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‘Biggest’ Israeli drug dealer on Koh Phangan arrested
Assawin Pakkawan, Published on 14/02/2026
» SURAT THANI - A major Israeli drug dealer, who operated out of the restaurant he owned on Koh Phangan, was arrested on Friday with narcotics worth over 50 million baht seized, authorities said.
Southern island DJ arrested while selling cocaine
Assawin Pakkawan, Published on 08/06/2025
» SURAT THANI: A Russian man, 37, was arrested on Koh Phangan island in this southern province Saturday evening with packets of cocaine and ketamine.
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.
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.
Two tonnes of kratom leaves abandoned in Songkhla
Assawin Pakkawan, Published on 25/12/2021
» SONGKHLA: Authorities seized 71 fertiliser sacks containing more than two tonnes of kratom leaves abandoned by four men on motorcycles along the Thai-Malaysian border in Sadao district early Saturday.
Four women held, 200kg of ganja seized in Hat Yai
Assawin Pakkawan, Published on 14/10/2021
» SONGKHLA: Four women have been arrested and 200 kilogrammes of compressed marijuana seized from one of their two vehicles in Hat Yai district.
Endangered slow loris saved by villagers in Hat Yai
Assawin Pakkawan, Published on 16/03/2021
» SONGKHLA: A slow loris, a protected mammal, was saved by villagers in Hat Yai district early on Tuesday.
Big meth, heroin seizure in Hat Yai
Assawin Pakkawan, Published on 17/11/2020
» SONGKHLA: Narcotics suppression police have arrested a man with 27 kilogrammes of heroin and almost one million methamphetamine pills in his possession, in Hat Yai district
Phatthalung polishes its tourism sheen
News, Assawin Pakkawan, Published on 29/06/2019
» Phatthalung used to be a far-flung, overlooked destination which visitors once travelled past almost without noticing.
10 from three southern drug gangs caught
Assawin Pakkawan, Published on 16/05/2019
» Ten members of three major drug gangs in Phatthalung and Narathiwat provinces have been arrested separately, with speed pills and heroin worth a combined 200 million baht seized.