Five soldiers were wounded in a grenade attack on an Army base in the insurgency-hit province of Pattani late onFriday night. Police said the assailants fired M79 grenades to attack the Army base located on Pattani-Yala Road in Yarang district. Read more: The Nation
NARATHIWAT, Aug 19 – One suspect has been detained for alleged involvement in a bombing outside Narathiwat Airport on August 7. About 100 officials raid a village after being tipped off as a hideout of a suspected insurgent. Read more: MCOT
SONGKHLA, Aug 17 – The inaugural flight of Firefly Airline to Hat Yai International Airport bringing 90 tourists from Malaysia’s Subang Airport in Subang, a suburb of Kuala Lumpur, was warmly welcomed on Friday by Hat Yai residents. Songkhla deputy governor Surapol Panasampon led representatives from the Tourism Authority of Thailand (TAT), Hat Yai office, […]
A car bomb attack at a government office in Pattani’s Pahareh district Thursday damaged several vehicles but caused no casualties. This incident came with a worry on security aspect, as the gold-coloured Toyota Vigo used was not on a watch list, which contains eight vehicles snatched by insurgents after their murderous ambushes. Read more: The […]
NARATHIWAT, Aug 16 – An apparent manually-detonated bomb exploded without effect as an eight-man teacher protection unit passed by before the explosive went off. There were no injuries. Sgt Kengkat Siri led his team of seven soldiers on foot patrol along a road in Ruso district to provide security for teachers going to a school […]
Two civilians were killed and another injured in two separate shooting incidents in Yala Tuesday night, police said. The Krong Penang police station was alerted at 7:30am Wednesday that a body had been found in a rubber plantation in Tambon Saae in Krong Penang district. Read more: The Nation
PHATTHALUNG, 15 August 2012 (NNT) – A peat swamp forest fire has been raging in Phatthalung’s Noknamtalay Noi National Park, damaging over 210 rai of land. According to correspondents at the scene, the thick smoke from the fires began to blanket lake areas in both Phattalung and Songkla’s Ranode district. Residents commuting between the two […]
The demolition of many illegally built resorts on Koh Samet is set and awaiting a date to be decided soon, Rayong governor Seni Jitkasem said Tuesday. Out of 60 resorts on the tourist island facing demolition orders, there are four set to suffer such a fate – Pla Cartoon Seafood, Bai Tong Seafood, Fong Nam […]
