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Kanchanaburi teacher pockets award
News, Post Reporters, Published on 23/04/2025
» A dedicated schoolteacher from Kanchanaburi, Praiwan Yapan, has been named one of 14 outstanding educators to receive the prestigious Princess Maha Chakri Award 2025.
Samui tackles outages with mobile generators
Yuthana Praiwan, Published on 11/02/2025
» Authorities on the Thai tourist island of Koh Samui are resolving frequent power outages attributed to old transmission lines by using diesel-fuelled generators to produce additional electricity.
Former monk denies theft of temple funds
News, Wassayos Ngamkham, Published on 08/05/2023
» A former monk, arrested with two others for allegedly embezzling 180 million baht from Wat Pha Dhammakiri in Nakhon Ratchasima during his tenure there, denied the charge during police questioning.
ERC move 'won't solve main reasons' for pricey electricity
News, Mongkol Bangprapa & Yuthana Praiwan, Published on 22/04/2023
» Energy activists and politicians have expressed reservations about a decision by an Energy Regulatory Commission (ERC) subcommittee to cut the electricity rate from May to August, saying it does not address the real cause of expensive power bills.
Militants cut road to police station before attacking it
Abdullah Benjakat, Published on 26/05/2022
» NARATHIWAT: Militants bombed power poles and scattered tyre spikes on the road to isolate a marine police station before attacking it with bombs and automatic weapons, in Tak Bai district on Wednesday night.
Ex-monk accused of illicit land purchase
News, Post Reporters, Published on 08/02/2022
» Activist and serial petitioner Srisuwan Janya said he will ask the Royal Forest Department to look into an allegation that ex-monk Sompong Nakhonthaisong spent 10 million baht buying 300 rai of Sor Por Kor land (agricultural land reform land) in violation of the law.
Famous monk to swap robe for politics
News, Aekarach Sattaburuth, Published on 18/12/2021
» Phra Maha Sompong Talaputto, a well-known monk preacher, says he will leave the monkhood on Dec 29 while declaring he has an interest in becoming a spokesman for a political party.
Marijuana worth B50m in truckload of eucalyptus wood
Waedao Harai, Published on 09/12/2021
» NARATHIWAT: Police found 1.6 tonnes of compressed marijuana hidden among a cargo of eucalyptus wood on a parked 18-wheeler at a seaside village in Tak Bai district late on Wednesday night.
'Giggling monk' told not to be discouraged, keep teaching
Online Reporters, Published on 11/10/2021
» Former activist monk Buddha Isara on Monday offered advice for Phra Maha Sompong Talaputto, after the giggling monk told followers of his live Facebook show he was under pressure to leave the monkhood because of his unconventional teaching of dhamma.
Car mob rallies against tanks, troops and Prayut
Online Reporters, Published on 19/09/2021
» Pro-democracy protesters wrapped Bangkok's Democracy Monument with a black sheet hung with pictures of Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha at the climax of a "car mob" rally that started hours earlier at Asoke intersection.