Floods

Early season flooding and heavy rainfall have severely damaged thousands of hectares of rice fields in the Mekong Delta province of Long An. Water levels in the province hit 2.37m on August 4, 1.53m higher than the previous year’s figure. Water levels rose approximately 5-10cm ...

Two villagers were reportedly killed by flash flooding in the country’s northern Oudomxay province and more households severely impacted as heavy rain lashed multiple districts over the weekend, a provincial senior official said yesterday. A heavy downpour that began on Friday midnight and continued until ...

Flooding continues to make life miserable for people in parts of 10 provinces, mostly in the Northeast, the disaster prevention and mitigation chief said on Wednesday. Chatchai Phromlert said 251,873 families in 4,609 villages were affected and 14 people had died as a consequence of flooding ...

Border market in Mae Sai district of Chiang Rai was flooded after Mae Sai river overflowed banks and flooded houses and border markets along both sides of the river. The water level in the fast-flowing Mae Sai river overflowed banks following continuous rains that lashed ...

Heavy rainfall over several hours caused flood waters to inundate farmlands and cut off key road routes in Khamkeuth district, Borikhamxay province, an official has confirmed.Officials in at-risk areas are monitoring river levels including Phao and Kata Rivers through to the Nam Thern River, which ...

About 130 schools have been closed and over 30,000 victims have been relocated in Magwe Region due to rising water level of the Ayeyarwady and Chindwin rivers.Magwe Region Social Welfare, Relief and Resettlement Department head U Myint Soe told The Myanmar Times, “The schools are ...

The investor of Núi Cô’c Lake Dam in the northern province of Thái Nguyên was told yesterday to speed up work of repairing the facility.Keep reading ...

Authorities in Thai Nguyen Province in northern Vietnam have declared a state of emergency as Nui Coc, a massive man-made freshwater lake, threatens to give way due to permeation at any moment. Tens of thousands of residents living in nearby lowlands are susceptible to the ...

With some 175 million cubic metres of water stored in an elevated position, Núi Cốc Lake’s major dam in the northern province of Thái Nguyên could devastate downstream areas if it broke, experts have said.Thái Nguyên City, Sông Công City, Phổ Yên Township, Phú Bình ...

Thousands of Sri Lankan troops battled on Monday (May 29) to get relief supplies to over half a million people displaced by the island’s worst flooding for 14 years, which has killed at least 180 people. The military said a lull in torrential monsoon rains allowed ...