Search results for ‘Thailand’
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Thomas Cook to close 200 stores
Travel firm Thomas Cook says it will close 200 stores over the next two years after revealing losses of nearly £400m in the first part of 2011.
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'Extreme Animal Rescue'
The calls began in early October with panicked sounding ‘pet’ owners begging Dr ‘Ning’ Natarika to do something. Millions of Thais were evacuating their homes, taking only what they could carry. Everything else was left behind – and ‘everything else’ happens to include snakes, monkeys (including an endangered capuchin), wild boar, hundreds of deer, a couple of black panthers, Siberian tigers, black bears, a pride of lions and so on.
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Thomas Cook shares hit as firm seeks financial help
Shares in Thomas Cook plunge after the holiday firm is forced to ask lenders for more money, but bosses insist it is “business as usual”.
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Thai flood leaves unemployment crisis in its wake
Flood damaged blue chip companies consider quitting Thailand threatening hundreds of thousands of jobs, reports John Sparks from Ayutthaya, Thailand.
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Obama reasserts US trade power on Pacific trip
As China’s rise continues, three senior US officials including Hillary Clinton have made recent high-profile visits to the Asia-Pacific region. Channel 4 News asks what is the US strategy there?
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Can manufacturing save the British economy?
The government says economic growth will come from rebalancing the British economy in favour of manufacturing. But what does Britain still make? Business Correspondent Sarah Smith investigates.
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'A crisis unprecedented in Thai history'
The battlements are set and the trenches laid. In a part of town now called the “green zone” Bangkok’s commercial district is still dry for the most part but today we saw shop owners physically blocking themselves in, writes Asia Correspondent John Sparks. Thailand’s prime minister has called it “a crisis unprecedented in Thai history”.…
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Bangkok ‘fighting the forces of nature’
Thailand’s Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra almost breaks down as she warns that Bangkok is “fighting against the forces of nature” amid heavy flooding.
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Bangkok domestic airport grinds to a halt in floods
Thailand’s floods crisis deepens as water begins pouring into Bangkok’s suburbs, forcing the Thai capital’s domestic airport to close.
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Battle to save Bangkok from deadly floods
The authorities are fighting to save the Thai capital from being submerged under three metres of water.
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Bangkok braced for flooding
The Thai capital Bangkok is under threat from the country’s worst flooding in 50 years.
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Crisis looms as flood waters encircle Bangkok
As flood waters encircle Thailand’s capital of Bangkok, John Sparks observes the government’s change in tune.
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Thai PM defends floods response
Thai Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra defends her government’s response to the worst floods in 50 years as Bangkok braces itself for a deluge.
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The Thai flood situation is critical, so why not tell people?
I spoke to a senior government official. He told me that, “the situation is critical.” He had seen the data he said but said the government didn’t want release it for fear of “panicking people”. I think many here would rather be forewarned.
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Bangkok still on alert as Thai floods continue
Despite escaping a deluge from heavy monsoon rains and high tides, Thailand’s capital remains in danger from flooding, says Bangkok’s governor. Channel 4 News’s John Sparks is there.
