Thailand, Myanmar, Laos and Cambodia have been enveloped by an unexpectedly cold front, which descended from China last week. ADVERTISEMENTThailand’s Meteorological Department has predicted that temperatures in areas, excluding the south, will drop by another 2 to 4 deg C during the New Year holidays. She said older people, especially, were suffering in the cold snap. “We haven’t had weather this cold in 40 years,” Ms Sangdeaun Lek Chailert, founder of the Save Elephant Foundation which runs the camp, told The New York Times on Sunday. On the other side of Asia, severe cold weather coupled with dense fog blanketed many cities across Pakistan last week.

Source: Philippine Daily Inquirer December 29, 2017 10:07 UTC