Former village head shot dead in Pattani

PATTANI: A former village chief was gunned down while returning from a local mosque in Kapho district on Friday night. The attack occurred in front of a kubo, a Muslim cemetery, in Wang Phla village of tambon Pong Hoi, said Pol Capt Phanakorn Intha, a duty officer at Kapho police station, who was reported at […]

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COVID-19 cases on the rise in southern Thailand

The southern region of Thailand has become an epicenter of the COVID-19 pandemic, with a rapid increase in the numbers of cases and deaths in recent days. According to Thailand’s Center for COVID-19 Situation Management (CCSA), the southern towns of Yala, Pattani Songkhla and Narathiwat recorded 2,303 new infections the day before, more than the […]

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Nakhon Si Thammarat quiet after being declared a COVID-19 ‘dark red’ province

The Muang district of Thailand’s southern province of Nakhon Si Thammarat has fallen quiet, with about half of the shops shuttered, light traffic and fewer people in public venues, after the province was designated as a “maximum control and restrictive” or “dark red” zone by the Centre for COVID-19 Situation Administration, due to a recent […]

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