Police secure the area as members of bomb squad investigate the site of an explosion outside a branch of the Bangkok Bank in central Bangkok late February 27, 2010. A total of four different branches of Bangkok Bangkok were attacked. (Reuters)

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Thailand's King Bhumibol Adulyadej makes an appearance with his dog at Siriraj Hospital in Bangkok February 27, 2010.

Update: H.M. The King returned to the hospital the following day.

A devotee to the Thai Buddhist temple Wat Bang Phra works himself into a trancelike state during a religious festival Saturday, Feb. 27, 2010, in Nakhon Chaisi, Thailand. Thais come from all over Thailand to be tattooed by the temple's monks on their bodies being inked by hand using a long metal stylus. The religious tattoos are believed to be protection from ghost and bad spirits. (AP Photo/David Longstreath)

Devotees to the Thai Buddhist temple Wat Bang Phra gather for a religious festival Saturday, Feb. 27, 2010, in Nakhon Chaisi, Thailand. Thais come from all over Thailand to be tattooed by the temple's monks on their bodies being inked by hand using a long metal stylus. The religious tattoos are believed to be protection from ghost and bad spirits. (AP Photo/David Longstreath)

A devotee to the Thai Buddhist temple Wat Bang Phra works himself into a trancelike state during a religious festival Saturday, Feb. 27, 2010, in Nakhon Chaisi, Thailand. Thais come from all over Thailand to be tattooed by the Buddhist monks at Wat Bang Phra, their bodies being inked by hand using a long metal stylus. The religious tattoos are believed to be protection from ghost and bad spirits. (AP Photo/David Longstreath)

Thailand's Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva is all smiles during a televised news conference at government house Saturday, Feb. 27, 2010 in Bangkok. Supporters of populist former Thai leader Thaksin Shinawatra denounced a court order to seize US$1.4 billion of his assets, and vowed Saturday to pursue a nonviolent struggle for what they said would be a people's democracy. (AP Photo/Apichart Weerawong)

Thailand's Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva, left, talks with reporters during a televised news conference at government house Saturday, Feb. 27, 2010 in Bangkok. Supporters of populist former Thai leader Thaksin Shinawatra denounced a court order to seize US$1.4 billion of his assets, and vowed Saturday to pursue a nonviolent struggle for what they said would be a people's democracy. (AP Photo/Apichart Weerawong)

BANGKOK THAILAND - FEBRUARY 26: Red shirt pro- Thaksin supporters react as the court announces the final verdict for former PM Thaksin Shinawatra's family on February 26, 2010 in Bangkok, Thailand. Thailand's Supreme Court has ruled that the Shinawatra family should be stripped of more than half a contested $2.3bn fortune, which is approximately $1.4bn that was frozen after the Thaksin government was ousted in a military coup in 2006. The Thai government said that Thaksin abuse of his power allowed him and his firms benefit from the Shin Corp. mobile phone and satellite Communications Company. (Getty Images)

BANGKOK THAILAND - FEBRUARY 26: Red shirt pro- Thaksin supporters watch as former Prime Minister bows his head, speaking via a video broadcast after the court announced the final verdict for former PM Thaksin Shinawatra's family on February 26, 2010 in Bangkok, Thailand. Thailand's Supreme Court has ruled that the Shinawatra family should be stripped of more than half a contested $2.3bn fortune, which is approximately $1.4bn that was frozen after the Thaksin government was ousted in a military coup in 2006. The Thai government said that Thaksin abuse of his power allowed him and his firms benefit from the Shin Corp. mobile phone and satellite Communications Company. (Getty Images)

The nine-judge panel of the Supreme Court's Criminal Division for Holders of Political Offices read the verdict on whether to seize $2.3 billion of ex-premier Thaksin Shinawatra's frozen family assets, in Bangkok February 26, 2010. The twice-elected Thaksin, ousted in a 2006 coup and convicted in absentia of graft, is believed to be in Dubai and says he will fight any confiscation of the assets. (Reuters)

Policewomen attend a briefing at the Supreme court in Bangkok February 26, 2010. Security forces are braced for a big turnout and a possible violent response to a court verdict due on Friday on whether to seize $2.3 billion in assets belonging to the family of former Thai prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra, whose popularity among the rural masses gave him an unprecedented two terms in office before his removal in a 2006 coup. (Reuters)

Police officers check the bags of photographers at the Supreme court in Bangkok February 26, 2010. (Reuters)

Deposed Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra is shown on a large screen during a teleconference to his supporters at the Pheu Thai Party building in Bangkok, Thailand, Friday, Feb. 26. 2010. Thailand's highest court prepared Friday to rule on whether Thaksin should lose part of his fortune for alleged corruption, with a decision either way unlikely to end four years of sometimes-violent political strife. (AP)

A policeman stands guard near a damaged train after it derailed in Songkhla province February 25, 2010. The Thai passenger train bound for the southern province of Nakhon Si Thammarat derailed in Songkhla province on Thursday, injuring 20 people, a railway official said. (Reuters)

A policeman takes a photograph of a damaged train after it derailed in Songkhla province February 25, 2010. (Reuters)

Thai police and military police officers guard the main entrance to the Supreme Court in Bangkok, Wednesday, Feb. 24, 2010. Ousted Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra emotionally pleaded for sympathy and an end to his exile Wednesday, days before Thailand's Supreme Court decides whether $2.29 billion of his family's fortune should be seized due to alleged corruption. (AP)

Thai workers install new security cameras around the Supreme court in Bangkok February 24, 2010. Security forces are braced for a big turnout and a possible violent response to a court verdict due on Friday on whether to seize $2.29 billion in assets belonging to the family of former Thai prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra, whose popularity among the rural masses gave him an unprecedented two terms in office before his removal in a 2006 coup. (Reuters)

Migrant workers from Myanmar work on a fishing boat before sailing out of the port of Mahachai, near Bangkok February 23, 2010. Migrant workers in Thailand face extortion, arbitrary detention, forced labour and physical abuse, sometimes at the hands of officials in a climate of impunity, a rights group said on Tuesday. (Reuters)

Migrant workers from Myanmar sleep under a picture of Thailand's King Bhumibol Adulyadej in a crowded minority settlement in the town of Mahachai, near Bangkok February 23, 2010. (Reuters)

A Thai-Chinese devotee pierces a bicycle through his mouth during the vegetarian festival in Yala province February 22, 2010.

A Thai-Chinese devotee pierces a toy gun through his mouth during the vegetarian festival in Yala province February 22, 2010.

Thailand's finance minister Korn Chatikavanij gives a speech before receiving the "Global Finance Minister of the Year" award from The Financial Times' Banker magazine at a hotel in Bangkok February 22, 2010. (Reuters)

Thailand's Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva, 2nd right, kicks the ball while playing a soccer charity match against Thai women's national team at Rajamangala stadium in Bangkok, Thailand Sunday, Feb. 21, 2010. Supporters of ousted Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra was confronting with police officers outside the stadium while Abhisit was playing soccer. (AP Photo)

Thailand's Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva, playing for the government's team, fights for the ball during a friendly soccer match with Thailand's national women's soccer team at the Rajamangala national stadium in Bangkok February 21, 2010. REUTERS/Kerek Wongsa (THAILAND - Tags: SPORT SOCCER) POLITICS)

CHON BURI, THAILAND - FEBRUARY 21: Ai Miyazato of Japan poses with the trophy after winning the final round of the Honda PTT LPGA Thailand at Siam Country Club on February 21, 2010 in Chon Buri, Thailand. (Getty Images)

Thai police use a water gun during an exercise at the City Hall Plaza in Samut Prakan on 20th February 2010. Thai security forces and police organized a joint exercise to prepare for possible anti-government protests in Thailand next week. (Richard Barrow/Paknam.com)

Supporters of former Thai prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra sit on a main road during a rally outside the Bangkok Bank headquarters in Bangkok February 19, 2010. The protesters said that the Bangkok Bank has a close relationship with Privy Council chairman Prem Tinsulanonda who has been accused of masterminding the coup against the former premier Thaksin Shinawatra in September 2006. (Reuters)

A supporter of former Thai prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra gives a speech during a rally outside the Bangkok Bank headquarters in Bangkok February 19, 2010.

Policemen prepare a bomb disposal robot outside a local administration building in Yala province, about 1,084 km (674 miles) south of Bangkok February 18, 2010. A villager alerted the police of a suspicious package which was later found to harmless, police said. (Reuters)

A soldier looks at a bomb disposal robot at a local administration building in Yala province, about 1,084 km (674 miles) south of Bangkok February 18, 2010. (Reuters)

Blind boxer Sujet Salee (R), 29, fights his blindfolded opponent Peeraphong Ngaongam, 40, in Surin province, 457 km (283 miles) northeastern of Bangkok. Sujet, who was blind at birth, earns about 1,500 baht ($45) per match. The boxer does not think that blindness is a handicap and he has proved just that by winning several matches against blindfolded opponents. (Reuters)

Blind boxer Sujet Salee, 29, poses before a fight against his blindfolded opponent Peeraphong Ngaongam, 40, in Surin province, 457 km (283 miles) northeastern of Bangkok. (Reuters)

Competitors take part in ox-cart races in Thailand's Phetchaburi province some 130 km (81 miles) south of Bangkok, February 16, 2010. The annual event, which locals date back to the time of King Rama V, is a recreational activity for local farmers during post harvest season in Thailand. (Reuters)

Children chase piglets during a festival in Thailand's Phetchaburi province, some 130 km (81 miles) south of Bangkok February 16, 2010. Farmers' children in countryside of Phetchaburi province take part in the annual piglet catching festival, hoping that they can bring an animal back home. (Reuters)

Supporters of former Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra rally outside the Election Commissions in Bangkok February 15, 2010. About 400 protesters have been holding frequent but brief and peaceful political rallies against the government and independent bodies, saying that law-enforcement authorities practice double standard. (Reuters)

Bride Rattanaporn Supha, left, and groom Nitiphong Jittahorg of Thailand hold a bouquet of flowers as they are suspended on sling wires during a ceremony, known as a 'flying wedding,' as part of Valentine's Day celebrations in Prachinburi province, eastern Thailand, Saturday, Feb. 13, 2010. (AP Photo/Wason Wanichakorn)

Thai newly wed scuba divers, groom Narongchon Chomsa (L) and his new bride, Somying Chomsa show their marriage license during an underwater wedding ceremony, in Trang province, south of Bangkok. (Reuters)

A Thai Chinese Lion Dancer looks out from the head of his costume as he waits to perform along with more than 80 others Saturday, Feb. 13, 2010, in Bangkok, Thailand. Bangkok has a large Chinese community as do many other southeast Asian nations. (AP Photo/David Longstreath)

Chinese Lion Dancers perform Saturday, Feb. 13, 2010, in Bangkok, Thailand. Bangkok has a large Chinese community as do many other southeast Asian nations. (AP Photo/David Longstreath)

Supharp Prakna (2rd L), a Thai national, is escorted by military personal after his trial at a military court in Phnom Penh February 12, 2010. The Cambodian military court convicted and sentenced Prakna to 20 years in prison for terrorism charges. 39 year-old Prakna was arrested on April 24, 2009 at Anlong Veng district of Oddar Meanchey province, 240 km north of the Cambodia-Thai border, carrying a number of landmines with him so he could plant them, officials said. (Reuters)

A crew member of a cargo plane, Belorussian Mikhail Petukhou (C), sits in a van to the immigration center at Bangkok Remand Prison February 10, 2010, Thailand dropped charges on Thursday against the crew of a plane that was found to contain 35 tonnes of weapons from North Korea, a shipment that breached a U.N. resolution banning arms exports from the communist state. (Reuters)

Two unidentified crew members of an aircraft accused of smuggling weapons from North Korea, walk for a deportation procedure at the immigration bureau after they were released from a prison Thursday, Feb. 11, 2010 in Bangkok, Thailand. Thai prosecutors dropped charges against the five-man crew of an aircraft accused of smuggling weapons from North Korea, saying the men would be deported to preserve good relations with their home countries. The decision was made after the governments of Belarus and Kazakhstan contacted the Thai Foreign Ministry and requested the crew's release to face prosecution at home. (AP)

A Thai scuba diver dressed in a Chinese costume holds a Chinese banner reading "Happy New Year" at Siam Ocean World in Bangkok February 10, 2010. The Lunar New Year falls on February 14 this year. (Reuters)

Thai scuba divers dressed in Chinese costumes hold a Chinese banner reading "Happy New Year" at Siam Ocean World in Bangkok February 10, 2010. (Reuters)

A U.S. Marine eats a scorpion during a jungle survival exercise with the Thai Navy, as part of the "Cobra Gold 2010" (CG10) joint military exercise, at a military base in Chon Buri Province February 9, 2010. About 14,073 soldiers from six countries, including Thailand, U.S. , Singapore Indonesia, Japan and South Korea are participating in the three-week military exercise. (Reuters)

U.S. Marines watch as a personnel from the Thai navy catches a cobra with his bare hands during a jungle survival exercise, as part of the "Cobra Gold 2010" (CG10) joint military exercise, at a military base in Chon Buri Province February 9, 2010. (Reuters)

Supporters of the New Orleans Saints NFL football club cheer their go ahead touchdown against the Indianapolis Colts during an NFL Super Bowl XLIV game party at the Roadhouse Bar in Bangkok, Thailand, early Monday, Feb. 8, 2010. The Saints went on to defeat the Colts 31-17 to win the NFL Super Bowl 44. (AP)

Football fans, Tom Barrett of Bangkok, left, Morgan Perkins of Salt Lake, Utah, center, and Mike Hills of Sydney, Australia, right, react to the Indianapolis Colts first touchdown against the New Orleans Saints as they watch the NFL Super Bowl XLIV football game early Monday, Feb. 8, 2010, in Bangkok, Thailand. (AP)

Thongchai Jaidee of Thailand tees off on the eighth hole during the third round of the Dubai Desert Classic golf tournament February 6, 2010.

Cambodia's Prime Minister Hun Sen, right, sprays perfume as he prays at the Preah Vihear temple in Preah Vihear province, about 245 kilometers (152 miles) north of Phnom Penh, Cambodia, Saturday, Feb. 6, 2010. Hun Sen pays his first official visit Saturday to his troops at the historic temple in the disputed territory with Thailand. (AP)

Cambodia's Prime Minister Hun Sen, center right, and his wife Bun Rany, sitting next to him, pray at the Preah Vihear temple in Preah Vihear province, about 245 kilometers (152 miles) north of Phnom Penh, Cambodia, Saturday, Feb. 6, 2010. Hun Sen pays his first official visit Saturday to his troops at the historic temple in the disputed territory with Thailand. (AP)

Myanmar's ethnic Karens move out from their refugee camp in Tha Son Yang district, Tak province near the Thai-Myanmar border February 5, 2010. Thailand suspended on Friday the forced repatriation of ethnic Karen refugees from military-ruled Myanmar, heeding calls from U.S. lawmakers and rights groups who said they faced possible death or enslavement. About 3,000 ethnic Karens entered Thailand in June, when the Myanmar regime stepped up fighting against the Karen National Union (KNU), a rebel group that has been seeking independence in the eastern hills bordering Thailand for the past 60 years. (Reuters)

Myanmar's ethnic Karens wave as they move out of their refugee camp in Tha Son Yang district, Tak province near the Thai-Myanmar border February 5, 2010. (Reuters)

A South Korean Marine rides on an amphibious assault vehicle before it touches the ground during a joint military exercise codenamed Cobra Gold at Hat Yao beach in Rayong province, eastern Thailand Thursday, Feb. 4, 2010. Besides Thailand and the United States, this year's annual exercise, in its 29th year, also participated by Singapore, Indonesia, Japan and South Korea which took part for the first time. The exercise, involving with 11,500 personnels including 6,000 from the U.S. , will focus on multilateral peacekeeping operations and humanitarian and disaster responses. (AP)

U.S. Marines rest in an amphibious assault vehicle (AAV) during an amphibious assault exercise as part of the "Cobra Gold 2010" (CG10) joint military exercise at a military base in Rayong Province February 4, 2010. About 14,000 soldiers from six countries, Thailand, U.S. , Singapore Indonesia, Japan and South Korea are participating in the three-week military exercise. (Reuters)

The security of Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva's residence has been beefed up with more special police and K-9 dogs. Screening at a checkpoint near the house has been strengthened. More closed-circuit TV cameras have been installed and there are now more police motorcycle patrols. (Manager/The Nation)

A worker fixes the net onto a cage which will be used to trap pigeons in Sanam Luang park outside the Grand Palace in Bangkok. The Bangkok Metropolitan Administration will remove thousands of pigeons which roam the park as part of clean-up operations. (Reuters)

Pigeon's are rounded up at Sanam Luang, in Bangkok, Thailand. Bangkok authorities have closed the parade grounds near the Royal Palace for renovation and are planning to capture and relocate the park's pigeon's which are suspected carriers of diseases. (AP)

Thailand's Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva (L) passes a sack of rice to U.N. World Food Program's Regional Director for Asia Kenro Oshidari during a ceremony at Bangkok's Suvarnabhumi Airport February 1, 2010. The Thai government on Monday dispatched its first batch of 100 tonnes of rice to earthquake-hit Haiti, a portion of the 20,000 tonnes it has pledged to the impoverished nation. (Reuters)

A Thai Airways worker checks bags of rice which are to be delivered to Haiti, at Bangkok's Suvarnabhumi Airport February 1, 2010. (Reuters)