Regional and local news from across Thailand's provinces — in English, from Thai PBS World, Thailand's public broadcaster.
Thailand will enjoy economic prosperity and robust foreign trade, along with sufficient water for cultivation, good rice harvests and abundant food this year, according to the predictions made at the Royal Ploughing Ceremony this morning.
People are now reluctant to buy fish caught in the Kok River, due to reports that the river is contaminated with arsenic and other heavy metals, according to Somkiat Kuenchiangsa, President of the Living River Siam Association.
An anthrax control centre will be set up on Wednesday in Don Tarn district of the northeastern province of Mukdahan to handle the distribution of medication to people who are at high risk of exposure to the disease. They will also be monitored for 60 days.
A team of park officials and veterinarians have been dispatched to Kui Buri National Park, in Muang district of Prachuap Khiri Khan province, to help an injured elephant.
The security presence along the Thai-Lao border, in Wiang Kaen district of Chiang Rai, has been stepped up following sporadic fighting, between government forces and unknown armed groups, in Bo Kaeo province of Laos.
With more than 50 heirloom rice varieties in Loei Province, it is probably not a great surprise that one varietal, Khao Neaw Daeng Mueang Loei or Mueang Loei Red Glutinous Rice, was lost for decades.
The Department of Public Disaster Prevention and Mitigation began trials of the public disaster alert system at 1pm today, using cellular network sites to transmit warnings to mobile phones in five locations in Ubon Ratchathani, Suphan Buri, Songkhla and Bangkok.
A second man, in Don Tarn district of the north-eastern Thai province of Mukdahan, has contracted anthrax and is now undergoing treatment, while two other suspected cases are waiting until tomorrow for their test results.
The Khao Yai National Park office is trying to locate an army corporal who appeared in a viral video approaching and attempting to touch an elephant while holding a knife in one hand.
About six months after recovering from the worst flooding in three decades, the Mae Sai border district of Chiang Rai province was struck by another flash flood today.
A motorist was injured when a cement block fell from the Rama 2 elevated expressway construction site onto his pickup truck.
Samples of sediment taken from the Kok riverbed, in Muang district of Chiang Rai and Mae Ai district of Chiang Mai, have been found to contain excessive amounts of arsenic, which is dangerous to aquatic species that feed on sediment.
