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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.
Teen, 15, arrested a day after Hat Yai gold robbery
Assawin Pakkawan, Published on 04/02/2026
» UBON RATCHATHANI — Crime Suppression Division (CSD) police arrested a 15-year-old Songkhla native at the Ubon Ratchathani bus terminal on Wednesday evening, one day after he allegedly stole about 2.43 million baht in gold from a Hat Yai mall shop.
Chinese illegal caught selling drugs on Koh Phangan
Assawin Pakkawan, Published on 24/11/2025
» SURAT THANI - A 40-year-old Chinese man was arrested at a rented house in tambon Ban Tai on Koh Phangan on Sunday evening on charges of illegal entry and selling illicit drugs to partygoers.
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.
Nine Malaysia-bound Afghan migrants detained
Assawin Pakkawan, Published on 22/02/2025
» SONGKHLA - Nine Afghan illegal migrants on their way to Malaysia and three Thai smugglers were arrested separaely in two southern provinces on Saturday.
Hostel caught selling smuggled cigarettes on Koh Phangan
News, Assawin Pakkawan, Published on 12/02/2025
» SURAT THANI – Two men, a Serbian and a Thai, have been arrested for selling contraband cigarettes and an American woman detained for working without permit, at a hostel on Koh Phangan.
10 illegal migrants bound for Malaysia caught in southern Thailand
Assawin Pakkawan, Published on 26/01/2025
» SONGKHLA – Ten illegal migrants from Myanmar seeking jobs in Malaysia and two Thai drivers have been arrested by police in Chana district of this southern Thai province.
Illegal migrants caught heading for jobs in Malaysia
Assawin Pakkawan, Published on 12/11/2024
» SONGKHLA - Twenty-four illegal migrants from Myanmar wanting to get jobs in Malaysia, a Thai driver and a Myanmar intermediary were arrested by police in Hat Yai district on Tuesday.
Wanted contract killer on police blacklist arrested
Assawin Pakkawan, Published on 04/09/2023
» SONGKHLA - An alleged contract killer, ranked 186 on the Royal Thai Police blacklist of gunmen for hire, has been arrested at a rubber plantation in Nakhon Si Thammarat 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.