Month: October 2011

At Tasty Thailand we are fascinated by the use of sandbags in Bangkok. Sandbags that are used in an attempt to stop floods reaching into houses and other…

Bangkok’s Don Mueang Airport has finally given up the ghost. After struggling since Friday to remain open and to keep flights up in the air, the airport has…

If you are currently away from Bangkok and worried about your house, or have friends in the city and want to know if they are under water, there…

As Bangkok continues to swirl with rumor and panic and water continues to arrive near the city from the north, a Thai water expert, Dr Seri Suprathit, has…

If you are a tourist and worried about an upcoming trip to Thailand because of the country’s massive floods, don’t be. Other than Ayutthaya, most other areas of…

According to a Thai water expert, Dr Seri Suprathit of Rangsit University, so much water is beginning to arrive on the western side of the Chao Praya River,…

According to Thai TV news, Thammasat University, the Rangsit campus, is starting to flood. Thammasat is close to the Chao Praya River with most other communities the full…

A few days ago, when Thais began to realize floods would definitely be arriving in Bangkok, for many of them the first thing they thought about was their…

The moment everyone in Bangkok has been worrying about for weeks has arrived. Thai news is reporting flood waters have officially arrived in Bangkok as the government-ordered opening…

I have always loved the ingenuity of the Thais. A race that seems to be able to make beautiful things out of practically nothing, the latest invention is…

The Thai government of Yingluck Shinawatra has finally admitted the flooding of certain areas of Bangkok is inevitable. Eastern parts of the city will be flooded in the…

  On the news in Thailand over the last week, the Thai government has repeatedly said Bangkok will not flood. But, Thai newspapers in the last hour are…

  As some members of the Thai government and the Bangkok governor continue to say “Bangkok is safe”, word out is that Future Park Rangsit Mall has just…

Although the Thai government is trying to put a brave face on it, it doesn’t take much to see the Thai economy could be in major trouble, even…

Since Thailand’s massive flooding problem suddenly became much worse two weeks ago, there has been a rush on dried goods at the supermarket, as well as anything in…

Even though floods in Thailand have not hit Bangkok, thousands of Thai businesses in the capital are still experiencing the impact of the floods. With much of the…

As massive floods have deluged more than one third of the country, the Thai commerce department announced yesterday the total cost to Thailand of the flooding is likely…