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Killer Asia floods swallow children who can’t swim

BANGKOK, Thailand (AP) — It took only a second for the murky floodwaters swamping parts of Asia to swallow Nguyen Phuoc Hien’s baby. His 3-year-old daughter had been playing happily while her aunt studied, but somehow, the girl slipped quietly outside the family home deep in Vietnam’s southern Mekong Delta.
When Hien’s [...]

Read More » No commentOctober 27, 2011

Bangkok governor to city: Prepare for floods

BANGKOK (AP) — The governor of Bangkok issued a dramatic warning to residents of the Thai capital to prepare for floodwaters to roll deeper into the city from suburban areas already choking under the deluge.
In live televised remarks late Sunday, Gov. Sukhumbhand Paribatra said a massive amount of water has moved [...]

Read More » No commentOctober 25, 2011

Thailand counting cost as flood seeps into Bangkok

BANGKOK (AP) — Floodwaters that have devastated Thailand’s industry and agriculture seeped into outer Bangkok on Friday as the crowded capital’s residents braced for the impact, uncertain if they will soon be hopping over puddles or fording waist-high streams just outside their windows.
Thailand’s prime minister urged residents of the city of [...]

Read More » No commentOctober 22, 2011

Floodwaters spill into northern Bangkok

Millions of nervous Bangkok residents were warned Friday to move their belongings to safety as the kingdom’s worst floods in decades poured into the outskirts of the sprawling city.
In a desperate attempt to drain the mass of muddy water, the authorities have opened all of Bangkok’s sluice gates to allow the [...]

Read More » No commentOctober 22, 2011

Thai PM warns Bangkok to brace for flooding

Thailand’s premier warned Thursday that it was impossible to stop the kingdom’s worst floods in decades gushing into Bangkok, ordering the city’s sluice gates to be opened to tackle the “national crisis”.
The mass of muddy water crept closer to the low-lying capital, home to 12 million people, triggering an exodus in flood-stricken areas [...]

Read More » No commentOctober 21, 2011

Flooding fears loom large for Bangkok residents

BANGKOK (AP) — The threat has loomed large over this giant metropolis for weeks: Floodwaters could rapidly swamp glitzy downtown Bangkok, ruining treasured ancient palaces and chic boutiques on skyscraper-lined avenues in the heart of the Thai economy.
The floods haven’t come, but the sense of imminent doom is growing by [...]

Read More » No commentOctober 21, 2011

Bangkok residents told to prepare for flood

BANGKOK (AP) — Flooding that has inundated much of Thailand’s agricultural heartland, paralyzed hundreds of factories and threatened to burst into the capital has also decimated confidence in the government that took power in August.
Bangkok’s city government on Wednesday urged residents in seven northern districts of the city to move [...]

Read More » No commentOctober 19, 2011

Facing flood, oldest Thai factory park evacuated

BANGKOK (AP) — Thai authorities have ordered the immediate evacuation of the country’s oldest industrial park after floodwaters breached its defenses and threatened to inundate the factories inside.
The Flood Relief Operation Center ordered all factories at the Nava Nakorn industrial estate north of Bangkok to halt work and prepare their workers for evacuation.
The order was issued in a live television [...]

Read More » No commentOctober 17, 2011

Flood threat to Thai capital eases

The flood threat to Thailand’s capital appeared to have eased on Monday but officials warned the crisis was not over as military andcivilian authorities battled the worst inundations in decades.
Three months of heavy monsoon rains have deluged around one in three provinces in central and northern Thailand, causing floods several metres deep in places and leaving around [...]

Read More » No commentOctober 17, 2011

Flood barriers hold firm in shielding Bangkok

BANGKOK (AP) — Barriers protecting Bangkok from Thailand’s worst floods in half a century held firm Sunday as the government said some water drenching provinces just north of the capital has begun receding.
That fueled hopes that Bangkok, a city of 9 million, could escape unharmed. But outside the capital, thousands [...]

Read More » No commentOctober 17, 2011