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School pledges scholarships for poor Muslim students
News, Dumrongkiat Mala, Published on 12/10/2020
» Sasanupatham School, a 38-year-old private Islamic school in Prawet district of Bangkok, is committing to provide scholarships to orphaned and underprivileged Muslim youths from Thailand's restive southernmost provinces for a third consecutive year.
Curfew mulled for deep South
News, Published on 09/11/2019
» Security authorities have been given the green light to consider imposing a curfew in eight districts of four southernmost provinces for one year, but they say the move has nothing to do with this week's deadly attack in Yala.
Romanticising the insurgency
Life, Kong Rithdee, Published on 24/07/2015
» Rarely do we see a Thai film set in the Deep South and rarely do we see a film with so many people saying "assalamu alaikum" to each other. So now that we have one in the cinema, it turns out to be such a piece of romantic fluff that it hardly does justice to the complicated reality of the region and its people. What should we expect when Latitude Tee Hok (Latitude No.6) has been financed by the military — the Internal Security Operations Command, to be precise — and produced by UCI Media, an affiliation of a company that sells communication equipment to the army?
Six launch growth plan
Business, Post Reporters, Published on 16/09/2014
» Thailand's newly appointed economic ministers yesterday outlined a policy platform aimed at boosting short-term growth and rebuilding confidence while also tackling longer-term structural reforms, narrowing economic inequality and wiping out corruption.