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YOU WONT BELIEVE: Troubled waters 41e8365e d906 4c7f b7ca 7f0d261d659f | Mind Blowing Facts

A shipping vessel travels along the Chao Phraya River in Bangkok on Thursday. (Photo:  Pornprom Satrabhaya)

Industry leaders are alert to heavier rainfall as flooding can deal a further blow to the economy, though many of them do not believe certain business activities will be drowned as happened in 2011.

Eleven years ago the total damage caused by severe flooding was valued at 1.4 trillion baht or 14% of GDP, according to the Center for International Trade Studies at the University of the Thai Chamber of Commerce.

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