Disasters and emergency response

Engineers have warned that Thailand will remain trapped in a cycle of flooding unless the government expands natural catchment areas, raises flood embankments and builds more underground drainage systems.The Council of Engineers Thailand (CoE) and the Engineering Institute of Thailand (EIT) yesterday proposed solutions to ...

The Ministry of Industry announced measures to provide immediate assistance to entrepreneurs being affected by tropical storm Podul. The recent flooding has damaged more than 380 entrepreneurs, causing them more than 133 million baht collectively.Keep warching ...

Floods remain in seven provinces and heavy rain is forecast to continue due to the influence of departing storm Kajiki.Chayaphol Thitisak, director-general of the Department of Disaster Prevention and Mitigation, on Wednesday reported flooding in Amnat Charoen, Khon Kaen, Phichit, Phitsanulok, Roi Et, Ubon Ratchathani ...

The government has insisted that it is capable of addressing the flood situation in the country in a timely manner and prepared a compensation plan.Keep watching ...

The Mekong River basin was identified as a major disaster risk hotspot by the United Nations today.Poor people living close to the river suffer high exposure to flood and drought, according to a report released today. A UN official also called for the nations in ...

Latest UN report also warns ‭Thais living in the northeast are vulnerable. The relentless sequence of natural disasters in Asia and the Pacific in the past two years was beyond what the region had previously experienced or was able to predict, and this is a ...

The Cabinet greenlit a central budget for tackling drought, while the Royal Irrigation Department is confident that there is enough water for the production of tap water.Keep watching ...

The authorities in 12 provinces have been instructed to arrange manpower and equipment to tackle possible floods and landslides until August 20.Department of Disaster Prevention and Mitigation director-general Chayaphol Thitisak said the alert orders were issued because of heavy downpours in the North, the Central ...

Irrigation authorities will stop supplying water to farms in irrigated areas from Aug 24 as the Lam Sae reservoir in Khon Buri district is just 21% full and starting to dry up.District chief Wichit Kitwirat and Somsak Thaploka, director of the Lam Sae operation and ...

Damage from drought has reached an estimated Bt3 billion in the Northeast, according to report of the Office of Agricultural Economics (OAE), while more than 800,000 rai (128,000 hectares) of farmland countrywide are thoroughly uncultivable and 10 million rai of crops will be dead standing.Keep ...