PHOTOS

15 JUN 2012

Photos of the Week

Interesting images from around the kingdom, captured by Post Photographers.

 
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Dancers perform a traditional Swedish dance at Swedish Festival 2012, held at the Megabangna shopping centre on Bang Na-Trat Road. The event celebrated the 144th anniversary of Thai-Swedish relations. Photo by Pattanapong Hirunard.
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Airports of Thailand staff demonstrate newly-installed luggage x-ray and passenger search systems at Suvarnabhumi airport. Photo by Somchai Poomlard.
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A street stall menu displays prices for pad thai and hoi tord (mussel and beansprout stir-fry). The Commerce Ministry has proposed limiting the price of seven popular a la carte dishes to 30 baht to help minimise the higher cost of living. Photo by Patipat Janthong.
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Crowds brave heavy rain to catch a glimpse of His Majesty the King, who presided over the unveiling of a statue of King Ananda Mahidol (Rama VIII), near the Rama VIII Bridge in Bangkok. Photo by Thiti Wannamontha.
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Maung Kyaw Nu, president of the Burmese Rohingya Association of Thailand, and some 30 other members gather to lodge an appeal to the UN secretary-general at the UN's Bangkok regional headquarters. The group asked for international intervention following deadly religious riots in Myanmar's Arakan state. Photo by Tawatchai Kemgumnerd.
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A demolition company executive has lodged a complaint with police, claiming that a group of more than 40 men dressed in military uniform assaulted and attempted to extort his employees, who were dismantling these four buildings on Rama III Road. The men seized assets worth around 200,000 baht and threatened the workers to tell their boss to pay protection fees. Photo by Natthiti Ampriwan.