Exams postponed; Haitang and Nesat keep house
29 September 2011
Tropical storm Haitang has reached the northeast and typhoon Nesat will soon reach the extreme north.
The General Aptitude Test and Professional Aptitude Test exams have been postponed for a month. More than 329.000 students have registered for it. Of these, 45.700 live in flood-affected provinces. Of the 236 exam centers, 38 are under water.
Other news:
- The Lop Buri River has overflowed its banks. The Ban Phraek hospital in Ayutthaya was flooded, forcing some patients to be evacuated. Operations are hampered because power has been lost in some units.
- Pathum Thani. Angry farmers from Nakhon Nayok have removed sandbags from the Khlong Sip Song weir in Thanyaburi, which were there to protect Pathum Thani. The increase would raise the water level in Ongkharak (Nakhon Nayok), damaging their fields. According to an official, the water comes from the Pasak Jolasid reservoir in Lop Buri, from which water has been discharged.
- Railway tracks in Pichit are under water. Thirteen trains from Chiang Mai to Bangkok got no further than Phitsanulok.
- The residents of four villages in Nam Pat district (Uttaradit) have been evacuated as a precaution. Another landslide is feared due to continued stir in Khlong Tron National Park. The district was also hit once by a flood and landslides on September 9.
- Bangkok is still under threat.