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Starving Bangladeshi migrants rescued from locked room in Hat Yai
Assawin Pakkawan, Published on 18/03/2026
» SONGKHLA - Authorities have rescued 16 Bangladeshi migrant workers who were found locked inside a rented house in Hat Yai for three days without food or water while awaiting illegal transport to Malaysia.
'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.
Fewer Malaysian visitors to Hat Yai hiring guides
Assawin Pakkawan, Published on 13/07/2025
» SONGKHLA - Visitors from Malaysia are changing a pattern by increasingly favouring travel to southern Thailand in private vehicles, causing concern to tour guides who fear losing their livelihoods.
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.
Huge fireworks shipment destined for Malaysia seized in Sadao
Assawin Pakkawan, Published on 08/01/2023
» SONGKHLA: About 300 cases of fireworks destined for Malaysia were seized in Sadao district of this southern province in the small hours on Sunday.
Freight train derails in South
News, Assawin Pakkawan, Published on 04/12/2022
» SONGKHLA: A freight train derailed after a loud bang that sounded like a bomb blast on a track between Hat Yai and Padang Besar stations in Sadao district of Songkhla yesterday afternoon. No casualties were reported.
Drug courier arrested, 390kg of crystal meth seized
Assawin Pakkawan, Published on 10/06/2022
» SONGKHLA: A drug courier was arrested and 390 kilogrammes of crystal methamphetamine seized from his pickup truck in Chana district of this southern border province on Friday.
Man paid by fugitive son-in-law to deliver drugs
Assawin Pakkawan, Published on 04/04/2022
» SONGKHLA: A 53-year-old man caught with 300 kilogrammes of crystal methamphetamine in his pickup told police he was being paid to deliver the drugs by his son-in-law and a woman who had both fled to Laos.
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.
Former police sergeant charged with attempted murder
Assawin Pakkawan, Published on 01/12/2021
» SONGKHLA: A former police sergeant has been arrested for the attempted murder of a man shot in hut at a longan plantation in Rattaphum district on Sunday night.