Regional and local news from across Thailand's provinces — in English, from Thai PBS World, Thailand's public broadcaster.
In a last-minute attempt to delay the reading of the Supreme Court’s verdict, scheduled on Monday, former director-general of the Department of Special Investigation (DSI), Tarit Pengdit, submitted a petition yesterday (Friday), through the Supreme Court to the Constitutional Court, seeking a ruling on the constitutionality of Sections 157 and 200 of the Criminal Code.
As he tried to find off attempts by the emergency services to rescue him from the third level of the Phra Mahathat Chedi, a tower structure in Phuket’s Wat (temple) Chalong, a Russian tourist fell to his death yesterday (Friday). The 4-hour drama began at about 5.30pm and was witnessed by tourists and Phuket Governor
The administrator of a foundation in Thailand’s northern province of Chiang Rai, which is providing temporary shelter to 18 of 126 undocumented Myanmar children from a school in Ang Thong province, said the children will be given the choice of being sent back to Myanmar or continuing their studies in Thailand. A school close to
Bangkok Governor Chadchart Sittipunt has told all executives of 50 districts in the capital that the over 1,000 garbage trucks rented from the private sector are underutilized, working only an average of 7 hours/day, despite the fact they are paid to operate 16 hours/day. Based on the GPS systems installed in every truck, he said
More than 19,000 of the 44,000 fire extinguishers, distributed by Bangkok Metropolitan Administration (BMA) to communities, district offices, volunteer units and public disaster prevention and mitigation offices in the capital, are in a bad condition and need to be replaced. Deputy Bangkok Governor Tavida Kamolvej said city officials checked all the fire extinguishers, to make
Thailand’s National Human Rights Commission will try to stop 126 undocumented students from Myanmar being repatriated, after the Ang Thong primary education office became suspicious that they might have been lured to study at a school in the province. The plight of the children, aged from 7 to 16, came to light when the director
Fewer passengers are using the Yellow Line train service, from Lat Phrao to Samrong in Samut Prakan province, since the operator, Eastern Bangkok Monorail Company Limited (EBM), started charging passengers on Monday. According to the Department of Rail, the number has dropped to an average of between 30,000 and 40,000 per trip between end stations
People living near waterways and in foothills in 34 districts of 12 north-eastern, eastern and southern provinces have been advised to brace for flash floods and waterway overflows from this Saturday until next Tuesday. Thailand’s National Water Command Centre said Thursday that the north of Thailand is forecast to face heavy rain in some areas,
The Thai parliament will sit on July 13th to select the next prime minister and will sit again on July 19th and 20th if it cannot make the selection, Deputy House Speaker, Pichet Chuamuangphan, told the media on Thursday. Although there is no limit on the number of parliament sittings for the selection of the
The Thai Elephant Conservation Centre in Lampang has changed the live broadcast times for Sak Surin, now the most popular elephant in the country, to 1pm and 4pm. Today (Thursday) is his fifth day in quarantine, after being repatriated from Sri Lanka on July 2. The live broadcast is in response to requests from the
Thailand’s Fisheries Department has defended the exhibition of a highly venomous sea snake, a yellow-lipped sea krait or banded sea krait, at the “Wonders of the Aquatic World”, being held at the Future Park & Zpell shopping mall until Sunday, following criticism of its suitability and the danger it may pose to visitors. The department’s
The procedure for the selection of the prime minister at the joint meeting of members of the House and the Senate on July 13th is as follows: The names of the prime ministerial candidates must be submitted to the Election Commission by their parties. Currently, there are eight, namely Move Forward party’s Pita Limjaroenrat, Pheu
