Thai New Year

People spray each other with water guns during the Songkran festival to mark the Thai new year along the tourist area of Khao San road in Bangkok on April 13. Songkran marks the summer season in Thailand, where families and friends celebrate the festival by visiting temples and splashing water on each other's hands as an act of wishing good luck. (AFP)
Anti-government 'Red Shirt' protesters offer prayers near a memorial site for victims of fierce street battles between protesters and the army at the week-end, during celebrations of the Songkran festival marking the Thai new year, at Democracy monument in Bangkok on April 13. The Thai authorities will allow "Red Shirt" protesters to keep up their rallies in Bangkok for months if they do not use violence, Deputy Prime Minister Suthep Thaugsuban said. (AFP)
An anti-government 'Red Shirt' protester helps her daughter onto an abandoned army vehicle during celebrations of the Songkran festival marking the Thai new year, at Democracy monument, the re-occupied site of fierce street battles between protesters and the army at the week-end, in Bangkok on April 13. The Thai authorities will allow "Red Shirt" protesters to keep up their rallies in Bangkok for months if they do not use violence, Deputy Prime Minister Suthep Thaugsuban said. (AFP)
Anti-government 'Red Shirt' protesters celebrate the Songkran festival marking the Thai new year, at Democracy monument, the site of fierce street battles between protesters and the army at the week-end, in Bangkok on April 13. The Thai authorities will allow "Red Shirt" protesters to keep up their rallies in Bangkok for months if they do not use violence, Deputy Prime Minister Suthep Thaugsuban said. (AFP)
Thai people celebrate the Songkran festival marking the Thai new year in Thailand's southern province of Narathiwat on April 13. Songkran marks the summer season in Thailand, where families and friends celebrate the festival by visiting temples and splashing water on each other's hands as an act of wishing good luck. (AFP)
People spray water on each other as they celebrate the Songkran festival that marks the Thai new year, at the Khao San Road area in Bangkok on April 13. Thailand's Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva came under mounting pressure on Tuesday to resolve a stand-off with anti-government protesters after the Election Commission recommended his party be dissolved. (Reuters)
An anti-government 'red shirt' protester wearing a mask depicting ousted prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra gestures while celebrating the Songkran festival that marks the Thai new year, at the Khao San Road area in Bangkok on April 13. (Reuters)
Anti-government 'red shirt' protesters apply powder on each other's faces as they celebrate the Songkran festival that marks the Thai new year in the main shopping district in Bangkok on April 13. (Reuters)