Regional and local news from across Thailand's provinces — in English, from Thai PBS World, Thailand's public broadcaster.
Airports of Thailand (AOT) will continue to expand the capacity of its existing airports and build two new airports, with an estimated investment of Bt150 billion, to cope with the increasing number of domestic and international passengers. Speaking at a seminar called “Section II: Next Step” on Wednesday, AOT chief executive officer Kirati Kitmanawat said
Savitree Wongsricha’s deep sorrow and great anger were the most glaring in four shabby pieces of paper few people have seen or remembered. In them, she pledged that anyone responsible for the untimely death of her three-year-old daughter must eternally suffer. “I can never forgive whoever did this to my little girl,” she wrote. She
Opposition parties have welcomed the government’s move to submit a marriage equality bill to parliament, to be considered alongside a similar bill proposed by the Move Forward party, opposition leader Chaithawat Tulathon said on Tuesday. Prime Minister Srettha Thavisin has signed the government’s marriage equality bill, which was included among the urgent agenda items for
A prime suspect in the fatal shooting of a vocational student and a school teacher in Bangkok’s Khlong Toei area on November 11th was arrested this morning in Chiang Mai province. A police team from the Bangkok-based Metropolitan Police Bureau apprehended 19-year-old “Anawin” while he was camping on Doi Pui mountain at dawn. He is
The admission fees, Bt950 for Thais and Bt1,000 for foreigners, to enter the world-famous Tham Luang cave in Chiang Rai province have been criticised as expensive, but are set for operational and safety reasons, according to Chutidet Kamonchanut, director of the Department of National Parks, Wildlife, and Plant Conservation’s Chiang Rai office He said today
The trend of fatal shooting sprees in Thailand continued in 2023, with the country’s top luxury shopping mall becoming the latest killing field. Adding to the shock was the young age of the perpetrator, a 14-year-old schoolboy. The bespectacled teenager’s October 3 rampage through Siam Paragon mall in central Bangkok’s busy shopping area killed three
Deputy Prime Minister Somsak Thepsuthin has offered an assurance that there is sufficient water to meet the demands of industries in the Eastern Economic Corridor (EEC) and of the farming sector and households, despite less rainfall at the water retention area for Bang Phra reservoir in Chon Buri. He said today that the Office of
No areas in Bangkok and its neighbouring provinces, except for Mahachai sub-district in Samut Sakhon province, have excessive amount of PM2.5 dust in the atmosphere today, as most of the country, especially the northeast, is experiencing cooler weather due to a strong cold front from China. According to the Meteorological Department, the levels of PM2.5
Breeders of red-whiskered (crested) bulbuls in the South plan to submit a petition, accompanied by a list of about 100,000 supporters, to members of parliament this week, as part of their attempt to remove the bird from the list of protected wildlife species. The breeders, mainly from the five southernmost provinces of Songkhla, Yala, Pattani,
The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, or The MET, has agreed to return two artefacts, including a bronze statue of Lord Shiva, known as the “Golden Boy”, which were smuggled out of Thailand over 50 years ago. Culture Minister Sermsak Pongpanich said on Sunday that a representative of The MET spoke with the
Most respondents to a recent opinion poll want one minimum wage rate to be applied across the country, instead of several rates and that the Bt2-16 wage increase proposed by the Wage Committee is too low, according to the National Institute of Development Administration (NIDA). NIDA gauged the opinions of 1,310 people, aged 18 and
Bangkok Governor Chadchart Sittipunt says he would like the Environment Department to develop a device to trap smoke from the cooking of grilled pork skewers, after receiving many complaints about excessive smoke emitting from grilled pork stalls. The governor disclosed what he described as interesting findings from two air quality measurement stations in the Bang
