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Thailand's Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha arrives at the Government house before a cabinet meeting in Bangkok, Thailand, Tuesday, May 23, 2017. Thailand's ruling junta said Tuesday that police will handle the investigation into a bombing at a military-run hospital that wounded more than 20 people, while security elsewhere in the country is being reviewed. (AP Photo/Sakchai Lalit)
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In this April 7, 2017 photo, a motorcycle taxi driver eats noodles at a street food stall during his lunch on Thonglor road in Bangkok, Thailand. Officials see street food as an illegal nuisance and have warned hawkers in Thonglor to clear out by April 17. Efforts by authorities in military-ruled Thailand to impose order on the chaotic capital city have a fresh target: cheap and tasty pad thai. The latest crackdown by Bangkok city officials is going after the vendors whose carts selling everything from Thailand’s signature noodles to spicy tom yum goong soup have become institutions on the capital’s hot and humid sidewalks. (AP Photo/Sakchai Lalit)
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In this April 7, 2017 photo, people eat noodles at a street food stall during their lunch on Thonglor road in Bangkok, Thailand. Officials see street food as an illegal nuisance and have warned hawkers in Thonglor to clear out by April 17. Efforts by authorities in military-ruled Thailand to impose order on the chaotic capital city have a fresh target: cheap and tasty pad thai. The latest crackdown by Bangkok city officials is going after the vendors whose carts selling everything from Thailand’s signature noodles to spicy tom yum goong soup have become institutions on the capital’s hot and humid sidewalks. (AP Photo/Sakchai Lalit)
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In this April 7, 2017 photo, people have their lunch at a street food shop on Thonglor road in Bangkok, Thailand. Officials see street food as an illegal nuisance and have warned hawkers in Thonglor to clear out by April 17. Efforts by authorities in military-ruled Thailand to impose order on the chaotic capital city have a fresh target: cheap and tasty pad thai. The latest crackdown by Bangkok city officials is going after the vendors whose carts selling everything from Thailand’s signature noodles to spicy tom yum goong soup have become institutions on the capital’s hot and humid sidewalks. (AP Photo/Sakchai Lalit)
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In this April 7, 2017 photo, people eat noodles at a street food shop during their lunch on Thonglor road in Bangkok, Thailand. Officials see street food as an illegal nuisance and have warned hawkers in Thonglor to clear out by April 17. Efforts by authorities in military-ruled Thailand to impose order on the chaotic capital city have a fresh target: cheap and tasty pad thai. The latest crackdown by Bangkok city officials is going after the vendors whose carts selling everything from Thailand’s signature noodles to spicy tom yum goong soup have become institutions on the capital’s hot and humid sidewalks. (AP Photo/Sakchai Lalit)
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In this 2016 photo released by Thailand's Department of National Parks, Wildlife and Plant Conservation/Freeland, two tiger cubs investigate a rock along a forest trail as their mother walks past in the jungle in eastern Thailand. Thailand's Department of National Parks, Wildlife and Plant Conservation, Freeland, an organization fighting human and animal trafficking, and Panthera, a wild cat conservation organization, announced Tuesday, March 28, 2017 that their investigations had photographic evidence of new tiger cubs in eastern Thailand's jungle, signaling the existence of the world's second breeding population of endangered Indochinese tigers. (Thailand's Department of National Parks, Wildlife and Plant Conservation/Freeland via AP)
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In this 2016 photo released by Thailand's Department of National Parks, Wildlife and Plant Conservation/Freeland, a curious male tiger walks in the jungle in eastern Thailand. Thailand's Department of National Parks, Wildlife and Plant Conservation, Freeland, an organization fighting human and animal trafficking, and Panthera, a wild cat conservation organization, announced Tuesday, March 28, 2017 that their investigations had photographic evidence of new tiger cubs in eastern Thailand's jungle, signaling the existence of the world's second breeding population of endangered Indochinese tigers. (Thailand's Department of National Parks, Wildlife and Plant Conservation/Freeland via AP)
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ADDS THE UPDATE TO THE SECOND SENTENCE - In this Friday, March 3, 2017 photo, the female green green turtle nicknamed "Bank" swims in a pool at Sea Turtle Conservation Center n Chonburi Province, Thailand. The 25-year-old sea turtle in Thailand who swallowed nearly a thousand coins tossed by tourists seeking good luck died Tuesday, March 21, 2017, two weeks after having surgery to remove the coins from its stomach. (AP Photo/Sakchai Lalit)
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Head of Chulalongkorn University's veterinary medical aquatic animal research center Nantarika Chansue injects saline solution as part of the rehabilitation treatment for 25-year-old green sea turtle "Bank" in Bangkok, Thailand, Friday, March 10, 2017. Veterinarians operate on Bank on Monday to remove 915 coins weighing 5 kilograms (11 pounds) from her stomach, which she swallowed after misguided human passers-by tossed coin into her pool for luck in eastern Thailand. (AP Photo/Sakchai Lalit)
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Head of Chulalongkorn University's veterinary medical aquatic animal research center Nantarika Chansue, left, injects saline solution as part of rehabilitation treatment for 25-year-old green sea turtle "Bank" in Bangkok, Thailand, Friday, March 10, 2017. Veterinarians operated on Bank Monday to remove 915 coins weighing 5 kilograms (11 pounds) from her stomach, which she swallowed after misguided human passers-by tossed coin into her pool for good luck in eastern Thailand. (AP Photo/Sakchai Lalit)
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Head of Chulalongkorn University's veterinary medical aquatic animal research center Nantarika Chansue treats 25-year-old green sea turtle named "Bank" in Bangkok, Thailand, Friday, March 10, 2017. Veterinarians operated on Bank Monday to remove 915 coins weighing 5 kilograms (11 pounds) from her stomach, which she swallowed after misguided human passers-by tossed coin into her pool for good luck in eastern Thailand. (AP Photo/Sakchai Lalit)
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25-year-old green sea turtle "Bank" prepare clean surgical scar at Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok, Thailand, Friday, March 10, 2017. Veterinarians operated on Bank Monday to remove 915 coins weighing 5 kilograms (11 pounds) from her stomach, which she swallowed after misguided human passers-by tossed coin into her pool for good luck in eastern Thailand. (AP Photo/Sakchai Lalit)
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Head of Chulalongkorn University's veterinary medical aquatic animal research center Nantarika Chansue watch 25-year-old green sea turtle "Bank" swim in pond as part of rehabilitation treatment in Bangkok, Thailand, Friday, March 10, 2017. Veterinarian operate on Bank on Monday to remove 915 coins weighing 5 kilograms (11 pounds) from her stomach, which she swallowed after misguided human passers-by tossed coin into her pool for luck in eastern Thailand. (AP Photo/Sakchai Lalit)
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25-year-old green sea turtle "Bank" receives rehabilitation treatment at the Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok, Thailand, Friday, March 10, 2017. Veterinarians operated on Bank Monday to remove 915 coins weighing 5 kilograms (11 pounds) from her stomach, which she swallowed after misguided human passers-by tossed coin into her pool for good luck in eastern Thailand. (AP Photo/Sakchai Lalit)
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FILE - In this Feb. 14, 2014 file photo, amphibious assault vehicles fire smoke screen during a military exercise Cobra Gold on Hat Yao beach in Chonburi province, Thailand, in which about 8,000 military personnel from U.S., Thailand, Indonesia, Japan, Singapore, South Korea, and Malaysia participated. U.S. military commander in the Pacific Adm. Harry Harris will be the highest-ranking American officer to attend the Cobra Gold military exercises in Thailand since a coup there three years ago. The U.S. had scaled down the 10-day drills since the 2014 coup, and Harris’ scheduled appearance at the Feb. 14 opening ceremony is seen as a sign that the U.S.-Thai military ties are on the mend. (AP Photo/Sakchai Lalit, File)
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FILE - In this Feb. 14, 2014 file photo, U.S. Marines take their position near an amphibious assault vehicle after landing on Hat Yao beach in Chonburi province, Thailand, during a military exercise Cobra Gold in which about 8,000 military personnel from U.S., Thailand, Indonesia, Japan, Singapore, South Korea, and Malaysia take part. U.S. military commander in the Pacific Adm. Harry Harris will be the highest-ranking American officer to attend the Cobra Gold military exercises in Thailand since a coup there three years ago. The U.S. had scaled down the 10-day drills since the 2014 coup, and Harris’ scheduled appearance at the Feb. 14 opening ceremony is seen as a sign that the U.S.-Thai military ties are on the mend. (AP Photo/Sakchai Lalit, File)
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A man drives a motorbike vending cart on a road flooded by an overflowing lake on Ko Samui, Thailand Thursday, Jan. 5, 2017. Heavy rains battering parts of Thailand are causing localized flooding on the resort island during a peak tourist season. (AP Photo/Adam Schreck)
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A woman looks at an overflowing lake on Ko Samui, Thailand Thursday, Jan. 5, 2017. Heavy rains battering parts of Thailand are causing localized flooding on the resort island during a peak tourist season. (AP Photo/Adam Schreck)
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Tourists wear flotation devices and moped riders pause before crossing a flooded roadway on Ko Samui, Thailand Thursday, Jan. 5, 2017. Heavy rains battering parts of Thailand are causing localized flooding on the resort island during a peak tourist season. (AP Photo/Adam Schreck)
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In this Oct. 14, 2016 photo, people order food from a vendor on a darkened street in Bangkok’s Soi Cowboy red-light district, after police and soldiers asked bars owners to shut down following the death Thursday of Thailand’s 88-year-old King Bhumibol Adulyadej, who was the world’s longest reigning monarch. Concerts and colossal beach parties in Thailand have been canceled and many seedy go-go bars are closed as the death of revered King Bhumibol Adulyadej plunges this Southeast Asian nation into an unprecedented period of mourning. (AP Photo/Todd Pitman)
