Regional and local news from across Thailand's provinces — in English, from Thai PBS World, Thailand's public broadcaster.
People living in four flood-prone communities in Mae Rai district of Thailand’s northern province of Chiang Mai have been advised to evacuate to temporary shelters, at Phrom Vihara temple and the district’s conference hall, immediately, ahead of the anticipated arrival today of a mass of water from upstream, which is expected to exacerbate the current flooding.
A Phuket Appeals Court today sentenced a Swiss national to one month in jail, in absentia, after he was found guilty of assaulting a female doctor in Phuket in February last year.
China’s ‘Xue Long 2’ polar research icebreaker has moored at Thailand’s Chuk Samet Pier in Sattahip, in celebration of Princess Sirindhorn's 70th birthday and the 50th anniversary of Thai-Chinese diplomatic relations.
Deputy Prime Minister Phumtham Wechayachai has proposed the idea of constructing a dam across the Kok River, to block toxic contaminants, such as heavy metals discharged from unregulated Chinese-run mining operations in Shan state of Myanmar, from flowing downstream into Thai territory.
The Thai premier has assigned the Army, the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment, and the Foreign Ministry to negotiate with the Myanmar government to halt the discharge of wastewater contaminated with heavy metals into the Kok and Sai rivers.
A 33-year-old construction worker, who fell into a sinkhole in Bangkok’s Pom Prap Sattru Phai district yesterday, is believed to be dead, but his body has not yet been recovered.
A free trial of the extension of the Pink Line electric train service, between Si Rat and Muang Thong Thani stations, is open to the public from today until June 16th, from 6am to 10pm on week days and from 6am to 11.30pm on weekends.
Walls of a company building inside Amata City Industrial Estate in Chonburi province gave way, injuring some workers and damaging vehicles parked nearby.
The Air Force Commander-in-Chief has ordered the immediate transfer of a deputy battalion commander in Udon Thani province, pending an investigation into accusations that he ordered a soldier to work as a delivery driver and pocketed the majority of fees he collected.
The House committee, tasked with following up on budget spending, has discovered that more than 20 construction projects in the southern province of Trang are plagued with irregularities, with several being incomplete and abandoned by the contractors, while others are completed but not according to the designs.
The national police chief has stepped in to order legal action against a group of men who attacked a junior border police officer providing security at a municipal election unit in Songkhla province on Sunday.
More than 300 ethnic Karen civilians, many of them women, children and the elderly, have sought temporary refuge on the Thai side of the border, in Tha Song Yang district of Tak province, following fierce fighting between Myanmar government troops and Karen rebel forces.
