PATTANI, Aug 5 – Three men were shot dead, while another survived a gun attack while riding motorcycles in Kapho district of restive Pattani, according to local police. Art-harn Dokmaingern and Manus Sirimaha were struck in their heads and torsos. Their bodies were found lying near their motorcycle, according to Pol Col Kongart Suwankam of […]
PATTANI, YALA, Aug 4 – Violence in Thailand’s southern border region continued unabated Thursday with a string of four killings taking place in a single day. A religious teacher was gunned down at his home in restive Pattani’s Nong Chik district early Thursday morning, a married couple was killed in a shooting in nearby Sai […]
Despite the holy month of Ramadan, violence continues to rage on in Thailand southern provinces with the latest attack resulting in the death of a Pattani religious teacher. As a result, the Southern Border Provinces Teachers Association has pressured security agencies to step up teacher escort operations. Pattani’s Nong Jik police inspected a home in […]
PATTANI, Aug 8 – A teacher was shot dead in Pattani on his way to work Wednesday morning, and a defence volunteer was killed Tuesday night in the adjacent province of Narathiwat. Noppadol Sasimonthon, a teacher at Baan Tangyonglu School in the provincial seat, was driving his motorcycle from home to school about 8.30am when […]
Bangkok/ Thailand – Successfully positioning the Thai MICE industry on the world stage, the Thailand Convention and Exhibition Bureau, (TCEB), today announced “Hua Hin” as one of the five carefully selected luxurious destinations, in its latest MICE marketing initiative, especially designed for untapped niche markets. This is in parallel with the bureau’s ‘Connection Plus 2011’ […]
NARATHIWAT, July 31 – A man was killed and another wounded in a shooting at a market in Narathiwat, Thailand on Sunday, while the owner of a rubber plantation lost his leg in a booby trap explosion in the restive province. A 34-year-old man, identified as Sapaeing Yako, 34, was shot dead at a Sunday’s […]
The 14 train services to the three southernmost provinces resumed Saturday after being suspended, pending repairs after bomb attacks on Wednesday in Narathiwat’s Ra Ngae district. The Southern Railway Office also beefed up security by having five fully-armed railway police and security volunteers onboard each train, while security officers also patrolled the route prior to […]
PATTANI, July 30 — Two forensics staff injured after one triggered an explosive device when stepping on a landmine, while inspecting a vacated Pattani military camp which was attacked last night. A team of forensics specialists from Royal Thai Army’s Region 4 Ingkayut Borihan military camp in Pattani this morning inspected the crime scene at […]
