Regional and local news from across Thailand's provinces — in English, from Thai PBS World, Thailand's public broadcaster.
Makkasan police today asked the Criminal Court to remand the train driver and a railway crossing guard on charges of causing death and serious injury through negligence after a train crashed into a passenger bus on Saturday, killing eight people and injuring many others.
A 5.3-magnitude earthquake struck off the southern coast of Myanmar at 9.05am today, with tremors felt in many parts of Thailand, including Bangkok, according to the Earthquake Surveillance Division of the Meteorological Department.
Police and officials from the land, revenue, employment and business development departments began a crackdown on the first 24 allegedly foreign-controlled tourism-related businesses on Pha-ngan Island, suspected of using Thai nationals as majority shareholding nominees.
A dusky leaf monkey (spectacled langur), which suffered a severe electric shock, has been transferred to the Ton Nga Chang Wildlife Sanctuary in Songkhla province for treatment and intensive care.
The El Niño weather phenomenon this year will not only prolong the dry season in Thailand, but will also fuel forest fires in many parts of the country throughout the rainy season and into next year, Athapol Charoenshunsa, chief of the Department of National Parks, Wildlife and Plant Conservation, said today.
Food and Drug Administration (FDA) inspected a factory in Samut Sakhon province today, after a report by a Facebook claiming that fish in canned products he purchased appeared abnormal and did not match the label stating that they were mackerel.
Kuerk Bay, also known as “Donald Duck Bay,” in Mu Ko Similan National Park, has been ranked 10th on the list of the world’s 50 best beaches for 2026.
The Nakhon Ratchasima Zoo officially announced today that its newest star, a female pygmy hippo calf, has been named ‘Moo Daeng’ (Red Pork) following a massive public poll that garnered over 370,000 votes.
The Department of National Parks, Wildlife and Plant Conservation (DNP) has announced plans to release ‘Si Daw Kaew’, a well-known male wild elephant, back into the Khao Ang Rue Nai Wildlife Sanctuary during the upcoming rainy season, to ensure his smooth transition back to nature.
Thammasat University and its network of partners have launched a ‘Work for Freedom’ initiative to assist impoverished inmates who are serving prison time because they cannot afford to pay court-ordered fines.
Four workers have died of suspected suffocation after descending into an abandoned well at an oil palm plantation in Khura Buri district of Phang Nga today.
Five foreign tourists, including a two-year-old boy, were injured when a car suddenly reversed at high speed onto a crowded pavement on Pattaya Sai 2 Road in Nong Prue on Wednesday night.
