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Two weeks of festivities in Hat Yai to spur tourism
News, Assawin Pakkawan, Published on 13/10/2025
» Two approaching cultural festivals are expected to draw about 30,000 visitors to the southern province of Songkhla and pump hundreds of millions of baht into the local economy - the Hindu Diwali and then the Chinese Vegetarian Festival.
Fewer Malaysian visitors to Hat Yai hiring guides
Assawin Pakkawan, Published on 13/07/2025
» SONGKHLA - Visitors from Malaysia are changing a pattern by increasingly favouring travel to southern Thailand in private vehicles, causing concern to tour guides who fear losing their livelihoods.
Illegal job seekers caught en route to Malaysia
Assawin Pakkawan, Published on 05/09/2024
» SONGKHLA: Fifteen illegal migrants from Myanmar hoping to get jobs in Malaysia and a Thai driver were arrested in Rattaphum district of this southern border province on Thursday.
Illegal migrants, job brokers arrested in Songkhla
Assawin Pakkawan, Published on 08/02/2023
» SONGKHLA: Thirty-three illegal Myanmar migrants and three job brokers were arrested by immigration police at an abandoned warehouse in Bang Klam district on Wednesday.
Van full of illegals overturns
News, Assawin Pakkawan, Published on 19/01/2023
» PHATTHALUNG: Twenty-nine illegal migrants from Myanmar crammed into a pickup truck were arrested after the vehicle overturned on a southbound road in Muang district yesterday morning.
29 illegal migrants crammed inside van, four smugglers arrested
Assawin Pakkawan, Published on 07/01/2023
» SONGKHLA: Twenty-nine illegal migrants from Myanmar crammed in a van and four members of a smuggling gang were arrested in Bang Klam district of this southern border province on Friday night.
Two van loads of illegal migrants caught in Phatthalung
Assawin Pakkawan, Published on 27/09/2022
» PHATTHALUNG: Highway police arrested 71 illegal Myanmar migrants travelling in two vans that were stopped and searched in Muang district on Monday.
Illegal migrants say job brokerage fees soaring
Assawin Pakkawan, Published on 12/05/2022
» SONGKHLA: Myanmar job seekers arrested in Ratthaphum district told officials their brokerage fees had skyrocketed to 80,000 baht each, from 20,000 to 40,000 baht previously, because of the harsh crackdown on illegal migrants.
46 Myanmar job seekers caught near Malaysian border
Assawin Pakkawan, Published on 12/03/2022
» SONGKHLA: A group of 46 Myanmar migrants wanting to get jobs in Malaysia were arrested in Sadao district near the Malaysian border on Friday evening.
Illegal job seekers heading to Malaysia caught in Songkhla
Assawin Pakkawan, Published on 04/11/2021
» SONGKHLA: Sixteen illegal job seekers from Myanmar were caught in a van heading to the Malaysian border, on a road in Sadao district, early on Thursday morning.