The Latest Breaking News from Surin

Cambodian soldiers opened fire at a Thai military base in the northeastern province of Surin and launched rockets toward Si Sa Ket on Thursday morning as hostilities in the disputed border area worsened, according to the Royal Thai Army.

A drunk teacher was involved in an accident in which a pickup truck overturned, causing injuries to 17 students in Surin. 

SURIN: Lucky was busy munching on some freshly cut grass when she spotted a special treat a tourist was holding out. She dropped her next mouthful of greens and extended her trunk, asking for the banana.

Last week, the Ministry of Tourism and Sports and Tourism Authority Thailand announced that 8,745 people from Surin province succeeded in setting a new record of "the highest number of people folding fabric animals simultaneously" in the Guinness World Record. This event was part of the Elephant Festival, an annual…

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.