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Parents win court battle over hijab rule
News, Abdullah Benjakat, Published on 22/04/2022
» A group of parents have won an Administrative Court judgement against what they felt was an unfair rule barring their children from wearing their hijab headscarves to school in the southern border province of Yala.
PM Ardern wins people's hearts
News, Anchalee Kongrut, Published on 01/03/2021
» When New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern visited Thailand for the East Asia Summit in 2019, she surprised officials and media waiting at the airport for the world's youngest PM.
Trek home hits border snag
News, Post Reporters, Published on 24/07/2020
» Twenty-six Muslim Cambodians, including women and children, were arrested as they prepared to cross illegally back into Cambodia near Rong Kluea Market in Sa Kaeo yesterday.
Pattani pupils win right to wear hijabs
News, Post Reporters, Published on 04/11/2018
» The Songkhla Administrative Court has issued an junction barring Anuban Pattani School from penalising students for wearing Muslim headscarves to class.
Court issues injunction allowing hijab at school
Abdullah Benjakat, Published on 03/11/2018
» PATTANI: The Songkhla Administrative Court has issued an injunction allowing Muslim students at a kindergarten in this southern province to wear headscarves, or "hijab", to school without being punished.
PM riled at Islamic dress row
News, Post Reporters, Published on 15/08/2018
» Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha ordered the Education Ministry Tuesday to settle a dispute over a ban on students wearing Islamic dress at a school in Pattani in the insurgency-plagued deep South.
School backs down on headscarf ban
News, Abdullah Benjakat, Published on 21/05/2018
» PATTANI: The director of a local school that prohibited students from wearing Islamic headscarves has backed down from his ban after senior education authorities stepped in following complaints from parents.
School hijab row erupts in Pattani
News, Aekarach sattaburuth & Abdullah benjakat, Published on 20/05/2018
» Education authorities, religious leaders and civil society are being urged to step in to resolve a dispute over a ban on Islamic headscarves by a local school in Pattani to ensure the issue does not escalate.
Dispute escalates over hijab ban at Pattani school
Abdulloh Benjakat and Aekarach Sattaburuth, Published on 19/05/2018
» PATTANI: The country's deputy Islamic leader has resigned from the board of a local school following a hijab ban by the kindergarten in this southern province.
Art attack: painting for peace
News, Abdullah Benjakat, Published on 31/03/2018
» They say art imitates life. In Pattani, a years-long insurgency and related episodes of violence have now been caught on canvas and hung on the walls of the province's only gallery -- adding an artistic perspective to what at times looks like an intractable bout of political unrest.