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Hat Yai school director dies of injuries after gun attack
Assawin Pakkawan, Published on 12/02/2026
» SONGKHLA - The director of a Hat Yai school who was shot by an armed teenage attacker while protecting her students succumbed to severe injuries early Thursday morning.
Hat Yai recovery efforts on track to meet PM's target
News, Assawin Pakkawan, Published on 11/12/2025
» Recovery efforts in Hat Yai following severe flooding are more than 70% complete, in line with the premier's target for residents to return home within seven days and a full clean-up in 14 days, says government spokesman Siripong Angkasakulkiat.
'Big Joke' files defamation suit against police chief
News, Assawin Pakkawan, Published on 03/10/2025
» Former deputy national police chief Pol Gen Surachate Hakparn, also known as "Big Joke", has filed a criminal defamation lawsuit against national police chief Pol Gen Kittharath Punpetch over allegations of links to a Chulalongkorn University law exam scandal.
Record drug haul in Songkhla worth B117 million
Assawin Pakkawan, Published on 15/03/2025
» SONGKHLA - Authorities have seized about 200 kilogrammes of heroin and 2.7 million speed pills with a combined worth of more than 117 million baht and arrested two suspected drug couriers in the largest-ever drug haul in this southern province.
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.
Ammonia leak at food factory, workers evacuated
Assawin Pakkawan, Published on 28/03/2023
» SONGKHLA: About 100 workers were evacuated from their nearby accommodation after being exposed to ammonia leaking from a frozen food factory in Hat Yai district on Monday night.
In Songkhla, a libel spat brews at PSU
News, Assawin Pakkawan, Published on 30/03/2022
» SONGKHLA: A school counsellor and her lawyer have filed a petition with the director of PSU Wittayanusorn School demanding the institute remove an announcement saying the teacher was fired as she failed to resign before passing an exam to become a civil servant.
Huge drug hauls in Songkhla, 2 arrested
Assawin Pakkawan, Published on 19/09/2021
» SONGKHLA: Police seized a total of 882,000 methamphetamine pills and 5.6 kilogrammes of crystal methamphetamine in two separate actions in Hat Yai and Bang Klam districts last week, Provincial Police Region 9 commissioner Pol Lt Gen Ronnasin Pusara said at a press conference on Sunday. Two suspects were arrested.
Schools seek say in B18bn Chana plan
News, Assawin Pakkawan, Published on 17/08/2020
» SONGKHLA: More than 1,000 students and teachers from Islamic religious schools in the southern provinces have petitioned Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha to allow them a say on community development under the government's plan to develop an 18-billion-baht industrial estate in Chana district.