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Italian mafia boss held in Bangkok
AFP, Published on 01/04/2012
» Thai police have arrested a wanted Italian mafia boss after he flew to Bangkok airport, Italian media said Saturday.
Football bridges South divide
AFP, Published on 21/05/2012
» PATTANI - A shared passion for football is uniting Buddhists and Muslims in the far south, where grassroots efforts to find elusive peace are gaining ground after years of bloodshed.
Hundreds of Thai schools shut over militant attacks
AFP, Published on 26/11/2012
» Teachers in insurgency-wracked southern Thailand decided Monday to suspend classes at hundreds of schools in the region over the killings of education workers by Muslim militants.
16 gunmen killed in Thai military base attack
AFP, Published on 13/02/2013
» In one of the most deadly attacks in Thailand's long-running insurgency, scores of heavily-armed gunmen stormed a southern army base Wednesday, authorities said, leaving 16 militants dead.
Widow holds out in war-torn village
AFP, Published on 08/10/2013
» NARATHIWAT - Guarded by Thai soldiers from rebel attacks, an 81-year-old grandmother -- the last Buddhist in a Muslim village -- refuses to abandon her home, defying a wider split between insurgency-plagued communities.
War widows bear heavy burden
AFP, Published on 24/02/2014
» Widowed and blinded in one eye by vengeful rebels, Tungrudee Jaiin was left to raise four children alone in insurgency-ravaged southern Thailand, where women carry a heavy burden of a seemingly endless war.
South death sentences condemned
AFP, Published on 28/11/2014
» Human rights groups Friday condemned the Thai authorities for sentencing five alleged Muslim separatists to death, saying the punishment would do little to promote peace in the violence-racked south.
Thailand, Malaysia set peace-talks conditions
AFP, Published on 02/12/2014
» KUALA LUMPUR - The Thai and Malaysian premiers agreed Monday that stalled talks on ending southern Thailand's deadly Muslim insurrection could only resume once all rebel attacks cease and its various insurgent groups come to the table as one.
God and good luck guide train travellers in far South
AFP, Published on 27/12/2016
» SUNGAI KOLOK, Narathiwat - For passengers on the 12:33 train from Songkhla's Hat Yai to Sungai Kolok, god and good luck are touchstones for survival.
Tourists flee islands as tropical storm Pabuk closes in
AFP, Published on 03/01/2019
» KHAO LAK, Phangnga: Tens of thousands of tourists have fled some of the country's most popular islands and resort areas as tropical storm Pabuk closes in and threatens to batter the southern region with heavy rains, winds and seven-metre waves.