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Severe floods have cost southern economy 25 billion baht so far: Research

  KASIKORN Research Centre estimates that the critical flooding in the South has so far cost the regional economy 25 billion baht with 800,000 households affected and 400,000 rai of farmland damaged, PPTVHD36 said today (Nov. 26). The widespread inundation, in Songkhla as well as several other southern provinces including  Nakhon Si Thammarat, Phatthalung, Surat

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Cambodia tells UNESCO border clashes seriously damaged Preah Vihear Temple.

  CAMBODIA told the 43rd UNESCO general assembly in Samarkand, Uzbekistan, that the five-day border clashes between Thai and Khmer soldiers in July caused serious damage to the World Heritage Site of Preah Vihear Temple, Naewna newspaper said today (Nov. 4). Dr. Phoeung Sackona, Cambodian minister of culture and fine arts, told the UNESCO meeting

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Air pollution cost Thai economy 4.616 trillion baht in 2019: Academic

  A KASETSART University professor said in a research paper that air pollution from PM2.5 particles caused 2.173 trillion baht economic damage to Thai households in 2019 and if all pollutants (PM10, PM2.5, CO, NOx, NO2) are included the total soared to 4.616 trillion baht, Matichon newspaper said today (Feb. 23). Mr. Wissanu Attawanich, an

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As Asia’s tropical storm season arrives, grounded airplanes at risk of damage

By Reuters, published by Channel NewsAsia Taipei: Airlines, airports and insurers across Asia are bracing for the prospect of unusually high damage as the region’s tropical storm season begins, as hundreds of planes grounded by the coronavirus pandemic cannot be moved easily. Major airports in storm-vulnerable regions such as Hong Kong, Taiwan, Japan, the Philippines,

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