Regional and local news from across Thailand's provinces — in English, from Thai PBS World, Thailand's public broadcaster.
The Supreme Administrative Court ruled today that the Ministry of Education’s ‘Regulation 2’ regarding student’s hairstyles, issued in 1975 in line with ‘Announcement 132’ of the Revolutionary Council, is inappropriate and unconstitutional, because it infringes on students’ bodily autonomy.
The haze problem in Thailand’s northern and north-eastern provinces, caused by wild fires, is increasing, forcing Bangkok Airways, a domestic airline, to suspend flights on the Suvarnabhumi-Lampang-Mae Hong Son route between March 15th and April 20th.
The National Alcoholic Beverage Policy Committee has decided to retain the ban on sales of alcohol on the major religious holidays of Magha Puja, Visakha Pucha, Asalha Puja, the start of Buddhist Lent and the end of Buddhist Lent, according to Minister of Digital Economy and Society Prasert Chantararuangthong.
The Bangkok South Civil Court decided today to accept a class action lawsuit filed against Charoen Pokphand Foods (CPF), a unit of the Charoen Pokphand Group, by a group of fishermen and fish farmers in Samut Songkhram province, demanding a compensation of 2.5 billion baht for the damage caused by the proliferation of Blackchin tilapia fish.
A wildlife official was killed and another injured when they were attacked by a wild elephant in a fruit orchard in Lom Kao district of Phetchabun province on Monday.
Natural Resources and Environment Minister Chalermchai Srion has ordered the director-general of Forest Department to have all provincial governors check whether any of the 80,000 hectares (500,000 rai) of state land distributed the landless poor have been sold illegally to private companies or to nominees of Chinese investors.
A motorcyclist has filed a complaint at the Bang Srimuang police station in Nonthaburi province against the owner of a red Mazda sedan, who allegedly rammed the car into his motorbike on Ratchapruek Road, with an apparent intention to harm him.
A warning about cross-border haze, from widespread forest fires in Myanmar this coming week, has been issued by the Geo-Informatics Space Technology and Development Agency (GISTDA) for people living in Thailand’s northern, north-eastern and western provinces.
The US and Japanese embassies in Bangkok issued security alerts for their citizens in Thailand on Friday, a day after the Thai government secretly and controversially deported 40 Uyghurs back to China.
The driver of the ill-fated double-decker bus, which was involved in a fatal accident in Prachin Buri early Wednesday morning, allegedly did not stop every four hours for a rest as legally required, according to Sorapong Paitoonphong, deputy permanent secretary of the Transport Ministry, today.
The Provincial Administration Department has been ordered, by Interior Minister Anutin Charnvirakul, to investigate complaints received from condominium owners about Chinese investors renting their units to tourists on a daily basis, in violation of the Hotels Act.
The Royal Thai Navy (RTN) announced the seizure of a Vietnamese fishing boat and its crew today, for illegally fishing in Thailand’s Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) in the Gulf of Thailand.
