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Lively Phatthalung defies slowdown
News, Assawin Pakkawan, Published on 02/09/2025
» Phatthalung, one of Thailand's so-called "secondary cities", is defying the economic slowdown, with local small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in services, tourism and car sales reporting steady growth.
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.
Illegal Austrian tour guide arrested on Koh Phangan
Assawin Pakkawan, Published on 05/09/2024
» SURAT THANI - An Austrian man has been arrested for allegedly working as a tour guide on Koh Phangan in this southern province.
15 illegal migrants arrested after car chase
Assawin Pakkawan, Published on 20/04/2024
» PATTANI: Fifteen illegal migrants from Myanmar, one of them an engineer, were arrested along with two Thai drivers following a police chase in this southern border province on Saturday.
Four Thais arrested with 19 Bangladeshi migrants
Assawin Pakkawan, Published on 23/06/2023
» SONGKHLA: Immigration police arrested four Thai nationals and 19 illegal Bangladeshi migrants after intercepting five cars in Bang Klam district of this southern province on Thursday.
Railway crossing crash, 1 killed, 2 injured
Assawin Pakkawan, Published on 23/01/2023
» SONGKHLA: A woman passenger died and a newly wed couple were injured when their pickup was hit by an express train at a railway crossing in Chana district on Sunday.
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.
Monk, nun killed when pickup crashes into parked lorry
Assawin Pakkawan, Published on 13/11/2022
» SONGKHLA: The abbot of a Buddhist temple and a nun were killed and another woman injured when a pickup they were travelling in crashed into the rear of a lorry parked by the roadside in Singha Nakhon district early on Sunday, police said.
Drug raid unearths firearms cache
Assawin Pakkawan, Published on 05/01/2022
» SONGKHLA: Police raided a house in Sadao district early Wednesday morning and arrested a drug suspect, and were surprised to also find a small cache of unregistered firearms and ammunition.
14 illegal Myanmar migrants caught in Songkhla
Assawin Pakkawan, Published on 19/12/2021
» SONGKHLA: Fourteen Myanmar nationals were arrested late on Saturday night in the southern border district of Sadao while heading for the border with Malaysia, police said.