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Holiday influx at border
News, Assawin Pakkawan, Published on 01/11/2024
» Thailand's southern border districts have begun welcoming large numbers of visitors from neighbouring Malaysia to spend their long holiday there, celebrating Halloween and Diwali festivals.
Songkhla operators call for cruise ship terminal
News, Assawin Pakkawan, Published on 03/06/2024
» The Songkhla Tourism Association is urging the government to further promote tourism in the province by building a cruise ship terminal and adding direct flights from cities in China to Hat Yai.
Parallel checkpoints 'can boost commerce'
News, Assawin Pakkawan, Published on 17/11/2023
» SONGKHLA: Business operators in Sadao district have urged the government to consider opening the old Sadao immigration checkpoint in tandem with the new one, in a bid boost trade and tourism with Malaysia.
New road for border checkpoint
News, Assawin Pakkawan, Published on 26/05/2023
» Thailand and Malaysia have agreed to build a new road connecting the Sadao border checkpoint in Songkhla to Bukit Kayu Hitam town in Malaysia's Kedah state to boost ties between the two countries.
30 tonnes of smuggled pork seized in Songkhla
Assawin Pakkawan, Published on 23/02/2023
» SONGKHLA: Authorities have seized 30 tonnes of smuggled frozen pork from Brazil, worth about 6 million baht, in Sadao district of this southern province.
13 Myanmar migrants nabbed in Songkhla
Assawin Pakkawan, Published on 16/02/2023
» SONGKHLA: Thirteen men from Myanmar were arrested by a combined police-military team near the border with Malaysia in Sadao district on Thursday morning.
Tourism back to life in Songkhla after Thailand Pass scrapped
Assawin Pakkawan, Published on 01/07/2022
» SONGKHLA: Tourism surged back to life at the Sadao immigration checkpoint, as visitors from Malaysia and Singapore thronged to this southern border province on Friday, the first day the Thailand Pass requirement for international visitors was scrapped.
Border posts reopen in Songkhla
News, Assawin Pakkawan, Published on 01/04/2022
» SONGKHLA: The Sadao immigration checkpoint reopens today, two years after the border checkpoint with Malaysia closed due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
10 Myanmar migrants arrested in Songkhla
Assawin Pakkawan, Published on 26/09/2021
» SONGKHLA: Ten Myanmar migrants were arrested on Sunday morning at a rubber plantation near the border with Malaysia in Sadao district while seven others escaped, police said.
Officials quarantined after detained illegal migrants found infected
Assawin Pakkawan, Published on 15/09/2021
» SONGKHLA: About 40 officials have been quarantined after nine of a group of 14 illegal migrants from Myanmar caught in Sadao district were found to be infected with Covid-19.