An armed Thai police officer, center, aims his rubber bullet rifle as medical team carry a injured person on a stretcher during a clash between police force and anti-government protesters Tuesday, Feb. 18, 2014 in Bangkok, Thailand. Clashes between police and anti-government demonstrators in Bangkok left two people dead and 57 others injured Tuesday as riot police attempted to clear out protest camps around the Thai capital. (AP Photo/Apichart Weerawong)
Thai anti-government protesters wave national flags as they march through the streets of Bangkok. (Getty)
Thai riot policemen collect tear gas from anti-government protesters during demonstration at Governement House during a demonstration in Bangkok on December 1, 2013. (AFP Photo / Pornchai Kittiwongsakul)
Anti-government protesters rest under the picture of Thailand’s King Bhumibol Adulyadej at the entrance of a building of the Finance Ministry after occupying it in Bangkok November 25, 2013. REUTERS-Damir Sagolj
This general view shows the beach along the coast of the Thai holiday resort of Pattaya, on September 22, 2006 (AFP/File, Indranil Mukherjee)
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Published: 6 Oct 2013 at 11.18
SOURCE – About two million people in 27 provinces are still being affected by flooding, the Disaster Prevention and Mitigation Department reported on Sunday.
The death toll from the floods had risen to 31 as of Sunday morning, the department said.
Chanthaburi, Chon Buri and Khon Kaen provinces have recently been hit by flooding, but the situation had eased in Kanchanaburi, Prachuap Khiri Khan, Chumphon, Kalasin, Nakhon Ratchasima, Phayao, Mae Hong Son, Lampang and Mukdahan.
According to the department, the Pasak Jolasid dam was holding 1.04 billion cubic metres of water and was discharging 60.5 million cubic metres of water every three hours.
Water levels in the Chao Phraya river in the eastern part of Ayutthaya’s Phra Nakhon Si Ayutthaya district had risen by five to eight centimetres.
In Ayutthaya’s Tha Rua district, water levels continued to rise and 55 villages had been hit by floods.
In Ayutthaya’s Nakhon Luang district, water levels in the Pasak river increased to 7.54 metres, about 0.76 metre higher than its banks.
Associated Press
BANGKOK – A Thai Airways Airbus 330-300 skidded off the runway while landing at Bangkok’s main airport after its landing gear malfunctioned, the airline said Monday. Thirteen people were injured while evacuating the plane.
After the accident, workers on a crane blacked out the Thai Airways logo on the tail and body of the aircraft, as part of an effort to protect the airline’s image according to Star Alliance guidelines, an official said. It was the second mishap in less than two weeks for Thailand’s national carrier.
The flight from Guangzhou, China, was carrying 288 passengers and 14 crew members.
“After touchdown at Suvarnabhumi Airport, the landing gear malfunctioned and caused the aircraft to skid off the runway,” Thai Airways President Sorajak Kasemsuvan said in a statement. “Sparks were noticed from the vicinity of the right landing gear near the engine; the matter is under investigation.”
Thai police is deployed to protect key government buildings, before planned anti-amnesty bill protests [REUTERS]
Brandishing Thai national flags as well as the yellow emblem of the country’s monarchy, demonstrators milled around restaurant carts and memorabilia stalls set up at the protest site in a central Bangkok park.
Thai soldiers and police officers at the scene of a bomb attack in Pattani province, southern Thailand Photo: EPA
The three local defence volunteers died after a bomb hidden in a pile of clothes exploded outside a restaurant in Pattani Town on Sunday lunchtime.
Another nine people were injured in the blast.
A coordinated campaign of terror started at 6pm local time on Saturday, when seven bombs were planted outside shops, supermarkets and a karaoke bar in Pattani Town, the capital of Pattani Province, one of the three southernmost provinces of Thailand with a Muslim majority population.
Bomb disposal experts defused five of the bombs. But further devices were detonated later that night and on Sunday, while a wave of arson attacks gutted shops in Pattani Town and targeted mobile phone towers, security cameras and local defence bases elsewhere in Pattani Province.
“Intelligence estimates suggest there were 50 coordinated attacks. We managed to prevent attacks in eight spots,” Police Major General Ekkaphob Prasitwattanachai told local media.
Shops in Pattani City were closed on Monday and streets deserted, as residents stayed indoors fearing more violence. The bombing and arson campaign is being regarded as revenge for the killing of 16 militants who attacked a marine base in Narathiwat Province last Wednesday. It was the deadliest day the insurgents have suffered in almost a decade.
Almost 5,400 people have died, and more than 9,500 have been injured, since the insurgency started in earnest in 2004.
Around 80 per cent of the 1.8 million people in the three southernmost provinces of Thailand – Pattani, Narathiwat and Yala -, that border Malaysia are ethnic Malay Muslims. Many regard the overwhelmingly Buddhist Thai state as a colonial power and want their own independent nation.
On Monday, deputy prime minister and deep south security chief Chalerm Yubamrung said he had been “forced” by Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra to agree to travel to the deep south next month. Mr Chalerm has been repeatedly criticised for his failure to visit the region during his 19 months in office.
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www.xfinity.comcast.net – Anti-government protesters in Bangkok, Thailand rally for the Prime Minister to step down. The protest was organized by a group called “Pitak Siam” or “Protect Thailand”. The groups leader accuses the administration of corruption.
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