<p>The Mekong Migration Network (MMN) is deeply concerned for the well being and safety of the hundreds of thousands of migrant workers in the flooded provinces of Thailand. Member organizations based in Bangkok and surrounding areas are trying hard to provide relief and support to migrant workers from Burma, Lao and Cambodia, but are finding it impossible to reach all the migrants affected. Many of the industrial estates where migrants worked are now flooded and the factories closed. </p>

<p>Trying to downplay the government's nightmare scenario for the capital and to lessen panic, Bangkok Governor MR Sukhumbhand Paribatra invited 500 business leaders for an hour-long lecture at a hotel yesterday (Thursday) afternoon telling them that he finds it &quot;inconceivable&quot; that the whole of Bangkok would be heavily inundated to the point that the whole population will have to be evacuated.</p>

<p align="left" class="MsoNormal">The arrested Myanmar male migrant worker (one of 3), aged 27, worked with his wife at aluminium factory for 2 months in Rangsit, Pathum Thani. When the water from floods level reached to chest, &nbsp;the factory was officially closed on 12^th October 2011.</p>

<p>The authorities should learn from their failure in protecting industrial estates like Nava Nakorn and Bang Kadi and dispatch a team of experts and soldiers to save industrial parks like Lat Krabang from getting submerged in the days to come.</p>

<p>Patrick Fuller, Asia Pacific Communications Manager of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies - IFRC) talks to Prachatai about the media's role in reporting natural disaster events and its potential to help mitigate the impacts.</p>

<p>Last Thursday, judging by how disorganised things were at Don Mueang Airport where the Flood Relief Operations Centre (FROC) is based, I realised that the Yingluck Shinawatra government was far too incompetent to handle the country's worst floods in decades.</p>