Despite reports the contrary, Dr Smith Dharmasaroja has not resigned from his position as Director of the National Disaster Warning Center (NDWC). AP today reported:

The head of Thailand’s disaster warning center, established after the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, resigned Thursday, complaining a lack of government support made the agency «powerless to do anything.

But then Dr Smith told the Gaztte “that he told a press conference in Bangkok yesterday that he was only considering resigning – out of frustration from the lack of support from successive governments in funding the work of the NDWC”.