News from Thailand – Monday, April 27, 2015
This page contains a selection from the Thai news. We include headlines from major news sources including: Bangkok Post, The Nation, ThaiPBS, MCOT, etc., as well as some regional newspapers such as Phuket Gazette and Pattaya One. Behind the news items is a web link, when you click on it you can read the full article at the English source.
News from Thailand, including:
Nepal earthquake death toll over 3000
– Thailand sends aid and will collect money
– This week very hot in Thailand >40 degrees
THE NATION
The Nation opens just like yesterday with the earthquake in Nepal. The death toll from Saturday's earthquake in Nepal has risen to more than 3000. The Nepalese police cite a number of 3218. Aid organizations state that electricity and telephone connections have been cut almost everywhere and that there is hardly any room left to store the dead. The aftershocks also caused new avalanches on Mount Everest, just after helicopters had brought survivors there to safety. At least XNUMX people were killed on the mountain yesterday. Relief efforts in the affected area have been hampered by the bad weather. India has sent helicopters to transfer the injured to hospitals. International aid organizations fear a major humanitarian disaster because thousands of people are forced to sleep in the open air, while the weather is bad. They fear that the death toll will rise much further and that hundreds of thousands of people will be homeless.
BANGKOK POST
Bangkok Post also opens big with the earthquake in Nepal. Six Thai students from Srinakharinwirot University, with whom contact was lost, are safe, as are sixty other Thais. Some suffered minor injuries. The students were visiting Pokhara, about 140 kilometers from Kathmandu. Reports say a Thai-American doctor was killed in an avalanche on Mount Everest. Prime Minister Prayut has ordered the Ministry of Health and the army to quickly form and send relief teams to the hard-hit country. The government will also hold a nationwide fundraising campaign for the victims.
OTHER NEWS
– The sweltering heat in Thailand is returning. Daytime temperatures are expected to rise above 40 degrees Celsius again in the coming days. Director-General Wanchai Sakudomchai of Thailand's Meteorological Department said that in the North, the high-pressure system is weakening and rain will fall less. Then it gets very hot. April 21 and 22 was also very hot with temperatures hovering around 40 C in most parts of Thailand. Sukhothai reported the highest temperature with 42.5 C. The highest recorded temperature in Thailand is 44.5 C, which was measured on April 27, 1960 in Uttaradit province. The Meteorological Service warns that the record of 55 years ago may be broken in the coming days: http://goo.gl/FjxhVL
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