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Songkran homecoming rush moves to trains as fuel prices skyrocket
Surachai Piragsa, Published on 10/04/2026
» BURI RAM - Due to the surge in fuel prices, many travellers are booking trains to their hometowns ahead of the Songkran holiday. Passenger numbers at Buri Ram Railway Station rose by 30% compared to previous festival periods.
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.
'Recruiter' gets 20 years over B10m scam
News, Surachai Piragsa, Published on 22/08/2025
» The Buri Ram provincial court yesterday sentenced a 28-year-old woman who posed as an embassy staff member and swindled more than 160 job seekers in a job scam to 830 years in prison.
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.
'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.
Buri Ram tycoon goes missing
Surachai Piragsa, Published on 11/08/2019
» BURI RAM: A well-known business tycoon who runs a garage operating crane services in Nang Rong district of this northeastern province mysteriously disappeared from his home on Tuesday, according to his wife and relatives.
Nine arrested for alleged B320m funeral fund swindle
Surachai Piragsa, Published on 22/03/2019
» BURI RAM: Police have arrested the chairman and eight other committee members of a funeral welfare cooperative in Satuk district for alleged public fraud amounting to 320 million baht of members' money.
Cremation scam execs charged
News, Surachai Piragsa, Published on 22/01/2018
» Buri Ram: Satuk police will summon the president and seven executives of Satuk Agricultural Cooperative's Cremation Aid Association to acknowledge charges of fraud amid accusations they embezzled deposit money worth more than 10 million baht from their members.