SONGKHLA, Jan 18 — Hotel rooms in Thailand’s southern tourist haven of Hat Yai are now fully booked mostly by tourists from Malaysia and Singapore for the Chinese New Year this weekend, according to Hat Yai-Songkhla Hotel Association President. Mr Somchart Pimthanapoonporn said that all hotel rooms in Songkhla’s Hat Yai were fully booked Jan […]
SONGKHLA, Jan 18 – The Thai navy impounded three Vietnamese fishing boats for intruding into Thai territorial waters on Wednesday. After being informed by a Thai fishing boat that about ten Vietnamese fishing boats intruded into Thai territorial waters, a Royal Thai Navy patrol vessel and reconnaissance aircraft entered the area and found the Vietnamese […]
Thai media reports are suggesting that the National Intelligence Agency has recieved credible information that Yala Province is the target of unrest between the period of January 18 to 28. Authorities believe insurgents are plotting a car bomb attack in the province. Police and military personnel are taking increased precaution. Read more: TAN Network
Rubber farmers in Betong District of Yala Province haven’t been able to collect rubber for seven consecutive days because a Bengal tiger has been detected in the area. They have pleaded that officials deal with the situation before physical harm comes to themselves or their livestock. More than 50 local officials, including the Border Police, […]
PATTANI, Jan 17 – A police officer and his 14-year-old son were shot to death in this violence-plagued province Tuesday morning. Police Senior Sergeant-Major Sathaporn Kongput, 50 was killed along with his 14-year-old son in Saiburi district. Read more: MCOT
BANGKOK, Thailand — Thailand’s war against minority Islamist guerrillas in the south, which killed more than 5,000 people during the past eight years, could escalate into an international security crisis similar to Yemen or Afghanistan, Britain’s ambassador said. “We know from other conflicts that these conflicts cannot always be contained,” the British Ambassador to Thailand, […]
NAKHON SI THAMMARAT, Jan 15 – A new round of floods triggered by incessant heavy rain hit some areas of the southern province of Nakhon Si Thammarat on Sunday. Some flood-prone communities in Nakhon Si Thammarat municipality have been affected by the new round of the flooding due to two days of incessant downpours. Rising […]
YALA, Jan 15 – Three soldiers were injured from a bomb explosion in the southern province of Yala on Sunday while patrolling to provide security for residents in Than To district, according to local police. The three casualties were identified as Master Sergeant First Class Star Suebsuan, Pvt Manoch Pantiang and Pvt Rattanachai Chujaihan of […]
