Bangkok declared a disaster zone: all 50 districts flooded after nearly 300 mm of rain in two days

• Thailand

  «Bangkok is orchestrating an emergency command chain, from Governor Chadchart Sittipunt to Prime Minister Anutin Charnvirakul, who is piloting it by video conference from London, to justify the unprecedented declaration of the 50 affected districts.»

  What each one tells

  opposition

  Australia

  «Canberra links the floods in Bangkok to the storm that hit New York and Boston the same weekend, seeing it as a sign of a global meteorological season out of the norm rather than an isolated Thai crisis.»

• Thailand

  Institutional framework

  «the narrative highlights the government chain of command, even detailing the Prime Minister's coordination via video conference from abroad.»

  Omission of the human toll

  «the article on impassable roads details water levels street by street without mentioning any victims.»

  What the account puts first

  Australia

  Global weather

  «the article links the Bangkok floods to the American storm of the same weekend, placing the Thai disaster in a global sequence rather than in its sole national context.»

  Capital-centered

  «the disaster declaration covers the entire Bangkok area even though not all its zones were flooded, with no equivalent detail on the also affected provinces.»

• Thailand

  Reliance on official communication

  «the alert issued by the authorities is reproduced verbatim as the primary source of the narrative.»

  What it leans on

  Thailand only

  Australia

  this perspective does not carry this information

and the figures

• around 1,200 cubic meters of water per second

  The Standard Thailand

  Pumping rate in Bangkok

  cubic meters per second (m³/s)

  only one reports it

  this press does not report this figure

• this press does not report this figure

  Human toll of floods in Thailand

  number of deaths

  this press does not report this figure