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)