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Fri, 04/08/2011 - 10:36
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Southern train services resume as floods subside
HAT YAI, April 8 (TNA) - Thailand's southern trains have resumed their services; while local traders have raised their prices of products in some provinces, citing inadequate supplies due to flood damages.
Trains running between the South and Bangkok resumed operations on Friday after a 10-day-suspension due to flooded tracks. However, the south-bound trains have initially reached only Hat Yai Railway Station before running to and from the country's southernmost region covering Yala, Narathiwat and Pattani Provinces as of Saturday.
Meanwhile, floods have now remained only in two districts of Trang Province, including Muang and Kantang which are low land and facing a high tide. Latest reports said that flooding levels in Muang District's Bangrak locality had remained over one meter deep, and that inundations in the areas should disappear within two weeks if there were no more downpours.
In Phang-nga, some traders have raised their product prices unusually high, as the province is running out of fruits and vegetables and the products cannot be delivered from their major production base in the central plain. All kinds of vegetable oil were also unavailable, causing smuggling of the cooking oil from neighbouring countries for sale with the unusually high prices. (TNA)
Trains running between the South and Bangkok resumed operations on Friday after a 10-day-suspension due to flooded tracks. However, the south-bound trains have initially reached only Hat Yai Railway Station before running to and from the country's southernmost region covering Yala, Narathiwat and Pattani Provinces as of Saturday.
Meanwhile, floods have now remained only in two districts of Trang Province, including Muang and Kantang which are low land and facing a high tide. Latest reports said that flooding levels in Muang District's Bangrak locality had remained over one meter deep, and that inundations in the areas should disappear within two weeks if there were no more downpours.
In Phang-nga, some traders have raised their product prices unusually high, as the province is running out of fruits and vegetables and the products cannot be delivered from their major production base in the central plain. All kinds of vegetable oil were also unavailable, causing smuggling of the cooking oil from neighbouring countries for sale with the unusually high prices. (TNA)
