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Floods surrounded Bangkok
People in Bangkok are living in fear when a large amount of water comes close, because the Thai government has failed to regulate flood discharge on the east and west si…
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Central Bangkok can flood up to 1.5m
Thai Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra said yesterday that flood waters in some parts of Bangkok's capital could reach 1.5 meters.
Environment
Bangkok in flood
Many areas in Bangkok are flooded due to the failure of flood discharge and the dyke system is not strong enough to block the water flow too high and strong.
Environment
Hero of the crocodile scene in the flood in Thailand
More than 100 crocodiles are believed to have escaped from crocodile farms in Thailand after severe floods in more than half a century flooded the stables and took them…
Environment
Consider breaking the road to save Bangkok
The Thailand Flood Control Center (FROC) is considering the possibility of digging drainage channels in some roads east of Bangkok, to save the city from flooding.
Environment
Central Vietnam faces flood again
Due to the impact of tropical depressions, in the central provinces there is heavy rain to over 16,000 houses flooded, many places are at risk of flooding during the nig…
Environment
Thailand is flooded
The most severe flood in the last 50 years has flooded three-quarters of Thailand and threatened to submerge Bangkok.
Environment
Floods raging in the Central region, hundreds of passengers jammed
The central provinces have heavy rain, causing flash floods, landslides ... making 7 people dead and missing, thousands of vehicles congested on the highway. Nearly 500…
Environment
Central people struggle in flooding
After heavy rains, floods flooded thousands of people in Central Vietnam. Three days of living in the floodwaters, temporary food reserves have been exhausted.
Environment
12 million Bangkok people are worried about flooding
Bangkok's governor today said the capital people need to be prepared for a situation where they must evacuate when floodwaters flood.
Environment
Bangkok cannot avoid flooding
Thai Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra today admitted that he could not protect Bangkok from Thailand's historic flood and called the current situation
Environment
Severe sandstorm 'dyed red' the sky of Texas
A sandstorm believed to be the largest in the past few decades attacked the US state of Texas earlier this week, turning the sky into a scary red.
Environment
Bangkok prepares to flood
Mayor of Bangkok Sukhumbhand Paribatra late October 23 has warned that capital residents are prepared to deal with the cataclysm when flood water from the suburbs is mov…
Environment
Thailand: Floods cause hundreds of factories to close, hospitals evacuate
Nearly 200 factories in central Thailand province were closed; hospitals in northern Bangkok must evacuate hundreds of patients; Prime Minister Yingluck had to postpone…
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Thailand: 100 wild crocodiles in the flood
The Bangkok Post newspaper on October 11 reports from the Thai Wildlife and Plant Conservation Service that about 100 crocodiles, reared on a farm in the province of Uth…