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RED SHIRTS : Anti-government demonstrators and supporters of ousted Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra chant slogans during a rally outside the government house in Bangkok

A demonstrator holds a portrait of exiled former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra during a rally outside the Government House in Bangkok October 17, 2009. REUTERS/Kerek Wongsa

Supporters of former Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra stand on the road outside the Government House during a rally in Bangkok October 17, 2009. Thailand's "red shirts" rallied this weekend to demand the government submit a petition seeking a royal pardon for Thaksin. REUTERS/Kerek Wongsa

Thai in Pictures

A Thai bar girl waits for customers outside a bar in Sungai Kolok, in Thailand's southern province of Narathiwat at the border with Malaysia, in August 2009. Many Malaysian men take advantage of the less restrictive social environment in Kolok in contrast to conservative and mainly Muslim Malaysia, giving the Thai town a seedy reputation as a prostitution and party land. (AFP/File

Thai bar girls wait for customers outside a bar in Sungai Kolok, in Thailand's southern province of Narathiwat at the border with Malaysia. Many Malaysian men take advantage of the less restrictive social environment in Kolok in contrast to conservative and mainly Muslim Malaysia, giving the Thai town a seedy reputation as a prostitution and party land. (AFP/Madaree Tohlala)

Thai bar girls wait for customers outside a bar in Sungai Kolok, Thailand, at the border with Malaysia. Many Malaysian men take advantage of the less restrictive social environment in Kolok in contrast to conservative and mainly Muslim Malaysia, giving the Thai town a seedy reputation as a prostitution and party land. (AFP/File/Madaree Tohlala)

Malaysian men have drinks with a Thai bar girl at a bar in Sungai Kolok, in Thailand's southern province of Narathiwat in August 2009. Many Malaysian men take advantage of the less restrictive social environment in Kolok in contrast to conservative and mainly Muslim Malaysia, giving the Thai town a seedy reputation as a prostitution and party land. (AFP/File/Madaree Tohlala)