Thai farmers ride on buffalos during a buffalo racing festival in Thailand's Chonburi province on October 22, 2010. The annual race takes place at the end of the three month Buddhist Lent, before the full moon of the 11th lunar month. (Richard Barrow)

Thai Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva visits a flooded area in Thailand's Lopburi province, about 150 km (93 miles) north of Bangkok October 21,2010. The worst floods in decades in Thailand and severe flooding in neighbouring Cambodia have killed 20 people, authorities said on Wednesday, as rescue workers braced for more rain and possible flooding in Bangkok. (Reuters)

Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva speaks to flood victims in Thailand's Lopburi province, about 150 km (93 miles) north of Bangkok October 21, 2010. The worst floods in decades in Thailand and severe flooding in neighbouring Cambodia have killed 20 people, authorities said on Wednesday, as rescue workers braced for more rain and possible flooding in Bangkok. (Reuters)

A Buddhist monk rows his boat along a flooded street next to a giant Buddha statue at Wat Satue temple in Ayutthaya, 80 km (50 miles) north of Bangkok, October 20, 2010. In Thailand, flooding has killed at least 11 people in the past 10 days, and heavy rains meant there was a risk of flooding in parts of Bangkok on Wednesday. (Reuters)

Medical staff transfer a patient to another hospital by boat during a flood in Nakhon Ratchasima province, northeast of Bangkok, October 19, 2010. Days of continuous downpours across central and northeastern Thailand have led to the worst flood in recent years, according to local media. (Reuters)

In this picture taken on January 20, 2009 in Nakhon Pathom province, west of Bangkok, a Thai employee of a fish tattooing family business demonstrates a tattooing technique on a molly fish. A small brightly coloured molly fish lies almost lifeless on a slab as a technician carefully injects dye into its scales. (Getty Images)

In this picture taken on January 20, 2009 in Nakhon Pathom province, west of Bangkok, a tattooed molly fish (C) swims along with other tattooed fish in an aquarium at the working area of a Thai family business. (Getty Images)

Thai security personnel inspect the site of a bomb blast in Pattani province, southern Thailand October 16, 2010. Two police officers were injured in the bomb attack by suspected Muslim militants, police said. (Reuters)

Thai security personnel inspect the site of a bomb blast in Pattani province, southern Thailand October 16,2010. Two police officers were injured in the bomb attack by suspected Muslim militants, police said. (Reuters)

An ethnic Karen woman from Myanmar carries her child through the Mae La camp outside Mae Sot near the Thai-Myanmar border October 14, 2010. Ethnic Karen refugees continue to pour into Thailand, fleeing decades-long fighting between Karen rebels and Myanmar government troops and its guerrilla allies. Some 140,000 refugees live in official camps along the Thai-Myanmar border, according to the U.N. refugee agency and there are concerns that hostilities in the hills of Eastern Myanmar could intensify as a result of a refusal of several ethnic political groups to take part in an election next month. (Reuters)

Ethnic Karen children from Myanmar play on the hill overlooking the Mae La camp outside Mae Sot near the Thai-Myanmar border October 14, 2010. (Reuters)

Workers clean a vineyard at the PB valley winery in Khao Yai around 200 kms northeast of Bangkok on March 4, 2010. Thailand, like India and Japan, has benefited from promoting its wine alongside its more established national dishes. (Getty Images)

A worker clean grapes at a vineyard at the PB valley winery in Khao Yai around 200 kms northeast of Bangkok on March 5, 2010. Thailand, like India and Japan, has benefited from promoting its wine alongside its more established national dishes. (Getty Images)

Devotees of the Chinese Bank Neow Shrine take part in a procession through the streets to mark the annual Vegetarian Festival in southern Thailand's town of Phuket on October 13, 2010. The festival begins on the first evening of the ninth lunar month and lasts for nine days, with many religious devotees slashing themselves with swords, piercing their cheeks with sharp objects and committing other painful acts to purify themselves, taking on the sins of the community. (Getty Images)