Regional and local news from across Thailand's provinces — in English, from Thai PBS World, Thailand's public broadcaster.
A doctor and nurses from Klaeng district hospital in Thailand’s Rayong province helped a pregnant woman give birth to a healthy baby on a pickup truck, which was marooned in heavy flooding in front of the hospital last night. A medic said that the truck could not get to the hospital in time, because the
Officials from Thailand’s Department of National Park, Wildlife and Plant Conservation and local administration organisations have been working on a way to encourage about 100 elephants to return into the jungle, after they were spotted foraging for food outside their habitat in the Thap Lan National Park. Chief of the park, which covers about 2,240km2
Three rescue volunteers were injured when the wall of a burning textile warehouse collapsed onto them as they were helping fire fighters to control a fire at the warehouse. The fire broke out at about 9pm Wednesday night in the Rat Burana district of Bangkok. Fire trucks and a team of rescue volunteers from a
Thai customs officials seized about eight tonnes of frozen pork, worth about 1.6 million baht, from two trucks in Kantharalak district of the north-eastern province of Maha Sarakham yesterday (Wednesday). According to the customs investigation and suppression unit based in the north-eastern region, officials received a tipoff that two trucks, one with an Ubon Ratchathani
The Medical Council of Thailand, along with 16 other medical organisations and royal colleges, have signed a petition seeking to limit the use of cannabis to medical purposes and firmly opposing its use for recreational purposes. They claim that the current policies, which do not consider cannabis to be a dangerous or illegal drug and
A Thai TikToker‘s tips on grocery shopping on a budget of just 4,000 baht ($109) a month are attracting thousands of followers amid a global food crisis as the southeast Asian nation grapples with its highest inflation in more than a decade. Phattaradej ‘Top’ Luechai, 29, creates bite-sized videos of himself buying cheap food in bulk, preparing it in
Thai authorities have found 41 more Rohingya, from Myanmar’s Rakhine state, on an island off the southern province of Satun, after Thai fishermen rescued ten people floating in the sea this morning (Wednesday). The Rohingya on the island, including some children, appeared to be malnourished and they were given food and water by Thai officials,
Ten Rohingya, from Myanmar’s Rakhine state, were rescued from the sea off the southern border province of Satun by a Thai trawler today (Tuesday). They were found floating, clinging to chunks of polystyrene foam, between Bulon and Khao Yai islands and were pulled from the sea by the crew of a trawler. They were put
There has been a rare and happy reunion between a cat and its owner, after the feline went missing from home in Hat Yai district in the southern province of Songkhla about a month ago. Last week the animal was found wandering along an expressway in Bangkok by a Good Samaritan and has now been
The Bangkok Metropolitan Administration (BMA) is being urged to promote the creation of bicycle “communities” in the capital, to encourage more people to turn to the bicycle as an alternative means of transport. Professor Dr. Thongchai Panswad, an advisor to the Thailand Walking and Cycling Institute (TWCI) and a pioneer in the use of bicycles
More than 1,280 hectares of rice fields in Thailand’s north-eastern province of Nakhon Ratchasima have been damaged after being under water for more than a week, and more rice farmland will be damaged if heavy rain continues. The affected rice fields are scattered across 25 villages along the Mun River. They flooded after irrigation officials
The police superintendent of Muang district police, in Thailand’s northern province of Chiang Rai, Pol Colonel Kittipong Sukwattanapun, has been transferred to an “inactive” post in the operations centre of the provincial police headquarters as punishment for his alleged failure to control the operations of a pub in the district. Officials from the Provincial Administration
