Tag: Sirikit Dams
EGAT: Dams have capacity to handle water in monsoon season
BANGKOK, 3 July 2012 – Electricity Generating Authority of Thailand (EGAT) said it has reserved space in dams for the water expected in the...
PM says 1.5 million rais of land will be turned into...
BANGKOK, 17 February 2012 -Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra said that around 1.5 million rais of land have been designated as monkey-cheek reservoirs while...
RID concerned over more floods in mid-Sep
BANGKOK, 7 September 2011 – The Royal Irrigation Department (RID) has expressed concerns over the possibility of additional flooding within the central region in...
More rain expected this year, Ayutthaya will not be flooded
BANGKOK, 21 June 2011 -The Department of Royal Irrigation has begun a new water management this year to reduce the chance of flooding...
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British woman reunited with son after Pattaya Tourist Police help
PATTAYA, Thailand – A British woman who was too intoxicated to return to her accommodation on her own was safely escorted back by Pattaya...
Police check on Russian tourist sleeping drunk in Pattaya hotel for safety
PATTAYA, Thailand – Pattaya Tourist Police were called to a hotel on August 13 after staff found a heavily intoxicated foreign tourist sleeping on...
Rescue volunteers suspended after taxi driver assaulted near Bangkok MRT Station
BANGKOK, Thailand – A group of rescue volunteers has been suspended from duty after a video showing several volunteers allegedly assaulting a taxi driver...
Kating Lai Park off North Pattaya faces erosion threat, safety barriers installed
PATTAYA, Thailand – Pattaya City officials have inspected damage at Kating Lai Beach Park after waves eroded more than 20 metres of the shoreline,...
Pattaya motorcycle taxi driver arrives at police station with bat seeking help
PATTAYA, Thailand – Police officers and members of the public at Pattaya City Police Station were left puzzled when a motorcycle taxi driver arrived...