Floods In Bangkok

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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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• Thailand floods: Bangkok in 'crisis mode', second airport shuts down

  Bangkok's second airport shut down today as floodwaters advanced into the Thai capital, forcing authorities in "crisis mode" to declare a five-day public holiday in preparation for the deluge.

• Thailand floods: Indian embassy asks people to take caution

  With floods hitting several northern parts of Thailand and threatening Bangkok, the Indian mission in the capital has advised visitors from the country to make sure they ascertain the ground situation before venturing out.The advisory for Indians has come at a time when the country is witnessing its worst flooding in years and Bangkok is on alert d...