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Residents of an ancient Buddhist community in the northern province of Phichit handed out alms to monks on Sunday to mark the long-held tradition of Visakha Puja Day.

The president of Gold Mine Lovers Club, Chaiyaporn Sudsin, and residents living near the Akara Resources' gold mine in Phichit province, have submitted a letter to the provincial governor on Friday, confirming that they are waiting for the company to reopen the mine.

The Big Aui Chuan Chom Garden in Phichit province attracts flower lovers nationwide with over 1,000 decorative plants, including the signature “Phet Aiyada” desert rose that gets offers for half a million baht.

Phichit police on Friday stopped a van on Highway 115 in Sam Ngam district after receiving a tip-off that the route was being used to transport workers from Myanmar.

A public health staffer who died in Phichit province after getting a Pfizer booster shot suffered from asthma and hyperlipidemia, the Department of Disease Control (DDC) revealed on Thursday.

Locations in Phichit province that were visited by one of the Thai women who sneaked into the country have been disinfected, as has the venue where a Chinese opera festival will be organised.

Newest data shows that Phichit province has the highest number of deaths due to the consumption of raw meat and is the second-highest in terms of patients with symptoms caused by unusual eating habits.

Traffic came to a near standstill in Phichit province when a road developed a one metre deep and three metre wide sinkhole on Wednesday.

Phichit’s Yom River is flowing again for the first time in seven months, and though the level of water is lower than usual, it is moving fast enough to destroy the check dams built up by locals.

Monks at Phichit province’s Wat Rong Chang temple have decided to bring back the ancient tradition of beating drums and bells to mark time during Buddhist Lent.

Many devotees went to pay their respects to the Luang Pho Phet Buddha statue in Phichit province’s Wat Tha Luang temple to mark the start of Buddhist Lent on Tuesday (July 7).

The Yom River in Phichit province has been almost completely dried up for five months now, destroying the livelihoods of locals who breed aquatic animals on the river edge or grow crops on its banks, a report said today (May 18).