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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.
Colour-coded job seekers found hiding on 18-wheel truck
Piyarach Chongcharoen, Published on 25/05/2022
» KANCHANABURI: More than 100 illegal Myanmar job seekers with coloured string around their wrists to show their various destinations were arrested after the 18-wheel trailer truck they were hiding in became stuck when it turned off a main road in Muang district on Wednesday morning.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Villagers wilting under elephant invasion want assistance
Piyarach Chongcharoen, Published on 06/06/2018
» KANCHANABURI: Local officials want a tambon that borders on heavily forested mountains declared a disaster area because of the frequent raids by wild elephants.
Man killed by elephants raiding village fields
News, Piyarach Chongcharoen, Published on 29/05/2018
» A man was killed by wild elephants as he and some fellow villagers tried to protect their crops in Thong Pha Phum district of Kanchanaburi on Sunday night.