Regional and local news from across Thailand's provinces — in English, from Thai PBS World, Thailand's public broadcaster.
Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha has reminded everyone celebrating the Loy Krathong festival tonight of the need to protect the environment by using Krathong, the traditional floating baskets, made of only bio-degradable or environment-friendly materials. The Prime Minister also asked revellers to be mindful of their safety while releasing their floats from piers, river banks or
The current village guard system, in the restive Deep South of Thailand, will be completely overhauled or replaced by a mobile system, under which village defence volunteer units will be on regular patrol to seek insurgents, instead of being a “sitting duck” target for attacks. The overhaul of the security system was announced yesterday by
About 200 local and border patrol police are hunting for two fugitives and their helpers who are believed to be on the run near the Thai-Cambodian border in Sa Kaew province in an apparent bid to flee into Cambodia. According to Sa Kaew provincial police commander Pol Maj-Gen Prasai Chittisonthi, seven groups of police officers
Fifteen village defence volunteers were killed and two others seriously injured in a surprise raid on their makeshift outpost, situated on a road in Tambon Lam Phraya in the Muang district of Yala province, late Tuesday night. Security officials said that there were about 17 volunteers at the outpost at the time of the attack,
Bangkok and Sukhothai have been included among 66 new members of the UNESCO Creative Cities Network (UCCN) in the latest listing published on October 30th. The UCCN was created in 2004 and promotes cooperation with and among cities that have identified creativity as a strategic factor for sustainable urban development. “All over the world, these
The Meteorological Department today issued a warning to people in lower Northeast, lower Central, the eastern region and upper South to brace for isolated heavy to very heavy rain today through Saturday due to tropical storm Matmo, which is predicted to make landfall over central Vietnam today. The downpours may cause flash floods and heavy
Well known “Song for Life” rocker ‘Add’ Carabao is urging the Thai government not to bow to the “bully tactics” being used by the United States when it suspended USD1.3 billion in trade preferences for Thailand, under the Generalized System of Preferences (GSP) program, on the grounds that Thailand has not taken sufficient steps to
The Biothai Foundation has praised Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha for not directly responding to an appeal from US under-secretary of agriculture for trade and foreign agricultural affairs, Mr. Ted A. McKinney, to postpone the ban on glyphosate, one of the three farm chemicals barred from use in Thailand by the National Hazardous Substances Committee earlier
Police are considering filing a charge of lèse majesté against a hot-tempered motorist, who allegedly makde insulting remarks about the Thai people in general and the country’s highest institution, in a road rage incident in the Buddha Monthon district of Nakhon Pathom on Wednesday. Pol Lt-Gen Kamron Boonlert, commander of Nakhon Pathom provincial police, said
Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha has challenged the opposition to produce evidence of the corruption they allege is rife in Government infrastructure mega projects, such as the electric trains, assuring that his government is ready to deal harshly with any the corrupt officials and politicians. Speaking in defence of the budget bill in parliament, on the
Hackers have attempted to disrupt state-run the Krung Thai Bank computer system used for the registration of subscribers to Phase 2 of the Government’s “Chim-Shop-Chai” (Eat-Shop-Spend) scheme, resulting in delays to registration today, Mr. Payong Srivanich, the bank’s managing director disclosed this morning (Friday). In offering an apology to members of the public for the
The Judicial Commission has set up a three-member panel to conduct a fact-finding investigation into the self-inflicted shooting of a chief judge at Yala provincial court last Friday and his allegations of interference in his handling of a case. Mr. Saravuth Benjakul, secretary-general of the Judicial Affairs Office, said today that the panel comprises Mrs.
