Regional and local news from across Thailand's provinces — in English, from Thai PBS World, Thailand's public broadcaster.
The Zoological Park Organisation of Thailand are making preparations, at Khao Kheow open zoo in the eastern province of Chon Buri, for a birthday celebration for Mae Malee, the longest surviving hippopotamus in Thailand, which will turn 57 on September 8th. The organisation’s director, Attapon Srihayrun, said today (Wednesday) that Mae Malee will be treated
More than 135,000 hectares of land, including about 42,560 hectares of rice fields in the Nan, Chao Phraya, Pasak and Bang Pakong river basins, are now flooded, according to the Geo-Informatics and Space Technology Development Agency (GISTDA). Images from GISTDA’s Sentinel-1 satellite, released yesterday (Monday), show flooded areas in Sukhothai, Uttaradit, Suphan Buri, Phetchabun, Prachin
A 15-year-old schoolboy is awaiting surgery, to treat serious muscle inflammation at the back of his left knee, after he was allegedly forced, by his teacher, to stand and sit 200 times for missing class at a school in Lao Kwan district of Kanchanaburi province. The boy’s mother has demanded 150,000 baht in compensation from
Five workers were seriously injured in an explosion at a cooking gas tank filling factory in Bang Sao Thong district of Thailand’s Samut Prakan province last night (Monday). According to reports from firefighters, who were the first to arrive, a group of workers were transferring the liquefied petroleum gas from a large tank into cylinders
The National Police Policy Committee Meeting has voted unanimously to appoint Police General Damrongsak Kittipraphat as the next National Police Chief, succeeding Police General Suwat Jangyodsuk, who will retire on September 30th. The meeting was chaired by the acting prime minister Prawit Wongsuwan. Police General Damrongsak has, to date, been responsible for national security and
Five waterfalls in Khao Yai National Park, in Thailand’s north-eastern provinces of Nakhon Ratchasima and adjacent Nakhon Nayok, have been declared off-limits to visitors until end of September for safety reasons. The five waterfalls are Haew Narok, Haew Suwat, Nang Rong, Sarika and Takhro. Triggered by heavy rain in mountainous areas, currents caused by the
Thailand’s Royal Irrigation Department is racing against time to discharge more water through the Pasak Jolasid Dam in Lop Buri province and the Chao Phraya Dam in Chai Nat province, in anticipation of the arrival of a large volume of water from the north of Thailand over the next two weeks. Surasri Kidtimonton, secretary-general of
After being reported as a missing person by her sister, a 54-year-old Thai woman has been rescued from her bathroom by Phra Khanong police in Bangkok. She had been stuck in the room for 3 days, due to a faulty door knob. Once free, the woman said she had even written a goodbye note to
Thailand’s Committee on Energy Policy Administration (CEPA) agreed today (Monday) to help shoulder the burden on household electricity consumers through discounts from September until December, the period the fuel tariff (FT) will be hiked. According to the committee, households which use no more than 300 units of electricity per month will get a discount of
Rueangrit Promdam has a passion for caves and all forms of life therein. That is why, several years ago, he chose to become a speleologist, or cave researcher, at the Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn Natural History Museum at the Prince of Songkhla University in Thailand’s Hat Yai. In a recent talk with Thai PBS, during
Seven students sustained injuries when a steel bridge over a man-made lake, on which they and a dozen others were standing and jumping, suddenly collapsed at a resort in Chian Yai district of Thailand’s southern province of Nakhon Si Thammarat yesterday (Saturday). The students, from Wat Sema Muang municipal school, were on a study trip
Thailand’s Meteorological Department issued a bulletin today (Saturday) warning people living in 40 provinces across the country, including Bangkok and its peripherals, of heavy to very heavy rain until Monday. The precipitation is being triggered by the convergence of the monsoon trough looming over Myanmar, northern and north-eastern Thailand and the low pressure cell over
