PHETCHABUN, Sept 6 – Heavy rain in Thailand’s northern provinces caused localised flooding in this province, affecting about 1,000 homes, and flooding is likely to be reported from wider areas. In Phetchabun, a flash flood hit about 1,000 houses in three communities. About 1,200 acres of farmland have been inundated. Some schools were forced to […]
BANGKOK, Nov 16 – Twenty Pheu Thai MPs signed their names to an urgent motion to ask Parliament to set up an extraordinary committee to conduct a feasibility study on relocation of Thailand’s capital Bangkok, said Sathaporn Maneerat, ruling Pheu Thai party MP for Lamphun. The central provinces of Nakhon Nayok or Phetchabun should be […]
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
BANGKOK, Sept 24 – Many provinces in central, northern, and northeastern regions of Thailand were hit by floods while the death toll keep rising as three more fatalities were reported in Phichit and Chiang Mai. The Department of Disaster Prevention and Mitigation had earlier announced that the flood has already claimed 140 lives. Heavy rain […]
BANGKOK, 24 August 2011 (NNT) – The Department of Disaster Prevention and Mitigation (DDPM) has reported that 14 provinces remain inundated while the flood has killed 41 people and devastated over two million rai of farmland so far. According to DDPM Director-General Viboon Sanguanpong, the 14 provinces still inundated include 614 sub-districts and 90 districts. […]
Forest land encroachment problems are now spreading to the Eastern and Northern provinces of Thailand after large areas of more than 1,000 rai of forest reserves in Kanchanaburi and Phetchabun were found to have been converted to rubber plantations by Taiwanese and other wealthy foreigners. Natural Resources and Environ-ment Ministry permanent secretary Chote Trachoo said […]
BANGKOK, Aug 17 – Thailand’s Public Health Ministry reported Wednesday that 31 persons have died and over 27,000 others have become sick due to the flooding in the country’s northern and northeastern provinces. Thirty-one deaths were reported, two in Chiang Mai, four in Sukhothai, two in Sakon Nakhon, eight in Phrae, three in Nakhon Phanom, […]
BANGKOK, 29 June 2011 (NNT) – The Department of Disaster Prevention and Mitigation (DDPM) has issued a warning for possible flash floods and mudslides in 22 provinces of the northern, eastern and southern regions during this period. The 22 provinces comprise Mae Hong Son, Chiang Mai, Lampang, Lamphun, Chiang Rai, Phayao, Phrae, Nan, Tak, Sukhothai, […]
