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Anutin signs off on border security plan
News, Surachai Piragsa, Published on 13/02/2026
» Prime Minister-elect Anutin Charnvirakul has approved a series of measures intended to bolster security along the border with Cambodia, including the construction of more border fencing, in the wake of another landmine blast which injured three Thai soldiers in Si Sa Ket.
Harvester shortage hurting border rice farmers
Surachai Piragsa, Published on 20/11/2025
» BURI RAM - Rice farmers in Ban Kruat district bordering Cambodia are worriedly waiting for harvesters as they race to bring in the crop, as high demand and border tensions have led to a shortage of equipment and operators.
Compensation helps but won’t take away fear, say border villagers
Surachai Piragsa, Published on 06/09/2025
» BURI RAM - More than 7,000 households in Ban Kruat district have registered for compensation after they were forced to flee clashes along the Thai-Cambodian border earlier, though many residents say their lives remain far from normal.
Cops seek to keep 'spy' in detention
News, Surachai Piragsa, Published on 08/08/2025
» Buri Ram: Local police have sought court approval to extend the detention of a Cambodian man arrested on Tuesday in Krasang district on suspicion of espionage.
Govt to help farmers pay for fertiliser
News, Surachai Piragsa, Published on 15/06/2024
» The government said it will introduce a co-payment scheme to support fertilisers for over 4 million rice-farming households.
Manager of lending firm arrested for stealing customers' money
Surachai Piragsa, Published on 31/01/2024
» BURI RAM: The manager of a lending company has been arrested for stealing almost 200,000 baht from its customers' accounts.
Ill man gets 1st ID card at age 48
Surachai Piragsa, Published on 14/08/2022
» BURI RAM: Following 30 years of unsuccessful pleas with officialdom, a 48-year-old man has received his first-ever identity card after media publicised his case.
Seven years on, couple still hope to find missing daughter
Surachai Piragsa, Published on 11/12/2020
» BURI RAM: It is seven years since their bright young daughter mysteriously disappeared, after graduating and going job hunting in Chon Buri province, but Viroj and Tiang Kothaisong will not give up hope of finding her.
Man falls to death from house while using phone
Surachai Piragsa, Published on 21/12/2019
» BURI RAM: A border patrol police officer fell to his death from the second floor of his house in Prakhon Chai district late Friday after drinking with a friend. He had a mobile phone in his hand, suggesting that he was using it before the fatal fall.
'Billionaire' left his 'pretty' bride with B3.5m debt
Surachai Piragsa, Published on 02/10/2019
» BURI RAM: The mother of a 30-year-old local woman who worked as a product presenter -- locally dubbed a "pretty" -- complained a man who described himself a billionaire left her daughter with a 3.5-million-baht debt for their luxurious wedding party.