Plan B for South power

Protesters of a coal-fired power plant for Krabi sit outside Government House. They dispersed on Sunday after the government agreed to delay the project again and do a new environmental and health assessment study.

No train services south of Prachuap Khiri Khan

With a section of the rail track between Bang Saphan Yai and Cha Muang railway stations in Prachuap Khiri Khan province flooded and impassable, the State Railway of Thailand has suspended most southern rail services. The announcement was made by the SRT’s public relations office on Facebook on Tuesday.

Nearly 1 million swamped by relentless southern deluge

FLOODING in lower Thailand has now expanded to leave 10 of the 15 southern provinces inundated, affecting nearly a million people and claiming 11 lives, according to the Interior Ministry’s Disaster Prevention and Mitigation Department. And eight provinces Phetchaburi, Prachuap Khiri Khan, Chumphon, Surat Thani, Nakhon Si Thammarat, Phatthalung, Ranong and Phang Nga face more heavy rain until today.