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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.
Neighbour’s dogs have Buri Ram villagers on edge
Surachai Piragsa, Published on 02/09/2025
» BURI RAM - Residents of Khok Phet village in Prakhon Chai district of this northeastern province are growing increasingly upset after repeated attacks by a neighbour’s pit bulls and a Thai ridgeback along a local road.
'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.
Concern as more young drug dealers arrested in NE Thailand
Surachai Piragsa, Published on 25/08/2024
» BURI RAM: Two minors have been arrested in this northeastern province on suspicion of selling illicit drugs, raising fears that more young people are becoming drug dealers.
Police hunt continues for fugitive forest ranger in Buri Ram
Surachai Piragsa, Published on 15/03/2022
» BURI RAM: The manhunt continued for a third day on Tuesday for a forest ranger who allegedly burst into his estranged wife's house and opened fire with a shotgun, killing her 20-year-old son by a previous marriage as she and her new husband fled.
Drug suspect shot dead, 3 arrested in Buri Ram
Surachai Piragsa, Published on 13/08/2021
» BURI RAM: A 24-year-old man was shot dead and three other people arrested during a clash with police in Prakhon Chai district on Friday, and 8,000 methamphetamine pills and 200 grammes of crystal meth seized.
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.
Headman nabbed for virus sticker scam
News, Surachai Piragsa, Published on 28/04/2020
» BURI RAM: A village chief in Lahansai district of this northeastern province has been arrested for illegally demanding 20 baht each from villagers in return for a sticker showing they are free of Covid-19.
Headman caught charging B20 for free Covid-free sticker
Surachai Piragsa, Published on 27/04/2020
» BURI RAM: A village chief in Lahansai district of this northeastern province has been arrested for illegally demanding 20 baht each from villagers in return for a sticker showing they are free of Covid-19.
Work-blinded young mother donates equipment to hospital
Surachai Piragsa, Published on 11/06/2018
» BURI RAM: A 26-year-old woman left blind from years of working at an iron smelter and struggling to support her 15-month-old son on Monday used part of the money she received from sympathetic donors to, in turn, make a donation to the local public hospital.