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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.
‘Giant mosquito’ fears dispelled in Chaiyaphum
Prasit Tangprasert, Published on 13/08/2025
» NAKHON RATCHASIMA - Public health officials have reassured residents of Chaiyaphum province after reports of unusually large mosquito-like insects turned out to be harmless crane flies.
Children paid to guzzle alcohol at ordination ceremony
Prasit Tangprasert, Published on 11/06/2024
» NAKHON RATCHASIMA - A 13-year-old girl paid 1,000 baht to guzzle alcohol at an ordination ceremony collapsed in a coma and was rushed to hospital.
Edible rats help laid-off worker start over
Prasit Tangprasert, Published on 13/02/2021
» NAKHON RATCHASIMA: When Somkiart Sukhamtha lost his factory job in this northeastern province because of the Covid pandemic, he had to find a new way to make a living. The answer, it turns out, was rats.
ONWR to expand diversion scheme
News, Prasit Tangprasert, Published on 06/11/2020
» The Office of the National Water Resources (ONWR) is looking to construct kaem ling water-catchment areas in Chiang Mai's Mae Teang district to improve Srinakarin dam's water diversion project. The move is part of a bid to solve the current drought crisis in the western province of Kanchanaburi.
Ex-employee caught for robbing 7-Eleven
Prasit Tangprasert, Published on 02/07/2019
» NAKHON RATCHASIMA: A lone robber who made off with about 2.3 million baht from a 7-Eleven store in Muang district turned out to be a former employee of the store who was fired last year for alleged cheat.
Korat cattle hard hit by lack of water
Prasit Tangprasert, Published on 30/06/2019
» NAKHON RATCHASIMA: It's not just rice and other crops that have fallen victim to the severe drought that has afflicted this northeastern province -- the cows and buffaloes in Non Sung district are also suffering, according to local media reports.
Planter leaves plot of sugarcane to feed wild elephants
Prasit Tangprasert, Published on 01/04/2018
» NAKHON RATCHASIMA: A planter in Soeng Sang district of this northeastern province has decided to leave his 12-rai plot of sugarcane for wild elephants to feed on, after the sweet-toothed pachyderms from nearby Thap Lan National Park ravaged his plantation night after night.