Thailand’s consumer prices fell for the eighth straight month, heightening pressure on the central bank to cut its policy rate for a fourth time this year.

By Panarat Thepgumpanat and Chayut Setboonsarng BANGKOK, Dec 1 (Reuters) - Thailand’s Prime Minister Anutin Charnvirakul is facing mounting criticism over his government’s slow response to deadly floods in the south,

Prime Minister Anutin Charnvirakul on Tuesday declared a state of emergency for Songkhla province, which includes southern Thailand’s biggest city, Hat Yai, citing the “unprecedented severity” of the flooding that has caused widespread damage.

British tourist drowns in front of his wife while swimming on holiday in Thailand - Beachgoers reportedly tried to save the man’s live after he got into trouble at Freedom Beach, Phuket

More than 1.2 million households and 3.6 million people have been affected by floods triggered by heavy rains in 12 southern provinces, the Department of Disaster Prevention and Mitigation said.

The former Chelsea and Spurs youngster - an England youth international - has switched to play for the country of his mother's birth

Floods have swept through nine Thai provinces and eight states in neighboring Malaysia for a second successive year, prompting both countries to evacuate nearly 45,000 people.

Deep in Thailand’s Dong Phayayen-Khao Yai Forest, conservationists use GPS collars to understand the eating habits, territory of the country’s last remaining Indochinese tigers.

Thailand’s government set out plans for new carbon taxes and an emissions trading system under the country’s first formal climate change legislation.