The yellow cylinders, bearing the skull and crossbones sign, contain “toxic liquid chlorine”. “It’s extremely dangerous. Don’t open the valve,” the office’s manager Thirapol Kongpanya warned, adding that strong currents of floodwaters had swept away 56 such cylinders on November 2. The office issued a public warning about them the very next day. “So far, […]
BANGKOK, Nov 10 -The number of flood-related deaths rose to 185 across the country from Oct 10 until the present. According to the authorities, the death toll from flooding in the upper part of the country was recorded at 127 and 18 provinces remained under water. Flooding in the South triggered by heavy rain has […]
BANGKOK, 9 November 2010 (NNT) – The Cabinet has agreed to provide further assistance to the flood victims down south. According to Deputy Spokesperson of the Prime Minister’s Office Vachara Kannika, the Cabinet has agreed to include all flood victims in the South in its 5,000-baht-per-family assistance plan. The Agriculture and Cooperatives Ministry has, at […]
Residents, soldiers, and volunteers yesterday busily cleaned up the economic town of Hat Yai as the devastating floodwaters subsided. The worst flooding engulfed Hat Yai earlier this week, leaving locals in dismay without any electricity or tap water. At press time, electricity had been restored in most parts of Hat Yai town. Running water, however, […]
One fatality reported, as Songkhla’s Hat Yai district isolated by heavy flooding HAT YAI, Nov 2 — Heavy rains from the tropical depression currently in the Gulf of Thailand have brought heavy flooding to Hat Yai in Songkhla province, the main commercial district in Thailand’s South. The city is cut off, isolated from other parts […]
Yala, 25 October 2010 (NNT) – Several bombs exploded simultaneously in the three southernmost provinces of Narathiwat, Pattani, and Yala. Nine bombs exploded in four districts of Narathiwat; bombs in two other provinces went off in para-rubber fields. Police from Yala province rushed to the bomb scene in the rubber field. Upon investigation, they said […]
BANGKOK, THAILAND (BNO NEWS) — The government of Thailand on Tuesday renewed the executive decree on public administration in emergency situations in its three southern regions which have been plagued by violence, officials said. The emergency decree, which was first introduced 5 years ago, takes effect in the three southernmost provinces – Yala, Pattani, and […]
A retired police officer was shot and killed by a lone gunman while shopping with his daughter on Monday morning in Muang district of Pattani. Pol Col Narucha Suwannalapha, the Pattani police chief, said the attack took place about 10.30am while Pol Snr Sgt-Major Aswin Nakaramontri, 65, formerly of Muang district police station, was shopping […]
