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Derailment blocks Death Railway
Piyarat Chongcharoen, Published on 30/09/2014
» A local train derailed in Sai Yok district of Kanchanaburi province on Tuesday morning and blocked daily tourist train services on the Death Railway.
Dig row triggers land seizure
News, Piyarat Chongcharoen, Published on 27/09/2014
» Officials on Thursday confiscated 800 rai of hilltop forest areas in Kanchanaburi for investigation, responding to a complaint by local residents who accused a private firm of seeking minerals in the forest.
Tour guide crushed under train
Piyarat Chongcharoen, Published on 16/08/2014
» A 36-year-old Taiwanese tour guide died on Saturday after jumping from a slowing train and falling onto the rails below as it pulled into a station in Kanchanaburi.
A year after collapse, fully repaired Saphan Mon remains a bridge too far
Piyarat Chongcharoen, Published on 28/07/2014
» A year after its midsection fell into a river below, Thailand’s longest wooden bridge remains far from reopening.
A bridge too far in Kanchanaburi
News, Piyarat Chongcharoen, Published on 22/03/2014
» More than seven months have passed since the famous Saphan Mon wooden bridge in Kanchanaburi’s Sangkhla Buri district collapsed last July.
Seven-year-old found with yaba stash
Piyarat Chongcharoen, Published on 22/11/2013
» KANCHANABURI – A seven-year-old Myanmar boy with only a backpack was found crying at a roadside in Thong Pha Phum district after being tricked into carrying almost 10,000 methamphetamine pills.
An extraordinarily sacred cloth
News, Piyarat Chongcharoen, Published on 09/11/2013
» The people of Kanchanaburi have set themselves the task of creating a world record by sewing together the longest ever sitting cloth for monks in remembrance of the late Supreme Patriarch.
Ancient boat draws lottery fanatics
Piyarat Chongcharoen, Published on 04/07/2013
» KANCHANABURI ― The recent recovery of a wooden boat believe to be almost 100 years old from the Mae Klong River has attracted many residents in Muang district to worship it every day in the hope of winning money on the lottery.
Elephant dies from injuries
News, Piyarat Chongcharoen, Published on 07/06/2012
» A 50-year-old wild elephant has died from its injuries after it was shot by poachers in a forest near the Salak Phra Wildlife Sanctuary in Kanchanaburi's Bo Phloi district on Sunday night.