Sunday, December 19, 2010

More global warming

20 provinces in Thailand facing winter disaster

Submitted 12 hrs 39 mins ago

The Thai Department of Disaster Prevention and Mitigation on Sunday declared winter disaster zone in northern and northeastern 20 provinces in Thailand.
Director-General of the Department Viboon Sanguanpong said people in 10 northern provinces as well as another 10 provinces in northeastern part are currently suffering from harsh winter.
The temperature in those 20 provinces has been lower than eight degree Celsius.
According to the Director-General, a special relief center has been set up following an instruction from Interior Ministry and winter stricken provinces will be primarily granted one million baht (33,168 U.S. dollars) for initial mitigation.


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