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Thai King Bhumibol Adulyadej is pictured at military airport in Bangkok, Thailand on Feb. 17, 2006. U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan will next month present this year's U.N. Development Program Award to King Bhumibol in Bangkok. The 78-year old world's longest reigning monarch, spent decades crisscrossing impoverished rural areas, seeding thousands of projects in agriculture, water management, opium eradication and poverty reduction. He celebrates his 60th anniversary on the throne this June. (KEYSTONE/AP Photo/Apichart Weerawong)