Heavy rain and high tide cause flooding across Phuket
Phuket has come under high water after several hours of consecutive rainfall, combined with high tide, while drainage was unable to keep up.
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Phuket has come under high water after several hours of consecutive rainfall, combined with high tide, while drainage was unable to keep up.
The First Army Region explained today why its forces did not attack the Cambodian border town of Poipet last month, which is opposite Thailand’s Sa Kaeo province and is widely known to be a hub of casinos and scam call centres.
The value of the Thai coffee market has reached 65 billion baht so far in 2025, an 8.33% year-on-year increase, with room for new operators to enter.
The Thai Army is in urgent need of razor wire, to erect fences along the border with Cambodia, so it has sought donations from the public instead of using its own budget, the procedures for which take at least one month to complete, said Army spokesman Maj Gen Winthai Suvaree.
An express train, from Sungai Kolok province bound for Bangkok, partially derailed in Prachuap Khiri Khan this morning, injuring nine passengers.
A hospital in Ubon Ratchathani province appears to have softened its stance on the provision of services to Cambodian patients, apparently after being criticised for acting in breach of medical ethics.
At least nine people were killed, two seriously injured and many others hurt when a firecracker factory exploded today in Suphan Buri’s Muang district.
After a massive effort to dispose of a huge amount of mud, in the aftermath of the worst flooding for 30 years to hit Mae Sai district of Chiang Rai last September, the residents of this major trading post with Myanmar are now trying desperately to cope with another thick layer of mud in their houses, shops and on roads.
All hospitals in Nan province are still operational, though access to some of them is being hampered by flooding. They are prepared to evacuate more than 800 patients to nearby provinces, with the help of the military, if flooding worsens, Public Health Minister Somsak Thepsuthin said today.
Heavy rains have battered the northern province of Nan since late Tuesday afternoon and through the night, causing the water level in the Nan River to rise quickly, as Tropical Storm Wipha, which has been downgraded to a depression moved westward across Laos.
Nan Governor Chainarong Wongyai has ordered officials in 15 districts to prepare for the arrival of Tropical Storm Wipha, which made landfall in northern Vietnam this morning and is expected to hit Nan province late this afternoon.
Irrigation officials have increased the rate of discharge of water, into the Chao Phraya River through the Chao Phraya Dam in Chainat province, to 800m3/s, starting today, in anticipation of increased runoffs into the reservoir due to heavy rainfall brought by Tropical Storm Wipha.