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                    [Title] => Thai PM confident as Bangkok holds off high tides
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Thailand's prime minister is expressing optimism that Thailand's worst flooding in a half-century will mostly spare Bangkok. Some neighborhood dikes have overflowed, but the city's defenses otherwise have held firm during a weekend of critical high tides.

[DatePublished] => 2011-10-30 15:00:12 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => [SectionUrl] => [URL] => ) [1] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 697804 [Title] => China near critical point in controlling floods [Summary] =>

 China's flood control agency says more than 40 miles (70 kilometers) of dikes are close to overflowing in an eastern Chinese city.

[DatePublished] => 2011-06-20 15:46:23 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => [SectionUrl] => [URL] => ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 534136 [Title] => Valenzuela orders fishpond owners to put up dikes [Summary] =>

The Valenzuela city council approved last week an ordinance requiring fishpond owners to construct earth dikes around their property to prevent flash floods.

[DatePublished] => 2009-12-21 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Metro [SectionUrl] => metro [URL] => ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 481072 [Title] => Oreta blames DPWH for Malabon flood [Summary] =>

Mayor Canuto Oreta blamed the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) yesterday for the flood that affected 300 Malabon City families at the height of typhoon “Feria” Thursday.

[DatePublished] => 2009-06-27 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1097044 [AuthorName] => Jerry Botial [SectionName] => Metro [SectionUrl] => metro [URL] => ) ) )
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