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Tourism uptick offsets trade dip in Kanchanaburi
Piyarach Chongcharoen, Published on 01/11/2025
» Kanchanaburi is seeing an uptick in tourism with hotel occupancy reaching 67.3% in the first nine months of this year, and at least 11 million local and foreign visitors generating 28 billion baht in revenue, according to governor Athisan Intra.
Planting the seeds of self-reliance
News, Piyarach Chongcharoen, Published on 19/08/2025
» One fine morning, young students at Sahathanakhan Krungthep Border Patrol Police School in Sangkhla Buri district, Kanchanaburi, were fully absorbed in rice planting activities.
Two men arrested, over 4 tonnes of smuggled seafood seized
Piyarach Chongcharoen, Published on 27/12/2024
» KANCHANABURI - Two men were arrested and more than four tonnes of smuggled seafood seized along a route near a natural border crossing in Sangkha Buri district late Thursday evening.
Karen centre of learning seeks govt aid
News, Piyarach Chongcharoen, Published on 17/06/2023
» KANCHANABURI: A Karen learning centre in Sangkhla Buri district has appealed to the Education Ministry to provide it with financial aid, much as it does to formal schools, to improve the educational and student conditions there.
Suspects in tiger hunt ordered to remove homes from national park
Piyarach Chongcharoen, Published on 18/01/2022
» KANCHANABURI: Authorities have ordered the removal from Khao Laem National Park of the houses of five people charged with killing two wild tigers in jungle near the Myanmar border.
Illegal job-seekers caught, but others sneak through
Piyarach Chongcharoen, Published on 08/04/2021
» KANCHANABURI: Eight illegal job seekers from Myanmar were arrested in Sangkhla Buri district on Wednesday night, but 12 others were whisked way by smugglers before soldiers arrived.
16 Myanmar migrants caught on western border
Piyarach Chongcharoen, Published on 28/03/2021
» KANCHANABURI: Sixteen Myanmar migrant workers – 10 men and six women – were apprehended by soldiers in Sangkhlaburi district on Saturday.
More Myanmar arrested for illegal entry, Thai guide caught
Piyarach Chongcharoen, Published on 02/03/2021
» KANCHANABURI: Another 33 Myanmar nationals have been caught entering the country illegally in search of jobs, and a Thai guide has admitted he was being paid 3,000 baht per head to bring workers across the border.
Five Myanmar migrants arrested on border
Piyarach Chongcharoen, Published on 31/01/2021
» KANCHANABURI: A joint military-police-civilian patrol rounded up five Myanmar migrants after they crossed the border through a natural crossing point in Sangkhla Buri district on Sunday morning.
Water level low at Vajiralongkorn dam
Piyarach Chongcharoen, Published on 12/08/2020
» KANCHANABURI: The water level in the reservoir at Vajiralongkorn dam in Sangkhlaburi district remains very low, at only 42.53% of its capacity, raising fears that 2021 will be another year of water shortages, dam director Waiwit Saengpanich said on Wednesday.