Torrential rain floods Pattaya
16 Torrential rain lashed Pattaya for more than an hour on Wednesday afternoon, causing widespread flooding. (Photo by Chaiyot Pupattanapong)
CHON BURI: Heavy rain flooded several roads and communities in Pattaya on Wednesday afternoon, causing heavy traffic congestion.
The downpour lashed the beach town for more than an hour, indundating numerous roads. Sukhumvit, South Pattaya, Khao Noi, Khao Talor and Liab Tang Rodfai roads were all impassable. Some vehicles were damaged and traffic was snarled.
The worst hit area was Pattaya Sai 3 Road, where the water level was too high for any vehicles to pass. Police set up a road barrier to divert both people and traffic.
Prawit orders better joint effort to stem drug influx
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published : 8 Feb 2021 at 04:30
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Deputy Prime Minister Prawit Wongsuwon has ordered security officials to closely cooperate with the Office of the Narcotics Control Board to prevent the trafficking of narcotics from the Golden Triangle into Thailand, as drug labs across the border switch to more cost-effective methods of production.
The order followed an intelligence report which suggests that producers in the Golden Triangle region are using new precursors to make methamphetamine that allows them to slash production costs by four times and offer lower prices to consumers in Thailand, said Gen Prawit s spokesman, Lt Gen Koncheep Tantravanich.