Regional and local news from across Thailand's provinces — in English, from Thai PBS World, Thailand's public broadcaster.
Forest fires have destroyed about 80 hectares of forest in the Doi Tung development project, in Thailand’s northern province of Chiang Rai, and worsened the air pollution in Mae Sai district, with the level of PM2.5 dust rising to 443 microns. The fires started at about 3pm in Ban Pha Bue, one of several villages
Migrant workers in the fishing and seafood processing industry in Thailand continue to face major decent work deficits, despite the major reforms government has introduced, according to Benjamin Harkins, Technical Officer (Ship to Shore Rights South-East Asia), International Labour Organisation. According to the International Labor Organization (ILO), decent work is that which “is productive and
More than 5,000 refugees from Myanmar, including about 800 children, have fled fighting to take temporary refuge in the Mae Sot and Mae Ramat districts of Thailand’s western province of Tak. Local Thai officials said that the refugees, who are mostly ethnic Karen people, have been crossing the Moei River, a natural borderline and shallow
Hazardous industrial waste has recently been found dumped into an old landfill in Phachi district of Ayutthaya province. Responding to complaints filed by villagers living near thel landfill in Villages 2 and 3 of Khok Muang sub-district, officials from the Nonthaburi-based pollution control office and from Phachi district went to investigate. They discovered that six
Thai anti-narcotics police have seized large quantities of drugs, including 19 million meth pills, and arrested 15 suspects in operations in northern and north-eastern provinces between March 28th and April 4th. Pol Gen Chinnapat Sarasin, the national deputy police chief, said today (Wednesday) that the 15 suspects in custody are members of six drug trafficking
Villagers in Mae Suai district of Thailand’s northern province of Chiang Rai have been busy building firebreaks to protect their lychee plantations from forest fires in Doi Kat Phi forest park. A headman of Ban Pan Kuseng village, in Wawi sub-district, told Thai PBS that fires have been raging in Doi Kat Phi forest park
The Meteorological Department issued a second warning of summer storms today (Wednesday), with isolated hail, in several north-eastern, northern, eastern and central provinces, including Bangkok, until Sunday. The department said the summer storms are the result of moderate cold front from China, which is forecast to spread over Thailand’s north-eastern region and the South China
Three Chinese nationals, wanted in Thailand for alleged involvement in the kidnap and murder of a Chinese student in Nonthaburi province last week, have been arrested by Chinese police in Hebei province in the northern part of Beijing. Pol Gen Damrongsak Kittipraphat, Thailand’s national police chief, told a press conference this morning (Tuesday) that a
Prayut Chan-o-cha, in his capacity as the prime ministerial candidate of the United Thai Nation Party, was among a number of party leaders at Bangkok City Hall in Din Daeng this morning (Tuesday) to draw the numbers for party-list candidates and to submit party-list candidate names to the Election Commission. Responding to a reporter’s question
The Fuel Fund Executive Committee decided today (Monday) to cut the pump price of diesel by another 50 satang/litre, effective from April 7th. This fourth price cut will bring the total price reduction since February to two baht and take the pump price of diesel from 33.50 baht/litre to 33 baht/litre, said Wisak Pattanasak, director
Officials in Thailand’s Nakhon Nayok are confident that they will be able to control the forest fires today (Sunday), if weather conditions are suitable for fire fighters to do their job. Only 10% of the areas that were burning still need to be extinguished. Members of the Disaster Response Association said that the sky has
Three villages in Mueang and Hang Dong districts of Chiang Mai have been declared disaster zones by the provincial administration, as people in the northern capital are being choked by PM2.5 dust, the level of which is many times higher than Thailand’s safety level of 50-microns in many areas. Deputy Governor Chatchawarl Panya, acting on
