More heavy rain to fall this week

A lot more heavy rain in order to fall this week

The Meteorological Department offers warned of more heavy rain across the country until Saturday, with flooding already influencing 12 provinces.

Director-general Chomparee Chompurat said recently a monsoon trough in the upper North and over top Laos, and a southwestern monsoon over the Andaman Sea and the Gulf of mexico of Thailand introduced heavy rain to the North, the Eastern and the western coastline of the South yesterday.

Through today to Saturday a low-pressure front in upper Vietnam would combine with the monsoon trough over the North, the Northeast and the upper Central Plains. This would trigger heavy rain countrywide.

10m e-lottery tickets sold

More than 10 million digital lottery seat tickets have sold out for your upcoming Sept one draw with discounts offered for certain tickets bearing less than well-known numbers, according to the Govt Lottery Office (GLO).

In total, 10. 33 million digital lottery tickets were snapped up by 1 . 5 mil people by Sunday. Special discounts were offered to brokers, who purchase tickets in bulk, with regard to lottery numbers considered to be less attractive, mentioned Lawaron Saengsanit, director-general of the Revenue Division who is GLO panel chairman.

The tickets went on sale on Wednesday.

1 killed, 1 hurt in rebel assault

One ranger has been killed and an additional wounded when insurgents opened fire in a operations base within Chanae district yesterday at about 8. 30am, police said.

The gunmen opened fire to the Ranger Company 4914 base from a good abandoned house in Manang Sipo community in tambon Chanae.

Ranger Voravit Thiprak, twenty-seven, was killed plus ranger Masur Chele, whose age was not reported, wounded. Both were at a sentry box at the base’s entrance, police said. A probe is certainly underway.

Tourist cops satisfy foreign envoys

The particular Tourist Police Bureau (TPB) is ending up in diplomats from 17 countries today to discuss ramping up actions to look after foreign visitors in the kingdom during the upcoming high period.

The particular meeting is likely to be attended by 40 representatives from Australia, Belgium, the united kingdom, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Australia, Hungary, Ireland, Italia, Luxemburg, Morocco, holland, Norway, Slovakia plus Switzerland.

Pol Lt Style Sukhun Prommayon, the TPB commissioner, said the meeting’s plan would include heightening of tourist safety measures and suppression of transnational criminals trying to enter the country.

Even if the crooks manage to slip into the particular kingdom, the police will work with other countries within mounting operations to catch and deport them.

Runoff allows dam water release

A lot more water is being discharged from Ubolratana Dam as runoff through continuous heavy rainfall continues to flow in to the already half-full reservoir.

Sompong Chamkamol, the water administration and maintenance movie director of the Regional Irrigation Office 6, mentioned a water sources panel decided the other day that more drinking water needed to be discharged to help keep the level under the dam’s maximum capacity.

Yesterday morning, the water level within the dam was 177. 92 metres over the mean sea level. The dam was holding one, 156 million cubic metres or forty seven. 56% of its capacity of 2, 431 million cbm. A total of 45. nineteen million cbm of water flowed to the dam reservoir upon Sunday.

The panel decided to release water at the rate of fifteen million cmb per day for until nowadays, 18 million the next day, and 21 mil on Thursday, Mr Sompong said.