Regional and local news from across Thailand's provinces — in English, from Thai PBS World, Thailand's public broadcaster.
Two workers were killed and three others sustained serious burns when a chemical storage tank exploded at a factory in Thailand’s eastern province of Rayong on Tuesday afternoon. The Map Ta Phut Tank Terminal Company said in a statement today (Wednesday) that the explosion occurred at about 3pm yesterday, as workers from Qualitech Engineering and
Closed to visitors since April 2019, the Phra Pathom Chedi National Museum is now reopening with a new and spectacular exhibition, which includes the Inscription of Wat Phra Ngam, the most recent Dvaravati epigraphic evidence discovered at the archaeological site in Nakhon Pathom. The Phra Pathom Chedi Museum, located in Nakhon Pathom province, 57 kilometers west
No dangerous chemical residue has been found and the air quality in Pathum Thani province remains normal, according to the Pollution Control Department, following a fire that broke out on Tuesday at a foam factory in Navanakorn Industrial Estate. Damage is estimated at about Bt100 million. The fire covered an area of 1,600 square meters,
Having won this year’s national crown last night (Sunday), Thai-Australian model Anchilee Scott-Kemmis will compete in the global Miss Universe 2021 pageant, to be held in Eilat, Israel this December. Her win is being considered a changing point, as Anchilee aims to challenge existing Thai beauty standards and will represent women of other body shapes
Chulalongkorn University’s administration has been urged to do something about the Student Union’s controversial decision to cancel a customary procession, featuring the Phra Kieo coronet, during this year’s traditional soccer match against Thammasat University. Nantiwat Samart, former deputy director of the National Intelligence Agency, said in his Facebook post that the union’s choice of the
Thailand’s Royal Irrigation Department has ordered all sluice gates in key dykes to be guarded around the clock after a recent incident involving the unauthorised opening of a gate in the Sam Kok district of Pathum Thani, causing alarm among people living downstream as the water level in their communities suddenly started to rise. The
People living in Thailand’s eastern, lower central, and upper southern regions are advised to brace for heavy rain next Friday and Saturday when an atmospheric depression is expected to make landfall near Vietnam’s Ho Chi Minh City next Thursday. According to Team Group, who are water resource experts, a low-pressure system is forming over the
The Nakhon Sawan provincial court ruled today (Wednesday) that the drug suspect, who was seen in video footage with his head covered by plastic bags while in police custody at Muang district’s police station, died of suffocation. The court said that Thitisan Utthanaphon, aka “Joe Ferrari”, then superintendent of Nakhon Sawan’s Muang district police station,
Thailand is expected to enter the cold season next week and the periods of chilly weather will last longer, 5 to 7 days at a time instead of just 3 or 5 days as in previous years, according to the Thai Meteorological Department. Head of Central Weather Forecast Sub-division, Somkuan Tonjan, said today (Wednesday) that,
Thailand’s Department of Public Disaster Prevention and Mitigation has notified the Bangkok Metropolitan Administration (BMA) to advise the city’s riverside residents to brace a rise in the level of the Chao Phraya River from this Saturday until October 30th. In an urgent letter, sent to Bangkok Governor Aswin Kwanmuang yesterday (Monday), the department’s director-general, Boontham
Hundreds of trucks and their drivers, affiliated with the Land Transport Federation of Thailand, gathered this morning (Tuesday) at muster points on six main routes in different parts of the country, in a show of “truck power” to press their demand for the diesel price to be pegged at 25 baht/litre for a period of
Thailand’s Highways Department will put the new M-Flow toll system on tests from October 29th at Dan Tap Chang and Dan Tanya Buri toll plazas on Motorway No 9, which will allow seamless travel for motorists and help reduce congestion at toll gates. Transport Minister Saksayam Chidchob said today (Tuesday) that the toll system will
