Bangkok Floods

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  Flooding In Bangkok District Blamed On Monitor Lizard: Report

  The monitor lizard disrupted a large water pump leaving it unable to pump flood water away during the heavy rains.

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  Mud Baths And Faceplants, Bulls Run Thai Style

  Languidly ploughing flooded paddy-fields, Thailand's buffaloes don't usually strike people as the quickest of beasts. But farmers in eastern Thailand today showed off their fastest bovines in a unique, muddy speed test.

• Thai Forces out to Stifle Unrest After Army Chief Sets Election Plan

  Thai police and soldiers flooded downtown Bangkok on Saturday to pre-empt further protests against a May 22 coup after the army chief said a return to democracy would take more than a year.

• Thai PM calls elections as 100,000 join protests Bangkok

  Thailand's premier called a snap election Monday to try to defuse the kingdom's political crisis but protesters kept up their fight to topple her government with an estimated 100,000 demonstrators flooding the streets of Bangkok.

• Typhoon leaves 74 missing in China As Thailand, Vietnam brace for floods

  Seventy-four Chinese fishermen were missing on Monday after a typhoon sunk three fishing boats in the South China Sea as Thailand and Vietnam braced for torrential rain and flooding.

• Uttarakhand: Thailand donates $100,000 for flood relief

  Thailand on Thursday extended financial assistance of $100,000 towards India's flood relief and rehabilitation.

• Bangkok swelters, sparks debate on city planning in Asia

  Five months after the worst floods in half a century, the Thai capital is facing a heatwave with temperatures at three-decade highs, stoking debate over chaotic urban planning that blights many of Southeast Asia's overcrowded capitals.

• Honda sees sharp drop in profit on Thai floods

  Battered by the strong yen and Thailand's floods, Honda's net earnings tumbled 41 per cent to 47.6 billion yen.

• Thailand flooding damages its ancient capital

  Water fowl, monitor lizards and stray dogs have replaced the throngs of tourists at one of Thailand's greatest historical sites. Record flooding has turned Ayutthaya's ancient temples into islands, and a giant statue of the reclining Buddha appears to float miraculously on the lapping water.

• Despite floods, Thailand celebrates moon festival

  Every year when the moon is full and the rainy season draws to an end, Thailand's waterways fill with millions of floating lotus-shaped lanterns - a symbolic, centuries-old gesture once meant to placate the country's goddess of water.

• Death toll from Thailand floods rises past 500

  The nationwide death toll from flooding in Thailand climbed past 500 on Sunday, as the polluted black water continued its march through northern Bangkok, pouring across major intersections and a road underneath the capital's elevated train line.

• Bangkok flood defenses hold off peak coastal tides

  Defenses shielding the center of Thailand's capital from the nation's worst floods in nearly 60 years mostly held at critical peak tides on Saturday, as the waters began to recede after killing almost 400 people. But the threat to central Bangkok was not over, the prime minister said, and the city's northern districts remained submerged along with ...

• Bangkok flood defenses put to test amid high tides

  Floods engulfing parts of Bangkok should start to recede in the first week of November, the prime minister said on Saturday after barriers along the swollen main river prevented a disastrous overflow.

• Thai Prime Minister admits government cannot control floods

  Clambering aboard bamboo rafts and army trucks, residents fled waterlogged homes on the outskirts of Thailand's capital on Thursday as floods that have engulfed a third of the country inched closer to downtown areas and foreign governments urged their citizens to avoid unessential travel to the threatened city.

• Government warns, thousands evacuate flood-surrounded Bangkok

  Residents poured out of the Thai capital by bus, plane and train on Thursday, heeding government warnings to use a special five-day holiday to evacuate parts of the flood-threatened metropolis before a weekend deluge rushes through.