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 consumer confidence index in Thailand plummeted to a 10-year record low due to the flood crisis’s impact on many sectors. A survey by the Economic and Business Forecast Center at the University of the Thai Chamber of Commerce or UTTC shows a steep decline in the consumer confidence index for three consecutive months, from […]
The Lat Krabang industrial estate in eastern Bangkok was fortifying its flood barriers as the flood levels in the surrounding areas have risen another two centimetres, the government said on Friday. Industry Minister Wannarat Channukul said the floodwater had already reached the eastern, northern, and western sides of the flood dykes built around the industrial […]
Bangkok could be drained of water in 11 days, says the Irrigation Department, presenting good news to an anxious city for the first time since northern floodwaters entered the capital. Nearly half of the northern runoff which has devastated farmland and industrial estates and flooded parts of the capital has now flowed into the sea […]
In Thailand’s capital, much of the city’s attention is focused on keeping more water from flowing into the city’s downtown. But there are also worries over the health risks posed by floating garbage, open sewage and toxic runoff from industrial estates and rice paddies from the north. Sabong Suprang has been working as a trash […]
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
BANGKOK, Oct 29 – Thai Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra on Saturday said she believed the floodwater in Bangkok could reduce by the first week of November if relevant agencies could control the drainage of water, while the government has made preparations to rehabilitate public, agricultural and industrial sectors. She also urged shops not to stockpile […]
Foreign investors in Thailand are angry at the Thai government’s response to the floods that ravaged many industrial zones across the nation. A CNBC Broadcast reported that Japanese investors in Thailand have voiced outrage at the Thai government, saying that it has failed to tackle the ravaging flood, which has caused significant damage to the […]
