03 JANUARY 2013 - BANGKOK, THAILAND: People buy lottery tickets at lottery shops along Sukhumvit Soi 77 in Bangkok. About 20 million Thais, nearly ? of the country's 65 million people, play lottery type games. The lotteries were brought to Thailand two hundred years ago by Chinese immigrants. Lottery agents are usually friends who collect bets but do not ask for money before the drawing. PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ