Tag: Department of Disaster Prevention
Residents in the North and Northeast told to brace for flash...
BANGKOK, 9 August 2012 - The Department of Disaster Prevention and Mitigation is warning residents in the North and upper Northeast of possible...
DDPM office in Ayutthaya educate village chiefs, communities about disaster prevention
AYUTTHAYA, 22 July 2012 – Provincial officials of the Department of Disaster Prevention and Mitigation (DDPM) in Ayutthaya traveled to sixteen districts in...
PM instructs Mineral Resources Dept to probe sinkholes in Ang Thong
ANG THONG, 5 July 2012 - Following reports of land subsidence in Ang Thong province, Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra has instructed Department of...
Disaster warning agencies issue more warnings for North and South
BANGKOK, 8 June 2012 - Two of the nation’s disaster-related agencies are issuing further flash flood warnings for the northern and the southern...
Government urges fast relief to 48 drought-hit provinces
BANGKOK, April 23 -- Deputy Prime Minister/Interior Minister Yongyuth Vichaidit on Monday urged Thailand’s authorities nationwide to accelerate their response to the ongoing...
DDPM not worried about drought but flash flood
BANGKOK, 22 April 2012 – The Department of Disaster Prevention and Mitigation (DDPM) is not worried about the drought problem Thailand has been...
DDPM warns people to be careful during tropical storm
BANGKOK, 20 April 2012 -The Department of Disaster Prevention and Mitigation has warned people across the country not to stay under trees or...
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Kratom vendor seriously injured in drive-by shooting in Sri Racha
SRI RACHA, Thailand - A woman was critically injured after being shot by an unknown assailant at her kratom drink stall near Rajamangala University...
Engineer injured in fall through ceiling at a mall in Pattaya
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Motorcyclist nearly strangled by low-hanging cable on Chonburi bypass road
CHONBURI, Thailand - A motorcyclist narrowly escaped death on July 25 when a low-hanging cable wrapped around his neck on the Bypass Road heading...
Two Chinese tourists injured in collision with drunken Thai biker in Jomtien
PATTAYA, Thailand - Two Chinese tourists were injured on the night of July 25 when the motorcycle they were riding was struck by a...