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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.
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.
Fleeing pickup passenger shot 10 times by motorcyclist
Piyarach Chongcharoen, Published on 29/11/2021
» KANCHANABURI: A 27-year-old man died in a hail of bullets as he fled a gunman who stopped a vehicle driven by a 50-year-old woman he was travelling with in Muang district on Monday morning.
Mon civilians continue to flee fighting in Myanmar
Piyarach Chongcharoen, Published on 28/11/2019
» KANCHANABURI: Mon civilians continued to flee into Thailand on Thursday to escape fighting between Myanmar troops and rebels across the border from this western province.
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.
Couple climb bamboo tree to escape tiger
Piyarach Chongcharoen, Published on 14/05/2019
» KANCHANABURI: A teacher and her husband spent half an hour up a bamboo tree to avoid a wild tiger they encountered in Thung Yai Naresuan Wildlife Sanctuary.
Tycoon's trial on wildlife poaching charges begins
Piyarach Chongcharoen, Published on 27/11/2018
» KANCHANABURI: The trial of Italian-Thai Development president Premchai Karnasuta and three accomplices on wildlife poaching charges began in the Thong Pha Phum Provincial Court on Tuesday.
Nephew of tobacco firm owner caught, firearms seized
Piyarach Chongcharoen, Published on 22/09/2018
» KANCHANABURI: A nephew of a tobacco factory owner was arrested and 18 weapons with almost 1,000 rounds of ammunition and some crystal methamphetamine seized during a police-military raid on his house in Tha Maka district on Saturday.
Monk disrobed, charged over attack on novice at temple
Piyarach Chongcharoen, Published on 19/08/2018
» KANCHANABURI: A senior monk was defrocked and police immediately pressed an assault charge against him after an attack on a novice left the boy severely injured.
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.