Regional and local news from across Thailand's provinces — in English, from Thai PBS World, Thailand's public broadcaster.
PM2.5 dust particles have returned to Bangkok and its neighboring provinces, with nine areas found to contain levels exceeding the 50-micron standard level today, according to the latest air quality readings by the Pollution Control Department. Blaming the poor air quality on weak low-altitude air flow, the department predicted that the situation might further deterioratetomorrow. The department pleaded for cooperation from
Seven explosions were reported late Saturday night and early Sunday morning in Thailand’s southern provinces of Satun and Phatthalung. Police in Satun province reported that two minor explosions occurred near the provincial police HQ in Muang district late Saturday. The first device, which was hidden in a garbage bin near the entrance of the police office, did not cause any damage but the second,
Thailand’s Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment will propose to the cabinet a total ban on the import of plastic waste into Thailand beginning next year. Natural Resources and Environment Minister Gen Surasak Karnjanarat said today that, as imports of plastic waste are to end next year, Thailand will increase recycling of locally-generated plastic waste
The Constitutional Court will today begin the process of deliberating the Election Commission’s request for it to consider dissolving the pro-Thaksin Thai Raksa Chart Party for its nomination of Princess Ubolratna as its prime minister candidate. The young political party is facing a charge of “engaging in an undertaking that might be hostile to
National Geographic has recently contacted the government-appointed Creative Media Committee for the rights to shoot a documentary about last July’s dramatic rescue operation at Tham Luang cave. British diver Rick Stanton, who was actively involved in the complicated rescue operation to save 12 Wild Guar footballers and their coach, told Thai PBS that the British cave diving team wrote a letter
Wang Nua district of Thailand’s Northern province of Lampang, which suffered over 30 aftershocks following a 4.9 magnitude quake related to the Phayao fault line on February 20th, has been officially declared a disaster zone by the provincial governor, Mr. Songphol Sawattham. The disaster zone covers seven sub-districts and 20 villages. About 80 houses, six
The board of Airports of Thailand Public Company, the operator of Suvarnabhumi international and several other airports in Thailand, has scrapped the Suvarnabhumi Airport Terminal 2 project design, budgeted at 329 million baht, provided by the DBALP Consortium, or the Duangrit Bunnag Group The board, on Wednesday, cited the need to overhaul the project’s design
Future Forward party leader Thanathorn Juangroongruangkit who is due to appear before the public prosecutor next week said Wednesday that he was not worried that he might be indicted and possibly denied bail on charges of violating the Computer Crimes Act. The young firebrand politician said while campaigning at Siam Square that the party
Two Italian tourists have been injured, one of them seriously, when they were thrown off an elephant at the Bang Kaeo Adventure elephant camp in Thailand’s southern province of Phang-nga on Tuesday. Muang district police, went to the park in Tambon Song Praek to investigate after being alerted of the incident by camp officials. Police were told that the two Italian tourists, whose identities are currently being withheld, hired
Despite protests by some farmer groups and the Democrat party, the National Legislative Assembly (NLA) is determined to go ahead with its planned deliberation of the controversial rice bill in its second and final readings on Wednesday. Objections to the bill focus on Section 27/1 which empowers the Rice Department as the sole authority for
About a year ago, irrigation officials were discharging excess water through Ubonrat dam to increase reservoir capacity to ease flood problems in Thailand’s northeastern province of Khon Kaen. Today, the same officials are urging people in the province to use water sparingly and farmers to suspend second-crop cultivation and to turn to crops which require
Marijuana, or “kanja” as it is known in Thailand, can now be grown legally and used in medical and scientific applicationswith the consent of the authorities concerned. The Narcotics Act B.E. 2562, which seeks to amend specific provisions of the Narcotics Act of 1979 to enable the use of marijuana for the treatment of patients, study, research and development as well as for agricultural, commercial and industrial uses for
