Yingluck Backs Down on Bangkok Drainage Plan, Risking Clash
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Thai Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra moved to slow water flowing through a canal on Bangkok’s outskirts, two days after she ordered it opened to end protests from residents in flooded areas of the capital.
Water gates on the Sam Wa canal in northeastern Bangkok will be narrowed to reduce the volume of floodwater flowing into eastern areas of the city, Yingluck said yesterday. Bangkok Governor Sukhumbhand Paribatra earlier this week ordered police to protect the levee from local residents who damaged part of it to ease flooding around their homes.