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Department of Mineral Resources warns of landslides
News, Post Reporters, Published on 08/01/2026
» The Department of Mineral Resources (DMR) has issued an alert identifying Satun, Phatthalung, and Songkhla as high-risk provinces for landslides and flash floods due to heavy rainfall. The warning was issued by the Environmental Geology Division, under the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment.
Daughter seeks justice over flood compensation gap
News, Post Reporters, Published on 06/12/2025
» A grieving daughter has appealed for justice after receiving only 50,000 baht in compensation for the death of her father, who was killed while rescuing residents during flash floods in Mae Sai district of Chiang Rai last year -- a sum far lower than that offered to victims of the recent southern floods.
Sad litany of flood missteps
News, Mongkol Bangprapa and Apinya Wipatayotin, Published on 30/11/2025
» Entrenched patronage networks, political meddling in appointments, and a lack of professional disaster-management leadership created a cascade of preventable failures in the catastrophic flooding that tore apart Songkhla's Hat Yai district, a major economic engine of the South, according to academics.
Greater Bangkok 'faces higher risk of floods'
News, Post Reporters, Published on 10/11/2025
» Bangkok, along with some parts of Pathum Thani and Nonthaburi provinces, face higher risk of floods over the next several days as authorities increased the water discharge rate of the Chao Phraya Barrage in Chai Nat in the wake of recent rainfall, warned the Geo-Informatics and Space Technology Development Agency (Gistda).
Heavy rain causes floods, landslide blocks hill road on Phuket
News, Achadthaya Chuenniran, Published on 22/10/2025
» PHUKET – Persistent heavy rain caused flash floods and toppled trees and power poles on Wednesday, and caused a landslide on Patong hill that will close the road for three days.
Torrential rain warning for 8 southern provinces
News, Online Reporters, Published on 21/10/2025
» People in eight southern provinces are warned to prepare for torrential rain from Thursday to Sunday with possible flooding, forest runoff and landslides.
Thailand’s South warned of torrential rain next week
News, Online Reporters, Published on 18/10/2025
» People living in southern Thailand have been warned to prepare for possibly torrential rain that will come with a risk of flash floods, forest runoff and landslides, expected from Tuesday to Saturday next week.
President Trump is losing his geo-economic war
News, Harold James, Published on 16/10/2025
» In an age of shifting geopolitics, many countries' strategic planning includes imaginative exercises in weaponising their positions in the world. While Russia and China have been moderately successful at this game, America's efforts have already boomeranged back on it.
Border tactics need review
News, Editorial, Published on 14/10/2025
» The war of words between controversial activist Guntouch "Gun Jompalang" Pongpaiboonwet and Senator Angkhana Neelapaijit reflects the flaws in the army's handling of the simmering border conflict with Cambodia.
City defences make 2011 flood warnings 'obsolete'
News, Supoj Wancharoen, Published on 08/10/2025
» The Bangkok Metropolitan Administration has confirmed the city is fully prepared for rising water levels, insisting there will be no repeat of the 2011 catastrophic floods.