Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra has tried reaching out to Japanese businesses. Japan’s ambassador accompanied Yingluck on an inspection this week in Ayutthaya, just north of Bangkok, where several flooded industrial estates have begun cleanups. The floodwaters are trickling onto the main route south from the city, Rama II Road. If the water gets deeper,welded gabion [...]

The death toll from Thailand’s worst flooding in half a century reached 506 Sunday as floodwaters inched southward toward downtown Bangkok,hesco bastion, the interior ministry said. With evacuations already affecting at least 11 of Bangkok’s 50 districts, its governor, Sukhumbhand Paribatra, on Sunday expressed fresh concerns about even-worse flooding due to malfunctions at 14 flood [...]