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Phumtham presses for progress in South
News, Abdullah Benjakat, Published on 29/04/2025
» Deputy Prime Minister and Defence Minister Phumtham Wechayachai has set a seven-day deadline for security forces to submit a report on their efforts to resolve the ongoing unrest in the southernmost provinces.
Govt lauded for boosting Islamic teacher pay
News, Chairith Yonpiam, Published on 17/04/2025
» The Office of the Private Education in Narathiwat's Sungai Kolok district has thanked the government for approving increased compensation for Islamic religion teachers in the five southernmost border provinces.
4 rangers injured by motorcycle bomb in Narathiwat
Abdullah Benjakat, Published on 13/04/2025
» NARATHIWAT - Four rangers were injured when a bomb hidden in a motorcycle with a sidecar went off near their housing unit in Rangae district on Sunday.
Islamic teachers in South to get salary hike
Published on 01/04/2025
» The cabinet has approved an annual budget of 721 million baht to increase the salaries of religious teachers in Islamic schools in Thailand’s southernmost provinces as a part of a peace-building initiative.
Israeli minister threatens to annex parts of Gaza
AFP, Published on 21/03/2025
» JERUSALEM - Israeli Defence Minister Israel Katz threatened on Friday to annex parts of the Gaza Strip unless Hamas militants release the remaining Israeli hostages held in the war-battered Palestinian territory.
Life-threatening warnings target defence volunteers in South
Abdullah Benjakat, Published on 21/03/2025
» PATTANI — Insurgents have warned Muslim defence volunteers in the southern border region to back down or face life-threatening consequences.
Narathiwat on alert for stolen-car bomb
Published on 18/03/2025
» Residents of Narathiwat province have been warned that a missing old-model Honda sedan could have been stolen by insurgents for use as a car bomb.
Time for Thai govt, BRN to talk
Oped, Matt Wheeler, Published on 12/03/2025
» Dialogue between the Thai government and Malay separatists marked its 12-year anniversary on Feb 28, but violence in the southernmost provinces remains an open wound on the Thai body politic. A dreadful routine of bombings, shootings and clashes in these provinces has killed some 7,680 people since 2004, yet the simmering violence goes largely unnoticed outside the region.
Victims of the violent South speak up
News, Published on 10/03/2025
» An ambulance bomb attack erupting in front of a pub beside the packed 80-room Southern View Hotel in Muang district of Pattani almost a decade ago has remained in the memory of Saibua Kaewmanee.
De Forest taps southern culinary prowess
Business, Somruedi Banchongduang, Published on 10/03/2025
» Given the many challenges faced by Thai small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), business adaptation is key to survival.