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The death toll from the worst floods in decades in southern Thailand and northern Malaysia climbed to at least 12 on Saturday, authorities said, as tens of thousands of people were evacuated due ...
At least 13 people died and tens of thousands evacuated in one of the worst floods in decades to batter southern Thailand and northern Malaysia.. The floods have impacted nearly 534,000 households ...
Major rubber plantations in southern Thailand provide a large portion of the nation's rubber supply. As a result of the floods, the estimated production for 2016–2017 was 10% lower. [citation needed] The continuous floods and persistent rain ruined close to 1 million rai of cropland. Over 990,000 rai were for planting crops, 39,000 rai for ...
At least 53 people died and almost nine million people were affected by the floods after localized heavy rains. [3] The flooding affected 50 of Thailand's 76 provinces. [6] Close to 160,000 ha (400,000 acres) of land were submerged. [2] Around 5,000 households were evacuated, [7] in addition to hundreds of tourists.
Seven people, including four children, died Monday when strong winds from a rainstorm caused a metal roof on a school’s activity center to collapse in northern Thailand, officials said Tuesday.
Flooding has hit 48 of Thailand's 77 provinces, with the death toll rising by three to 107 people, the Department of Disaster Prevention and Mitigation said in a statement today. The waters have impacted a tenth of the country's 66 million people and damaged more than 3 percent of total agricultural land. [29]
Breaking this cycle was the subject of the "Sustainable Water Management Forum 2016" in Bangkok. The event hosted water management specialists from countries which have dealt with water management challenges such as the Netherlands, Israel, and Singapore. One attendee observed that, "In Thailand, we receive around 754,000 million m 3 of rain ...
Beginning on 14 December 2014, a series of floods from the northeast monsoon hit Indonesia, [11] West Malaysia, Southern Thailand, and later Sri Lanka in South Asia. More than 100,000 people were evacuated in Indonesia, 200,000 in Malaysia, and several thousand in Thailand. [12] Floods also affected 1,100,000 in Sri Lanka. [13]