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A report questioning whether the yearly “Bung Fai Phaya Nak” (Naga fireballs) in Nong Khai was a natural phenomenon or a man-made one went viral on social media on Saturday.

The Udon Thani Office of the Tourism Authority of Thailand (TAT) is planning campaigns to promote tourism in three northeastern provinces during the cold season towards the year-end and early 2021.

Heavy and continuous rainfall from 4pm on Thursday (August 13) has left all eight districts of Bueng Kan province flooded, with waters as high as 50 metres in some places.

Khon Kaen police chief Pol Colonel Preecha Kengsarakit said on Tuesday (August 4) that the suspect who had robbed a gold shop in Bueng Kan province on July 31 had been killed in a gunfight with police officers in Khon Kaen.

One of five inmates, who had broken out of Sawang Daen Din prison in Sakon Nakhon province, was arrested in Bueng Kan province after being on the run for over a month.

The Tat Wiman Thip waterfall situated in Phu Langka National Park is one of the major tourist attractions in Bueng Kan province, which is under the management of the Department of National Parks, Wildlife and Plant Conservation.

Upgraded from district to a province in 2011, Bueng Kan in Thailand’s northeast is a popular tourism destination thanks to its historical and archaeological sites as well as its celebration of Songkran, the Thai New year, the Rocket Festival and long-boat racing. It’s not short on natural attractions either, among them Phu Wua Wildlife Sanctuary, the Chet Si, Tad Kinari and Tad Wimanthip waterfalls, Bueng Khong Long and Phu Tok.

A wild baby elephant injured and abandoned by mother after it fell into an old unused cesspool in Bueng Kan province has fully recovered and attempts will be made to reintegrate it with its herd next month.

The Mekong River’s extremely low level of water caused by upstream hydropower dam projects has triggered the death of masses of fish and heightened the risk of mass extinction of aquatic life in the entire Mekong River Basin, environmental experts highlighted on Friday.

Police arrested a Laotian man and three Thais on Monday for allegedly smuggling 7,996 methamphetamine pills from Laos to Bueng Kan province.

Over 600kg of marijuana was seized in Bueng Kan’s Bung Kla district but no arrest was made, the provincial governor said.

A 70-year-old villager was found dead on a mountain in Bueng Kan’s Bung Kla district on Wednesday morning after he went up to hunt for wild-bee honey, police said.