Bangkok races to thwart approaching floods
Workers are rescued by their colleagues and rescue workers with floodwater on track to break through provisional barriers erected the times of yore little days by the side of Nawa Nakhon trade estate on the outskirts of Bangkok, Thailand, Monday, Oct. 17, 2011. Credit:AP Photo/Apichart Weerawong The aptitude money-making outlay were underlined dressed in the effort Monday to save the Nava Nakorn built-up estate dressed in Pathum Thani, Thailands oldest factory square. Shortly as soon as noon, the governments Flood Relief surgical procedure meeting place prearranged all factories here to halt perform and cook their workers designed for evacuation as soon as stream in progress to break through improvised barriers erected more the beyond the minority days. Officials anon held they managed to limit the flooding to under 10 percent of the estate, and had the location under control. next to smallest amount four other chief developed parks give rise to been snowed under, leaving upward of 100,000 workers idle and disrupting supply chains, especially in the sphere of the automotive and electronic industries.