The equivalent of 160,000 Olympic-sized swimming pools (400 million cubic metres of water) is set to run through Thailand’s capital, which can only drain a small fraction daily, according to the government’s flood relief operation centre on 26 October.
The market in Ayutthaya where Arun Kaewan used to sell goods is now a river. The factory where her son used to work is a lake.
Fifty years after the adoption of the Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness, 12 million people remain without citizenship, most living in Asia, according to the UN Refugee Agency.
Each year, hundreds of Cambodian men, many impoverished farmers, are lured from their homes with the promise of better-paying jobs in Thailand, only to find themselves on Thai fishing boats plying the waters of the South China Sea.
Thailand is fast becoming a transit country for North Koreans fleeing severe food shortages and poverty, authorities say. Thousands now make their way along the more than 5,000km, often-dangerous route, through China and Laos to the kingdom en route to South Korea.
