Regional and local news from across Thailand's provinces — in English, from Thai PBS World, Thailand's public broadcaster.
Police have seized more than 200,000 e-cigarettes, with an estimated retail value of about 100 million baht, in coordinated raids on five rented warehouses and five houses in Nonthaburi province.
Officials in Tap Lan National Park, in the northeastern province of Nakhon Ratchasima, are trying to help a gaur, which is suffering from serious eye infection.
The Expressway Authority of Thailand (EAT) has reopened one inbound traffic lane, for access to Chalerm Maha Nakhon expressway from Dao Khanong toll plaza on the Rama 2 Road, after workers have succeeded in removing the debris of a collapsed bridge from the road surface faster than expected.
The National Parks, Wildlife and Plant Conservation Department has been instructed to study the feasibility of allowing the private sector to manage accommodation and food services in designated zones within parks.
Four people were killed and six others injured when a Bangkok-bound express train hit a pickup truck on a railway crossing in Kantang district of Trang province on Thursday.
The Cabinet agreed today to extend the electricity price reduction retroactively, from January until April, for 21.3 million households which consume fewer than 300 units per month.
A 3.6 magnitude earthquake was detected in the Gulf of Thailand at 5.26am today, about 49 kilometres from the shore of the southern province of Chumphon, according to the Earthquake Surveillance Division of the Meteorological Department.
Chiang Rai provincial police seized 1.5 tonnes of crystal methamphetamine (Ice) from a military-style lorry on Sunday and arrested seven suspects in a major drug bust in Mae Fa Luang district.
A man who set a fire in the forest of the Khao Noik-Khao Pradu no hunting area, in Phitsanuloke province, causing damage to about 345.6 hectares of forested land, has been sentenced to four years, without suspension, and fined about 133 million baht by the Phitsanuloke province court.
The Department of National Parks, Wildlife and Plant Conservation has ordered the indefinite closure of Salak Phra wildlife sanctuary in Kanchanaburi province, after 839 hot spots were detected there recently, 50% more than those reported last year.
The police are to seek an arrest warrant for a female colonel, in connection with the theft of prescription drugs from the Veterans General Hospital in Bangkok.
An award-winning male teacher in Prachuap Khiri Khan province is being held for questioning, by officers from the Cyber Crime Investigation Bureau (CCIB), on charges of repeated sexual abuse of eight school boys, some as young at ten.
