Regional and local news from across Thailand's provinces — in English, from Thai PBS World, Thailand's public broadcaster.
The deadly inferno at the Mountain B pub in Sattahip district of Chon Buri on August 5th claimed its 24th life last night (Monday), at the Somdech Phra Pinklao military hospital in Thon Buri. The latest victim, Pattharakrit Suwanchim, a non-commissioned naval officer, was pronounced dead at 8.40pm. He had been hospitalised since he sustained
Three houses in a crowded community in Bangkok’s Thung Khru district burned down early this morning. Firemen said that the narrow lane made it difficult for them to reach the scene of the fire in Pracha-uthit Soi 56 quickly. They said, however, that it took only about 30 minutes to extinguish the blaze. One local
One person died and two others were injured when a falling tree crushed their pick-up truck, during heavy rain in Huai Thap Than district of Thailand’s north-eastern province of Si Sa Ket yesterday (Wednesday), according to an initial report from the Department of Public Disaster Prevention and Mitigation on damage being caused by Tropical Storm
Three domestic flights from Bangkok to the north-eastern province of Ubon Ratchathani this morning (Wednesday) were forced to turn back, after the pilots were unable to land due to poor weather conditions caused by approaching tropical storm Noru. Thai VietJet Air flight VZ226 left Suvarnabhumi at 7.45am today for Ubon Ratchathani, but the pilot was
Police helped a 10-year-old Chinese-American girl found walking alone on a roadside in Chonburi province on Wednesday night on her way to Bangkok reunite with her father. The girl said she was heading for Suvarnabhumi airport to try to catch a flight to see her mother in China, according to police. They said the girl
Tropical storm Noru is expected to arrive over Thailand’s north-eastern provinces of Ubon Ratchathani and Amnat Charoen at about 10pm tonight (Wednesday), bringing heavy rain to 14 provinces, according to an updated weather report from the Thai Meteorological Department. Thanasith Iamananchai, deputy director-general of the department, said this morning that Noru is moving west, towards
The Livestock Development Department buried about 24 tonnes of frozen pork, which originated in Brazil and was smuggled into Thailand from a neighboring country, at a landfill in Phayuha Khiri district of Nakhon Sawan province yesterday (Monday). The pork was seized from a cold storage facility in Samut Prakan on September 11th. It was delivered
A woman in Thailand who is no more than 20-weeks into her pregnancy will be able to seek a legal abortion, with prior consultation from a medical practitioner, to be conducted by a medical professional, under an edict of the Ministry of Public Health, which was published in the Royal Gazette on September 26th and
A retired fine arts lecturer at Chiang Mai University has claimed that the ancient Chiang Mai city wall and Chang Phuak Gate, which partially collapsed due to heavy rain last weekend, are not the original wall and gate built over seven centuries ago, but were rebuilt only about 80 years ago. Emeritus Professor Surapol Damrikul
Thailand’s Botanical Garden Organisation (BGO) has recently given the scientific name to a new species of Krachiao plant, or Siam tulip (Curcuma Suphanensis P), in the Zingiberaceae family, which was found for the first time by a team of botanists back in 2018 in the central province of Suphan Buri. According to Dr. Piyakaset Suksathan,
With no vegetarian festival for three years in Thailand, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, residents and businesses in Hat Yai, the commercial hub of the country’s southern border provinces, have been preparing for the launch of the festival tomorrow. Chinese temples in the district have been storing up vegetarian food and have hired more people
Thailand’s Department of National Parks, Wildlife and Plant Conservation has announced the discovery of a second near-extinct species of freshwater crab, officially named “Indochinamon Bhumibol” in the Wang Pong-Chon Daen no-hunting area in the northern province of Phetchabun. Suphakorn Intharaprasit, chief of the no-hunting zone, said today (Sunday) that forest rangers stumbled upon the crab
