Thailand Expands Disaster Insurance Amid Rising Death Toll
Thailand is expanding its new disaster insurance scheme following a death toll of 24 attributed to natural disasters. News also covers the departure of the USS George H.W. Bush from Phuket and flash floods in Bangkok.
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