Regional and local news from across Thailand's provinces — in English, from Thai PBS World, Thailand's public broadcaster.
Several districts in Chiang Mai were hit by rain and hail storms on Saturday, causing widespread damage to houses, utility poles, trees and billboards. There were no fatalities, although one person was slightly injured. According to reports, the summer rain and hail storms struck Mueang, Mae Rim, San Sai and Doi Saked districts. Hail covered
About 600 houses, most of them in Mueang district, were damaged when heavy rain and hail storms hit Chiang Mai on Saturday afternoon, according to initial reports from the provincial office of public disaster prevention and mitigation. Seventeen sub-districts in Mueang, Mae Rim, San Kamphaeng and San Sai were affected by the storms, which began
Three tourists and four crew members from a speed boat were safely rescued today (Saturday), after their vessel capsized near Ma Island in the Andaman Sea. Responding to a distress call from the Andaman Adventure Company, operator of the speed boat service, after its vessel took on water as it was heading for Phuket from
A student and a car driver died and about 40 other students were injured late Friday night, when a bus, taking the students on a study trip, was in a collision with a car in Sawankhalok district of Sukhothai province. The district police said that the tour bus was returning from Chon Buri carrying more
Police are looking for the owner of a pickup truck who had his vehicle cleaned at a car wash in Si Maha Phot district of Prachin Buri about three weeks ago. An employee at the car wash, in Village 10 of Krok Sombun sub-district, told a rescue worker from the Ruam Katanyu Foundation that he
About 300 villagers in the Muang Chet Ton sub-district of Thailand’s Uttaradit province rallied today (Saturday) to put voice to the hardships allegedly caused by powder from tapioca flour factories. The protesting villagers claim that many of them have been suffering from respiratory conditions, lung problems and skin rashes, allegedly caused by airborne tapioca powder.
The deputy provincial health chief of Nakhon Ratchasima has been ordered to cease performing his duty and has been transferred to an inactive post at the 9th public health regional office, pending the outcome of an investigation into his alleged involvement in corruption concerning the holding of “virtual” training courses for health officials. The immediate
Lampang is one of 17 northern provinces which have been seriously affected by high levels of PM2.5 dust, due to the burning of farm waste and the lighting of forest fires by villagers in their hunt for wild animals or when picking wild mushrooms in the rainy season. There is, however, a sub district in
Police in Prachin Buri has questioned the owners of more than 20 scrap dealerships in the province. None of them claimed to have seen the steel tube containing radioactive caesium-137. Meanwhile, the provincial administration has sought help from neighbouring provinces in the search for dangerous material. Pol Maj-Gen Vinai Nutcha, the commander of Prachin Buri
The police officer, who was arrested after a day-long armed stand-off with special operations officers at his house in Bangkok’s Sai Mai area, has died from wounds he sustained during the siege. Pol Col Rangsan Sornsing, superintendent of Sai Mai police station, said today (Thursday) that Pol Lt-Col Kittikarn died at about 10pm at Bhumibol
Chiang Mai-based Living River Association (LRA) has joined forces with seven local communities along the Ing River to protect Pulu or big-headed turtle (Platysternon megacephalum), an endangered species which is facing extinction from commercial hunting and forest fires. Kriangkrai Jaengsawang, an official of the conservation association, told Thai PBS that, although the Pulu turtle is
Thailand’s police inspector-general, Pol Gen Visanu Prasarttong-Osoth, has ordered all provincial police bureaux to conduct random checks of the physical and mental health of the men in every police station, in an attempt to ensure that they are healthy to avoid a repeat of the recent armed stand-off in Bangkok’s Sai Ma area involving an
