The National Irrigation Department of Thailand has warned locals in Bangkok’s districts of Meenburi, Nong Jok, and Lad Krabang that runoff from the North will reach the area later today or tomorrow. Residents are advised to move their belongings to higher ground while authorities build a dike to decrease the flow of water. Read more: […]
Sydney – A Sydney-bound Qantas Airways Boeing 747 returned to Bangkok after the pilot shut down one engine following what the Australian carrier described as a “bang.” Sunday’s Q52 flight, which had 356 passengers aboard, landed safely in Bangkok about an hour after take-off, a Qantas spokesman said Monday. Read more: The Nation
Thai Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra says flood barriers on the Chao Phraya river are holding and are likely to protect Bangkok and its 12 million residents from the country’s worst and deadliest flooding in decades. Ms. Yingluck spoke Sunday, as flood experts said the crest of floodwaters flowing southward from rain-saturated northern Thailand had cleared […]
BANGKOK, 16 October 2011 (NNT) – Inner Bangkok is certain to be safe from the big flood expected this weekend and next. Royal Irrigation Department Director-General Chalit Damrongsak said the much-talked-about large volume of floodwater has passed Bangkok and drifted to the sea. The flood levels around Bangkok is however still stable as floodwater remaining […]
Urgent plan to extend khlong as huge volume of water flows down from Ayutthaya; Nava Nakorn estate readies defences Pathum Thani province and the northern part of Bangkok are now at risk of flooding as a huge amount of water from the Chao Phraya River and run-off from Ayutthaya and other flooded provinces flows southward. […]
Yingluck says Bangkok floods won’t be high Residents in northern Bangkok and in the capital’s inner areas were thrown into panic yesterday after Science and Technology Minister Plodprasop Suraswadi issued a flood evacuation alert which turned out to be a false alarm. Around 6.30pm at the flood relief operations centre in Don Mueang airport, Mr […]
The national flood center of Thailand has announced that residents living in northern Bangkok, including the Klong Luang, Thammasat Rangsit, AIT, Northern Rangsit, Lam Luk Ka, Sai Mai, Rangsit, Pathum Thani, and Don Muang areas, should evacuate the area as major sand dikes in Pathum Thani Province have collapsed. Read more: TAN Network
Thai Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra on Thursday warned about pending flood in eastern areas of Bangkok, saying the inundation might be about 20 to 30 centimeters as run-off would be drained into the sea via Bang Pakong River. “Every effort will be made to slow down the water flow in order to minimise the damage,” […]
