Tag: Thai Flood
2,000 people made ill by floods each day
BANGKOK, 22 September 2012 - Minister of Public Health Wittaya Buranasiri has reported that almost 2,000 people are suffering from illnesses caused by...
Drinkers warned of drowning in floodwater
BANGKOK, 24 September 2012 – Amidst the current flooding, Deputy Minister of Public Health Dr. Surawit Khonsomboon has revealed the danger of being...
6 out of 9 drainage works in Bangkok completed to date
BANGKOK, 23 September 2012– More than half of the drainage works, intended to help ease the flood problem in Bangkok, has been completed. ...
Kasetsart: 1.3 million rai of farmland underwater during recent flood
BANGKOK, 24 September 2012 - The Kasetsart University Office of Agricultural Economics (KU-OAE) Foresight Center has indicated that the flooding in the lower...
Waterworks Authority confident in flood-tackling plan
BANGKOK, 24 September 2012 – Metropolitan Waterworks Authority (MWA) Governor Chareon Passara has expressed his confidence that the agency’s flood-tackling plan will prevent...
Chao Phraya dam discharges more water, floods increase
BANGKOK, 21 September 2012 - The Chao Phraya dam has discharged more water due to heavy rains, raising the water level in the Chao...
Navy to send water-pushing machines to needy areas
BANGKOK, 21 September 2012 - The Royal Thai Navy is accelerating the construction of water-pushing machines to be dispatched to flood-prone areas. The machines...
Bangkok city hall, Irrigation Department join to speed up water drainage
BANGKOK, Sept 21 - Bangkok Metropolitan Administration (BMA) and Irrigation Department experts met Friday to speed drainage of large volumes of water more effectively...
Aranyaprathet villager swept away, drowned in flood
SA KAEO, Sept 21 - The body of a 73-year-old man was found in a wooded area near the Thai-Cambodian border in this eastern...
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Pattaya’s traffic has hit a breaking point
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