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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.
Court tosses navy lawsuit against southern Thai activist
Abdullah Benjakat, Published on 13/11/2025
» NARATHIWAT - A human rights defender in southern Thailand has offered forgiveness to the Royal Thai Navy after a court threw out a charge against her arising from a post that lived on the internet for only 30 minutes.
Thamanat touts tourism revival in Narathiwat
News, Abdullah Benjakat, Published on 10/11/2025
» Agriculture and Cooperatives Minister Capt Thamanat Prompow, along with other cabinet members from the Klatham Party, visited the southern district of Sungai Kolok in Narathiwat province yesterday to boost local tourism.
Car bomb by police flats 'undermines peace talks'
News, Abdullah Benjakat, Published on 03/07/2024
» An academic in Yala has criticised what he says is sluggish progress in the peace talks in the deep South following a car bomb outside police flats in this southern border province on June 30.
Rescue vehicles torched in Pattani
Abdullah Benjakat, Published on 08/03/2023
» PATTANI: Two rescue vehicles owned by the Hilal Ahmar Foundation were set on fire by arsonists in Yaring district of this southern border province early on Wednesday.
First Muslim woman appointed provincial governor
Abdullah Benjakat, Published on 16/11/2022
» PATTANI: People in the far South have welcomed the cabinet's aproval of the appointment of the first Muslim woman to the position of provincial governor.
Roadside bomb blast injures three policemen in Yala
News, Abdullah Benjakat, Published on 02/11/2021
» Three policemen were injured, one seriously, after a bomb exploded on a road in Yala's Raman district and sprayed their pickup with shrapnel yesterday morning.
New lease on life for emergency decree
News, Abdullah Benjakat, Published on 05/03/2021
» The government committee handling the emergency situation in the far South on Thursday decided to renew the invocation of the emergency decree in the violence-plagued region, except for six districts in Yala, Pattani and Narathiwat where the special law will no longer be needed.
Activists urge rethink of estate plan
News, Abdullah Benjakat, Published on 10/07/2020
» A group of activists against plans to set up an industrial estate in Chana district of Songkhla urged the government yesterday to call a forum to listen to dissenting views.
Conscripts' DNA records being added to security database
Abdullah Benjakat, Published on 05/04/2019
» YALA: DNA samples collected from young men registered for conscription this year in the far South will be included in the security database, the commander of the army's Yala task force said on Friday.