BANGKOK, Dec 14 – Village and community leaders in insurgent violence-affected provinces in Thailand’s far South will be asked to lend their hands to the government’s counter-insurgency response, Deputy Prime Minister Chalerm Yubumrung said today. He said he instructed governors of the four southernmost provinces – Yala, Pattani, Narathiwat and Songkhla – to meet with […]
Thai-Buddhist teachers in three districts of Narathiwat on Tuesday refused to work following reports that muslim insurgents are now targeting the Buddhist teachers. An informed source said four Buddhist teachers at four schools in Chanae, Rangae and Joh I Rong districts, instead reported to the central authority in the province. The schools there opened as […]
PATTANI, Dec 12 – Thailand’s teachers in the besieged southernmost provinces, represented by their Teachers Federation, on Wednesday endorsed a collective decision to close all schools in the provinces one day after presumed insurgents entered a school in Pattani and killed a teacher and the school principal. The two teachers were shot dead while they […]
Violence continued in the deep south province of Narathiwat’s Rangae district on Tuesday as insurgents fired bullets into a tea shop, killing four including a 11monthold baby and injuring four others. The baby was identified as Ephani Samoh. The other victims were Kabaree Hoh, 37, Pangor Nimae, 74 and Ameesi Jehdoh, 23. They succumbed to […]
Insurgents used a roadside bomb to attack soldiers from a special combat unit while they travelled on two armoured pick-ups to their unit in Pattani’s Panare district late on Friday night. No one was injured, but one of the pick-ups was damaged. In related news, soldiers yesterday seized 50 kilograms of kratom leaves in Khok […]
Samui Airport remains open with normal operation from 6am-10pm, announced Bangkok Airways which is the airport operator. The operator said in a statement that the blackout incident in Koh Samui Island has no effect on flight operation in and out of Samui Airport. The airport is operating normally and handling around 36 flights per day […]
NARATHIWAT, Dec 4 – Teachers in this risk-escalated province in Thailand’s deep South are to meet urgently tomorrow to discuss mounting unrest and attacks on their colleagues after a second fatal shooting of a woman teacher on Monday. It was the second murder of a teacher in this besieged province in less than two weeks. […]
Fire broke out a Pattani school early Thursday morning, completely destroying a two-storey building housing the director’s office, computer rooms and 11 classrooms. Ten students and teachers were camping in the building opposite when fire broke out at about 1am at Bangmaruet School in Panare district but no one was injured. Read more: The Nation
