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Malaysia nets 56kg 'ice' on Thai fishing boat
Monrudee Poonsin, Published on 28/09/2020
» SATUN: A Thai fishing boat from this southern province boarded by Malaysian authorities near Langkawi island on Friday was found to be carrying 56.5 kilogrammes of crystal methamphetamine, or ice, police said. Two men on the boat jumped overboard and escaped arrest.
47 Thais back from Malaysia via Satun
Monrudee Poonsin, Published on 20/04/2020
» SATUN: A total of 47 Thai workers who had been stranded in Malaysia returned to Thailand via two immigration checkpoints of this southern border province on Sunday, the second day of the opening of the border to allow them to return.
About 300 Thais stranded in Malaysia
Monrudee Poonsin, Published on 29/03/2020
» SATUN: About 300 Thais were left stranded at the Wang Kelian immigration checkpoint in Malaysia's Perlis State on Saturday when they were denied entry to Thailand after failing to follow procedures set by Thai authorities.
4 Thai crew members die in sunken Malaysian trawler
Monrudee Poonsin, Published on 13/05/2019
» SATUN: Four Thai nationals died on board a Malaysian fishing boat that sank in rough seas off Langkawi island, police said on Monday.
Koh Lipe resort mired in fresh row
News, Monrudee Poonsin, Published on 15/11/2017
» Tarutao National Marine Park has lodged a complaint with police against a resort operator on Koh Lipe island in Satun's Muang district, after an examination of satellite images showed no signs of prior land use at the plot the resort stands on.
Heavy flooding on Koh Lipe
Monrudee Poonsin, Published on 12/08/2017
» SATUN: Koh Lipe has been flooded for four days as heavy rain continues. Hundreds of houses and shops are inundated and some road sections are impassable.
Chinese tourist drowns off Tarutao in Satun
Monrudee Poonsin, Published on 18/11/2016
» SATUN - A Chinese tourist has drowned while swimming in the sea off an island in the Tarutao National Marine Park in this southern province.
Cigarettes worth B10m seized in Satun
Monrudee Poonsin, Published on 19/03/2016
» SATUN — Customs officials have arrested three suspects and seized foreign cigarettes worth about 10 million baht from a modified fishing vessel from Malaysia.
Smuggled foreign whisky seized in Satun
Monrudee Poonsin, Published on 09/11/2015
» Crime Suppression Division and marine police seized a large quantity of smuggled foreign liquor in a raid on a modified fishing boat in Langu district of Satun province early on Monday.
German, Swiss nationals killed in car crash
Monrudee Poonsin, Published on 02/04/2015
» SATUN — Two foreign male tourists, a Swiss and a German, died after their chartered songthaew (a modified pickup truck with two rows of seats for passengers) veered off a winding road in Khuan Don district on Thursday.