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BANGKOK, Sept 27 (Reuters) - Thailand's cabinet on Sunday approved special holidays on September 28 and 29 for civil servants in Bangkok and three surrounding provinces due to heavy rainfall. • "The measure aims to reduce travel and ease traffic disr...
The special holidays will apply to Bangkok, Nonthaburi, Pathum Thani, and Samut Prakan. Essential public services will continue, while businesses and institutions will determine their own arrangements.
Thailand declared a two-day special holiday in Bangkok and three surrounding provinces after flooding impacted roughly 700,000 residents, while authorities relocated about 1,500 bedridden patients to hospitals and worked to drain major canals as rainfall finally began to subside.