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Land Bridge threatens island gem
News, Phitsanu Thepthong, Published on 10/06/2024
» Located 17 kilometres off the Andaman Sea coast, Koh Phayam, covering a 35km² area, is the second largest island in Ranong province.
Buri Ram flea market ushers in tourists
News, Phitsanu Thepthong, Published on 21/10/2023
» A flea market known as Talad Ha Natee (the "five-minute train market") that is open in front of Buri Ram Railway Station in Muang district every day is becoming a new tourist hotspot in this lower northeastern province.
Farmers hop on to growing world trend
News, Phitsanu Thepthong, Published on 28/09/2020
» The fried crickets you buy from a roadside vendor are part of a thriving farming industry raising and exporting crickets now worth 1 billion baht a year.
Museum goes its own sweet way
News, Phitsanu Thepthong, Published on 23/11/2019
» Thai sweets have long held a special place in gastronomical culture and now they are honoured with a dedicated museum midway between Bangkok and the seaside district of Hua Hin in Prachuap Khiri Khan.
The 'silk road' leads tourists to Buri Ram
News, Phitsanu Thepthong, Published on 01/10/2016
» Tourism brings a lot of changes in many impoverished areas, but often it is restricted to high-profile attractions. With villagers of the border town of Ban Sanuan Nok, it is quite different.
In Buri Ram, all that glitters is marigold
News, Phitsanu Thepthong, Published on 06/08/2016
» A sea of yellow carpets large swathes of land in a secluded village of Buri Ram where local farmers have found financial security with the golden petals of the ever popular dao rueng.
Mountain walk welcomes CMU freshmen
Phitsanu Thepthong, Published on 16/07/2012
» Organized by the CMU Student Union, 6,400 new students from 21 faculties and institutions joined over 13,000 current students in walking the 13km long distance up Doi Sutghep.
Three day old boiled eggs make kids sick
Phitsanu Thepthong, Published on 16/07/2012
» The number of Sueksa Songkhrao School’s young students aged between 10 and 17 years old in Mae Rim district who have been sickened by an outbreak of salmonella food poisoning rose to 460 on July 10.
Green Corp gears up for AEC
Phitsanu Thepthong, Published on 16/07/2012
» Thanks to Thailand’s prime location offering access to many ASEAN countries, the government’s plans to develop transportation routes to neighboring Laos and Cambodia will be a successful scheme, said Somchai Tongkamkhun, the Managing Director of the large bus service Green Corp.
Japan provides funds for fire engines
Phitsanu Thepthong, Published on 16/07/2012
» The Government of Japan, under its Grant Assistance for Grassroots Human Security Projects Scheme, granted just over 3,500,000 baht to procure two fire engines for Thaduea Subdistrict Municipality in Doi Tao District, Chiang Mai Province.