BANGKOK: Thai Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra has ordered provincial governors to take care of people affected by ‘big waves’ hitting their coastal areas along the Gulf of Thailand, Thai News Agency (TNA) reported.
Yingluck told reporters that the governors of the affected east-coast southern provinces have been instructed to do their best to protect local people through effective warnings and evacuations, saying that six provinces have already been declared wave-stricken zones so that emergency funds sponsored by the state budget can be withdrawn to help victims.
The Pheu Thai premier acknowledged that she has also urged concerned agencies to jointly solve problems related to existing disaster warning systems, promising that her administration will analyse the work of the concerned agencies to find the causes of the problems.
In response to violent threats from insurgents in the troubled Thai far South during the upcoming New Year festival, the prime minister said she has ordered all security units, including soldiers, police, the Interior Ministry and the Southern Border Provinces Administrative Centre, to take precautions, noting that authorities of the Defence Ministry and the National Security Council have already provided guidelines to the concerned units.
In response to Parliament reporters dubbing her a ‘dying star’, Premier Yingluck said she was neither upset nor disheartened, but she and her government will, instead, keep working at the best. — Bernama