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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.
30 detained for forest violations, illegal entry
News, Piyarach Chongcharoen, Published on 14/09/2024
» Thirty people, including nine children, were arrested yesterday for crossing the border illegally, encroaching on forest land, and destroying the forest in Srinagarindra Dam National Park in Kanchanaburi.
Villagers call for help as dumped tourist garbage blocks road
Piyarach Chongcharoen, Published on 03/11/2022
» KANCHANABURI: Residents of a border village in the tourist district of Sangkhla Buri are calling for urgent action against lazy garbage truck drivers dumping their loads on a local road instead of at the nearby rubbish tip.
30 escape death from burning bus
Piyarach Chongcharoen, Published on 16/05/2022
» KANCHANABURI: About 30 workers narrowly escaped death after a bus they were travelling in caught fire in Tha Muang district on Monday, police said.
Foreigner found hanged, house burned down
Piyarach Chongcharoen, Published on 07/02/2022
» KANCHANABURI: A 63-year-old German whose Thai wife had recently left him after 21 years together was found dead after a fire destroyed their house on Monday morning.
Park rangers to grow food for crop-raiding elephants
Piyarach Chongcharoen, Published on 18/12/2018
» KANCHANABURI: Local national park staff plan to grow food for wild elephants on 2,000 rai so they will no longer need to raid nearby crops, which leads to sometimes lethal clashes with farmers.
Ten tonnes of smuggled onions burned in Kanchanaburi
Piyarach Chongcharoen, Published on 08/07/2018
» KANCHABURI: Soldiers from the Surasee Task Force and customs officials from Sangkhla Buri district of this western border province on Sunday oversaw the burning of 10,800 kilogrammes of smuggled onions.
Disaster assistance for tambon plundered by wild elephants
Piyarach Chongcharoen, Published on 14/06/2018
» KANCHANABURI: An area in Thong Pha Phum district has finally been declared a disaster zone after being pillaged for the last month by wild elephants, with residents too scared to work in their raided fields.