Regional and local news from across Thailand's provinces — in English, from Thai PBS World, Thailand's public broadcaster.
The Phuket provincial marine office has started clamping down on jet skis and parasail boats in the sea off Surin Beach, which has been declared off-limits to all motorised marine sports activities. Marine officials were dispatched to the beach in Choeng Thale sub-district on Friday, after they received complaints about jet skis and parasail boats
A woman burned to death and three others were injured in a fire at a machine shop in Phra Samut Chedi district of Samut Prakan province early Saturday morning. Police said that four people, including the owner, his wife, a 70-year woman and a municipal official, were resting in a house next to the machine
Twenty-two school children were injured, mostly suffering bruises, in a road accident involving a school van in Non Thai district of Thailand’s north-eastern province of Nakhon Ratchasima on Thursday morning. The driver of the van said that he was picking up kindergarten and primary students of the Sai Mit Non Thai School in Kampang sub-district.
A Malaysian tourist and her five-year-old daughter have drowned after a long-tailed boat, in which her family of three were travelling, capsized in the seas off the Mueang district of the southern province of Krabi yesterday (Wednesday). The family were on a sea tour, off Nong Thale sub-district, without life jackets. Only the skipper was
Atthaphon Charoenchansa, director-general of Marine and Coastal Resources Department, was appointed the director-general of National Parks, Wildlife and Plant Conservation on Wednesday, with immediate effect by Minister of Natural Resources and Environment Varawut Silpa-archa. Formerly director-general of Forest Department, Atthaphon replaces Rutchada Suriyakul Na Ayutya, who was arrested in December on corruption charges and transferred
A floating crane was deployed on Saturday to salvage a huge metal sheet from the bottom of the Mae Klong River in Samut Songkhram Province, following the explosion of an oil tanker at a dockyard in Mueang district. A shipping company official said that it took about two hours to lift the steel sheet, which
Over 27,000 professional and amateur runners are expected to join the 7th Buri Ram Marathon 2023 today (Saturday), in Thailand’s north-eastern province of Buri Ram. Provincial Governor Chaiwat Chuntirapong estimates that this major sporting event, which starts at 6.30pm and finishes at about 2.30am, will generate about one billion baht in revenue for Buri Ram
Wildlife officials and veterinarians used a tranquiliser shot to sedate a sick wild elephant before they could treat the animal in a forest in the Tha Takiap district of Chachoengsao Province on Wednesday. Two elephants were found wandering in Ang Toei forest on Tuesday, but one of them had a bad wound on the left
Rescue teams recovered five out of six bodies found on Wednesday in the Mae Klong River, bringing the confirmed death toll in the oil tanker fire and explosion to eight. One is still missing. Dozens of rescue workers, including divers equipped with underwater scanners, and jet skiers resumed the search within a 100-metre radius of
The Thai cabinet has approved 6.2 billion baht for the Royal Irrigation Department to build a reservoir in Tha Wang Pha district of the northern province of Nan. Deputy Government Spokesperson Rachada Dhnadirek said that the multi-purpose reservoir is not only for irrigation, but to store water for consumption, ease flooding and serve as a
At least four people were injured and a number of houses sustained damage when an empty oil tanker caught fire, followed by an explosion, while it was undergoing maintenance at a dockyard on the Mae Klong River in Mueang district of Samut Songkhram Tuesday morning. According to the Thai Maritime Enforcement Command Centre, there was
A group of Moken sea nomads, from Lipe Island in Thailand’s southernmost province of Satun, rallied in front of the Treasury Department on Tuesday, to demand justice over alleged land encroachment and intimidation. The group also submitted a petition to an official at the United Nations office in Bangkok this morning (Tuesday), seeking an investigation
