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Border checkpoints to reopen Monday to allow flow of goods
News, Piyarat Chongcharoen, Published on 06/02/2021
» Kanchanaburi: Two border checkpoints will reopen to allow the transport of goods from Monday onward, say local authorities.
Hellfire Pass to re-open Sept 25
Piyarat Chongcharoen, Published on 23/09/2020
» KANCHANABURI: Hellfire Pass or Chong Khao Khad, a historic site featuring a railway cutting on the former railway that Japan intended to build from Thailand to Burma during the Second World War, in Sai Yok district of this western province, will be re-opened to tourists on Sept 25 after being closed for about six months due to the Covid-19 outbreak.
Kanchanaburi folk launch anti-poaching campaign
Piyarat 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.
Wichien gives more evidence in poaching case
Piyarat Chongcharoen, Published on 12/02/2018
» KANCHANABURI: Wichien Chinnawong, chief of the Western Thungyai Naresuan Wildlife Sanctuary, and three other park rangers met police investigators Sunday in Thong Pha Phum district to give further statements about alleged poaching by Italian-Thai Development Plc (ITD) president Premchai Karnasuta.
Italian-Thai boss charged with hunting in sanctuary
Piyarat Chongcharoen, Published on 06/02/2018
» Construction tycoon Premchai Karnasuta has been arrested for allegedly hunting wildlife in the World Heritage Thungyai Naresuan sanctuary in Kanchanaburi province.
Tattoos, lovers' quarrel undo lethal BB gun modifier
Piyarat Chongcharoen, Published on 07/08/2015
» A 19-year-old man who turned BB guns into lethal weapons and sold them online was arrested when police responding to a report of a lovers' quarrel recognised his tattoos from his Facebook profile.
Mon bridge billboards ordered removed
Piyarat Chongcharoen, Published on 11/02/2015
» KANCHANABURI — Provincial authorities have ordered the third-ranked mobile operator True Move to remove two billboards installed near Saphan Mon, the country’s longest wooden bridge, after public complaints that they ruined the landscape.