Thai Government pulls out all stops to help flood victims Frantic efforts to protect Ayutthaya’s inner town and parts of its key industrial estate have failed, forcing the government to order state officials to prepare for emergency evacuations in 10 provinces. Under orders from Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra, officials in the 10 Central Plains provinces […]
AYUTTHAYA, October 9, 2011- According to Ayutthaya Governor Witaya Pewpong, personnel from the military, navy and water police force have held a meeting to establish plans for evacuation of patients at the Ayutthhaya Hospital. After a gas explosion and a 2 meter flood strikes the local Ayudhaya hospital, the Governor, along with local officials from […]
Twelve bodies have been found in the Mekong River in Chiang Rai’s Chiang Saen district. The bodies of three Chinese men, their hands tied and handcuffed behind their backs, were found on Friday, and another nine bodies, also thought to be Chinese, were found Saturday. Police said most of the nine bodies had also been […]
TAK, 8 October 2011 (NNT) – Bhumibol Dam in Thailand’s Tak province is only one foot away from reaching its full capacity while authorities are speedily draining floodwater out of Tak Municipality in the wake of heavy downpours. Director of Bhumibol Dam Boon-in Chuenchavalit revealed that the water level at the dam was currently at […]
BANGKOK, Oct 7 – The United Nations Education Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) on Friday offered the Thai authorities emergency assistance for the ancient city of Ayutthaya now affected by heavy flooding, if it is needed. In a statement released here on Friday, the Bangkok-based UNESCO Asia-Pacific regional headquarters said the World Heritage site of […]
BANGKOK 6 October, 2011 (NNT) – Flood water in the north will soon recede but the central and the southern regions will have to brace for more storms later this month. According to National Disaster Warning Centre chief Smith Dhammasaroj, the flood situation in the central region could be far from over as sea level […]
CHIANG RAI, Oct 5 – A drug trafficking suspect was killed on Wednesday in a gunfight between uniformed government forces led by Marine Police and drug trafficking suspects on the Mekong River in Thailand’s northern province of Chiang Rai, with the authorities confiscating 900,000 methamphetamine pills found on two Chinese-owned river boats, according to authorities. […]
BANGKOK, Oct 4 – Continued flooding has damaged some 400,000-500,000 rai of Thailand’s current sugarcane crop in a number of provinces in the upper part of the country. Thailand Sugarcane Planters Federation president Kamtorn Kittichotisub said the affected areas include Phitsanulok, Phetchabun, Pichit and Nakhon Sawan provinces. Read more: MCOT
