Bangkok Floods

• Thailand flooding damages its ancient capital

  Water fowl, monitor lizards and stray dogs have replaced the throngs of tourists at one of Thailand's greatest historical sites. Record flooding has turned Ayutthaya's ancient temples into islands, and a giant statue of the reclining Buddha appears to float miraculously on the lapping water.

• Despite floods, Thailand celebrates moon festival

  Every year when the moon is full and the rainy season draws to an end, Thailand's waterways fill with millions of floating lotus-shaped lanterns - a symbolic, centuries-old gesture once meant to placate the country's goddess of water.

• Bangkok flood defenses hold off peak coastal tides

  Defenses shielding the center of Thailand's capital from the nation's worst floods in nearly 60 years mostly held at critical peak tides on Saturday, as the waters began to recede after killing almost 400 people. But the threat to central Bangkok was not over, the prime minister said, and the city's northern districts remained submerged along with ...

• Bangkok flood defenses put to test amid high tides

  Floods engulfing parts of Bangkok should start to recede in the first week of November, the prime minister said on Saturday after barriers along the swollen main river prevented a disastrous overflow.

• Government warns, thousands evacuate flood-surrounded Bangkok

  Residents poured out of the Thai capital by bus, plane and train on Thursday, heeding government warnings to use a special five-day holiday to evacuate parts of the flood-threatened metropolis before a weekend deluge rushes through.

• Flood shuts down Bangkok's second largest airport

  Floodwaters inched closer to a terminal at the Thai capital's second largest airport Wednesday, leading many who had sought refuge at a shelter there to flee amid warnings that parts of Bangkok could be inundated by up to 5 feet (1.5 metres) of water.

• Thailand floods: Bangkok in 'crisis mode', second airport shuts down

  Bangkok's second airport shut down today as floodwaters advanced into the Thai capital, forcing authorities in "crisis mode" to declare a five-day public holiday in preparation for the deluge.