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All the Thai tourists stranded on Mount Rinjani on Lombok island of Indonesia which was hit by a powerful earthquake on Sunday have been brought out to safety, Thai Ambassador to Jakarta Songphol Sukchan confirmed tonight. Ambassador Songphol told Thai PBS in a phone interview that embassy officials are working with Indonesian officials to look
Prime Minister Hun Sen’s Cambodian People’s Party claimed today it has won all the 125 seats in the general election held yesterday. Party spokesman Sok Eysan said that based on the results shared by the National Election Commission, none of the other 19 parties has won a single seat. “The CPP won 77.5 percent of
Hydro and Agro Informatics Institute and other water-related agencies have expressed concern that the increased discharge of water from Nam Ngum 5 dam in Laos will accelerate rising water in the Mekong river which may worsen flooding in northeastern provinces along the river. The Nam Ngum 5 Company which operates the dam on Sunday
Indonesian rescuers are racing against time to evacuate more than 560 people, including many Thai tourists, from Mount Rinjani on Lombok after a 6.4-magnitude quake struck the island in West Nusa Tenggara province Sunday morning. The quake has already claimed 16 lives, according to disaster agency officials cited by news service Antara. Indonesian media reported
At least 216 Thai tourists who were stranded on Mount Rinjani on Lombok island of Indonesia which was hit by a powerful earthquake on Sunday have been brought down to safety while another 100 more were being rescued, Foreign Ministry’s Spokesperson Bussadee Santipitak said this evening. She said all the Thai tourists were in high
The amount of cash donations made through government’s bank account for victims of the dam disaster in Attapeu and Champassak provinces of southern Laos has surpassed 32 million baht, Prime Minister’s Office deputy permanent secretary Sompas Nilphan said on Monday (July 30). He said that after the government opened its Krungthai Bank savings account No
Cambodia’s ruling Cambodian People’s Party (CPP) claimed on Sunday that it had won a general election that rights groups said was neither free nor fair due to voter intimidation and the absence of any significant challenger to Prime Minister Hun Sen, according to Reuter. With no real opposition to speak of, Hun Sen was widely
Monsoon floods have affected nearly 100,000 people and killed at least 10 across Karen and Mon states and Bago Region in southern Myanmar, according to government media reports today. According to the Karen State government, two children and a man died after they abandoned their home in search of shelter and their boat capsized, the
The Laotian Government will work with Thailand and South Korea whose companies are stakeholders in the Xe-Pian Xe-Namnoy hydropower project to investigate the cause of the collapse of its saddle dam, Prime Minister Thongloun Sisoulith announced today, according to Vientiane Times. The 410 MW capacity hydro plant is a joint venture between SK Engineering and
Indonesian rescue workers have reached Thai tourists trapped at four locations around Mount Rinjani volcano on Lombok island, according to a report from the Thai Embassy in Jakarta. The embassy said in its Facebook page that four groups of Thai tourists at Bayan (north Lombok), Sembalun, Sambelia and Brang Rea (east Lombok) had been located
Despite calls for a boycott, the just-concluded general election in Cambodia saw a turnout as high as 80.49 per cent, the National Election Commission (NEC) said. It said the turnout was even higher than the 69 per cent turnout in the last election five years ago. Sik Bun Hok, chairman of NEC described the high
The Thai embassy in Jakarta, Indonesia, has been instructed to expedite its coordination with Indonesian authorities to help the 304 Thai people trapped at the camping site near Lake Rinjani in Lombok, Foreign Minister Don Pramudwinai said on Monday (July 30). Mr Don said the number of Thai tourists registered as being stranded at the
