Thailand

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Mourners pray while waiting to offer condolences to late Thai King Bumibol Adulydej at Siriraj hospital in Bangkok, Thailand Friday, Oct. 14, 2016. Thailand was predominantly dressed in black on Friday as officials announced a public holiday following the death of King Bhumibol Adulyadej. (AP Photo/Kittinun Rodsupan)

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A Thai woman puts her hands together in prayer at Siriraj Hospital where Thai King Bhumibol Adulyadej was being treated in Bangkok, Thailand, Thursday, Oct. 13, 2016. Thailand's Royal Palace said King Bhumibol, the world's longest-reigning monarch, has died at age 88. (AP Photo/Wason Wanichakorn)

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Authorities direct traffic after explosions occurred overnight and Friday morning in the tourist city of Hua Hin, Thailand on Friday, Aug. 12, 2016. The city is home to a swath of beachfront resorts as well as a royal palace. A wave of coordinated explosions rattled multiple cities across southern Thailand, killing at least four people and wounding dozens more, police said Friday. (AP Photo/Penny Yi Wang)

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In this Monday May 30, 2016, photo, a sedated tiger lies in a cage at the "Tiger Temple" in Saiyok district in Kanchanaburi province, west of Bangkok, Thailand. Wildlife officials in Thailand on Monday began removing some of the 137 tigers held at a Buddhist temple following accusations that the monks were involved in illegal breeding and trafficking of the animals. (AP Photo)

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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)

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Chinese tourists cross the street in front of the Grand Palace in Bangkok, Thailand, Wednesday, Aug. 19, 2015. The bomb blast that ripped through a Bangkok shrine, leaving scores of casualties, may take a toll on the country's tourism industry, the one bright spot in Thailand’s blighted economy. (AP Photo/Penny Yi Wang)

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A woman prays at the Erawan Shrine at Rajprasong intersection in Bangkok, Thailand, Wednesday, Aug. 19, 2015. The central Bangkok shrine reopened Wednesday after Monday's bomb blast to the public as authorities searched for a man seen in a grainy security video who they say was the prime suspect in an attack authorities called the worst in the country's history. (AP Photo/Sakchai Lalit)

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Buddhist monks hold a prayer at the Erawan Shrine at Rajprasong intersection in Bangkok, Thailand, Wednesday, Aug. 19, 2015. The central Bangkok shrine reopened Wednesday to the public after Monday's bomb blast as authorities searched for a man seen in a grainy security video who they say was the prime suspect in an attack authorities called the worst in the country's history. (AP Photo/Sakchai Lalit)

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A man prays at the Erawan Shrine at Rajprasong intersection in Bangkok, Thailand, Wednesday, Aug. 19, 2015. The central Bangkok shrine reopened Wednesday after Monday's bomb blast to the public as authorities searched for a man seen in a grainy security video who they say was the prime suspect in an attack authorities called the worst in the country's history. (AP Photo/Sakchai Lalit)

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Bangkok, Thailand, is a diverse, urban city. (Photo by Adrienne Jordan)

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

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Alan Morison, right, Australian editor of the website Phuketwan and his colleague Chutima Sidasathien speak to the media ahead of their appearance in court to face charges of violating Thailand's Computer Crime Act in Phuket, Thailand, Tuesday, July 14, 2015. Testimony begins Tuesday in a criminal defamation lawsuit the Thai navy has filed against a small news website over a report it posted alleging naval forces accepted money to abet or turn a blind eye to the seaborne trafficking of refugees from Myanmar. (AP Photo/Thanyarat Doksone)

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Thai Foreign Minister Thanasak Patimaprakorn speaks at the "Special Meeting on Irregular Migration in the Indian Ocean" regarding the Rohingya and Bangladeshi migrant crisis at a hotel in Bangkok, Thailand. In the past month, more than 3,000 Rohingya Muslims fleeing persecution in Myanmar and impoverished Bangladeshis hoping to find jobs have landed on the shores of Indonesia, Malaysia and Thailand, drawing international attention to a crisis in Southeast Asia. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak, File)

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Malaysian police forensic team members inspect a freshly exhumed human body from an unmarked grave in Wang Burma at the Malaysia-Thailand border outside Wang Kelian, Malaysia Tuesday, May 26, 2015. Malaysian authorities have found one corpse as they started digging for bodies at an abandoned jungle camp used by human traffickers on the border with Thailand. The discovery came as forensics teams began the grim task of exhuming nearly 140 suspected graves in the mountainous area where trafficking syndicates were known to hold migrants for ransom. (AP Photo/Joshua Paul)

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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)

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On Tuesday, former Thai prime minister Yingluck Shinawatra posted $900,000 bail and pleaded not guilty to "dereliction of duty" charges resulting from the administration of rice crop subsidies that cost billions of dollars during her 2011-2014 administration. (Associated Press)

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Thailand longboats (Photo by Lea Hutchins)

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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)

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It is not known exactly where bamboo tattoos originated – possibly Cambodia, but it is believed to have begun in the Buddhist temples in Thailand where religious texts would be tattooed onto monks for protection of the scripts. (Photo courtesy/Lea Hutchins)

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