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Flooding hits Chiang Rai’s border markets, villages
Online Reporters, Published on 18/08/2024
» CHIANG RAI: The Sai River overflowed into border markets and communities in Mae Sai district late Saturday night due to heavy rains and deluges of water from Myanmar's Shan State.
Weather office says La Nina already under way
Apinya Wipatayotin, Published on 08/08/2024
» The La Nina climate pattern has begun affecting local weather, according to the Thai Meteorological Department. Although there is heavy rainfall in some areas, officials say water volume in the reservoirs of major dams may not be sufficient to meet requirements during the dry season that runs from November to April.
Satellite images show floods swamping 5 provinces
Apinya Wipatayotin, Published on 19/07/2024
» Satellite images have shown extensive flooding across Phetchabun, Chaiyaphum, Phitsanulok, Maha Sarakham and Khon Kaen provinces, according to the Geo-Informatics and Space Technology Development Agency (Gistda).
Royal beneficence in Nong Ung
News, Published on 16/07/2024
» Twenty-four years ago, thousands of local villagers living in the seasonally flooded lower part of tambon Kho Nua in Muang district of Yasothon province learned that their lives would change for the better after His Majesty King Maha Vajiralongkorn Phra Vajiraklaochaoyuhua, then the Crown Prince, visited them in the year 2000.
Flood risk 'low' as La Nina looms
News, Apinya Wipatayotin, Published on 18/06/2024
» The more intense rain forecast to come in the next few weeks as a result of the La Nina phenomenon won't cause a repeat of the major floods of 2011, according to the Office of the National Water Resources (ONWR).
Dam water to help farmers with second rice crop
News, Apinya Wipatayotin, Published on 12/10/2023
» The Ministry of Agriculture and Cooperatives plans to release stored water from dams to help farmers with their second rice crop plantation due to higher than expected amounts of rainfall this year.
Srettha defends wallet scheme
News, Post Reporters, Published on 08/10/2023
» Prime Minister Srettha Thavisin has brushed aside critics of the government's planned 10,000-baht digital wallet handout scheme, saying only a small number of people have spoken out against it.
Srettha embarks on flood-monitoring mission
News, Post Reporters, Published on 06/10/2023
» Prime Minister Srettha Thavisin will visit flood victims in Ubon Ratchathani, Yasothon and Roi Et on Friday, where the extent of the damage is still being assessed and assistance measures devised.
Usable water down in Northeast dams
News, Post Reporters, Published on 12/06/2023
» The volume of usable water in Khon Kaen's Ubolratana Dam has dropped by 11% due to the insufficient number of wastewater treatment plants that could process runoff discharged by the agriculture and industrial sectors in the region, according to the Office of National Water Resources (ONWR).
Govt still 'unprepared' for floods
News, Pratch Rujivanarom, Published on 14/11/2022
» The government's management of the recent floods shows it is unprepared to cope with the looming threats from the climate crisis, experts say.