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Four Thai soldiers killed in deep south ambush
AFP, Published on 04/06/2015
» BANGKOK - Four Thai soldiers returning from a football match were shot dead in an ambush in the country's deep south, police said Thursday.
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.
Anti-coup leaflets scattered at Thai army HQ
AFP, Published on 16/08/2014
» BANGKOK - Hundreds of anti-coup leaflets were scattered early Friday outside the Thai army headquarters in Bangkok, a junta spokesman said, in a brazen -- and increasingly rare -- act of defiance against military rule.
Reuters reporters may face arrest
AFP, Published on 13/05/2014
» Reporters with the Reuters news agency could face arrest in Thailand in connection with a Pulitzer Prize-winning article alleging the Royal Thai Navy was involved a trafficking racket using Rohingya boat people, police said Monday.
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.
Boy, monk among five killed in Thai south
AFP, Published on 13/02/2014
» Suspected Thai militants shot dead five people, including a nine-year-old boy and a Buddhist monk, in the latest attacks in the kingdom's insurgency-torn deep south, police said Thursday.
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.
Thai police use water cannon on Rohingya asylum seekers
AFP, Published on 09/08/2013
» Thai police used water cannon to prevent scores of Muslim Rohingya boat people from Myanmar breaking out of a detention centre to celebrate the end of Ramadan, officials said Thursday.
Thailand, Muslim rebels aim for Ramadan peace
AFP, Published on 13/07/2013
» The Thai government and Muslim rebels have agreed to try to curb violence during Ramadan, a Malaysian official said Friday, marking a new step towards ending nearly a decade of conflict.
Eight soldiers killed in Thai south blast
AFP, Published on 29/06/2013
» A roadside bomb killed eight soldiers in Thailand's restive south, an army spokesman said, raising questions over the durability of a fragile peace process aiming to end the near-decade long insurgency.