Yasuhiro Sonoda, parliamentary secretary for the cabinet office, “appeared nervous” and “his hands shook” as he drank the glass of water collected from a inside one of the reactors.
Bangkok's main river hit a new high Friday, as residents who did not take advantage of a 5-day holiday to flee the capital waited anxiously for a high tide.
More than 500 deaths have been confirmed in Sunday's earthquake in Van province, south-east Turkey. Officials say 185 people have so far been pulled from the rubble alive.
BANGKOK — One month. That’s how long floods pouring into Bangkok could fill the city and hold residents hostage while waters drain slowly into the sea.
Thai Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra said Bangkok was “fighting against the forces of nature” and that authorities needed to let the water flow naturally out to sea.
Bangkok stores were imposing emergency rationing after Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra warned in a televised address that there could be as much as five feet of flooding in some areas of the capital.
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