CHUMPHON – Eighteen people were injured after a 24-seater bus bound for Hat Yai toppled into a roadside ditch in Muang district on Sunday. Read more: Bangkok Post
BANGKOK, Dec 28 – The first day of registration of constituency candidates for the February 2 general election has been obstructed in six southern provinces, as registration venues were blockaded and surrounded by protesters in the morning, according to the Election Commission (EC). Somchai Srisuthiyakorn, election commissioner for election administration, told a press briefing that […]
NARATHIWAT, Dec 28 – A defence volunteer was gunned down today while riding a motorcycle in Su-ngai Padi district of Narathiwat. The victim was Kamani Mama, 56, who worked as a defence volunteer in Kawa subdistrict, according to Pol Lt Anukul Chaisuwan of Su-ngai Padi police station. MCOT
YALA, Dec 27 – A roadside bomb exploded in Yala’s Baroh subdistrict Friday morning, injuring a volunteer ranger as security in the violence-plagued southern border region has been tightened to ensure travellers’ safety during the New Year holidays. Police said the ambush took place on Yaha-Baroh Road where a team of eight volunteer rangers was […]
(26 December) Unidentified assailants have sprayed rounds of M16 rifle on the residence of a prominent anti-government activist. The incident reportedly took place at approximately 01.00 this morning at the house of Mr. Satit Wongnongtoey, a co-leader of People’s Committee for Absolute Democracy With the King As Head of State (PCAD), in Trang province. Read […]
A soldier and a civilian were wounded when a bomb exploded at a customs office on the border with Malaysia in Narathiwat’s Tak Bai district on Thursday morning. Read more: Bangkok Post
SONGKHLA, Dec 22 – Dozens of people were wounded in a series of bombing in the Thai southern border town of Sadao. Songkhla governor Kritsada Boonraj said the first two bombs, hidden in motorcycles, were triggered at Padangbesar checkpoint and within the compound of Sadao Police Station. No one were wounded in these incidents. Read […]
NAKHON SI THAMMARAT, Dec 19 – Police arrested a man and a woman in this southern province for possessing nearly a thousand homemade “pingpong” bombs believed to be readied to stir up disturbances during Sunday’s mass rally in Bangkok. Nakhon Si Thammarat provincial police commander Pol Maj Gen Pachara Boonyasit told MCOT’s FM 100.5 radio […]
