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Anutin approves border fence plan
News, Abdullah Benjakat, Published on 19/04/2026
» Prime Minister and Interior Minister Anutin Charnvirakul has approved in principle a border fence project in Narathiwat to curb smuggling, illegal crossings and unrest, to be funded from the central budget.
Peace team 'ready to engage' all groups
News, Abdullah Benjakat, Published on 13/10/2025
» The government is ready to engage in dialogue with all insurgent groups in the deep South to achieve lasting peace along the border, says the chief of the Southern peace negotiation team, Gen Somsak Rungsita.
Thai foreign minister goes to Malaysia for Cambodia talks
News, Abdullah Benjakat, Published on 12/10/2025
» PATTANI: Foreign Affairs Minister Sihasak Phuangketkeow will travel to Malaysia on Sunday for a mediated ministerial-level discussion about reducing tensions with Cambodia, Prime Minister Anutin Charnvirakul says.
Thai PM embarks on toughest mission of all in deep South
News, Abdullah Benjakat, Published on 12/10/2025
» Pattani: Prime Minister Anutin Charnvirakul has expressed confidence that peace talks in the southern border provinces will gain real momentum following the appointment of Gen Somsak Rungsita as head of the government's southern peace dialogue panel.
Bomb blitz leaves 10 people injured
News, Abdullah Benjakat, Published on 21/06/2025
» A series of coordinated bomb attacks in the southern provinces of Yala, Narathiwat and Pattani injured 10 people, including five officials, prompting heightened security measures and an urgent investigation by authorities.
Thaksin says sorry for Tak Bai
News, Abdullah Benjakat, Published on 24/02/2025
» Former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra yesterday apologised for the tragedy of the Tak Bai massacre in Narathiwat in 2004, which occurred during his tenure as prime minister.
6 bomb explosions in Yala on New Year's Eve
Abdullah Benjakat, Published on 02/01/2022
» YALA: Six bombs exploded in this southern border province on Dec 31 - two in Muang district and four in Bannang Sata - and the Barisan Revolosi Nasional (BRN) claimed responsibility for the blasts, Pol Maj Gen Tinnakorn Rangmat, the provincial police chief, confirmed on Sunday.
Arsonists target security cameras in South
Abdullah Benjakat, Published on 01/02/2021
» Arsonists set fires that ruined 18 security cameras and destroyed a village sentry box, in Songkhla and Pattani provinces, police said on Monday.
Beheading of Buddha image in Pattani not religious conflict: Isoc
Abdullah Benjakat, Published on 09/08/2020
» PATTANI: The decapitation of a Buddha image inside Wat Wimonwathanaram, a Buddhist temple in Sai Buri district of this Muslim-dominated southern border province, was the work of a temple boy and not a religious conflict, the Region 4 Internal Security Operation Command (ISOC)'s advance headquarters said in a statement on Saturday.
Court frees man held for bombing of market in Yala
Abdullah Benjakat, Published on 10/04/2018
» Yala: A male civilian accused of involvement in the lethal bombing of a fresh market in Muang district in January and held at a military camp was freed on Monday after the provincial court refused to further extend his detention.