By Panarat Thepgumpanat and Chayut Setboonsarng BANGKOK, Dec 1 (Reuters) - Thailand’s Prime Minister Anutin Charnvirakul is facing mounting criticism over his government’s slow response to deadly floods in the south,

Thailand’s government on Monday announced new relief measures for victims of one of the country’s worst floods in decades, weeks before an anticipated call for snap elections.

Prime Minister Anutin Charnvirakul on Tuesday declared a state of emergency for Songkhla province, which includes southern Thailand’s biggest city, Hat Yai, citing the “unprecedented severity” of the flooding that has caused widespread damage.

Deep in Thailand’s Dong Phayayen-Khao Yai Forest, conservationists use GPS collars to understand the eating habits, territory of the country’s last remaining Indochinese tigers.

Floods have swept through nine Thai provinces and eight states in neighboring Malaysia for a second successive year, prompting both countries to evacuate nearly 45,000 people.

Thailand’s government set out plans for new carbon taxes and an emissions trading system under the country’s first formal climate change legislation.

A court in Thailand said Wednesday that it had issued an arrest warrant for Jakkaphong “Anne” Jakrajutatip, a co-owner of the Miss Universe Organization.

The former Chelsea and Spurs youngster - an England youth international - has switched to play for the country of his mother's birth