Seventy-baht banknotes, smoking near recycled wood and Joe Walsh were featured events on May 30, 2016.
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The Bank of Thailand will issue 20 million 70-baht banknotes to celebrate the 70th anniversary of His Majesty the King's accession to the throne on June 9, 2016. The banknotes can be purchased for 100 baht each at commercial banks nationwide, starting June 9. - Kitja Apichonrojarek
Commuters rush to get on public buses parked in the middle lane outside Pata department store in Bangkok's Pinklao area. Bangkok authorities plan to renovate the landscape in this congested area. - Tawatchai Kemgumnerd
A bird stands on the back of a wild bull in the forest of Khao Phaengma, Nakhon Ratchasima. - Pattarapong Chatpattarasill
Wreaths are placed outside a dormitory at Pitakkiat Wittaya School in Chiang Rai, where a fire blamed on faulty lighting killed 17 girls on the night of May 22. The school reopened on Monday, with 41 students out of a total of 142 attending classes. - Chinpat Chaimon
Monks crammed in the back of a pickup truck at Wat Dhammakaya in Pathum Thani. The temple, where embattled abbot Phra Dhammajayo resides, has tightened security at its entrances and exits as the Department of Special Investigation (DSI) attempts to arrest the abbot and press criminal charges against him. - Apichit Jinakul
A man sits at an outdoor restaurant table in the North Gate market in the northern province of Chiang Mai. Thailand's gross domestic product (GDP) increased 3.2% in the three months through March from a year earlier, according to the National Economic and Social Development Board (NESDB). - Bloomberg
AThai carpenter pauses to smoke a cigarette. The smoke was caught by the rays of the setting sun, as he prepared the recycled wood from shipping pallets and crates, on the railway line home and workplace, near Bangkok's Klong Toey port. A group of wood workers and artisan furniture makers have created a carpentry community within the city's oldest and largest slum, recycling white pine wood shipping pallets into re-saleable wood, and creating sought after wood furniture products. But change is coming. Nailed onto wooden shacks along the line the furniture workers call home, tattered court ordered eviction notices are blowing in the wind. The community here is trespassing, according to the Bangkok Port Authority, who want the land back for road expansion as it leads to the major port Klong Toey port facility and entry gates. - EPA
Thailand's Transport Minister Arkhom Termpittayapaisith (left) shakes hands with Indonesian counterpart Ignasius Jonan (R) during the Transportation Ministerial Meeting of Developing Countries in Kuta, Bali, Indonesia. Bali is hosting the Transportation Ministerial Meeting of Developing Countries, which will be attended by representatives of 32 countries. The conference is held to strengthen partnerships between the participating nations in the area of capacity building for civil aviation. - EPA
A German rescuer from the humanitarian organisation Sea-Watch holds a drowned migrant baby, off the Libyan coast. The baby, who appears to be no more than a year old, was pulled from the sea after a wooden boat capsized last Friday. - Reuters
People stand in front of the rubbles of a damaged building after heavy fightings between Turkish government troops and Kurdish fighters after the curfew in the southeastern Turkey Kurdish town of Yuksekova, near the border with Iraq and Iran. - AFP
Joe Walsh performs during Joe Walsh & Bad Company One Hell of a Night Tour - at Perfect Vodka Amphitheatre in West Palm Beach, Florida. - AFP
The silhouette of the Atomic Bomb Dome is seen in Hiroshima, Japan. United States President Barack Obama's historic visit on Friday comes amid rising regional tension. - Bloomberg
