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Korat zoo warms animals with straw and hot baths for pythons
Prasit Tangprasert, Published on 25/11/2025
» NAKHON RATCHISIMA - Korat Zoo is making a special effort to keep its animals warm this cold season, including laying straw in enclosures and giving Thai pythons warm baths.
Sea of fog blankets Pak Chong as cool season arrives
Prasit Tangprasert, Published on 16/10/2025
» NAKHON RATCHASIMA – Residents of Pak Chong district woke to a stunning sea of fog on Thursday as temperatures dropped, signalling the arrival of the cool season in this northeastern province.
Reservoir faces water shortage
News, Prasit Tangprasert, Published on 10/08/2025
» The Lam Takhong Reservoir in Sikhiu district, a major water source for five districts in Nakhon Ratchasima province, holds only 15% of usable water, raising urgent concerns over potential shortages.
Mun River overflows, flooding farms, low-lying areas in Phimai
Prasit Tangprasert, Published on 12/10/2024
» NAKHON RATCHASIMA: The Mun River burst its banks on Saturday morning, sending a huge volume of water to flood paddy fields and low-lying areas in Phimai district.
Rice mills group calls for banks to ease lending rules
News, Prasit Tangprasert, Published on 14/09/2024
» NAKHON RATCHASIMA: The Thai Northeastern Rice Mills Association is pleading with the government to assist in negotiating with banks to loosen their lending regulations in preparation for the forthcoming harvest season as rice mills reportedly lack financial liquidity.
Cheaper Chinese farm produce ‘coming in by train’
Prasit Tangprasert, Published on 14/08/2024
» Cheap farm produce and consumer goods from China are coming into the country via high-speed trains through Laos and flooding local markets in the Northeast of Thailand, placing local business owners in a challenging position, vendors say.
Water supplies run low for off-season farmers
Prasit Tangprasert, Published on 16/03/2024
» NAKHON RATCHASIMA: Rice farmers in this northeastern province are grappling with severe water shortages after taking the gamble of cultivating off-season rice during the dry season. Three mid-sized reservoirs currently have low water supplies, causing many rice fields to dry out.
Attack sparks alarm as gaurs run amok in Korat
News, Prasit Tangprasert, Published on 21/01/2024
» Nakhon Ratchasima: A group of tourism business operators in Wang Nam Khieo district is proposing measures to cope with a rising number of incidents involving wild gaurs wandering about, attacking people and damaging crops.
Raw meat consumption leads to 24 deaths: DDC
News, Prasit Tangprasert, Published on 03/11/2023
» The Department of Disease Control (DDC) is warning people against consuming raw and undercooked pork after about 500 cases of streptococcus suis, or hearing loss fever, resulted in 24 deaths.
Korat water supplies 'alarmingly low'
News, Prasit Tangprasert, Published on 26/09/2023
» Nakhon Ratchasima: The amount of usable water across 27 medium-sized reservoirs across this northeastern province has dropped to alarmingly low levels despite the rainy season, raising fears of an impending drought, according to a provincial irrigation office official.