Signal: Thailand flood Oct. 2010
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Rice production hit by Thailand floods

Thailand’s government approved a 2.9 billion baht ($97 million) special budget to help victims of the nation’s worst flooding in five decades, as authorities in Bangkok worked to strengthen the city’s defenses. The government will give 5,000 baht to each family in some of the worst-hit areas as part of its wider relief effort, Prime [...]

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57 dead, 3 million affected in Thailand floods

Over three million people have been affected after heavy downpours caused riverbanks to burst, sparking the worst floods in decades.Homes and hospitals have been swamped with water and there have been reports of roads and railways being cut off in the northern province of Lopburi.Bangkok has not been seriously affected yet but flood-barriers and pumps [...]