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A Facebook page is running a campaign called “Challenge for Change” to encourage people to keep their neighbourhoods clean and free of rubbish.

THE AUTHORITIES have started an initial survey of the Tham Luang Nang Non caves in Chiang Rai province, made famous by the headline-grabbing rescue of a team of young footballers in July.

A beach in Ao Makham is almost back to normal following a big clean-up that was launched on Monday to clear a black oil spill that had polluted 300 metres of shoreline.

Residents on a string of coral-fringed islands off Jakarta's coast are battling a tidal wave of trash, with more than 40 tons of rubbish collected daily over the past week, an official said.

Officials and volunteers on Saturday took part in a big clean-up at Phu Kradueng National Park service centre in preparation for the annual opening of the mountaintop camp site on Monday.

Water quality in the Mudong Canal in Wichit is starting to return to normal while tourists are back on sailing tours along the canal.

Soldiers and police were on Monday morning helping residents of Phayao’s Chiang Kham district after a severe storm the previous evening caused substantial damage.

Half a tonne of garbage – including fish that died after becoming entangled in discarded nets – was retrieved from the sea near the Krabi tourists attraction of Koh Lanta on Monday.

About a tonne of trash was collected during a beach clean-up at Hei Island (Coral Island) in Phuket yesterday.

Prime Minister Gen Prayut Chan-o-cha took part in an effort to get rid of mosquito breeding grounds at Government House on Wednesday.