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Many localities in Thailand were battered by heavy rains which caused landslides and damaged several roads.

Thailand is benefitting from India's rice export ban and has no reason to halt shipments of the grain itself, caretaker Minister of Commerce Jurin Laksanawisit said on August 7.

Rain has been falling steadily in recent days, inundating hundreds of hectares of farmland and affecting thousands of families in the central Lao province of Savannnakhet.

Around 4,000 households in the southern region of Cambodia have been affected by heavy flooding caused by prolonged rains over the past few days.

The Cambodian Ministry of Water Resources and Meteorology on July 31 issued a flood warning as the water level of the Mekong River is expected to rise the coming days, especially in its northern region.

Since becoming a member of ASEAN on July 28, 1995, Vietnam has played an important role in the bloc’s development in all fields as well as in the maintenance of stability and peace.

The National Election Committee (NEC) of Cambodia has so far accredited more than 89,645 domestic and international observers for the seventh National Assembly general election, slated for July 23.

More than 1,600 people evacuated due to the eruption of the most active Mayon volcano in the Philippines last month have suffered from acute respiratory infections, the country’s Department of Health has annouced.

Prime Minister of Thailand Prayut Chan-o-cha announced on July 11 his retirement from politics, nine years after he, as the army chief, took power in a military coup.

Meteorologists said that the first tropical depression or storm would form in the East Sea on July 20 or July 21, resulting in much of the rains in the Central region following a long time of heat waves.

Indonesia has regained upper-middle income rank thanks to its strong post-pandemic recovery.

Political parties in Cambodia began their election campaigns on July 1, seizing the opportunity to rally voters' support for the upcoming National Assembly election, which is scheduled to take place on July 23.