They say it never rains but it pours and for Bangkok residents nothing could be truer as they face the threat of rising floodwaters.
As the capital slowly returns to normal after the political violence that paralysed the central city earlier this year, the high tides forecast over the next couple of days, combined with floodwater from the north, will test Bangkok’s Chao Phraya river defences.
Reports this morning indicated that the river was overflowing the city’s outlying riverside markets.
The nationwide floods, which began on October 10, have affected millions of people, damaged hundreds of thousands of homes and left authorities struggling to reach people stranded in remote areas.
The death toll in Thailand from two weeks of flooding rose to 41 on Monday after emergency officials reported a further three fatalities,
