Regional and local news from across Thailand's provinces — in English, from Thai PBS World, Thailand's public broadcaster.
The chief of the “Dong Ma-I botanical garden of literature” in Thailand’s north-eastern province of Roi-et was transferred for three days today (Tuesday), pending an investigation into his possible complicity in the theft of seized rosewood (Dalbergia cochinchinensis) by about 30 men, several of whom were armed, last Saturday. The department’s director-general Atthaphon Charoenchansa said
Thailand’s Department of Intellectual Property has registered the Geographical Indication (GI) of the Nong Bua Daeng hom thong banana, for its unique texture due to the potassium-rich soil in Nong Bua Daeng district of the north-eastern province of Chaiyaphum. Vuttikrai Leewiraphan, director-general of the department, explained that the Nong Bua Daeng hom thong banana, in
Thailand’s durians, especially the Mon Thong variety, are seeing domestic and overseas demand pick up this harvest season. Suradet Sapprasarn, a wholesaler in Chanthaburi province, reputed to be the largest producer of durians, said that each wholesaler is exporting 2-5 cargo containers of the fruit to markets in China each day, adding that he is
A flight instructor was killed and his student seriously injured when their trainer aircraft crash-landed at the Kamphaeng Saen flight training school in Nakhon Pathom province today (Saturday). Air Vice Marshal Prapas Sornchaidee, spokesman for the Royal Thai Air Force, said that the flight instructor, Flight Lieutenant Supakit Inthachai, and his student, Pilot Officer Purin
More witnesses have come forward to report sudden deaths of their loved ones, believed to be from cyanide poisoning, after their encounters or contact with a female identified only as “Srarat”, aka “Am”, the sole suspect in a series of fatal poisonings. According to the Crime Suppression Division (CSD), 13 people in seven provinces who
The Royal Thai Navy (RTN) held a ceremony at the Chook Samet port in the Sattahip naval base on Tuesday to welcome the arrival from China of its new multi-purpose troop carrier vessel with its 196 officers and men. The new vessel, with Captain Thirasan Kongmun at the helm, was royally named HTMS Chang. Its
Thailand’s imports of luxury and beauty enhancement products, such as brand-name bags, fillers and Botox, during the first half of the 2023 fiscal year increased by 40% year on year, reflecting positive economic sentiment, the increasing purchasing power of consumers and a rebound in tourism. According to Panthong Loykulnan, deputy director-general of the Customs Department,
Wildlife conservation officials rescued 41 macaque monkeys and arrested a man as he was attempting to smuggle the animals across the border into Laos on Tuesday. Officials from the Protected Area Region 10 Office, based in the north-eastern province of Udon Thani, and police from the Natural Resources and Environmental Crime Suppression Division stopped a
Six Phayre’s langurs were found dead and two illegal hunters were injured in a clash with forest rangers in the Kaeng Krachan National Park in Thailand’s Phetchaburi province on Monday. According to the park chief, Somjet Chanthana, park rangers heard gunshots as they were on a routine patrol of the national park in Huay Mae
The classic challenge when developing policy is how to formulate government policies which respond to the specific needs of the people. Nowadays, the traditional ways of designing policies, exclusively by those in authority, are changing. There is more public participation, but the lack of platforms for collaboration between stakeholders, the inability to access the legislative
A six-year-old girl was killed when a large weeping fig (Ficus benjamina) tree fell onto the family home in Phrae province during summer storms, which also struck Phetchabun and Chiang Rai provinces last night, causing blackouts and uprooting trees. In the Tao Pun sub-district of Song district in Phrae, strong winds and hail struck Ban
Thailand’s Meteorological Department has advised people living in the north-east and east to brace for summer storms from Sunday until Wednesday. Attributing the storms to a moderate cold front from China colliding with the hot weather in the north, the weatherman says that the east and north-east will be the first to be hit by
