USAID to join Thai flood relief operation

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BANGKOK, October 10 (TNA) - US Ambassador to Thailand Kristie Kenney has said the US Agency for International Development (USAID) will join Thai authorities this week in providing flood assistance.

Thai troops, police fully assist flood victims

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BANGKOK, October 10 (TNA) - Thai troops and police have been actively assisting people in flood-hit areas across the country, as the flood victims have been urged to abandon their houses and assets

About 200 plants in Ayutthaya inundated

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BANGKOK, October 9 (TNA) - Despite an enlargement of water barriers to keep floodwater away, a total of 198 industrial plants located within the Rojana Industrial Estate compound in Ayutthaya Provi

Thais, Cambodians offer alms to monks

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BANGKOK, October 9 (TNA) - More than 10,000 Thais and Cambodians on Sunday braved a heavy rain and offered alms to Buddhist monks from the two neighbouring countries near a Thai-Cambodian border vi

Thai PM orders water draining into sea

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BANGKOK, October 8 (TNA) - Thai Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra has ordered agencies concerned, including the military, to speed up discharging floodwater into the sea within 10 days.

Thai government offers loans to first-time house owners

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BANGKOK, October 8 (TNA) - Thailand’s Government Housing Bank (GHB) will start providing loans with low interest rates to local first-time house owners from October 11, 2011 until September 30, 201

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