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Police officers escort a key suspect in last month's Bangkok bombing, yellow shirt, identified by Thai police as Yusufu Mierili, also as Yusufu Mieraili, traveling on a Chinese passport, but his nationality remains unconfirmed, around a central Bangkok shopping center during a re-enactment for the Aug. 17 bombing at Bangkok's popular Erawan Shrine that left 20 people dead and more than 120 injured, Wednesday, Sept. 9, 2015. (AP Photo/Mark Baker)

Thai police say suspect handed backpack to Bangkok bomber

By Nattasuda Anusonadisai and Jocelyn Gecker - Associated Press

This image released Monday, Aug. 31, 2015, by the National Council for Peace and Order (NCPO) shows a sketch of an unidentified man who police say was living in the second apartment which was raided by authorities in Min Buri, in Bangkok's outskirts, and where police found fertilizer, gun powder, digital clocks and remote-controlled cars whose parts can be used for detonation. (National Council for Peace and Order via AP)

Thai police seek 2 new suspects in Bangkok bombing probe

By Nattasuda Anusondisai and Jocelyn Gecker - Associated Press

Thai policemen take evidence at an apartment on the outskirts of Bangkok, Thailand on Saturday, Aug. 29, 2015. Thai authorities raided an apartment in suburban Bangkok and arrested a foreigner with a fake Turkish passport and bomb-making materials Saturday, the first possible breakthrough in the deadly bombing at a Bangkok shrine nearly two weeks ago. (AP Photo/Sakchi Lalit)

Bangkok bomb case: Thai police arrest foreigner, find passports

By Nattasuda Anusondisai and Jocelyn Gecker - Associated Press

Gao Yan Ping, from Jiangxi province, China, center, is overcome with emotion at the Police General Hospital in Bangkok, Thailand, after he arrived to claim the body and remains of his daughter and his wife who were killed in Monday's bombing at the Erawan Shrine, Thursday, Aug. 20, 2015. (AP Photo/Sakchai Lalit)

Thai military says global terror link ‘unlikely’ in bombing

By Nattasuda Anusonadisai and Jocelyn Gecker - Associated Press

This image released by the Royal Thai Police on Wednesday, Aug. 19, 2015, shows a detailed sketch of the main suspect in a bombing that killed a number of people at the Erawan shrine in downtown Bangkok, on Monday. (Royal Thai Police via AP)

Thai police release sketch of Bangkok bomb suspect, offer reward

By Jocelyn Gecker and Nattasuda Anusonadisai - Associated Press

This Aug. 17, 2015, image, released by Royal Thai Police spokesman Lt. Gen. Prawut Thavornsiri shows a man wearing a yellow T-shirt near the Erawan Shrine before an explosion occurred in Bangkok, Thailand. Prawut said he believes the man is a suspect in the blast that killed a number of people at a shrine in downtown Bangkok on Monday night. (Royal Thai Police via AP)

Bangkok bombing suspect believed to be man in yellow shirt, police say

By Nattasuda Anusonadisai and Papitchaya Boonngok - Associated Press

Motorcycles are strewn about after an explosion in Bangkok, Monday, Aug. 17, 2015. A large explosion rocked a central Bangkok intersection during the evening rush hour, killing a number of people and injuring others, police said. (AP Photo/Jerry Harmer)

Bomb blast rocks Bangkok intersection; at least 19 dead

By Richard S. Ehrlich - Special to The Washington Times

In this Tuesday, Aug. 12, 2014 file photo, Thai police display pictures of surrogate babies born to a Japanese man who is at the center of a surrogacy scandal during a press conference at the police headquarters in Chonburi, Thailand. A string of recent scandals has lifted a lid on Thailand's largely unregulated commercial surrogacy industry, which has been around for over a decade. (AP Photo/Sakchai Lalit/File)

Thailand bans commercial pregnancy surrogacy for foreigners, singles, gays

By Penny Yi Wang - Associated Press

Thailand's Grand Palace of 1782, where the kings of then-Siam resided for 150 years. (Photo by Adrienne Jordan)

ADRIENNE JORDAN: Explore Thailand via its city highlights

By Adrienne Jordan

A Chinese submarine on the ocean surface. (credit: AsiaNews)

Thailand nears $1 billion submarine deal with China despite exclusive U.S. military training

By Richard S. Ehrlich - Special to The Washington Times

Htin Linn, the head of the Myanmar delegation, points while speaking at the "Special Meeting on Irregular Migration in the Indian Ocean" regarding the Rohingya and Bangladeshi migrant crisis at a hotel in Bangkok, Thailand, Friday, May 29, 2015. A regional meeting called to address the swelling tide of boat people in Southeast Asia began Friday with a defensive Myanmar official criticizing those who blame his country for causing the crisis, saying "finger pointing" would not help. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

Myanmar warns against ‘finger pointing’ at migrant meeting

By Jocelyn Gecker and Malcolm J. Foster - The Washington Times

Thailand's Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha publicly shrugs off international criticism of his May 22, 2014, coup and his junta's military trials and coercive "attitude-adjustment" confinement for civilian dissidents. (Associated Press)

Gen. Prayuth Chan-ocha, Thailand coup leader, tightens grip amid turmoil one year later

By Richard S. Ehrlich - Special to The Washington Times

Migrants sit on their boat as they wait to be rescued by Acehnese fishermen on the sea off East Aceh, Indonesia, Wednesday, May 20, 2015. Hundreds of migrants stranded at sea for months were rescued and taken to Indonesia, officials said Wednesday, the latest in a stream of Rohingya and Bangladeshi migrants to reach shore in a growing crisis confronting Southeast Asia. (AP Photo/S. Yulinnas)

Malaysia orders sea search-and-rescue for migrants

By Eileen Ng and Jocelyn Gecker - Associated Press

A Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints missionary visits a crowded Thai festival in Bangkok at night and prepares to mingle among the public and explain to them how to be baptized into the Mormon faith. Such missionary work is paying off. (Richard S. Ehrlich/Special to The Washington Times)

Mormons’ Bangkok Thailand Temple project marks milestone for church

By Richard S. Ehrlich - Special to The Washington Times

Thai Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha asked the king for approval to lift martial law, but the request was considered a mere formality. (Associated Press)

Prayuth Chan-ocha, Thailand prime minister, replaces martial law with stricter command

By Richard S. Ehrlich — Special to The Washington Times

Newly-elected Cardinal ?Francis Xavier Kriengsak Kovithavanij, of Thailand, center, meets with faithful at the Vatican, Saturday, Feb. 14, 2015. Pope Francis welcomed 20 new cardinals Saturday into the elite club of churchmen who will elect his successor and immediately delivered a tough-love message to them, telling them to put aside their pride, jealousy and self-interests and instead exercise perfect charity. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)

For Thailand’s new cardinal, secularism is the face of the devil

By Andrea Gagliarducci - Catholic News Agency