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Ten suspects caught en route to Myanmar scam hub
Piyarach Chongcharoen, Published on 18/03/2026
» KANCHANABURI - Police have arrested seven Chinese nationals and three Myanmar men at a rented property, where they were reportedly waiting to travel to a scam base in the Myanmar border town of Payathonzu.
Karen rebels give Chinese gangsters deadline to leave
Piyarach Chongcharoen, Published on 10/02/2025
» KANCHANABURI - Karen rebels have issued an ultimatum to Chinese nationals illegally operating scam centres and other illicit businesses - leave all areas under their control by the end of this month.
Restaurant, vendor passed off farmed pork as wild game meat
Piyarach Chongcharoen, Published on 14/01/2021
» KANCHANABURI: A restaurant owner and a market vendor who advertised and sold meat they said was from wild game face charges of fraud after it proved to be from domestic pigs.
Stateless student overcomes hardship to attend school
Piyarach Chongcharoen, Published on 27/06/2019
» KANCHANABURI: Thanongsak, a teenage Karen youth, gets up at 5am and has to wade across a creek to catch a bus and travel 30 kilometres along a bumpy mountain road to school - but never misses a class.
Mixed reviews for boardwalk around giant Jamjuree tree
Piyarach Chongcharoen, Published on 29/09/2018
» KANCHANABURI: Construction of a wooden boardwalk around an old tree at a tourist attraction has drawn mixed reactions from local residents and visitors, with local authorities seeking to charge six people for particularly harsh criticism.
Fugitive Korean fraudsters arrested in Kanchanaburi
Piyarach Chongcharoen, Published on 08/05/2018
» A South Korean couple who convinced their countrymen to invest about 200 million baht in a bogus casino complex in Kanachanburi have been arrested, 13 years after they fled to Thailand with the money.
Kanchanaburi folk launch anti-poaching campaign
Piyarach Chongcharoen, Published on 17/03/2018
» KANCHANABURI: Local residents have launched a new campaign against poaching, tapping into heightened public interest following recent arrests in a high-profile illegal hunting case in this western province.
More bullet holes found in poached leopard
Piyarach Chongcharoen, Published on 11/02/2018
» KANCHANABURI: First it was one, then five and now eight.