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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.
Woman arrested with B20m in untaxed cigarettes
Assawin Pakkawan, Published on 05/11/2025
» SONGKHLA - A Thai woman has been arrested in this southern border province with smuggled cigarettes worth about 20 million baht.
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.
Gulf of Thailand canal project push gains new momentum
News, Assawin Pakkawan, Published on 02/03/2025
» The Thai Canal Association for Study and Development wants a national committee to study the feasibility of connecting the Gulf of Thailand with the Andaman Sea via the proposed 9A Canal Route. The project, if approved, could create up to a million new jobs, its advocates say.
Nine held at drug-fuelled party in Songkhla
Assawin Pakkawan, Published on 11/07/2024
» SONGKHLA: Nine people were arrested for allegedly taking illicit drugs, and a quantity of crystal methamphetamine was seized during a police raid on a house in Muang district of 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.
1,200kg of ‘ice’ destined for Malaysia seized
Assawin Pakkawan, Published on 26/05/2023
» SONGKHLA: Police seized 1,200 kilogrammes of crystal methamphetamine worth 120 million baht, destined for Malaysia, after surrounding a house in Na Mom district but the smugglers managed to flee.
101 Malaysia-bound migrants arrested in Hat Yai
Assawin Pakkawan, Published on 24/02/2023
» SONGKHLA: A total of 101 illegal migrants from Myanmar en route to Malaysia were arrested after they were found in a truck parked in Hat Yai district early Friday. Two Thai men were also arrested.
Murder suspect arrested after 7 years on the run
Assawin Pakkawan, Published on 05/12/2022
» SONGKHLA: Crime Suppression Division (CSD) police on Monday arrested a man suspected of shooting to death a kindergarten teacher in 2015, seven years after the murder.
Smuggled pickup seized near border, 2 arrested
Assawin Pakkawan, Published on 14/11/2022
» SONGKHLA: A pickup smuggled from Malaysia was seized and two suspects arrested near the Malaysian border in Sadao district on Sunday.