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Bangkok exodus as floods advance on city centre
Yahoo reports: Thousands of Bangkok residents flocked to bus, rail and air terminals on Thursday while heavy traffic snaked out of the sprawling Thai capital in an exodus from a mass of approaching floodwater.
Thais face drowning, disease in disastrous floods
Channel News Asia reports: Thais enduring the nation's worst floods in decades have faced marauding crocodiles and threat of snake bites and electrocution, but health experts say the top risks are drowning and disease.
Pattaya hotels nearly full
Bangkok Post reports: People rushing out of Bangkok taking refuge from the flood are finding it difficult to find a room for rent in the resort town of Pattaya, as nearly all of the rooms available are occupied.
Japanese experts: Thai flood not to be feared
Bangkok Post reports: Two Japanese experts from Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) who have been in Thailand for a week now to observe the flood situation tell TPBS viewers that people should not fear the flood threatening Bangkok because its nature is innundation, not a flash flood like in Japan.
Flash floods hit southern Spain
Euronews reports: Lagares river in Vigo, Galicia, has flooded causing damages in houses and infrastructures.
Hurricane Rina aimed at Mexico resorts
The Associated Press reports: Tourists fleeing Hurricane Rina crowded Cancun's airport Wednesday even as the cyclone lost some of its punch on a course for Mexico's resort-studded Caribbean coast.
Deadly floods hit Ghana capital
The BBC reports: Nine people are killed in heavy floods in Ghana's capital, Accra, as President John Atta Mills visits affected areas, officials say.
Central America the world's most violent region: research
Hurriet Daily News reports: Central America is the most violent region in the world, with El Salvador reporting the highest death rate due to armed violence, a research said Thursday.
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