Regional and local news from across Thailand's provinces — in English, from Thai PBS World, Thailand's public broadcaster.
Phuket, a popular tourist island, has been hit by widespread flooding this morning after continuous heavy rainfall since early hours, with several areas under water and authorities urging residents to move belongings to higher ground.
Thais genuinely enjoy playing the lottery. Even though the chances of winning the grand prize are staggeringly low, only one in a million, they buy more and more tickets every day.
Monks at a temple in Loei’s Nong Hin district agreed today to return land without resistance, about nine years after a court ruled that part of the area was reserved forest and the rest was Sor Por Kor agricultural reform land.
A school in the Mae Sot district of Thailand’s Tak border province suspended classes today over safety concerns, following security reports of an imminent clash between Myanmar government troops and Karen resistance forces just across the border.
Two were killed and three others seriously injured after a heavy installation component fell onto them inside a railway tunnel under construction in Chiang Rai province on Saturday.
Major crackdowns on nominee-owned businesses were launched simultaneously today in Phuket, Phang-nga and Krabi provinces, as well as on Pha-ngan Island in Surat Thani province, targeting mainly real estate majority-owned by Thai nominees on behalf of foreign partners.
An army colonel was shot dead in his office at the provincial hall in the northeastern province of Kalasin this morning by a subordinate, over a transfer dispute, police said.
A depot on World War II’s infamous "Death Railway" has resurfaced from beneath a reservoir, where the site has remained underwater for decades, prompting researchers to race to Kanchanaburi province in western Thailand to survey the remnants of Nithe Station.
Customs officials and naval officers seized smuggled foreign cigarettes worth about 10 million baht near the Thai-Cambodian border in Pong Nam Ron district of Chanthaburi province on Sunday.
Effective tomorrow, Fisheries Department is imposing a fishing ban over a sizeable area of the Gulf of Thailand, in the seas off eight coastal provinces, to allow fish and other marine species to spawn and breed without disruption.
A mysterious circular island in Pathum Thani province, now dubbed the "Eye of Thailand", has captured the attention of Thai netizens, sparking debate over whether the formation was created by natural forces or human intervention.
A team of veterinarians from the Department of National Parks, Wildlife and Plant Conservation has been closely monitoring the movements of a sick and aging elephant in a forest in Lahansai district of Thailand's northeastern province of Buri Ram in an effort to provide it with medical treatment and nutritional supplements.
