More than 10,000 people affected by insurgent violence in the three southernmost provinces of Thailand have registered in the government’s two-billion-baht aid program so far. Locals affected by insurgent violence in all 13 districts of Narathiwat Province since January 4, 2003 are registering for government aid at the Office of Narathiwat Islamic Committee. Read more: […]
Yala – Insurgents launched a bomb attack in Yala hours before Army Commander-in-Chief Gen Prayuth Chan-ocha visited a school in this southern border province Tuesday. Insurgents detonated a roadside home-made bomb at noon to ambush a unit of six troops traveling in an armoured personnel carrier to Ban Bueng Nam Sai School in Raman district. […]
Some 6,000 soldiers were deployed to guard 400 schools of the three southernmost provinces during the school term opening yesterday, Army Chief Gen Prayuth Chan-ocha said Wednesday. However there were two problems; that the teacher and student protection was a receptive measure in the face of insurgents’ ability to launch attack anytime; and that some […]
The village pavilion of a new redshirt village in Songkhla province was burnt down early Tuesday, hours after its opening by redshirt leaders and supporters in the South. On Monday evening redshirt leader Thida Tavornset Tojirakarn and supporters held an opening ceremony for a red-shirt village near the now-burnt-down pavilion in tambon Bangkae, in Songkhla’s […]
A muslim man was arrested Monday for allegedly lobbing a grenade at a police road checkpoint Sunday night, injuring five civilians, a policeman and a paramilitary ranger. Police said Hanafi Sedmahamad was arrested after witnesses identified him at the bomb attacker. Read more: The Nation
Dozens of security officers and local villagers in Pattani and Narathiwat provinces were wounded in two separate bomb attacks last night. Narathiwat’s bomb disposal unit inspected a scene where unknown perpetrators hurled a grenade at a safety zone checkpoint on the Clock Tower intersection in the Narathiwat municipal area. TAN Network
BANGKOK, 11 May 2012 (NNT) – Several popular beaches along the Andaman coast might become things of the past if nothing is done to prevent coastal erosions. Chief of the Department of Marine and Coastal Resources project to draft preventive plans against coastal erosions along the Andaman Coast Phayom Rattanamani said that at least 40 […]
NAKHON SI THAMMARAT, May 7 – The body of a four-year-old boy was found in this southern province after he was carried away and drowned in a flash flood while swimming Sunday with his father and brother at a Tha Sala district waterfall. The family of four—the parents and their two sons—were visiting relatives Friday. […]
