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, 6 October 2011 (NNT) – The Emergency Operation Center for Flood, Storm and Landslide has warned five provinces of flash floods and mudslides while indicating the possibility of more flooding in the central region during 13-16 October. Director-General of the Department of Disaster Prevention and Mitigation and Deputy Director of the Emergency Operation Center […]
BANGKOK, 30 September 2011 (NNT) – The Tourism Authority of Thailand (TAT) has indicated that up to half of overseas tour companies have cancelled their reservations in Thailand after learning of the flood situation. TAT Executive Director for the Northern Region Sethapon Chindanon reported that the current flooding disaster had caused about 50 percent of […]
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, […]
Landslide warnings were issued in ten Thailand’s Northern Provinces on Tuesday. Somboon Kositanon, director of Lampang’s mineral resources office Region 1, said Chiang Mai, Chiang Rai, Lampang, Phrae, Nan, Phayao, Uttaradit, Tak, Mae Hong Son and Lamphun – especially areas near mountains or rivers were at risk of landslides following abnormally-large accumulated rainfall this year. […]
LAMPANG, Aug 6 – All 13 districts of the northern province of Lampang were declared disaster zones, according to its deputy governor, while the governor of nearby Tak province ordered relief centres to be set up to assist flood victims there round the clock. Deputy governor Utan Chavamethi said 495 villages of 85 sub-districts in […]
The reopening of a prized trade point along the Thai-Burma border will rest on Thailand’s ability to effectively clear border towns of anti-Napyidaw armed groups, Burmese officials have reportedly said. The remarks were made by Samart Loifah, the governor of Thailand’s western Tak province, during a recent press conference. He told reporters that the Burmese […]
TAK, 15 July 2011 (NNT) – A number of Myanmar citizens have been arrested in Tak province after entering Thailand with the intention to find jobs and take advantage of the new government’s wage hike policy to 300 THB a day. On the occasion of Buddhist Lent this year, tens of thousands of people from […]
