The state-run Transport Company will increase its bus and passenger-van services by 3,000 to a total of some 9,000 trips per day from April 10-13, in order to accommodate a sharp rise in the number of passengers expected to travel out of Bangkok ahead of the long Songkran holidays period.

More than 63,000 people in south-central Myanmar’s Bago region were forced to evacuate their homes in 85 villages on Wednesday as water cascaded from a collapsed spillway in the Swa Chaung Dam.