Regional and local news from across Thailand's provinces — in English, from Thai PBS World, Thailand's public broadcaster.
The El Niño weather phenomenon this year will not only prolong the dry season in Thailand, but will also fuel forest fires in many parts of the country throughout the rainy season and into next year, Athapol Charoenshunsa, chief of the Department of National Parks, Wildlife and Plant Conservation, said today.
Food and Drug Administration (FDA) inspected a factory in Samut Sakhon province today, after a report by a Facebook claiming that fish in canned products he purchased appeared abnormal and did not match the label stating that they were mackerel.
Kuerk Bay, also known as “Donald Duck Bay,” in Mu Ko Similan National Park, has been ranked 10th on the list of the world’s 50 best beaches for 2026.
The Nakhon Ratchasima Zoo officially announced today that its newest star, a female pygmy hippo calf, has been named ‘Moo Daeng’ (Red Pork) following a massive public poll that garnered over 370,000 votes.
The Department of National Parks, Wildlife and Plant Conservation (DNP) has announced plans to release ‘Si Daw Kaew’, a well-known male wild elephant, back into the Khao Ang Rue Nai Wildlife Sanctuary during the upcoming rainy season, to ensure his smooth transition back to nature.
Thammasat University and its network of partners have launched a ‘Work for Freedom’ initiative to assist impoverished inmates who are serving prison time because they cannot afford to pay court-ordered fines.
Four workers have died of suspected suffocation after descending into an abandoned well at an oil palm plantation in Khura Buri district of Phang Nga today.
Five foreign tourists, including a two-year-old boy, were injured when a car suddenly reversed at high speed onto a crowded pavement on Pattaya Sai 2 Road in Nong Prue on Wednesday night.
Hundreds of Thai nationals living near the Thai-Myanmar border in Sob Moei district of the northern province of Mae Hong Son have been evacuated to safer areas after a bomb was dropped on their village this morning by a Myanmar military aircraft.
At least nine passengers, including four children aged between 8 and 15, were killed when a pickup truck in which they were riding skidded off the road at a curve in Nan’s Pua district on Saturday.
A total of 242 people were killed and 1,200 others injured in 1,242 road accidents recorded over the seven days of Songkran, according to the Road Accidents Prevention and Mitigation Command Centre.
Twenty-three people were killed and 161 others injured in 156 road accidents across the country yesterday, bringing the cumulative toll over six days of Songkran celebrations to 216 deaths and 1,073 injuries from 1,108 accidents, according to the Road Accidents Prevention and Mitigation Command Centre.
