Thailand has plans to spend more than $12 billion in flood mitigation measures to try to avoid a repeat of last year’s devastating floods that killed hundreds of people and cost billions of dollars. The country is preparing ahead of the start of another monsoon season.

Honda factory recovery

An enduring image from Thailand’s 2011 flood catastrophe was the lines of white Honda vehicle roof tops above blackened waters left stranded at its plant in Ayutthaya province, just 60 kilometers from Bangkok.

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