Travel warning from Taipei; US gives Bt15m

While presiding over a mass wedding in Chiang Mai yesterday, director of Tourism Authority of Thailand for Taipei, Kittika Likhitwasinkul, said Taiwanese authorities had been told that the flooding had not hit all provinces. She said that though some tourists might decide not to visit, so far nobody had cancelled any Loy Krathong tour packages to Sukhothai, Tak and Chiang Mai.

Meanwhile, US Ambassador Kristie Kenney presented Bt15 million to the Flood Relief Operations Centre yesterday, saying that her country would stand by and help Thailand.