Thailand's Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra said Saturday she expects all remaining flooded areas in Bangkok and surrounding provinces to be dry by the end of the year. In a national radio broadcast, Yingluck said the floods, the Kingdom's worst in more than half a century, were finally abating in all but 200 communities in low-lying areas of Bangkok, Nonthaburi, Pathum Thani and Nakhon Pathom provinces. Government agencies would rapidly drain flood waters from those areas and they would be dry by the end of this month, giving a new year's gift to residents, she was quoted as saying by DPA in the national radio broadcast.
