Advertise Here While almost one-third of Thailand was inundated with floodwaters, the number of dengue fever cases fell by around 36 percent. The Thai health department said that the floods, which killed more than 800 people, are believed to have interrupted the breeding cycle of the mosquito that carries the disease. Dengue cases in Thailand [...]
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Thailand’s Department of Disaster Prevention and Mitigation (DPMD) has warned five of Thailand’s southern provinces to prepare for the possibility of flash flooding. “Heavy rain are forecast for eight southern provinces between January 6 and January 10,” DPDM director general Wiboon Sanguanpong said yesterday. Thailand has been gripped by floods for almost half of 2011, [...]
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The UK’s Foreign Office has advised holidaymakers to take extra precautions when travelling to the southern parts of Thailand. Thailand’s south is besieged by floodwaters. Thailand has already been hit by about six months worth of floods due to excessive rainfall that has left almost one-third of the country underwater. Recent torrential rainfall in the [...]
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Bangkok’s Governor and head of Bangkok’s flood relief efforts, Sukhumbhand Paribatra, has declared that flooding in the Thai capital has complete receded. Bangkok’s Governor Sukhumbhand Paribatra declares Bangkok dry. He also said that officials from the Bangkok Metropolitan Authority (BMA) had removed 644,788 tonnes of garbage leftover from the floods from October 15 until now. Garbage [...]
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352 flood victims have submitted their petition to the Central Administrative Court to request the government to pay compensation for the actual damage incurred to their property during this year’s flood crisis. Thai PM Yingluck Shinawatra (left) and BMA Chief Sukhumbhand Paribatra have been named in a lawsuit by 352 flood victims. Individuals named in [...]
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Thailand’s PM Yingluck Shinawatra believes Bangkok will be free of floods by the start of 2012. If Thailand’s Prime Minister, Yingluck Shinawatra, is correct, Bangkok will receive the best New Year’s present that it could possibly receive – a dry start to 2012. The Thai PM announced earlier this week that Bangkok would be [...]
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Travellers to Thailand can rest assured knowing that the remaining amount of runoff, from the country’s worst flooding in almost 60 years, poses no threat to Bangkok. Flooding in the city, which is home to roughly 12 million citizens, is now confined to mostly a few rice paddy fields and grassy areas in the western [...]
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After almost one month, Vietnamese tourists are allowed to join tour groups to Thailand following the country’s worst floods in almost 60 years and killed more than 600 people. Vietnamese tour groups have commenced to Thailand for the first time in almost one month. All tour groups from Vietnam were cancelled at the end of [...]
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Current Situation: Flood waters have receded in most of the affected areas of Thailand’s central region and cleanup operations have taken place. Central Bangkok has remained dry. Flood waters are receding in many of the outlying districts of greater Bangkok. State Railway of Thailand (SRT) and inter-provincial bus services are now operating as per normal. [...]
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As floodwaters slowly disperse from Bangkok, a sprawling metropolis that is home to a population of 12 million or so, some interesting finds have been left behind following the Thailand’s worst floods in almost 60 years. In flood-affected areas of the outer north of Bangkok, primarily residential districts throughout the province of Nonthaburi, special teams [...]
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