Flights to and from Chiang Rai suspended due to severe flooding
Five airlines have suspended all flights to Chiang Rai international airport, as the province copes with the most severe flooding for decades.
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Five airlines have suspended all flights to Chiang Rai international airport, as the province copes with the most severe flooding for decades.
Manpower, equipment and relief supplies from various sources have been arriving in Chiang Rai province to help flood victims, many of whom remain stranded in their homes by the worst flooding for three decades.
The coach of the young Thai football team that captured the world's attention when they spent nearly three weeks trapped in a cave has found himself in another watery predicament - stuck on his roof by flash floods.
A joint effort by Thai netizens has led to the safe rescue of a 86-year-old man, who had become stranded on the roof of his flooded house in Chiang Rai province for 18 hours.
Mae Sai district’s most famous cave, Tham Luang-Khun Nam Nang Non, is currently facing its worst flooding in 13 years, after the mountain range was lashed by torrential rain, measured at 263mm yesterday alone.
Two people died in mud slides in Mae Ai district of Chiang Mai last night and four are still missing following torrential rainfall, leading to the worst flooding in the district for three decades.
A century-old sacred fig tree in the middle of a highway in Chiang Mai’s Muang district has again become the centre of controversy, despite a court order to relocate it.
Legal veteran Nipit Intarasombut will represent a female Thai doctor in the Appeals Court, following the Phuket Provincial Court’s acquittal of a Swiss man charged with assaulting her.
The body of a female Belgian tourist, who had been reported missing from her resort in Pai District of Thailand’s northernmost province of Mae Hong Son on Friday evening, was found in a stream this afternoon.
The Labour Protection Network (LPN), a non-profit foundation for the promotion of labour quality, has expressed serious concern over the closure of a learning centre for Burmese children in Surat Thani province by the provincial educational office, following the posting of a video clip on social media of the children there singing the Thai and Myanmar national anthems.
Fisheries Department officials organized a campaign to catch Blackchin tilapia fish in a canal in Phra Samut Chedi district of Samut Prakan today. They are allowing fishermen to use push nets in 19 provinces where the non-indigenous species is spreading.
A class action lawsuit was filed today with the Bangkok South Civil Court, by a group of fishermen and fish farmers in Samut Sakhon province, against Charoen Pokphand Foods Company (CPF). The plaintiffs are demanding 2.5 billion baht in compensation for the damage caused since 2017 to their fish farms and natural watercourses in the country by Blackchin tilapia, a non-indigenous species of fish.