nice, even a 5 years old could understand. I assume its nothing to do with the government(in the broadest sense)
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nice, even a 5 years old could understand. I assume its nothing to do with the government(in the broadest sense)
^Seems not. Their Facebook page (https://www.facebook.com/ROOSUFLOOD) says "Non-Profit Organization - Bangkok, Thailand"Quote:
Originally Posted by hazz
[Maybe posted before; if so, here it is again]
Information for flood donation
♦ Prime Minister's Office
Bank: Krung Thai Bank, Government House sub-branch
Account Name: PM's Office's Relief Fund for Flood Victims
Account Number: 067-0-06895-0
♦ The Thai Red Cross Society
Bank: Siam Commercial Bank, Thai Red Cross Society branch
Account Number: 045-3-04190-6
Fax deposite slip to: 02-250-0120
♦ Rajaprajanugroh Foundation
Bank: Siam Commercial Bank, Palace's Office sub-branch (Sanam Sua Pa)
Account Name: Rajaprachanugrah Foundation
Account Number: 401-636319-9
Bank: TMB Bank
Account Name: Rajaprachanugroh Foundation, Sanam Sua Pa branch
Account Number: 046-2-44777-2
Fax deposit slip to: 02-281-1423
♦ Public Health Ministry
Bank: Siam Commercial Bank
Account Name: Public Health Ministry for Flood Victims
Account Number: 340-2-11600-7
For more information, call 02-590-7104-5, 02-590-7196
People want to get back to work - The Nation
People want to get back to work
WANNAPA KHOAPA
THE NATION October 26, 2011 1:01 am
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Amid job insecurity, govt urged to provide occupational
Flood evacuees are calling on the government to help them to start their lives again.
They want to return to work as soon as possible, but still have no idea if their employers would let them do so. As a result, they want the government to discuss with businesses about guaranteeing their employment.
The flood victims have requested occupational training and compensation to rebuild their lives following the floods that have swept away their jobs and valuables.
The Nation yesterday talked to Sakuna Suriwongsa, 19, Thewee Chompom, 27, and Sakda Khun-ngiew, 26. The three had been evacuated from a submerged shelter inside Thammasat University, Rangsit campus to Rajamangala National Stadium in Bangkok.
They said they wanted to start working again but did not know if their employers would re-hire them.
Thewee is a bus conductor and her husband is a bus driver. Both had worked for a private bus firm in Pathum Thani for six months. Together with their three children and her mother, they were evacuated from their flooded homes two weeks ago.
"We don't know if our employer will hire us," Thewee said. "The only thing we want is that the government ensures we can return to the same job."
Prior to the flooding, Sakuna worked in a toy factory inside the Nava Nakorn Industrial Estate and was enrolled for college study.
"The factory has been damaged by floods. The employer has said he will allow me to work there again, but I'm not sure when it will be able to resume operations. My job is insecure," she said.
Sakuna said she had thoughts of taking up an additional job while waiting for the flood waters to recede. Occupational training would be a good idea: "It will help me and other evacuees ease our stress and we will have more skills and opportunities to earn money."
Sakda, a worker at a sling and wire factory, an inundated business at the same industrial estate, said he was not sure if the factory would reopen in under three months. He decided to apply to three new factories in Samut Prakan, Samut Sakhon and Rayong when officers from the Employment Department met him while taking shelter at Thammasat and suggested the vacant positions to him.
Sakda has not been paid, even though his wage was scheduled for transfer into his bank account on October 20. His belongings in his dormitory have gone under water. He does not have enough money to travel to any of those new factories, so he decided to move to the shelter at the stadium.
"Though the new factories provided me jobs, I cannot travel there as I don't have enough money. It would be good if the government gave each flood-affected worker Bt4,000-Bt5,000 to start their lives again. I would then be able to start working immediately," he added.
Kanokphan Julkasem, governor of the Sports Authority of Thailand (SAT) said yesterday about 2,000 evacuees would be taking shelter at the stadium.
TU has taken care of up to 3,800 evacuees and the stadium can help around 2,000 more, Decha Saweastsirorat, director of business and beverages department of SAT, said. Those who did not want to go back home could be sent to Supacharasai National Stadium in Bangkok, or other places in Chon Buri.
Decha said doctors and nurses had been stationed at the Rajamangala Stadium to screen people who are sick before separating them from other evacuees. Psychologists and health volunteers have also been recruited to give advice on easing stress and providing first aid.
TU deputy president Asst Prof Prinya Thaewanarumitkul said some evacuees at Thammasat, whose homes were near the university, refused to move as the campus was the most convenient place for them to return home to check their belongings. He insisted that tap water and electricity would be available for them to use during their stay at Thammasat.
^^^^^ Episode 2
รู้สู้ flood ep.2 : 3คำถามย[at]ดฮิต - YouTube
Uploaded by roosuflood on Oct 26, 2011
[I suggest non-Thai speakers watch full-screen on YouTube so as to follow the English subtitles]
^ Episode 3
รู้สู้ flood ep.3 : เตรียมตัวก่[at]นน้ำมาถึง - YouTube
Uploaded by roosuflood on Oct 27, 2011
My question is where are people doing no 2s. It's not as though there's any point flushing the Thhomas.
Is the title of this thread inviolate?
Why not change it given 20/20 hindsight. Thats what news wires do.
its a serious shortcoming of most peoples flood plans and one very good reason for getting out of bangkok.Quote:
Originally Posted by Koojo
In our case, we do not expect the shit tank to flood. but if it does, we have compost, large buckets, some beach powder and lime and somewhere to keep hight and private and away from our noses. but for those in condiminiums?
I say leave it as it is, it just adds to the numerous amusing quotes from Shinawatre politicians.Quote:
Originally Posted by The_Ghost_Of_The_Moog
Remember this one:
"I will solve traffic problems in Bangkok within 6 months....."?:smileylaughing::rofl:
actually it was 3 months :pQuote:
Originally Posted by Whiteshiva
Still looking for a political scapegoat during a natural disaster.
Pathetic.
How long ago was the election? I haven't seen a traffic jam in bangkok for a week or so.... promise kept I would say.Quote:
Originally Posted by Butterfly
allo earth ????Quote:
Originally Posted by hazzHow long ago was the election? I haven't seen a traffic jam in bangkok for a week or so.... promise kept I would say.Quote:
Originally Posted by Butterfly
He said it in 1995 when he became Deputy PM in the Banharn Silpa-Archa government.Quote:
Originally Posted by hazz
^^Should have used <humor> </humor> for the frenchman
^ ok better late than never
Thank you, Mr. Yongyuth. I always wanted a swimming pool, now I have the whole ground floor as an indoor pool.Quote:
Originally Posted by StrontiumDog
Now I just need a place for the in-laws, can I send them over to your place?
Oh sorry, should they just allow the water to stagnate and breed disease instead? The horror that you might be affected by this natural disaster.Quote:
Originally Posted by Fabian
A combination of Mai pen lai and Corruption are going to bite you in the bum eventually, in an urbanised delta swamp.
Lesson learned? Frankly, I doubt it.
Urbanised delta lowlands, indeed.Quote:
Originally Posted by sabang
Contemporary history has already shown us that nothing learned is being applied.
I shiver to be a clarion of doom and gloom, but I [and perhaps others] see nothing but the evolution of a perpetual lake throughout the greater basin. It ain't gonna get any better with each passing season. This, the broader region, once was easily the riches farming land in the kingdom. This verdancy is disappearing fast as soils are washed away or replaced by criss-crossing tarmac.
Chulalongkorn's future vision as to siwilai has already taken it's toll.
yes, I guess with those tags, it would have made your post hilarious :rolleyes:Quote:
Originally Posted by hazz
Thai PM says Bangkok may dodge flood disaster
Jason Szep and Apornrath Phoonphongphiphat
(Additional reporting by Martin Petty, Robert Birsel and Alan Raybould in BANGKOK and Noel Randewich in SAN FRANCISCO; Writing by Robert Birsel; Editing by Paul Tait)
Saturday October 29, 2011
BANGKOK (Reuters) - Receding floodwaters north of Bangkok have reduced the threat to the Thai capital, the prime minister said on Saturday, but high tides in the Gulf of Thailand will still test the city's flood defences.
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A man sits in a flooded neighborhood near the Chao Phraya river opposite Bangkok October 29, 2011.
(REUTERS/Sukree Sukplang)
"If things go on like this, we expect floodwater in Bangkok to recede within the first week of November," Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra said on national television.
Bangkok's main waterway, the Chao Phraya River, overflowed its banks in some areas on Saturday during unusually high tides in the Gulf of Thailand, about 20 km (12 miles) to the south. The high tides will last until Monday.
The city's normally bustling Chinatown was flooded, as were the streets around the glittering Grand Palace and Temple of the Reclining Buddha, areas usually thronged with tourists.
Buildings across Bangkok have been sand-bagged or walled off for protection. Many people have left their cars on motorway flyovers and elevated roads.
Many other residents have taken advantage of a special five-day holiday to flee the city. People left behind have stocked up on water, food, life jackets and even boats.
Thailand's worst floods in half a century have killed 381 people since July, wiped out a quarter of the main rice crop in the world's biggest rice exporter, forced up global prices of computer hard drives and caused delays in global auto production after destroying industrial estates.
The death toll rose overnight when a boat carrying a family of four capsized in strong wind, drowning the father, mother and eldest son in three-metre (10 feet) floodwater. Their 6-year-old daughter, the only one wearing a life vest, survived.
They had been ferrying their son from work in Ayutthaya, a province north of Bangkok inundated for nearly two months.
In Bangkok, prices of eggs have quadrupled as jittery residents stockpile staples. Many shelves in shops are empty but the government said flood victims would have enough bottled water, dairy products, pork and chicken.
Cash was also in heavy demand. The Bank of Thailand has repeated that there is enough money circulating to meet demand for three months following a crush of withdrawals. Nearly 400 bank branches have closed across the country due to the floods.
The floods have submerged 4 million acres (1.6 million hectares) of land, an area roughly the size of Kuwait or Swaziland, turning towns into urban reservoirs and submerging large stretches of countryside.
Yingluck said the ebbing flood in northern provinces, thanks to the draining of water into the sea through canals and pumps, had reduced the risk of large volumes bearing down on Bangkok which sits only two metres (6 1/2 ft) above sea level.
"In this critical situation, there is some good news for us. Our water-management plan went smoothly during previous days," she said, offering the city the first encouraging words in days.
Experts were also cautiously optimistic central Bangkok's network of embankments and sand-bag walls would hold.
"We have to conclude that it's under control but we still have to do as much as we can to maintain the dikes," said Anon Sanitwong Na Ayutthaya, an academic on the government's flood team.
Seree Supharatid, director of the Disaster Warning Centre at Rangsit University, said coordination between city, provincial and national authorities was critical.
"If the government can manage the pumping system smoothly, with good cooperation, we may see the water receding by early November," he said.
RAFTS BUILT FROM WATER BOTTLES
Although Yingluck expressed confidence inner Bangkok could be spared, the city's suburbs faced growing misery.
Authorities expect the whole of Thonburi district, on the west bank of the Chao Phraya, to be inundated within three days and Yingluck said the water would remain high due to a lack of canals. Seventeen roads across Bangkok are closed.
The Pinklao district of Thonburi, packed with restaurants, shops and homes close to the river, was under waist-deep water. Some residents waded through the flood, lugging televisions and furniture to higher ground.
People in Bangkok's northern Sai Mai district sat on rafts built of plastic bottles and wooden crates. Shop owners perched on sandbags, staring out at roads turned into rivers.
Water levels appeared to have risen in the riverside Bang Phlad district, also in west Bangkok, with many people using boats. Water was seen creeping towards a road bridge where scores of cars and buses were parked and abandoned.
The Chao Phraya is rising as much as 2.6 metres (8.5 ft) above sea level over the weekend's high tides and many foreign governments have warned their citizens against non-essential travel to the city of 12 million people.
Authorities have called for evacuations in four of Bangkok's 50 districts -- Don Muang, Bang Phlat, Sai Mai and Thawi Whatthana.
Japanese engineers have been flown in to advise on how to protect the main international airport, Suvarnabhumi, and the subway system. Authorities have built a 23.5 km (15 mile) dike around the airport and have reassured travellers it would hold.
Bangkok accounts for 41 percent of Thailand's $319 billion economy. But even if the inner city is spared, the deluge in industrialised provinces to the north has had a global impact.
Thailand is the second-largest exporter of computer hard drives and Southeast Asia's biggest auto production hub. Global prices for hard drives, for instance, are rising due to a flood-related shortage of major components used in personal computers.
Drive manufacturers have raised prices by 20 to 40 percent since water poured into factories this month, Chuck Kostalnick, senior vice president of international electronics distributor Avnet Inc, told Reuters.
"The word we're getting is that prices are going to continue to go up," he said. "This isn't going to be a one-time event."
thestar.com.my
I am not personally affected but my parents in law had to evacuate when the water reached 1.50. I understand the water has to flow away and that it may be the lesser evil to flood one million in the north and east of Bangkok (or more, just a rough guess) instead of six million in the inner city, but a fair warning would have been nice as would have been any form of assistance.Quote:
Originally Posted by English Noodles
Looks like inner bkk will escape - except for huay kwang, chattajak, far-upper pahonyothin.
^Does look that way.
I was at payap pier and samisen road this evening. Looks like the high tide is going to get within about 5-10 cm of topping the flood wall. soi samsen 21, has been breached and is knee deep in water. SD had some photos of there army sand bagging one side the the soi to keep the water out.
Without that flood wall I suspect that the whole of dusit would be under about 150cm of water.