Bangladesh

Dacca, September 27, 2026. Almost a year to the day since the floods that killed at least 170 people in southern Thailand, the Bangladeshi press is closely following the disaster declaration that is now affecting Bangkok. On Friday, Governor Chadchart Sittipunt classified the 50 districts of the Thai capital as a disaster zone, after nearly 300 millimeters of rain fell between Thursday afternoon and Saturday morning. The city's canals, reports The Daily Star, have reached their capacity and the pumping stations have been pushed to their maximum combined capacity, with 1,200 cubic meters per second being evacuated. The floods have spread to neighboring provinces - Pathum Thani, Samut Sakhon, Samut Prakan, Nakhon Pathom, and Nonthaburi.

For Bangladeshi readers, familiar with the monsoon floods that hit Dacca and the Ganges-Brahmaputra delta every year, the picture painted by Bangkok - residents wading through waist-deep water, shops closed for two days, lines in front of supermarkets emptied by panic buying - resonates like a familiar scenario. A vendor set up near a canal in the north of the city center, Somkid Pheuk-ngam, 67, told AFP: "The water keeps coming in. It's hard to go out now. It's like at my waist level now." A 63-year-old resident, Anutin Meechamnan, estimated that he had "never encountered" such continuous rain in all his years living in the city.

The political management of the crisis occupies a significant place in the articles relayed to Dacca. Prime Minister Anutin Charnvirakul cut short an official trip - after visits to Japan and the United States - to chair an emergency teleconference from London on Saturday, before a planned return on Sunday morning. He ordered the ministries, provincial governors, and relief agencies to work under a single coordinated framework, refusing to let responsibility rest solely on Governor Chadchart. The latter judged the situation "stabilized" on Saturday afternoon, estimating that if the rain stops, it will take two to three days to evacuate the accumulated water. However, the Thai meteorological service announced that heavy precipitation would continue until Sunday.