WORD ON JAPAN TSUNAMI: Phuket and Thailand are not listed as being at risk from a tsunami in the latest tsunami warning issued by the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center about 30 minutes ago. The “Widespread Tsunami Warning” was issued to government authorities across the region following the massive earthquake, and confirmation that ‘destructive waves’ had […]
BANGKOK, 23 February 2011 (NNT) – Travel warning has been issued against the disputed area on the Thai-Cambodian border by two countries, which are Australia and Taiwan, according to the Tourism Authority of Thailand (TAT). Following the TAT board meeting, TAT Governor Surapol Svetasreni confirmed that the enforcement of the Internal Security Act (ISA) in […]
PATTANI, Feb 19 — Deputy Interior Minister Thavorn Senneam on Saturday warned that insurgents operating in the deep South have stepped up unrest during 2011, while presumed insurgents shot dead a former member of the Tambon (Sub-district) Administration Organisation (TAO) of the southern-troubled Pattani province. Mr Thavorn said that there were signs that insurgents in […]
THE TSUNAMI of December 26, 2004, ripped through the coastal buildings of Phuket and the Andaman, depositing sand in the top pocket of a man’s suit found hanging days later, in a third-floor room closet. Like it or not, Phuket and the Andaman remain in a tsunami zone. And this year’s sixth anniversary has finally […]
Astrological predictions that a tsunami will hit southern Thailand this month have led to a wave of hotel room cancellations at beach resorts, news reports said. Hotels in Phuket, Phangnga, Ranong and Surin – beach resorts on the Andaman Sea coast – have reported the cancellation of 10 per cent of room bookings this month […]
SAMUTPRAKARN, 6 December 2010 (NNT)-The National Disaster Warning Center has sent out a ship to moor two new buoys in the Andaman Sea in the hope of being able to warn people ahead of tsunamis. The ship yesterday set sail on a seven-day journey from Samutprakarn Province to the points in the Andaman Sea where […]
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, […]
Jakarta – An earthquake measuring 7.4 on the Richter scale rocked Indonesia’s easternmost region of Papua early Thursday, prompting a tsunami warning. The epicentre of the quake was 141 kilometres south-east of Kaimana in West Papua province at a depth of 25 kilometres, according to the Meteorology, Climatology and Geophysics Agency. The quake was followed […]
