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“Red Shirts” are continuing their protests in the streets and online. Thailand has also managed in period affected by the floods, terrorist attacks, as well as to celebrate the 78th birthday of Queen Sirikit. Collected here are photos from all over Thailand.


1. Thai students came to the Marble Temple in Bangkok on July 28. (AP Photo / Sakchai Lalit)

2. Rescuer goes through a flooded area in the district Chok Chai, Nakhon Ratchasima province, 270 kilometers northeast of Bangkok October 19. As a result of the strong over the past decade, floods in Thailand and neighboring Cambodia, killing 20 people. (REUTERS / Roengchai Kongmuang / Greenpeace)

3. Anti-government protesters lit candles in memory of their lost comrades during a rally at the monument to democracy, where the demonstrators were violent conflicts with police in Bangkok on October 10. Thousands of Thais gathered in the capital, to demand release of detained comrades. (REUTERS / Damir Sagolj)

4. Girl next door with huge letters “Open” from the shopping center «Central World» in Bangkok on September 28. In the «Central World» open 80% of stores that were burned during anti-government demonstrations that rocked the Thai capital earlier this year. Repair cost of 5-6 billion baht (about U.S. $ 163000-197000). (NICOLAS ASFOURI / AFP / Getty Images)

5. “Red Shirt” among the flowers during a rally at the monument to democracy, where earlier this year have been bloody clashes between demonstrators and police in Bangkok. (REUTERS / Damir Sagolj)

6. Mahaut an elephant on the flooded road near the river Lopburi to an elephant sanctuary in Ayutthaya, 80 kilometers north of Bangkok, October 19. (REUTERS / Sukree Sukplang)

7. Parishioners Chinese temple Bang Neo carry Chinese deity in a palanquin, where fireworks explode during the street procession on the last day of the Vegetarian Festival in Phuket on 16 October. Ritual vegetarianism began in the 1800’s. The festival begins on the first evening of the ninth lunar month and lasts for nine days. Participants of the festival pierce the body to the evil spirits left behind by other people, and switched to them. Thus, they are also attracted to her neighborhood luck. (Athit Perawongmetha / Getty Images)

8. Novices sit in rows in front of Maha Chedi during an initiation ceremony in the temple in San Damagayya Pathumthani province on July 20. Tens of thousands of newly ordained monks have taken at dawn during the three-month Buddhist Lent, when Buddhist monks remain in monasteries to learn the lessons of the Buddha. (AP Photo / Apichart Weerawong)

9. One of the new leaders of the “Red Shirt” Sombat Bonngamanong checks his page social networking site Facebook in their office in Bangkok on October 14. When the Thai authorities shut down his site, Sombat started using Facebook, to share their political views with his supporters. (PORNCHAI KITTIWONGSAKUL / AFP / Getty Images)

10. Tattoo artist Pitsanut Senrak works with the client Pansavatom Vari during the festival of tattoos in Bangkok on October 25. (AP Photo / Sakchhai Lalit)

11. Place a bomb in a residential building near Bangkok on October 6. Thai authorities blamed the blast “Red Shirt”. The powerful blast killed three people and another nine were injured. The explosion occurred on October 5. Residents of neighboring buildings needed renovation of apartments, but someone had to be resettled. (PAIROJ / AFP / Getty Images)

12. People look at the body of Thais, who was shot while riding on a motorcycle in the southern province of Yala on 11 October. (REUTERS / Surapan Boonthanom)

13. Thai police and ordinary passers-by hiding, after being warned about a possible second explosion in the southern province of Songkhla on October 5. According to police, the explosion of a homemade bomb, attached to a motorcycle, wounding three soldiers. (REUTERS / Surapan Boonthanom)

14. Detained Pakistanis go to the police station in the southern city of Yala on 13 October, the day after their arrest. Thai police said they arrested 15 Pakistanis suspected of financing for suspicious activities that may be relevant to the organization of terrorist acts. (MUHAMMAD SABRI / AFP / Getty Images)

15. A soldier guards the area where the Thai royal army meets Muslim religious leaders during his visit to troubled Yala province on October 18. Yala - one of three Muslim provinces bordering Malaysia, where over the past six months killed 4,100 people. (REUTERS / Surapan Boonthanom)

16. 20-month-old Maltese named Mint seems to have fallen asleep while her prepare for the competition at the Asian exhibition of dogs in Bangkok on October 21. Hundreds of dogs took part in a four-day show, which ended on Sunday, October 24. (AP Photo / Apichart Weerawong)

17. Thai farmers are going to the Bulls during the race at a festival in Chonburi province on October 22. The annual race is held at the end of a three-month Buddhist Lent before the full moon. (PORNCHAI KITTIWONGSAKUL / AFP / Getty Images)

18. A woman prays in a communal apartment for migrant workers from Myanmar, near Mae Sot, in northwest Thailand, October 15. The protracted political crisis of Myanmar has forced millions to seek a better life abroad. Approximately 140 000 refugees living in official camps along the Myanmar border with Thailand. Many fear that the conflict in the mountains of eastern Myanmar are likely to worsen due to the failure of several ethnic groups participate in elections next month. (REUTERS / Damir Sagolj)

19. A boy with his face plastered Tanaka, waiting at the local school children of migrant workers from Myanmar to Mae Sot near the 15 October. (REUTERS / Damir Sagolj)

20. A woman carries a child past the portrait of a democratic leader, Aung San Suu Kyi in Mae Tao Clinic on October 13. (REUTERS / Damir Sagolj)

21. Workers face excavating the old tank into the sea in the province of Narathiwat on August 9. 25 old tanks were brought in from Bangkok and thrown into the sea in the Gulf to form an artificial reef habitat for various fish species. (AP Photo / Sumeth Parnpeth)

22. 73-year-old Tirapong Musigasamphan - party to mass uprising in 1973 - sits in front of a painting depicting the very uprising during the Remembrance Day in Bangkok on October 14. Hundreds of thousands of students and workers took to the streets of Bangkok 37 years ago for a political revolution whose aim was to overthrow the dictatorship. As a result, many were killed by army bullets. (REUTERS / Chaiwat Subprasom)

23. A man holds live pangolin after a raid on a house in Ayutthaya province on October 22. Thai police raided a warehouse where poachers have kept thousands of reptiles to transport overseas. (AP Photo / FREELAND Foundation)

24. Thais are fighting on the pole during the annual festival of racing bulls on October 22. The festival is also held in honor of the rice harvest, occurred during the Bulls trade in Chonburi, which was once a center of trade. (REUTERS / Damir Sagolj)

25. Believer Chinese temple Chzhui Tui pierce his cheeks during a procession in honor of the annual Vegetarian Festival in Phuket on 14 October. The festival begins on the first evening of the ninth lunar month and lasts for nine days. Many believers cut themselves with swords, pierce their cheeks and carry out other painful acts for self-purification. (NICOLAS ASFOURI / AFP / Getty Images)

26. Confiscated goods are laid out before destruction in Bangkok on September 15. Thai authorities destroyed about 90 tons of goods worth about 2.26 billion baht (76 million dollars). (AP Photo / Apichart Weerawong)

27. Stellate confiscated turtles lay in a box during a demonstration press in customs administration in Bangkok on September 29. Thai authorities seized 1,140 species of rare species starry turtles, which are smuggled into the country from Bangladesh. (NICOLAS ASFOURI / AFP / Getty Images)

28. Thais during a mass charge at the national stadium in Bangkok on August 12 in honor of the 78th birthday of Queen Sirikit. (AP Photo / Sakchai Lalit)

29. Man tries to catch fish in the flooded area Lopburi province, 150 km north of Bangkok, October 21. (REUTERS / Sukree Sukplang)

30. Residents of Bangkok are watching TV in a flooded house on October 25. Flood water from the north-eastern provinces, swallowed thousands of acres of pastures and fields, reached the Thai capital. (REUTERS / Chaiwat Subprasom)

31. Buddist monk comes to the flooded temple in Ayutthaya province on Oct. 25 after two weeks of flooding. (PORNCHAI KITTIWONGSAKUL / AFP / Getty Images)

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