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Good neighbour
Asia focus, Published on 06/02/2017
» Before I interviewed the Malaysian ambassador to Thailand, HE Dato' Nazirah Hussain, people told me she was the kindest and most humble female diplomat they have ever met. But what I did not expect was that this soft-spoken woman would make me, a professional journalist on duty, break into tears when she talked so movingly about Thailand's beloved late King Bhumibol Adulyadej.
Revival of Yawi script boost for peace
AFP, Published on 24/10/2014
» SAIBURI, Pattani - A high-pitched chorus pours out from a Muslim nursery school in Thailand's insurgency-battered south, as girls in crisp, white hijabs read aloud the curls and flourishes of a homegrown script virtually erased from public life.
Thai army rangers 'admit killing three boys in deep south'
AFP, Published on 04/03/2014
» Two Thai army rangers have confessed to shooting dead three young brothers in the country's violence-torn deep south in an attack that sparked a spate of gruesome tit-for-tat killings, police said Tuesday.
Lone Buddhist widow holds out in war-torn Thai village
AFP, Published on 08/10/2013
» Guarded by Thai soldiers from rebel attacks, an 81-year-old grandmother -- the last Buddhist in a Muslim village -- refuses to abandon her home, defying a wider split between insurgency-plagued communities.
PM warned against recognising rebels
News, Published on 26/02/2013
» Security officials have voiced fears that Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra will try to formalise peace talks with southern separatists during her visit to Malaysia this week.
Volunteer medics on frontline of Thai south insurgency
AFP, Published on 08/11/2012
» They are rubber tappers by trade but every week are summoned to the scene of beheadings, bombs and shootings as volunteer medics dealing with the fallout from Thailand's southern insurgency.
Militants shoot dead 4 soldiers in restive Thai south
AFP, Published on 28/07/2012
» Militants shot dead four soldiers and wounded two others early Saturday in Thailand's volatile south, an army spokesman said, as a surge in violence since the start of Ramadan continued.