Regional and local news from across Thailand's provinces — in English, from Thai PBS World, Thailand's public broadcaster.
Gina, the young kidnap victim, is recuperating satisfactorily in a hospital, in Chiang Mai province, and has allowed her parents to hug her again today (Thursday). The toddler’s father said that Gina is eating normally and appears to be fresher and healthier than yesterday, but a doctor said that she needs to be kept under
The Thai Meteorological Department warned today (Wednesday) that most parts of Thailand, which have been hit by heavy rain over the past few days, are expected to face more rain later this week, due to the influence of tropical storm “Conson”. Also known as “Jolina” in the Philippines, “Conson” will head west over the South
A couple is being been held in police custody for questioning in connection with the search for a 23-month-old girl, who went missing from a remote village in Mae Taeng district of Thailand’s northern province of Chiang Mai on Sunday night. The 44-year-old Akha man is a neighbour of the missing girl’s father. He and
A massive search was launched today, involving dozens of local police, border patrol police, rescue volunteers and villagers, for a girl aged one year and eleven months who has been missing from her home, in Intakin sub-district of Mae Taeng district in Thailand’s northern province of Chiang Mai, since Sunday night. Heat-seeking drones and sniffer
Doctors at Sichon Hospital, in Thailand’s southern province of Nakhon Si Thammarat, recently operated on a 17-year-old woman to remove a cyst from her ovary, which was found to contain hair, bone, teeth, fingernails and an oily material. The hospital’s director, Dr. Arak Wongworachat, later wrote in his Facebook post that the young woman was
A 72-year-old British man was found safe three days after disappearing in a thick jungle in northeastern Thailand while going to visit friends on a motorbike. A local hunter came across Barry Leonard Weller on Friday in a remote forest in Khon Kaen province, said Nattapat Tadee, a member of a local volunteer team that
Over 1,000 of cats have been stranded on Phi Phi Island, in Thailand’s Krabi Province, left behind by their owners after COVID-19 killed the country’s tourism industry. The cat’s owners, who were working people and entrepreneurs, left the islands at the start of the pandemic, thinking it would only be temporary. The situation, however, has
Bangpu industrial estate, in Thailand’s Samut Prakan province, is under a meter of water this morning (Sunday), following several hours of heavy overnight rain. All roads in the industrial estate remain impassable, except by trucks. Many cars in the estate are half-submerged. Workers tried to remove the floodwaters from the estate by activating four huge
When a child wants to have a remote control boat, most parents would just buy them at a toy store. This family in Ayutthaya, however, is a bit different. As the father built the boat himself, and later on, built some for sell too. ‘Umnard’ and his 9-year-old son ‘Nueng’ are working on their remote
A special train, bound for Bangkok from Su-ngai Kolok district of the southernmost province of Narathiwat, was hit by a bomb blast today (Saturday). The device is believed to have been hidden among boxes containing fruit in a freight car. The bomb went off at about 12.30pm as the train was approaching Tanyongmas railway station.
The private sector, in Thailand’s border district of Sadao in Songkhla province, is to propose the “Dan Nok Sandbox” scheme to the governor, to reopen the commercial town to arrivals from Malaysia, tentatively in November. An advisor to the association of business operators in Sadao district, Suthiphong Sitthipataraprapha, told Thai PBS that businesses in the
Love growing plants, but don’t have enough time or sufficient space? Fret not. Today, you can rent a piece of land, an 8-square-meter garden plot to be precise, and grow what you want to eat at home. The farmers will look after your garden – including watering and adding 2-4 inches of organic manure or organic fertilizer around
