REUTERS/Stringer (THAILAND).

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Veteran tennis stars Bjorn Borg of Sweden, right, and John McEnroe of the United States, left, walk together after arriving at Suvarnabhumi international airport Friday, Nov. 21, 2008 in Bangkok, Thailand. The two tennis aces will play in an exhibition match in Bangkok on Saturday, Nov. 22, 2008. (AP Photo/Apichart Weerawong)

Thousands of Buddhist monks stand outside the Stock Exchange of Thailand during a rally in Bangkok on November 20, 2008. The monks are protesting against the proposed listing of Singapore-listed Thai Beverage PCL on the Thai bourse. (REUTERS/Sukree Sukplang)

Thai Buddhist monks take part in a protest against Thai Beverage's plan to list on the Thai bourse outside the Stock Exchange of Thailand (SET) building Thursday, Nov. 20, 2008, in Bangkok, Thailand. Hundreds of Buddhist monks and civilians staged a noisy protest opposing the listing plan and claiming that it would encourage Thais to drink alcohol and was counter to the beliefs of the kingdom's Buddhist majority. (AP Photo/Apichart Weerawong)

Piyachar (L), the wife of Janekit Kratsakhon, her son Sirachat (C) and her daughter Lipikar cry in front of the coffin of Janekit Kratsakhon who died after a grenade attack on protesters outside the metropolitan police headquarters in Bangkok November 20, 2008. The leader of a long-running anti-government street movement in Thailand called for a major rally on Sunday to oust the "murderous" administration after one of its supporters was killed in a grenade attack. (REUTERS/Chaiwat Subprasom)

An injured anti-government protester is treated by medic officials after the blast at their protesting ground of government house in Bangkok, Thailand Thursday, Nov. 20, 2008. A grenade attack on anti-government protesters occupying the Thai prime minister's office killed one person and wounded at least 23 early Thursday, an army official and protesters said. (AP Photo)

Security staffs of the anti-government protesters examine the site where a bomb exploded at their protesting ground of government house in Bangkok, Thailand Thursday, Nov. 20, 2008. (AP Photo/Apichart Weerawong)

Ousted Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, left, is received by Sheik Nahyan bin Mubarak Al Nahyan, UAE minister for Higher Education and Scientific Research, in his palace in Abu Dhani, United Arab Emirates, Tuesday Nov. 18, 2008. Thaksin's whereabouts and his plans to settle down outside Thailand have lately been sources of intense speculation. Thaksin faces two years in jail after a Thai court found him guilty of conflict of interest in a land deal. Thailand's Consul-General in the Emirates Pasan Therapak said Thaksin had only come to visit the Emirates and did not have plans to stay more than a few days, a government-owned newspaper said in a photo caption on Wednesday. (AP Photo)

Ousted Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, centre, arrives at the palace of Sheik Nahyan bin Mubarak Al Nahyan, UAE minister for Higher Education and Scientific Research, in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, Tuesday Nov. 18, 2008. (AP Photo)

Factory worker is making Buddha images in Phitsanulok (Photos by Richard Daniels)

This handout picture released by Thailand's Royal Bureau shows Thai King Bhumibol Adulayadej lighting candles during the enshrinement of the Royal Relics ceremony on the fifth day of the six-day funeral for the late Thai Princess Galyani Vadhana at the Dusit Maha Prasat Throne Hall in Bangkok on November 18, 2008. Princess Galyani the only sister of King Bhumibol Adulyadej died on January 2, 2008 from a cancer at the age of 84.

This handout picture released by Thailand's Royal Bureau shows Thai royal officials transferring the royal urn containing the relics on a palanquin (bottom) before their enshrinement at the Chakri Maha Prasat Throne Hall.

This handout picture released by Thailand's Royal Bureau shows Thai royal officials transferring the royal urn containing the relics before their enshrinement at the Chakri Maha Prasat Throne Hall.

Bangkok and neighbouring provinces are at risk of being swamped as sea levels rise, according to warnings at the recent Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change meeting. The capital rests about 3½ to 5 feet above the nearby gulf, although some areas already lie below sea level. The gulf's waters have been rising by about a tenth of an inch a year. But the city, built on clay rather than bedrock, has also been sinking at a far faster pace of up to 4 inches annually as its population and factories pump some 2.5 million cubic tons of water out of its aquifers. This compacts the layers of clay and causes the land to sink. The capital could be under the sea as early as 15-20 years. These pictures were taken at Samut Prakan this morning as high tide flooded the city center. There has been no rain for the last several weeks. (Richard Barrow/ThaiPhotoBlogs.com)

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Thai competitor Thaloengkiat Phusa-at vies in the final against the French team, on November 16, 2008 in Dakar, of the 44th World Championship of Petanque. France won 13-0. (AFP/Getty Images)

This handout picture released by the Royal Bureau shows Thai Crown Prince Maha Vajiralongkorn presiding over a ceremony to collect the royal relics and ashes of late Princess Galyani Vadhana at the Royal Funeral Pyre in Bangkok on November 16, 2008. Thailand's royal family collected the ashes of the king's sister, ending the main phase of an elaborate six-day funeral that has briefly halted months of turbulent politics in the country.

Thailand's Princess Sirindhorn takes part in a procession carrying the royal urn, containing the royal relics and ashes of late Princess Galyani Vadhana at the Royal Crematorium on November 16, 2008, in Bangkok, Thailand. Princess Galyani Vadhana passed away on January 2 this year at the age of 84 after a long battle with abdominal cancer. (Getty Images)

Thai royal officials carry the royal relics and ashes of the late Princess Galyani Vadhana outside the Royal Funeral Pyre in Bangkok on November 16, 2008. Thailand's royal family collected the ashes of the king's sister, ending the main phase of an elaborate six-day funeral that has briefly halted months of turbulent politics in the country. (AFP/Getty Images)

Thai King Bhumibol Adulyadej lays a kind of wood flower to be placed on the site of cremation during the Symbolic royal cremation for his late sister Princess Galyani Vadhana at the Royal Crematorium in Bangkok on November 15, 2008. Tens of thousands of Thais gathered in old Bangkok on Saturday for the cremation of Princess Galyani Vadhana, who died of cancer in January. In the central ceremony of the 6-day, $9 million funerary rites that provided a rare glimpse of the pageantry of the House of Chakri, the king lit symbolic candles in front of his sister's sandal-wood casket at an ornate Buddhist pavilion. (Reuters)

The Royal Crematoriun where the late Princess Galyani Vadhana was creamted is illuminated in front of The Royal Palace on November 15, 2008, in Bangkok, Thailand. Princess Galyani Vadhana passed away on January 2 this year at the age of 84 after a long battle with abdominal cancer. (Getty Images)

Thai royal officials and military personnel pull the royal chariot during the funeral ceremony for the late Thai Princess Galyani Vadhana in Bangkok on November 15, 2008. Tens of thousands of black-clad Thais massed in Bangkok for the lavish cremation of the king's elder sister, a brief moment of unity for the Buddhist kingdom at a time of political crisis. (AFP/Getty Images)

A Brahmin priest sits next to the royal urn, containing the remains of Thai King Bhumibol Adulyadej's late sister Princess Galyani Vadhana, during her funeral procession in Bangkok November 15, 2008. Tens of thousands of Thais gathered in old Bangkok on Saturday for the cremation of Princess Galyani Vadhana, who died of cancer in January. In the central ceremony of the 6-day, $9 million funerary rites that provided a rare glimpse of the pageantry of the House of Chakri, the king lit symbolic candles in front of his sister's sandal-wood casket at an ornate Buddhist pavilion. (Reuters Pictures)

Thais wearing black clothes during a visit to the Royal Funeral Pyre of Thai Princess Galyani Vadhana at the start of a six-day funeral ritual at Sanam Luang in Bangkok. (AFP/Pornchai Kittiwongsakul)

A visitor selects pictures of Thai Princess Galyani Vadhana at a stall near the Royal Funeral Pyre at the start of a six-day funeral ritual at Sanam Luang in Bangkok. (AFP/Pornchai Kittiwongsakul)

People tend to an injured street vendor after a bomb blast in Bangkok November 13, 2008. A bomb thrown at a rally of Thai market vendors protesting over new rental contracts in Bangkok wounded 13 people, police and witnesses said on Thursday. The incident had nothing to do with an anti-government movement whose supporters have been occupying the official compound of the prime minister since August, police said. (REUTERS/Stringer)

Bangkok metropolitan officers, center in uniforms, examine the bomb blast site at the middle of the intersection as protesters look on in Bangkok, Thailand, Thursday, Nov. 13, 2008. A blast wounded 13 people in Thailand's capital early Thursday when assailants hurled an explosive device at market vendors who had gathered to protest a rent hike at the government-owned facility, police said. (AP Photo/Apichart Weerawong)

Thai protesters look on near the bomb blast site at the middle of the intersection in Bangkok, Thailand, Thursday, Nov. 13, 2008. (AP Photo/Apichart Weerawong)

Western tourists and Thais gather at Lumpini Park in Bangkok, Thailand, Wednesday, Nov. 12, 2008, to celebrate Loy Krathong. Small, highly decorated rafts are set adrift during the festival in believe that sins and bad luck will be carried away. The celebration is similar to the Hindu festival of Deepavali where floating lanterns of thanksgiving are launched on the Ganges. Thailand officially adopted the festival under King Rama IV as a way to honor Buddha. (AP Photo/David Longstreath)

Thai women offer prayer Wednesday, Nov. 12, at Lumpini Park in Bangkok, Thailand, during Loy Krathong. (AP Photo/David Longstreath)

Boonrawd, a 11-year old elephant, and its mahout float a giant Krathong, or flower boat, in a ceremony to the Loy Krathong Festival at Dusit zoo in Bangkok. The festival held annually to apology to the goddess of the river. (AP Photo/Apichart Weerawong)

An elephant Kamraithong, 4, sprays water on a giant Krathong as a symbolic apology to the goddess of the river, during a news conference at the Dusit zoo. (REUTERS/Chaiwat Subprasom)

Bangkok Governor Apirak Kosayodhin, who was re-elected in October, announces his resignation at his City Hall office in the Thai capital November 12, 2008, a day after an anti-corruption panel implicated him in a controversial fire trucks and boats purchase from Austria. A new election will be held in mid-January, 2009, officials said. (REUTERS/Sukree Sukplang)

An anti-government protester pushes a cart while clearing the roadside outside government house in Bangkok, Thailand Tuesday, Nov. 11, 2008. A bomb was hurled or launched into the government house where protesters have been occupying since August, early Tuesday morning, slightly injuring two protesters, according to The Nation. (AP Photo/Apichart Weerawong)

Workers dismantle the tents along the road outside government house in Bangkok, Thailand Tuesday, Nov. 11, 2008. (AP Photo/Apichart Weerawong)

Taiwanese Kuo Te Sai, 42, left, and a Thai man Pongthat Pongthirasakul, 29, are shown at a police news conference in Bangkok, Thailand Monday, Nov. 10, 2008. The two men were arrested in separated raids in Phuket province, southern Thailand and charge on drug trafficking when police found 229 pounds (104 kilograms) of heroin in their houses. (AP Photo)

Thai Deputy Police Chief Gen. Preiwphan Damaphong, right, and U.S. Drug Enforcement official Andre Kellum, 2nd right, pose with uniformed Thai police officers and 261 bars of heroin during a news conference in Bangkok, Thailand Monday, Noiv. 10, 2008. Thai police have arrested and charged Taiwanese Kuo Te Sai and a Thai man Pongthat Pongthirasakul on drug trafficking after police made the raids and found 229 pounds (104 kilograms) of heroin in their houses in Phuket, southern Thailand. (AP Photo)

The fair is a religious event for Thai people to pay respect to the Golden Mount and to make merit while enjoying the games and food which located around the area. This fair occurs once a year at Wat Sakhet on Rajdamnoen Klang Avenue. (khumpufa)

Sittichai Ketkaewmnanee from Thailand speeds down from the 10m zone during the 14th Asian Mountain Bike Championship at Chovar Hill in Kathmandu November 9, 2008. REUTERS/Gopal Chitrakar (NEPAL)

A Thai police officer holds a Slow Loris seized during a raid at Chatuchak market in Bangkok in March. Thousands throng the aisles of the market every weekend, hunting for bargins, but among the racks of caged creatures is an illegal trade in endangered animals. (AFP/Handout)

Madagascan Ploughshare tortoises found during a raid by Thai police at Chatuchak market in Bangkok in March. Thousands of people throng the market's aisles every weekend, hunting for bargins, but among the racks of caged creatures is an illegal trade in endangered animals. (AFP/AFP/Handout)

Thailand's best-known social critic Sulak Sivaraksa was arrested in Bangkok for insulting the kingdom's monarchy, police said. (wikimedia.org)

ACMECS Foreign Ministers (L to R) U Nyan Win of Myanmar, Sompong Amornwiwat of Thailand, Pham Gia Khiem of Vietnam, Hor Namhong of Cambodia and Thongloun Sisoulith of Laos pose for a photo before a meeting in Hanoi November 6, 2008. The third summit of the Ayayewady-Chao Phraya-Mekong Economic Cooperation Strategy (ACMECS) and the forth summit of the Cambodia - Laos - Myanmar and Vietnam (CLMV) are being be held in Hanoi from November 4 to 7, 2008. (REUTERS/Kham)

Thailand's Foreign Minister Sompong Amornwiwat attends a ACMECS Ministerial meeting in Hanoi November 6, 2008. (REUTERS/Kham)

Elephants walk along a flooded road, near the Lopburi River, into the Royal Elephant Kraal in Ayutthaya, 80 km (50 miles) north of Bangkok, November 5, 2008. (Reuters/Sukree Sukplang)

An Elephant helps move sandbags to protect against rising flood water from the Lopburi River near the Royal Elephant Kraal in Ayutthaya. (Reuters/Sukree Sukplang)

An Elephant helps move sandbags to protect against rising flood water from the Lopburi River near the Royal Elephant Kraal in Ayutthaya. (Reuters/Sukree Sukplang)

Thai police officers and soldiers examine the wreckage of cars that was exploded after insurgents detonated a bomb hidden inside Tuesday, Nov. 4, 2008 in Narathiwat province, southern Thailand. Suspected Muslim insurgents detonated two bombs at a tea stall and shopping area Tuesday in insurgency-wracked southern Thailand, killing one person and wounding at least 71, police said. (AP Photo/Sumeth Parnpetch)

Police officials survey the site of a car bomb which exploded near an outdoor meeting of village chiefs in southern Thailand's Narathiwat province November 4, 2008. (Surapan Boonthanom/Reuters)

The photo project "Electricity Cables - Bangkok" was shot in and around Ratchada area in Bangkok by photographer Richard Daniels. The idea was to symbolize the organized chaos of Bangkok in a simple abstract way. "Electricity Cables - Bangkok" was selected for the 2008 International Photography Awards Best of Show. This is an exclusive exhibition curated by Bill Hunt of the prestigious Hasted Hunt Gallery, New York. The Best of Show exhibits a collection from amongst the nearly 350 winning photographs of this year’s competition out of a total of around 22,000 entries. The 2008 IPA Best of Show debuted at Splashlight Studio’s new 60,000 square foot facility in Soho, New York on Saturday, October 18, 2008 before traveling to 8 cities Internationally. (Photos by Richard Daniels)

Family members (R) say goodbye to a young Thai man (C) waiting to be registered for his two-year military national service in Narathiwat. Around 1,000 young men have been selected to receive national military training from Narathiwat, one of Thailand's troubled southern provinces where more than 3,400 people have been killed in Muslim rebel attacks by shadowy insurgent groups. (AFP/Getty Images)

Family members (bottom) wave goodbye to young Thai men heading off by bus for their two-year national service training in Narathiwat. (AFP/Getty Images)

Thai soldiers participate in a dress rehearsal Sunday, Nov. 2, 2008, in Bangkok, Thailand, for the upcoming cremation of Princess Galayani Vadhana. The 84-year old sister of King Bhumbibol Adulyadaj, is set to be cremated in a royal ceremony on Nov. 15, 2008. (AP Photo/David Longstreath)

Officials proceed with a royal carriage during a funeral rehearsal for Thai King Bhumibol Adulyadej's late sister Princess Galyani Vadhana in Bangkok November 2, 2008. Hundreds of thousands of Thais are expected to take part in Princess Galyani's cremation ceremony, scheduled from November 14-19. REUTERS/Sukree Sukplang (THAILAND)

80,000 pro-government and supporters of ousted Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra listen to a speech of a speaker on stage during a rally at Rajamangala national stadium in Bangkok, Thailand Saturday, Nov. 1, 2008. Thailand's military and police were on alert Saturday as the country braced for fugitive former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra to speak by telephone at a rally that many fear could spark more political violence. (AP Photo/ Wason Wanichakorn)

Pro-government supporters wave clappers and cheer at a speech of a speaker during a rally at Rajamangala national stadium in Bangkok, Thailand Saturday, Nov. 1, 2008. (AP Photo/Apichart Weerawong)

Pro-government and supporters of ousted Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra cheer to a speech of a speaker from the stand during a rally at Rajamangala national stadium in Bangkok, Thailand Saturday, Nov. 1, 2008. (AP Photo/Apichart Weerawong)