In Bangkok the barriers are holding to stop the floods

The Thai Prime Minister has said that Bangkok should be spared the devastation that the floods have brought to Thailand. “The impact to Bangkok will only be in the area outside the flood barrier,” Yingluck told reporters today at the city’s national flood center. Water levels in provinces north of the city have “started to stabilise”. With nearly 300 people dead, and 10 percent of the rice farms destroyed. “Inner Bangkok is the heart of the country and we can’t let it flood because that would cause vast economic damage,” Pracha Promnog, head of the flood center told the media. Read more ...