Devotees of the Chinese shrine of Ban Tha Rua shield themselves as fireworks explode while they carry a shrine during a street procession at the annual Vegetarian Festival on Phuket Island, southern Thailand, on October 19, 2012.

A devotee of Ban Tha Rua Chinese shrine with a gun pierced through his cheek takes part in a procession celebrating the annual vegetarian festival in Phuket on October 19, 2012.

Foreign tourists stroll at the waters' edge passing a wooden fence of stakes dug deep into the sand in an attempt to form a barricade against the damage of surging waves, on the resort island of Phuket, southern Thailand, June 11. Post-tsunami, development at the seas' edge is booming once again, despite high losses of lives and business of those who lived, holidayed and built shops on the sea's edge, in Phuket and neighboring provinces struck by the 2004 Boxing Day Tsunami. Shops, restaurants and hotels have returned in force despite the risks, and creep ever closer to the edge of the Andaman Sea.

Thai and Burmese labourers, erect a fence hammering wooden stakes deep into the sand at night, as they attempt to form a barricade against the damage of surging waves, to protect sea side restaurants filled with tourists, on the resort island of Phuket, southern Thailand, June 10. This picture released June 11.