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Southeast Asia facing hidden extremist threat
Oped, Muhammad Makmun Rasyid, Published on 07/07/2025
» In May, Indonesia's counter-terrorism unit arrested an 18-year-old man in Gowa, South Sulawesi, on charges of spreading Islamic State (IS) propaganda and inciting bomb attacks on social media. Identified only as MAS, the suspect represents a deeply troubling development in Southeast Asia's struggle against terrorism: the rise of youth radicalisation driven entirely by online exposure.
Unite to solve neglected diseases
Oped, Muhammad Radzi Abu Hassan, Published on 29/04/2025
» The successful collaboration between the health ministries of Malaysia and Thailand, industry partners in Egypt and Malaysia, and the Drugs for Neglected Diseases initiative (DNDi) to bring a new hepatitis C antiviral drug -- ravidasvir -- to market in 2022 was an important milestone. For years, a 12-week course of treatment using sofosbuvir cost between $70,000 (2.34 million baht) and $80,000, putting it out of reach for many in the Global South. But ravidasvir -- a safe and effective alternative when combined with sofosbuvir -- costs far less, averaging less than $500 per course.
Police focus on 2 drivers of pickup used in car-bombing
Wassayos Ngamkham and Waedao Harai, Published on 23/11/2022
» NARATHIWAT: Police are focused on questioning a woman previously pulled over while driving the pickup used to car-bomb a row of police flats on Tuesday, killing one officer and injuring 45 other people, in the hope she will point them to the bomber.
Police flats car-bombed, one killed, 31 injured
Waedao Harai, Abdullah Benjakat and Reuters, Published on 22/11/2022
» NARATHIWAT: A police officer was killed, and 31 other people were injured when a car bomb exploded at a block of police flats in Muang district of this southern border province on Tuesday afternoon.
Suspected insurgents killed in clash in Narathiwat
Waedao Harai and Abdullah Benjakat, Published on 29/01/2022
» NARATHIWAT: Two suspected insurgent were killed and one volunteer ranger injured in a clash in Ra-ngae district of this strife-torn southern province on Friday.
Floods in South as rain pounds region
Assawin Pakkawan and Waedao Harai, Published on 12/11/2021
» A main road in Songkhla province and parts of Narathiwat municipality were under floodwater on Friday morning as heavy rain continued to lash the southern region.
4 wanted insurgents killed in gun battle
News, Waedao Harai & Abdullah Benjakat, Published on 05/10/2021
» PATTANI: Four insurgents wanted on court warrants in criminal cases were killed in a firefight while trying to break through encircling soldiers at a village in Bacho district in Narathiwat province on Sunday.
Soldier, 4 insurgents killed in 6-day siege
Abdullah Benjakat and Waedao Harai, Published on 04/10/2021
» PATTANI: Four insurgents wanted on court warrants in criminal cases were killed in a firefight while trying to break through encircling soldiers at a village in Bacho district in Narathiwat province on Sunday.
2 Vietnamese fishing boats caught, 9 crew arrested
Waedao Harai, Published on 06/06/2021
» NARATHIWAT: Two Vietnamese fishing boats were caught illegally fishing in Thai territorial waters off this southern border province on Saturday, marine police said on Sunday. Nine crew members aboard were arrested.
28 rifles go missing in Deep South
News, Waedao Harai and Wassana Nanuam, Published on 26/05/2021
» NARATHIWAT: Investigations are underway to find those involved in the disappearance of 28 AK-102 rifles from a territorial army company in this southern border province.