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The Disaster Prevention and Mitigation Department has issued a warning for 15 provinces, five each in the North, Central and South, to beware of flash floods and landslides, department chief Chayapol Thitisak said this morning. Mr Chayapol said continuous intensive rains and accumulated rainwater make these provinces vulnerable to being hit with flash floods and landslides. The
More Thai rescue teams have arrived in Laos to help with the efforts to search for 120 people still missing in Sanamxay district of Attapeu province after the partial collapse of the Xe-PianXe-Namnoy hydropower last week triggered a devastating flood. Vientiane Times quoted officials of the committee in charge of the rescue mission as saying
The Thai Embassy in London has submitted a request to the Foreign and Common Weath Office of the British government for the extradition of fugitive former prime minister Yingluck Shinawatra to serve her five-year jail term handed down by the Supreme Court’s Criminal Division for Persons Holding Political Positions in connection with her government’s rice-pledging
The Fiscal Policy Office has been instructed to hold discussions with the Commerce Ministry and the private sector about the Finance Ministry’s plan to introduce the so-called “Sharing Economy” concept to help skilled workers earn more income and also to help train the unskilled so they have a means to make a living. Finance Minister Apisak
A main road connecting Chiang Saen and Chiang Khong district along the Mekong River in Chiang Rai was briefly blocked by fallen earth and rocks in a landslide early this morning, Chiang Khong district chief Tassanai Suthapoj said. Mr Tassanai said the road was temporarily closed to traffic by the landslide which occurred near Ban
The first group of Thai tourists safely rescued from Mount Rinjani on Lombok island yesterday are on their way back to Thailand this morning. A post on the Facebook page of the Thai Embassy in Jakarta said that Thai Ambassador Songphol Sukchan sent off a group 29 Thais back to Bangkok at 7 am
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 Thai Navy SEAL today released a video clip showing what its divers had to encounter while diving from the so-called Chamber 3 of Tham Luang Khun Nam-Nang Non cave to Nern Nomsao, a ledge deep inside the cave where the 12 Wild Boars (Moo Pa) boys and their football coach had taken shelter while
About 60 families in Ban Huay Kharb, Nan’s Bo Klua district which was hit by a landslide over the weekend have agreed to be resettled to a new location after they were told that their present settlement is unsafe and at risk of being struck by another deadly landslide. Eight members of a family in
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
