Regional and local news from across Thailand's provinces — in English, from Thai PBS World, Thailand's public broadcaster.
Krungthep Thanakom, a state enterprise under the Bangkok Metropolitan Administration (BMA), has informed the Administrative Court that the company, under its previous administration, was not authorised to hire the Bangkok Mass Transit System Company (BTS) to operate the first and second extensions of the Green Line train service. The board of Krungthep Thanakom, at its
Two years ago, a driver’s licence point system was introduced in Thailand, in an attempt to decrease road accidents. There is, however, scant evidence that the system really works, as road traffic accidents and deaths in 2022 increased from the previous year. Data from the Department of Disease Control, at Ministry of Public Health, showed
Five people were killed and four others seriously injured when a pickup truck crashed into a roadside tree and overturned in Non Thai district of Thailand’s north-eastern province of Nakhon Ratchasima late Sunday night. Police said that the vehicle was being driven by a non-commissioned army officer, attached to the 11th Infantry Division. He was
A family of six Russian tourists were safely brought ashore in Pattaya on Sunday night by Thai tourist police, after they were abandoned on Sak Island, by a boat service operator. The group of four adults and two children left for the island by boat, provided by a boat service company located on Bali Hai
An elementary school girl became the first person to sit in the chair of Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha in his office at Government House on Children’s Day today (Saturday). Chotika Mungmee, a grade 3 student at Wat Rat Singkhon School, told the media that she intended to sit in the chair today and woke up
Pain and fever relief medications are running out at some pharmacies in Bangkok, particularly in areas where there is a high concentration of tourists from China, according to a random survey conducted by Thai PBS reporters. Nawat Chevapruek, a pharmacist at a drug store in the Huai Khwang district, said that the tourists are buying
A total of 251 children went missing from home last year, the highest in four years and an increase of 25% from 2021, according to the Mirror Foundation, a non-profit organisation dedicated to addressing the problem of missing children in Thailand. Chief of the Missing People Information Centre at the foundation, Eakalak Loomchomkhae, says 61%
A warehouse storing about 5,000 plastic barrels in Kaeng Khoi district of Saraburi was razed to the ground by fire late Wednesday night. More than 20 fire trucks rushed to the warehouse of Chor Chokwiwat Limited Partnership, in Huai Haeng sub-district, to fight the fire and prevent it from spreading to adjacent buildings. The warehouse
The Royal Thai Navy (RTN) is going to need about 100 million baht to raise the sunken HTMS Sukhothai from the bottom of the Gulf of Thailand and 12 suitably equipped companies have offered to undertake the work. A well-informed naval source said that Admiral Adung Phan-iam, the commander of the RTN fleet, had instructed
The State Railway of Thailand (SRT) began a test run of an electric locomotive, powered by on-board batteries, on Wednesday. The engine was jointly developed by the King of Mongkut Institute of Technology (KMIT) Ladkrabang, the Clean Energy Public Company and the SRT. Transport Minister Saksayam Chidchob said that, initially, the electric locomotives will be
A full report prepared by a House committee on the legalisation of casinos in Thailand and the setting up of entertainment complexes, including casinos, will be submitted to the House of Representatives tomorrow (Thursday) for consideration. In the report, the House committee is to propose that Bangkok, the Eastern Economic Corridor, 22 tourist provinces and
Altogether 540 motorists and motorcyclists had driving license points deducted on the first day of the enforcement of the points system yesterday (Monday), said the spokesman for the Royal Thai Police, Pol Maj-Gen Archayon Kraithong today. The most common violations were failure to display a valid annual road tax sticker (233), not displaying license plates
