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BANGKOK, The search and rescue (SAR) operation for four people missing from a ferry that sank near Thailand’s popular tourist island of Koh Samui on Saturday night continued today. The Raja 4 ferry was carrying 12 crew members and four drivers – three 10-wheel lorries and a pickup truck loaded with garbage – when it sank in the stormy sea after […]
REGIONAL SUMMARY: Multiple flooding events have occurred due to high-intensity rainfall and the overflowing of rivers in the provinces of Aceh, Gorontalo, and North Sulawesi in Indonesia as reported by the country’s Badan Nasional Penanggulangan Bencana (BNPB). Flooding in multiple regions due to heavy rain and the breaking of a geological sedimentary dike was also […]
Rescue teams plucked two survivors of the capsized ferry from rough seas around Samui Island today and recovered the body of the vessel’s skipper. Marine police sources said today that search is ongoing for four other missing people, adding that an air search by a helicopter is not possible due to poor visibility and strong […]
Marine police and rescue workers have been searching the seas around Thailand’s Samui Island for people missing after a ferry capsized as it left the island for the mainland on Saturday. Pol Col Krisana Pattanacharoen, Deputy Spokesman of the Royal Thai Police, told the media on Sunday morning that the ferry, Racha 4, left the […]
At 11.00 p.m. LST on 1 Aug, the category 3 Tropical storm “SINLAKU” over Tokin Bay and lay centered at about 230 kilometers east of Vinh, Vietnam or latitude 19.5 degree north, longitude 107.6 degree east with maximum sustained winds of about 65 km/hr. The storm was moving northwest at speed 15 km/hr. It is […]
Thammasat University Vice-Rector, Parinya Tewanarumitkul, said Saturday that there is new evidence which could be used to justify the reopening of the hit-and-run case against Red Bull heir Vorayuth Yoovidhya, despite the claim by the Office of the Attorney-General (OAG) that the case is closed. Speaking at a panel discussion on the controversial case, held […]