Thailand floods

 

Collateral damage. [By Jiao Haiyang/China.org.cn]

Since late July, the whole of Thailand, except for its southern region, has been afflicted by a disastrous deluge. The floods hit 65 out of 77 provinces and affected more than 13 million, or one in five Thai people. Caused by heavy monsoon rains and back-to-back tropical storms, the natural disaster also swamped tens of thousands of manufactures, left a million employees at risk of losing their jobs and caused economic losses of up to US$28 billion.

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