Floods encircle Bangkok industrial estates
BANGKOK (Reuters) - Floodwater encircled two industrial estates in the east of Bangkok on Monday and closed in on the center of the capital, disrupting bus services, although mass transit train systems were still running and commercial districts remained dry.
Waterlogged Thailand will struggle to prevent future floods
BANGKOK (Reuters) - As waterlogged Thailand struggles to contain the worst floods in decades, it faces a simple truth: not a whole lot can be done to avoid a repeat disaster in the short term even with a new multi-billion dollar water-management policy.
Thai floods claim more factories, Bangkok safe for now
BANGKOK (Reuters) - Floods in Thailand engulfed another industrial estate Sunday but the capital, Bangkok, appears for now to have escaped the devastation seen elsewhere in the country despite heavy monsoon rain and water streaming toward it from the north.