A police sergeant’s seven-year-old daughter sustained injuries to her arms last night after insurgents carried out an M-79 grenade attack on the Nongjik district police station in Pattani Province. Southern insurgents fired an M-79 grenade into Pattani’s Nongjik district police station last night, but it dropped on the roof of the home of Police Senior […]
PATTANI, Feb 21 – Three suspected insurgents were killed while three security personnel were wounded on Tuesday in the latest clash in Thailand’s insurgency-torn southern province of Pattani. The firefight took place as a group of ten government soldiers and paramilitary rangers were building a roadside checkpoint for a village defense unit in Panare district […]
TRANG, Feb 21 – The Thai authorities on Tuesday seized 111 endangered pangolins in a crackdown on a wildlife smuggling syndicate and arrested two suspects in Thailand’s southern province of Trang. The 111 confiscated scaly ant-eaters, contained in 36 nets, were valued at about Bt1.25 million (about US$42,000), said Pol Col Thammanoon Traitippong, deputy commander […]
BANGKOK, 20 February 2012 (NNT) – Thailand and Malaysia have agreed to urgently develop the economy of the Thai-Malaysian border region for better quality of life of the people of the two nations. Thai Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra on Monday jointly held a press conference with her Malaysian counterpart after a plenary session between the […]
Two southerners, one a hospital director, were shot dead in Pattani over the weekend, possibly by insurgents. On Saturday night, two men in Muslim robes arrived at the pharmacy of Saman Masae in Mayo district to buy medicine, before firing three times at him and leaving him critically wounded. Read more: The Nation
Satun police detain 70 Rohingyas from Myanmar for illegal entry, looking for work in Malaysia, Indonesia but stranded in La-ngu district. Read more: MCOT
Some 2,000 people in Ranong listened to Dr Smith Dhammasaroj’s forecast yesterday that the South would suffer another tsunami in five years. Smith chairs the Foundation of National Disaster Warning Council. The nongovernmental organisation hosted the seminar at Tinidee Ranong Hotel yesterday to promote knowledge about disaster management as well as create a disaster warning […]
Villagers in Pattani’s Nongjik District, where four civilians were allegedly killed by paramilitary troopers, are requesting that the new security unit in their area meet with the victims’ families in order to ease their resentment towards the officers. Meanwhile, another roadside bomb attack in Yala injures a soldier and a woman. Read more: TAN Network
