Huge foreign donation made to Khao Kheow Open Zoo and Moo Deng
A Dubai businessman flew into Bangkok and donated about 5 million baht to support Khao Kheow Open Zoo and “Moo Deng”, a pygmy hippo that is currently enjoying worldwide fame.
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A Dubai businessman flew into Bangkok and donated about 5 million baht to support Khao Kheow Open Zoo and “Moo Deng”, a pygmy hippo that is currently enjoying worldwide fame.
A 71-year-old woman died in a hospital in Chiang Mai after the boat, which had been sent to rescue her and two others, capsized in deep floodwater.
Motorists are advised to avoid the Kesa Komon Bridge, in Bangkok’s Dusit district, after a section of the Nakhon Chaisri Road on the approach to the bridge caved in Sunday night, leaving a gaping hole about three metres deep, 10 metres long and five metres wide,.
Riverside residents in Nonthaburi are being advised to move their belongings to higher ground and to reinforce the sandbag floodwalls surrounding their houses and communities, in preparation for flooding.
About 30 people are stranded in a housing estate in Mueang district of Chiang Mai and have not eaten all day.
Efforts to save elephants from their heavily flooded sanctuaries in Chiang Mai province continue today.
Water in the Ping River at the Nawarat Bridge in Chiang Mai reached 5.25m at 5am this morning, the highest level for 50 years, submerging the downtown area again and making many roads impassable.
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More than 1,000 defence volunteers and emergency teams have been sent to Chiang Mai and Chiang Rai to help local officials cope with the second round of flooding within a month, currently wreaking havoc in Mae Sai and several other districts in the two northern provinces.
Residents of downtown Chiang Mai and outlying districts have been advised to prepare for worse flooding tonight and to move to safer ground, according to Chuchoke Aryupong, a water expert at Chiang Mai University.