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The Mekong region has been contending with flash floods since Super Typhoon Yagi tore through northern Vietnam, Laos, and Myanmar earlier this month, killing hundreds of people in floods and landslides and destroying bridges, roads and houses.
Celebration Mall had stood empty for years until new owners with grand ambitions swept in 24 years ago.
Across Southeast Asia, a tidal wave of cheap Chinese imports is swamping local industries, leaving devastation and joblessness in its wake.
That shocking electoral loss forced the Shinawatra clan to change its political clothes, with Pheu Thai now seen by critics as the underwriter of arch-royalist conservative elite interests – a far cry from its past as a pro-democracy outsider championing wealth-redistribution policies to the rural poor.
Paetongtarn Shinawatra, the 37-year-old daughter of billionaire Thaksin Shinawatra, will be Thailand’s new prime minister after she sailed through a vote of lower house lawmakers.
Pheu Thai, the largest party in that coalition, now has a choice between 75-year-old former justice minister Chaikasem Nitisiri and the untested Paetongtarn Shinawatra, 37, the daughter of party patriarch Thaksin Shinawatra.
Thailand’s Constitutional Court on Wednesday removed Prime Minister Srettha Thavisin after barely a year in office for breaching ethics by appointing a cabinet member who had served a jail term, a ruling which sent the kingdom into deeper political turmoil.
Here is an explainer of what is going in Thailand, a kingdom where judges and the elderly conservative power holders whose interests they underpin, can’t – or won’t – find an off-ramp from two decades of political chaos: