The Latest Breaking News from Surin

The bodies of an American citizen and a Thai woman were found on Mai Khao beach in Phuket on Monday, police said, while a Russian man drowned off Surin beach on Sunday.

The government will auction off the rice from Yingluck Shinawatra's pledging scheme that had been stored in two warehouses in Surin for 10 years, after a laboratory test result showed that the rice is still safe to eat.

The annual elephant festival in Surin attracted more than the usual attention last week after featuring an attempt to enter the hallowed Guinness Book of Records. Alas, the only record achieved was that hundreds of student "volunteers" roasted in the sun, exposed for hours to high temperatures reaching 39C.

Field recordings of ancient, traditional music in the Southeast Asia feature in this column. Northern Khmer Spirit Music in Thailand – Kantrum Dongman (Animist Records, 2022) covers the traditional music of "Northern Khmer" people in provinces like Surin, Buri Ram and Si Sa Ket that straddle the Thai-Cambodian border in…

The organisers of the Elephant Festival have been pilloried for trying to set a Guinness World Record at the expense of students made to sit in the scorching heat for hours on end.

SURIN: The people of Khok Pued village in Sangkhla district have suffered for decades, dependent on the single muddy and potholed dirt road that connects their village to the rest of the world.

Rajamangala University of Technology Isan (RMUTI)'s Surin Campus has introduced new products created by the mixture of silk cocoons and rice straw fibre.

SURIN: A 26-year-old man stabbed his estranged wife to death in a school classroom in Prasat district during lunch break on Thursday, and then broke both legs jumping from the two-storey building while attempting to flee.

SURIN: Police have pressed three charges against a Lithuanian man in connection with the death of his transgender girlfriend whose body was found in a locked room at her house in Prasat district.