PHOTOS

5 AUG 2014

A day in photos

In today's photo gallery, we feature Gen Prayuth, injured monks, flyboards, animal protection groups, police taking pictures, a Thai actress, girls eating popsicles and a woman reading in the dark. (Bangkok Post and agencies photos)

PHOTOS: Bangkok Post
 
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Three monks were injured, one of them seriously, when they were hit by a pickup truck while on their alms round in Tak province Tuesday morning. (Photo by Assawin Pinijwong)
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Army chief Prayuth Chan-ocha pays respect to the King Rama V Monument at the Chulachomklao Royal Military Academy to celebrate the institution's 127th anniversary. (Photo by Pattanapong Hirunard)
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The Royal Thai Navy introduces its new buoyant bullet-proof vests, along with seabreacher watercraft and flyboards, at the navy auditorium beside the Chao Phraya river in Bangkok. (Photos by Pawat Laopaisarntaksin)
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Members of animal protection groups gather outside army headquarters, calling on the National Council for Peace and Order to guarantee passage of animal protection legislation in the new legislative assembly. (Photo by Jiraporn Kuhakan)
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Traffic police in Bangkok take photos of motorists using mobile phones while driving on Tuesday morning, the first day of a campaign targeting drivers talking or texting without using a hands-off device. (Photo by Jiraporn Kuhakan)
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Police and soldiers seize more than 200 horse racing and slot machines at a warehouse on Krungthep Kreetha Road. (Photo by Thanarak Khunton)
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Thai actress Lakana 'Aum' Wattanawongsiri travels to the Crime Suppression Division in Chatuchak to take legal action against people who claim she is in the online prostitution business. (Photo by Tawatchai Khemgumnerd)
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A Filipino boy frolics along a flooded street in the town of Hermosa, Philippines. (EPA photo)
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Construction warning signs are posted on the construction site of Indonesia's mass rapid transit in Jakarta. (AFP photo)
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A woman reads poems near an entrance to a bomb shelter, as she and her neighbour go out for fresh air during a short cease fire in the Petrovsky of Donetsk, eastern Ukraine. (AP photo)
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An Israeli soldier gestures from atop a tank after crossing the border back into Israel. (Reuters photo)
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Girls eat popsicles at a park in Tokyo. Sweltering summer heat in Japan has left at least seven people dead over the past weeks. (AFP photo)
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The sun begins to peek out from below a layer of smoke blowing north from fires in southern Oregon and Northern California as it sets on the Willamette Valley. (AP photo)