Regional and local news from across Thailand's provinces — in English, from Thai PBS World, Thailand's public broadcaster.
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
The Government Lottery Office has stopped paying out lottery prizes in cash, effective today (Saturday). Winners can instead claim their prize money through one of three channels, according to government deputy spokesperson Traisuree Traisoranakul. The winners can have the money transferred to their bank accounts, except when the prize exceeds two million baht, for which
A group of businessmen in Mae Sai district of Thailand’s northern province of Chiang Mai have donated money to buy 50,000 N95 face masks, for distribution to residents of the district, especially to poor and vulnerable people who cannot afford to buy them. One of the businessmen, Nikom Apirattanakosol, told the media that he has
Hundreds of fire fighters from Thailand’s northern provinces are now in Chiang Mai to help in combating forest fires in numerous areas, most lately in the Doi Suthep-Pui National Park. Fires were reported to have started last night in the park, in an area between Ban Pong sub-district in Hang Dong district and Mae Hia
Well-known politician from Samut Prakan province, Chonsawat Asavahame, died early this morning at a hospital in Buri Ram province. The 55-year-old politician and former mayor of the Samut Prakan Provincial Administration Organisation (PAO) collapsed, reportedly due to heatstroke, as he was practicing driving at the Chang International Circuit in Buri Ram yesterday (Thursday) afternoon. Deputy
