BANGKOK, 9 March 2012 (NNT) – Deputy Prime Minister General Yuthasak Sasiprapha will propose to the cabinet a 3-month extension period for the emergency decree in Thailand’s Deep South, hoping to reduce violence in the region. General Yuthasak said the emergency decree committee had decided that it would be best to extend the decree in […]
12 Thai soldiers wounded by M79 fire in two insurgent attacks at Narathiwat’s Bacho district base. Read more: MCOT
SONGKLHA, March 8 – A family of four were swept away and drowned when their pickup truck was hit by forest runoff on Wednesday night. The bodies of the four victims were retrieved Thursday morning after the torrential waterflow– triggered by heavy rainfall— subsided. Read more: MCOT
The latest bombing in the deep southern province of Narathiwat on Thursday, which left four soldiers dead, may prompt the cabinet to extend the emergency decree due to worsening violence, Deputy Prime Minister Yuthasak Sasiprapa conceded on Thursday. He was referring to the bomb attack in Rue Soh district, which killed four soldiers last night. […]
NARATHIWAT, March 8 – Four Thai Army soldiers were killed and one was severely wounded as they returned from security escort duties for Buddhist worshippers attending a candlelight procession on Makha Bucha day. The powerful bomb, estimated at weighing about 20 kilogrammes, badly destroyed soldiers’ jeep and caused a one metre deep and three metre […]
BANGKOK, 8 March 2012 (NNT) – Commander-in-Chief of the Royal Thai Army Gen.Prayuth Chan-ocha has confirmed there is no need for a special administrative zone in the southern border region of Thailand, saying that he believes the majority of the locals disagree with the idea. Gen.Prayuth on Thursday spoke to the media about the controversial […]
YALA, March 6 – A Thai army non-commissioned officer dies of wounds this morning and another soldier, a private, is in stable condition in Yala hospital after a bomb ambush in this southern border province earlier today. Sergeant-Major 1st Class Preecha Kongpaksi, 52, died after being evacuated for emergency surgery at Yala Hospital and Private […]
BANGKOK, March 5 – Thai Deputy Prime Minister Gen Yuthasak Sasiprapa said the government is considering revoking the state of emergency imposed in the violence-plagued far South if the situation returns to normal. Gen Yutthasak made the statement following a national security meeting with the Internal Security Operations Commands (ISOC) Friday regarding the insurgency in […]
