Regional and local news from across Thailand's provinces — in English, from Thai PBS World, Thailand's public broadcaster.
One of Thailand’s best known former actors and directors, Sombat Metanee, died today at the age of 85. According to a Facebook post by Suda Chuenban, the legend has died and she wishes to extend her deep condolence to his family. At one time, Sombat held the Guinness World Record for most film appearances, over
Thailand’s Ministry of Tourism and Sports will propose its pilot project, to allow pubs and bars in Bangkok’s Khao San area to operate until 4am, instead of 2am, to the Centre for COVID-19 Situation Administration (CCSA), but it will have to get consent from the people living in the neighbourhood as well, said Tourism and
India has recently emerged as a potential market for several CITES-listed animal species being smuggled out of Thailand, with the interdiction of more than six trafficking cases in the past four months involving Indian smugglers. According to Director of the Division of Wild Fauna and Flora Protection Prasert Sornsathapornkul, four trafficking cases were intercepted in
Officials from the Pollution Control Department, based in Chiang Mai province, have collected samples from a creek and waterfalls in Doi Suthep-Pui National Park for lab tests, after a report in a recent social media post claimed that the water there may be contaminated with E.coli bacteria. The department’s director-general, Attapol Charoenchansa, said yesterday (Monday)
Netizens have heaped praise on a kind-hearted taxi-driver who offered a free ride from Bangkok to the north-eastern province of Udon Thani to a family of three, after they were evicted from a rented room in the middle of the night by the landlord, because of the non-stop crying of their 4-month-old baby girl. According
A Singaporean tourist was killed and four others were injured when their car crashed into a micro bus on a steep road in Muang district of Phuket late last night (Friday). Pol Cpt Charnnarong Prakopngkua, deputy inspector of Karon police station, said that there were five Singaporeans, two men and three women, in the Toyota
Another person, injured in the August 5th blaze at the Mountain B pub in Sattahip district of Chon Buri province, died yesterday (Friday) at Thammasat University Hospital, bringing the death toll to 18. The 17-year-old victim Siriwan had been on life-support since she was admitted to the hospital after the fire, according to her elder
More than 2,000 households and about 200 shops in four communities in the municipal area of Mae Sai district of Thailand’s northern province of Chiang Rai are inundated this morning (Saturday), after the Sai River, swollen by heavy rain triggered by Tropical Depression Mulan, breached some sections of the flood wall. Troops from the Pha
Thailand’s Natural Resources and Environment Minister Varawut Silpa-archa has ordered park officials to track down a western tourist who was seen, in a widely-shared online post, with a bunch of parrot fish he allegedly caught in the seas off Phi-Phi Leh Island in Hat Noppharat Thara – Mu Ko Phi National Park in the southern
Another 2 deaths, resulting from the fire at the Mountain B pub in Chon Buri province last Friday, have been confirmed yesterday and today (Thursday), bringing the toll to 17. Twenty nine other people are currently receiving treatment in hospital, with 15 on ventilators. 9 people have already been discharged from hospital. Thirteen people died
While the death toll from the fire in the Chon Buri pub early Friday morning has increased to 15 today (Saturday), Suvadee Suetrong, a representative of the Mountain B pub’s owner, claims that there were three fire exits, but she didn’t know that they had all been locked from the outside, as she insisted that
One worker died and five others were injured when the net in which they were being lifted off a coal freighter onto the dockside by crane on Si Racha Island, in Thailand’s eastern province of Chon Buri, snapped yesterday evening. Port officials said that the net was about 20 metres above the freighter when it
