A member of the Thai Airways crew sprays an antiseptic chemical in the cabin of an aircraft of the national carrier at Suvarnabhumi airport in Bangkok April 30, 2009. (REUTERS/Chaiwat Subprasom)

A Thai Airways worker cleans the cabin of an aircraft of the national carrier at Suvarnabhumi airport in Bangkok April 30, 2009. (REUTERS/Chaiwat Subprasom)

Thai police officers take cover in persuit of suspects after Thai soldiers were ambushed by suspected militants in the Cho-i-rong district of Thailand's restive southern Narathiwat province on April 29, 2009. More than 3,600 people have been killed and thousands more injured in five years of separatist violence in the southern Thailand region. (Getty Images)

Thai police officers restrain a suspected separatist (C-blue shirt) after Thai soldiers were ambushed by suspected militants in the Cho-i-rong district of Thailand's restive southern Narathiwat province on April 29, 2009. (Getty Images)

An Irish man could be facing a death sentence in Thailand after being arrested and accused of dealing in a cocktail of drugs in a beach resort. (pattayadailynews.com)

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Thai King Bhumibol Adulyadej and Queen Sirikit hold a religious ceremony to mark the 59th anniversary of their wedding at the Klai Kangwon Palace. They were married on 28 April 1950. (Manager.co.th)

A quarantine officer monitors passengers walking through a temperature screening checkpoint at Suvarnabhumi airport April 27, 2009. Countries around the world have moved to contain the spread of a possible pandemic after a new swine flu outbreak killed 103 people in Mexico. (REUTERS/Sukree Sukplang)

Tourists arriving Bangkok, Thailand pass through a thermal scanner at Suvarnabhumi international airport Monday, April 27, 2009. (AP Photo/Apichart Weerawong)

Thongchai Jaidee of Thailand holds up the winner's trophy following his victory in the Ballatine's Championship golf tournament at the Pinx Golf Club on Jeju Island on April 26, 2009. Thongchai struck his second shot, in a play-off with South Korea's Kang Sung-Hoon and Spain's Gonzalo Fernandez-Castano, on the par-four 18th to within five feet (24 centimetres) of the pin and holed for birdie to win his 12th Asian Tour event and fourth European Tour event. (Getty Images)

Supporters of ousted premier Thaksin Shinawatra shout slogans during they protest at Sanam Luang in Bangkok on April 25, 2009. Hundreds of anti-government protesters gathered for a rally in Bangkok, a day after the prime minister lifted a state of emergency imposed amid violent demonstrations earlier this month. (Getty Images)

A demonstrator holds a portrait of former Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra during a protest against the Government in Bangkok April 25, 2009. Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva ended a 12-day state of emergency in the capital on Friday, saying he wanted to foster reconciliation after violent anti-government protests killed two people and further eroded investor confidence. (Reuters)

Police have decided not to oppose the bail applications of three red-shirt leaders following the lifting of emergency rule, senior police officers said on Friday. (Manager.co.th)

Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton meets Thailand's Foreign Minister Kasit Piromya, Thursday, April 23, 2009, at the State Department in Washington. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

A model holds a Bichon Frise during a dog fashion show in Bangkok April 23, 2009. (REUTERS/Sukree Sukplang)

A male Maltese dog, Kanune, wears an emerald tiara worth 150 million baht ($4.2 million) during a dog fashion show in Bangkok April 23, 2009. The tiara consists of 153 karats of emeralds built with a titanium body and decorated with more than 100 karats of diamonds. (REUTERS/Sukree Sukplang)

Thai passengers wait for a train as a Thai soldier stands guard at a railway station in Thailand's restive southern Yala province on April 22, 2009. A policeman was injured in a bomb blast detonated by suspected Muslim separatists. (Getty Images)

A Thai soldier secures an area along a railway in Thailand's restive southern Yala province on April 22, 2009. (Getty Images)

Thai soldiers guard at a building inside the compound of Government House Tuesday, April 21, 2009 in Bangkok, Thailand. Thailand's anti-government movement will stage new protest actions in the next few days following a military crackdown that ended deadly rioting last week, the group's fugitive leader Jakrapob Penkair said. (AP Photo/Apichart Weerawong)

Thai soldiers guard at the gate of Government House Tuesday, April 21, 2009 in Bangkok, Thailand. (AP Photo/Apichart Weerawong)

A popular seaside resort for Thai people is Bangsaen Beach in Chonburi Province. It is just over one hour from Bangkok and at the weekend it is packed with thousands of people. Over recent years, its popularity has started to take a toll and the beach has started to look more like a garbage tip. Children have to pick their way through plastic bags and broken beer bottles in order to reach the water. (Richard Barrow/ThaiPhotoBlogs.com)

The Phra Pradaeng Songkran Festival took place this weekend in Samut Prakan province. It differs from others in that it is held a little later than in most other locales. The Songkran rituals and celebrations here are held on the weekend that follows after Songkran Day on April 13. The highlight is the parade through the town to Wat Proteket Chettharam where Miss Songkran 2009 (with red sash), together with local administrators, release birds and fish as a means of making merit. (Richard Barrow/ThaiPhotoBlogs.com)

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Thai soldiers stand guard at the Victory Monument in Bangkok ,Thailand, Saturday ,April 18. 2009. Ousted Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra has joined his political rivals in calling for reconciliation after the mob violence that bloodied Bangkok's streets, but some of his supporters are refusing to give up their struggle to topple Thailand's government.

In this handout photo made available by Asia Satellite Television, Sondhi Limthongkul, one of the founders of Thailand's Yellow Shirt movement, lies bleeding from head and shoulder wounds at a Bangkok, Thailand emergency room Friday, April 17, 2009. Limthongkul was being driven to work before dawn Friday when at least two men in a pickup truck ambushed his car and opened fire with an M-16 and an AK-47, first aiming to shoot out the tires and then spraying the vehicle with bullets, said police Maj. Gen. King Kwangvisetchaichai. (Manager)

Sondhi Limthongkul, founder of the People's Alliance for Democracy (PAD), lies injured in a hospital in Bangkok April 17, 2009. The founder of Thailand's "yellow shirt" protest movement, which was behind the week-long occupation of Bangkok's main airports late last year, was shot and wounded early on Friday, a spokesman for his movement said. (Manager)

Thai soldiers inspect the damaged vehicle that was carrying the founded the People's Alliance of Democracy (PAD) Sondhi Limthongkul, in downtown Bangkok on April 17, 2009. The Thai activist who led a blockade of the kingdom's main airports last year was shot in the head in an assassination attempt the government said was aimed at inciting fresh unrest. Doctors said that Sondhi Limthongkul, founder of the "Yellow Shirts" royalist movement that helped topple former premier Thaksin Shinawatra, was in a serious condition and in surgery to remove a bullet from his skull. (Getty Images)

A Thai soldier looks at the bullet riddled automobile of Sondhi Limthongkul, one of the founders of Thailand's "yellow shirt" movement Friday, April 17, 2009. Limthongkul was being driven to work before dawn Friday when at least two men in a pickup truck ambushed his car and opened fire with an M-16 and an AK-47, first aiming to shoot out the tires and then spraying the vehicle with bullets, said police Maj. Gen. King Kwangvisetchaichai. Sondhi was wounded in the attack. (AP)

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The Nicaraguan government anounced it has made fugutive former premier Thaksin Shinawatra a "special ambassador" and issued him a diplomatic passport. The passport was issued in January when Thaksin visited the country, and was given to him in February, when he met Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega. (matichon.co.th)

Thai people play with water in Bangkok on the last day of the Songkran festival, which is regarded as Thailand's traditional New Year, Wednesday, April 15, 2009. This year, the start of Songkran was delayed by political protests in Bangkok (Richard Barrow/ThaiPhotoblogs.com)

Supporters of ousted Thai prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra leave the Government House area while soldiers watch in Bangkok April 14, 2009. Anti-government protesters began streaming out of the grounds of Government House in Bangkok on Tuesday, ending a siege of the Thai prime minister's office that had lasted almost three weeks. (Reuters)

A security officer takes pictures of Thai protesters showing their ID cards before they leave the site of an anti-government rally at the premier's office, in Bangkok on April 14, 2009. Thai anti-government protesters threatened with a military offensive abandoned a three-week rally at the premier's office, pulling the kingdom back from a potentially bloody showdown in the streets. (Getty Images)

Thai soldiers watch for anti-government demonstrators as they clear an intersection early Monday, April 13, 2009, in Bangkok, Thailand. Thai soldiers unleashed hundreds of rounds of automatic weapons fire to clear rock-throwing anti-government protesters from a major intersection in the capital in the pre-dawn darkness Monday. (AP)

Thai soldiers charge and fire gun shots in the air to disperse Thai supporters of exiled Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra at Ding Daeng intersection in the early morning, in Bangkok on April 13, 2009. Thai troops fired tear gas and shots in the air to disperse anti-government protesters in Bangkok, wounding 68 people amid a crackdown to enforce a state of emergency in the capital, officials said. (Getty Images)

Supporters of ousted Thai prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra beat up an occupant of a government vehicle after dragging him out of the car at the interior ministry in Bangkok April 12, 2009. Troops fired into the air as Thai anti-government protesters stormed the country's interior ministry on Sunday after Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva declared a state of emergency in the capital. (Reuters)

A man is injured when Thai anti-government demonstrators vandalize his car while leaving the Thai Interior Ministry on Sunday, April 12, 2009, in Bangkok, Thailand. The country's embattled government, humiliated by demonstrators who shut down a 16-nation Asian summit, declared a state of emergency in the capital Sunday and ordered armored vehicles into the streets to stem a tide of protest across the country. (AP)

Thai soldiers drive their tanks on the road in Bangkok, Thailand Sunday, April 12, 2009. Thailand's embattled government, humiliated by demonstrators who shut down a 16-nation Asian summit, declared a state of emergency in the capital Sunday in an attempt to stem the tide of protest across the country. (AP)

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Anti-government demonstrators cheer after taking over a Thai Army armored personnel carrier Sunday, April 12, 2009, in Bangkok, Thailand. Armored vehicles are moving in the streets of Thailand's capital following the announcement of a state of emergency aimed at stemming the tide of anti-government protest across the country. (AP)

The Thai government Sunday afternoon announced the state of emergency for Bangkok and some districts in Nonthaburi, Samut Prakan, Pathum Thani, Nakhon Pathom and Ayutthaya. Deputy Prime Minister Suthep Thaugsuban will be chief enforcer of the state of emergency measures. Police and soldiers as well as civil servants will assist Suthep in the operations to restore normality. Songkran parades and other activities in these areas are expected to be cancelled.

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Supporters of exiled former premier Thaksin Shinawatra battle with pro-government supporters during the 14th of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Summit and Related Summits in Pattaya on April 11, 2009. The summit of Asean leaders with dialogue partners has been cancelled and state of emergency declared in Pattaya after a clash of red-shirted and blue-shirted people outside the meeting venue and a subsequent invasion of the hotel. The government has announced a decision has been made to postpone the summit to a later date, in effect cancelling it.

Supporters of ousted Thai prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra force their way as a glass door shatters at one of the venues of the 14th ASEAN Summit and Related Summits in Pattaya April 11, 2009. A summit of Asian leaders in Pattaya, Thailand, has effectively been cancelled after anti-government protesters broke into part of the conference venue, a Thai government spokesman said on Saturday. (Getty Images)

A summit staff tries to stop red-shirted supporters of ousted Thai prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra from entering one of the rooms inside a venue of the 14th ASEAN Summit and Related Summits in Pattaya April 11, 2009. A summit of Asian leaders in Pattaya, Thailand, has effectively been cancelled after anti-government protesters broke into part of the conference venue, a Thai government spokesman said on Saturday.

Supporters of former Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra scuffle with riot policemen near the venue of the 14th ASEAN Summit and Related Summits in Pattaya April 10, 2009. Anti-government protesters converged on the Thai beach town of Pattaya on Friday with plans to disrupt an Asian summit as part of efforts to try to force Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva to step down.

Supporters of former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra gather near victory monument during a protest on April 9, 2009 in Bangkok, Thailand. (Getty Images)

A taxi driver waves a Thai national flag as they block the road during an anti-government protest at the Victory monument in Bangkok April 9, 2009. Thai Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva said on Thursday a big anti-government rally would be allowed to continue so long as it was peaceful, but the risk of renewed violence worried the stock market and business community. (REUTERS/Chaiwat Subprasom)

Taxi drivers block the main road during an anti-Government protest at the Victory monument in Bangkok April 9, 2009. (REUTERS/Chaiwat Subprasom)

Taxi drivers block the main road during an anti-government protest at the Victory monument in Bangkok April 9, 2009. (REUTERS/Chaiwat Subprasom)

Supporters of Thailand's ousted prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra rally outside the Governement House in Bangkok on April 8, 2009. More than 100,000 anti-government protesters rallied in Bangkok April 8 in their biggest bid yet to topple premier Abhisit Vejjajiva, deepening Thailand's political crisis ahead of a key Asian summit. (Getty Images)

Supporters of former Thai Prime Minister Thaksin paint his body during a rally outside the home of Prem, chief advisor to King Bhumibol, near the Government House in Bangkok April 8, 2009. (Reuters)

Anti-government protesters and supporters of exiled Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra take up the street near the home of King Bhumibol Adulyadej's top adviser, Prem Tinsulanonda, whom they accuse of masterminding the September 19, 2006 coup during a protest Wednesday, April 8, 2009 in Bangkok, Thailand. Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva rejected calls for his resignation as tens of thousands of protesters marched Wednesday in Bangkok, posing the biggest challenge to his government amid fears of violence. (AP)

Thai Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva (back) walks towards his car as security officers gesture after Abhisit's car was stuck in traffic in Pattaya April 7, 2009. Protesters attacked a car carrying Vejjajiva on Tuesday as a minister warned that opposition elements wanted to cause chaos at a big rally this week in a bid to topple the government. Abhisit was unhurt, but a window in his car was smashed when a group of red-shirted demonstrators surrounded the vehicle in Pattaya. (REUTERS)

A policeman pulls a motorcycle blocking the car carrying Thai Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva after he was stuck in traffic as supporters of former Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra try to attack Abhisit in Pattaya April 7, 2009. (REUTERS)

Supporters of former Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra scuffle with security men as they try to attack the car carrying Thai Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva after he was stuck in a traffic in Pattaya April 7, 2009. (REUTERS)

From left: Thai Prime Minister and leader of Democrat Party Abhisit Vejjajiva, former Prime Minister and party's Chief Adviser Chuan Leekpai and Foreign Minister Kasit Piromya attend the religious ceremony to mark the 63rd anniversary of the Democrat Party in Bangkok, Thailand, Monday, April 6, 2009. (AP Photo/Apichart Weerawong)

Thailand's Prime Minister and leader of Democrat Party Abhisit Vejjajiva holds incense sticks during a religious ceremony to mark the 63rd anniversary of the Democrat Party at the party's headquarters in Bangkok, Thailand Monday, April 6, 2009. (AP Photo/Apichart Weerawong)

Thai workers process shrimps at Yuu shrimp factory on March 30, 2009 in Samut Sakhon, Thailand. Thailand has become the world's leader in shrimp exports but due to the global economic slowdown Thai processed seafood export volumes have dropped to major markets like the US and Japan. (Getty Images)

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Suwicha Thakhor, 37, leaves a courtroom at Bangkok Criminal Court April 3, 2009. The court sentenced Suwicha to 10 years in jail on Friday for posting comments on the Internet that were deemed insulting to the country's monarchy. (Reuters)

Monks rest at Cambodia's Preah Vihear temple in a world heritage site near the Cambodian-Thai border, about 245 kilometers (152 miles) north of Phnom Penh, Cambodia, Nov. 7, 2008. Cambodian troops said Friday a brief gunfight broke out with Thai soldiers at their tense border near the 11th century Preah Vihear temple, the site of increasingly regular conflicts between the neighbors. (AP Photo/Heng Sinith)

A Cambodian soldier sits at Phnom Trop near Cambodia's Preah Vihear temple in a world heritage site at the Cambodian-Thai border, about 245 kilometers (152 miles) north of Phnom Penh, Cambodia, Nov. 11, 2008. (AP Photo/Heng Sinith)

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G20 leaders pose for a family photo during the G20 summit at the ExCel centre, in east London, on April 2, 2009. World leaders meet Thursday for a crunch summit of the Group of 20 richest nations aimed at fixing the crisis-wracked global economy. (Getty Images)

Heads of delegation pose for a family photograph at the G20 summit at the ExCel centre, in east London, April 2, 2009. (L-R) Back row - Director-General of the World Trade Organization, Pascal Lamy, Thailand's Prime Minister, Abhisit Vejjajiva, Italy's Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi. Middle row - Turkey's Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan, U.S President Barack Obama, Russia's President Dmitry Medvedev. (Front row) - Saudi Arabia's Foreign Minister Prince Saud al-Faisal, China's President Hu Jintao and Britain's Prime Minister Gordon Brown. World leaders are set to declare an end to unfettered capitalism at a G20 summit on Thursday after France and Germany demanded they act fast on promises to prevent a repeat of the worst economic crisis since the 1930s. (Reuters)

A supporter of former Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra waves the flag of Thailand during an anti-government protest outside the Government House in Bangkok April 1, 2009. Thailand's government offered on Wednesday to negotiate with exiled Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra to end a week-long street campaign threatening its efforts to stave off an economic recession. (REUTERS/Kerek Wongsa)