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Japan treasure hunters arrested
Piyarat Chongcharoen, Published on 25/04/2014
» KANCHANABURI - Forestry officials on Friday arrested four men who were searching for Japanese treasure believed to have been left in the province since World War II.
Cancer kills former Kanchanaburi MP
Piyarat Chongcharoen, Published on 03/05/2014
» Pinij Chansomboon, a four-time former MP for Kanchanaburi, died of gastric cancer on Saturday at Paholpolpayuhasena Hospital in Kanchanaburi. He was 59.
Four women drown on rafting trip
Piyarat Chongcharoen, Published on 05/05/2014
» Four women on a rafting trip drowned in the strong currents at the base of the Lam Khao Ngu waterfall in Khuean Srinagarindra National Park in Si Sawat district of Kanchanaburi province on Sunday.
A bridge too far in Kanchanaburi
News, Piyarat Chongcharoen, Published on 22/03/2014
» More than seven months have passed since the famous Saphan Mon wooden bridge in Kanchanaburi’s Sangkhla Buri district collapsed last July.
An extraordinarily sacred cloth
News, Piyarat Chongcharoen, Published on 09/11/2013
» The people of Kanchanaburi have set themselves the task of creating a world record by sewing together the longest ever sitting cloth for monks in remembrance of the late Supreme Patriarch.
Seven-year-old found with yaba stash
Piyarat Chongcharoen, Published on 22/11/2013
» KANCHANABURI – A seven-year-old Myanmar boy with only a backpack was found crying at a roadside in Thong Pha Phum district after being tricked into carrying almost 10,000 methamphetamine pills.
Dems force floodway meet to end
News, Piyarat Chongcharoen, Published on 30/11/2013
» KANCHANABURI : Two Democrat Party MPs led supporters yesterday to disrupt a public hearing on the government's proposed 350-billion-baht water management scheme, forcing the meeting to be abandoned as the organisers fled.
Villages team up to build floating bamboo bridge
Piyarat Chongcharoen, Published on 23/08/2013
» KANCHANABURI - When a bridge over the river connecting their villages collapsed, people in Sangkhla Buri decided to build their own floating bridge from bamboo - and the new longest wooden bridge in Thailand was completed on Thursday.
Ancient boat draws lottery fanatics
Piyarat Chongcharoen, Published on 04/07/2013
» KANCHANABURI ― The recent recovery of a wooden boat believe to be almost 100 years old from the Mae Klong River has attracted many residents in Muang district to worship it every day in the hope of winning money on the lottery.
26 Russian tourists hurt in bus crash
Piyarat Chongcharoen, Published on 09/08/2013
» KANCHANABURI - A tour bus accident in this central province on Friday injured 26 Russian tourists, three of them seriously, as the driver lost control of the vehicle.