BANGKOK, Nov 20 – Floodwaters in Pathum Thani, adjacent to the capital of Bangkok have dropped slightly after authorities agreed to widen three sluice gates as requested by Pathum Thani residents during yesterday’s negotiation. The water level in Pathum Thani’s Lam Luk Ka district has reportedly fallen about three centimeters to 2.52 metres. Read more: […]
Following 300 Nonthaburi residents’ gathering at the city hall this afternoon, November 20, to demand the authorities to open 6 more floodgates at Mahasawat canal in order to reduce the water level in the province and Bangkok governor Sukhumbhand Boripat’s refusal to comply, Irrigation Department and Nonthaburi provincial officials have agreed to open a number […]
AYUTTHAYA, Nov 16 – The flooded Hi-Tech Industrial Estate here is expected to resume operations following natural drainage and pumping by Nov 25. Officers of various agencies including the industrial park itself, the Thai army, and the Royal Irrigation Department have been draining water from site since Nov 8. The water level there has receded […]
BANGKOK, Nov 14 – Some flood-hit industrial estates are set to start draining water and cleaning up their sites after the flood has receded, Industry Minister Wannarat Channukul said. The greatest progress was seen at Factory Land Industrial Estate in Wang Noi district where the floodwater dropped to 20-30 per cent of the previously measured […]
The arrests last Friday of nine Thai Army officers for the Oct. 5 murders of 13 Chinese seamen spotlight a horrific crime. But the affair is part of a bigger story of how the so-called Golden Triangle of Burma, Laos and Thailand is shifting to become the locus of massive methamphetamine production, and how complicit […]
BANGKOK, Nov 2 – The Bangchan Industrial Estate is prepared to handle incoming floodwater, which started to rise from underground drains and sewers there on Wednesday morning. According to the latest report, some floodwater started overflowing from underground drains and sewers opposite Saha-Union on Sereethai Road within the Bangchan estate. Read more: MCOT
A large volume of water from the Tha Chin River inundated Nakhon Chaisi and Sam Phran in Nakhon Pathom province yesterday after residents of both districts destroyed floodwalls. At 10.30am yesterday, around 100 residents of Nakhon Chaisri’s Moo 3 destroyed an earthen embankment built to protect the neighbouring Tambon Khun Kaew where a Dutch Mill […]
BANGKOK, 19 October 2011 (NNT) – The Department of Disaster Prevention and Mitigation has warned residents in flood ravaged zones to brace for cold weather. Director-General of the Department of Disaster Prevention and Mitigation Mr. Wiboon Sanguanpong said the cold spell was moving towards the Northern provinces of Thailand from China and the temperature could […]
