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Foreign buses to get licence to roam
News, Assawin Pakkawan, Published on 17/02/2024
» SONGKHLA: Songkhla has proposed the lifting of restrictions on buses bearing foreign licence plates from travelling out beyond the provincial boundary in a push by tourism operators to woo more visitors, mainly from Malaysia, to travel to other southern provinces.
Rohingya beaten by man for ransom
News, Assawin Pakkawan, Published on 10/02/2024
» A 37-year-old Myanmar man has been arrested in Hat Yai for brutally beating three Rohingya -- two women and a 14-year-old boy -- in a bid to get a 500,000 kyat (8,500 baht) ransom from them while smuggling them into Malaysia.
Cops arrest Bangladeshi migrants
News, Assawin Pakkawan, Published on 21/12/2023
» Seventy-three illegal Bangladeshi migrants have been arrested in the southern provinces of Songkhla and Phatthalung while being smuggled to work in Malaysia through Thailand.
Three killed, one seriously injured in family tragedy
Assawin Pakkawan, Published on 23/11/2023
» SONGKHLA - A 39-year-old man shot and killed his wife, daughter and himself in an incident that left another daughter seriously injured in Rattaphum district of this southern province on Wednesday.
Parallel checkpoints 'can boost commerce'
News, Assawin Pakkawan, Published on 17/11/2023
» SONGKHLA: Business operators in Sadao district have urged the government to consider opening the old Sadao immigration checkpoint in tandem with the new one, in a bid boost trade and tourism with Malaysia.
Prosecutor sent death threat amid inmate escape investigations
News, Assawin Pakkawan, Published on 02/11/2023
» The Songkhla provincial prosecutor filed a report with police after receiving a life-threatening letter from a close friend of Chaowalit Thongduang, a prisoner who fled from Nakhon Si Thammarat Hospital on Oct 22.
Songkhla chasing Unesco listing for old town
Assawin Pakkawan, Published on 21/09/2023
» SONGKHLA: The provincial administrative organisation (PAO) and civil society of this southern region are pressing ahead with a plan to include Songkhla's old town in the tentative list of Unesco World Heritage Sites.
10,000 Buddhist monks in Hat Yai for mass alms offerings
Assawin Pakkawan, Published on 20/08/2023
» SONGKHLA: About 10,000 monks from four countries gathered in the middle of Hat Yai city on Sunday morning to receive offerings of alms from Thai and foreign Buddhists in a traditional event which is held annually.
Illegal job seekers caught en route to Malaysia
Assawin Pakkawan, Published on 05/07/2023
» SONGKHLA: Twenty illegal Myanmar migrants hoping to get jobs in Malaysia were arrested at a deserted house in Sadao district of this southern border province.
Thai driver, 13 illegal migrants arrested in Songkhla
Assawin Pakkawan, Published on 09/06/2023
» SONGKHLA: A driver arrested along with 13 illegal migrants from Myanmar in Rattaphum district of this southern province on Thursday admitted the financial reward drove him to take the job – even though he had been arrested for the same offence three times before.