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Sat, 10/29/2011 - 08:01
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Thai PM: Flood situation is improving

BANGKOK, October 29 (TNA) - Thai Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra said on Saturday that inundations in the country's northern and central regions have been receding and flooding in Bangkok and adjacent provinces is believed to ease by the first week of next month. The prime minister acknowledged during her weekly address, "Yingluck government meets people", broadcast live on state television and radio networks, that the water situation in previously-heavy-flooded provinces in the Lower Thai North and the central region, including Nakhon Sawan, Chainat and Ayutthaya, has been returning to normal. Yingluck told the public that inundations in Bangkok's suburban Pathum Thani and Nonthaburi Provinces appear to, therefore, remain stable now and will be receding in the coming days. The Pheu Thai premier assessed that floods in some areas in Bangkok should recede by the first week of November, as all agencies concerned, including the Bangkok Metropolitan Administration (BMA), have agreed on urgently draining upstream water out to the sea through the capital's eastern and western sides. The premier, however, urged people to keep following up the updated water situation from the government's Flood Relief Operations Centre (FROC) and the BMA and local entrepreneurs and stores not to hoard products so that consumer goods will be distributed to people in all areas across the country. The prime minister insisted that the government is also resolving the problem of tainted water and will immediately implement rehabilitation plans in all flood-hit areas once the inundation situation returns to normal. (TNA)

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