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Seven suspects arrested for Yala attacks
AFP, Published on 09/11/2019
» Seven suspected rebels have been arrested in the South, authorities said Saturday, as a manhunt sweeps through remote villages for gunmen who killed 15 in an ambush considered the deadliest attack in the yearslong insurgency.
El Nino dries up Asia as its stormy sister La Nina looms
AFP, Published on 29/04/2016
» Withering drought and sizzling temperatures from El Nino have caused food and water shortages and ravaged farming across Asia, and experts warn of a double-whammy of possible flooding from its sibling, La Nina.
UN hits boat people deportation plan
AFP, Published on 11/11/2014
» BANGKOK - The United Nations said Tuesday it had urged Thai authorities against deporting more than 200 Muslim boatpeople from Myanmar being held in southern Thailand after they were intercepted en route to Malaysia.
Rohingya victims 'trafficked to Thailand'
AFP, Published on 13/10/2014
» BANGKOK - People-smugglers kidnapped dozens of Rohingya refugees living in Bangladesh after duping them with fake job offers, and trafficked them to a rubber plantation in southern Thailand, officials said Sunday.
Rohingya, traffickers rounded up
AFP, Published on 11/10/2014
» Thai authorities on Saturday arrested 53 Rohingya migrants and two suspected Thai traffickers en route to neighbouring Malaysia.
Refugee trafficking: policeman charged
AFP, Published on 28/06/2013
» A policeman has been charged with trafficking after a Rohingya woman was allegedly lured from a shelter in southern Thailand and subsequently raped by a man from the refugee Muslim minority, police told AFP on Friday.
Hundreds of Thai schools shut over militant attacks
AFP, Published on 26/11/2012
» Teachers in insurgency-wracked southern Thailand decided Monday to suspend classes at hundreds of schools in the region over the killings of education workers by Muslim militants.