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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.
Missing DJ’s body found with tied hands, gunshot wounds in temple
Piyarach Chongcharoen, Published on 18/05/2025
» KANCHANABURI: The body of a male DJ, 33, who had gone missing four days previously was found in a remote forest in Muang district in this western Thai province on Sunday, with tied hands and bullet wounds in a temple. Police suspect a romantic conflict.
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.
Navy team arrives at Sri Nakarin dam to retrieve body of missing teen
Piyarach Chongcharoen, Published on 20/11/2022
» KANCHANABURI: A navy special operations team arrived at the Sri Nakarin dam in Si Sawat district on Sunday to retrieve the body of an 18-year-old boy who fell from a jet ski and went missing in the dam reservoir on Oct 24.
Ailing, pregnant woman airlifted to safety from remote village
Piyarach Chongcharoen, Published on 05/09/2019
» KANCHANABURI: A Karen woman suffering pregnancy complications was safely airlifted to hospital in heavy rain from a remote village near a wildlife sanctuary in Sangkhla Buri district.
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.
Paper Mill campaign binds Kanchanaburi community
News, Piyarach Chongcharoen, Published on 16/12/2018
» Kanchanaburi province is known for its attractive tourist landmarks such as the bridge over the River Kwai and "Death Railway" as much as famous wild forest and waterfalls.
Vajiralongkorn dam to discharge more water Aug 23-27
Piyarach Chongcharoen, Published on 19/08/2018
» KANCHANABURI: Communities below the Vajiralongkorn dam in Thong Pha Phum district of this western province have been warned to take precautions as the dam's water discharge will increase to 53 million cubic metres per day next week, dam director Waiwit Saengpanich said on Sunday.
Art teacher's hospital charity-run donations top B3m
Piyarach Chongcharoen, Published on 10/04/2018
» KANCHANABURI: Donations raised by a Bangkok art teacher for a public hospital in Kanchanaburi topped 3 million baht as he passed through Ratchaburi province on the 8th day of his 14-day charity run from Thong Pha Phum district to the capital.