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Efforts intensify to stop wild elephants entering communities, tourist sites
Prasit Tangprasert, Published on 03/02/2026
» NAKHON RATCHASIMA — Park rangers are trying to keep wild elephants away from communities and tourist attractions during the dry season. The measures cover a bull elephant that has killed three people, including a camper, in this northeastern province.
Elephant kills tourist at Khao Yai campground
Prasit Tangprasert, Published on 02/02/2026
» NAKHON RATCHASIMA - A wild bull elephant killed a tourist exercising near his tent at a campground in Khao Yai National Park on Monday morning.
Wild elephants spoil New Year celebration for Korat villagers
Prasit Tangprasert, Published on 31/12/2024
» NAKHON RATCHASIMA - Farmers near Thap Lan National Park are in no mood to party-in the New Year, they have their hands full protecting their crops against raiding wild elephants.
Tinder ad offends women
Prasit Tangprasert, Published on 21/03/2024
» The popular dating app Tinder has met its match in Nakhon Ratchasima, in the form of angry local women denouncing a billboard campaign that compares them to tasty food.
Villager killed by wild elephant in Korat
Prasit Tangprasert, Published on 14/09/2023
» NAKHON RATCHASIMA - A villager was killed in an attack by a wild elephant while foraging for mushrooms in a national forest reserve in Khon Buri district of this northeastern province on Wednesday morning, police said.
Sick wild elephant dies at plantation in Korat
Prasit Tangprasert, Published on 01/09/2023
» NAKHON RATCHASIMA - A wild elephant died on Thursday night at a cassava plantation in Khon Buri district. It had collapsed because of sickness and was found by villagers earlier that same night.
Elephant incursions a growing problem in Korat
Prasit Tangprasert, Published on 29/10/2022
» NAKHON RATCHASIMA: A local leader has called on authorities to seriously address the problem of wild elephants from Thap Lan National Park invading farmland and destroying crops in this northeastern province.
Few people at opening of Korat New Year countdown
Prasit Tangprasert, Published on 28/12/2021
» NAKHON RATCHASIMA: The opening of the five-day "Amazing Thailand Countdown 2022 - Amazing New Chapters @ Nakhon Ratchasima" celebration fell flat on Monday night, with only a small number of people turning up.
Elephant herd flattens hundreds of farmer's coconut trees
Prasit Tangprasert, Published on 16/11/2021
» NAKHON RATCHASIMA: A small herd of wild elephants rampaged through a coconut plantation in Khon Buri district on Sunday night, the fourth time the herd has raided the farm.
Thailand's oldest reclining Buddha flooded
Prasit Tangprasert, Published on 18/10/2021
» NAKHON RATCHASIMA: The 1,300-year-old reclining Buddha image at Wat Dhammachakra Sema Ram, inside Muang Sema Historical Park in Sung Noen district, was partially submerged when the temple was flooded by mountain runoff on Sunday.