BANGKOK, Sept 8 – After educators voted yesterday for a three-day closure in response to the killing of two Narathiwat teachers, 365 schools in ‘red zones’ in this southernmost Thai border province Wednesday began the first day of a closure intended to send a message to Education Minister Chinnaworn Boonyakiat who said he is seeking […]
In Thailand’s restive Muslim south, six people have been killed and five wounded in the most recent upsurge in violence blamed on separatist militants. Reuters reports that, “the attacks, which involved drive-by shootings and bombings, took place late on Monday and on Tuesday and targeted both Muslims and the region’s minority Buddhists.” A Buddhist couple, […]
Police are pressing child molestation charges against two teachers in Surat Thani province, while another two teachers in Nakhon Si Thammarat are being investigated for allegedly sexually abusing 21 female students. Police have charged the deputy director of Surat Thani’s Kanjanadit Wittayakom School with child sexual abuse after being alleged of luring a Grade 11 […]
Two vehicles thought to have been used in the recent 4.3 Million Baht ATM Robbery in Rayong Province have been found at a local car rental shop on the Sukumvit Road in South Pattaya. Police Major General Tanitsak, Commander of Rayong Provincial Police who was joined by officers from Rayong and Pattaya is leading the […]
Pattani – A Buddhist couple were killed in a drive-by shooting in this southern border province early Wednesday. Police said the couple were shot by a pillion rider while riding their motorcycle to a rubber plantation in Ban Thungpla village in Khokpho district at 3:30 am. The two were identified as Surasit Iadkaew, 50 and […]
THE case of a German tourist trapped in his own body inside a Thai hospital is being related in Thailand’s media outlets to help him fly home. Now emerging from a coma yet still unable to speak, Matthias Stefan Koch, 38, has been confined to a bed at Songklanadarind Hospital in Hat Yai since October […]
Pattani, Thailand – A car bomb early Monday wounded two village defence volunteers in Thailand’s restive Muslim-majority south in the latest of a spate of attacks that an army officer blamed on the holy month of Ramadan. The car bomb by suspected separatist insurgents in Narathiwat province wounded the two defence volunteers during the early […]
Almost 8,000 insurgent attacks have taken place in the lower South during the past six years of separatist turmoil. The Southern Border Province Police Bureau (SPB) yesterday released a report on the insurgency in the three southern border provinces of Yala, Pattani and Narathiwat since violence renewed in the region in 2004. The report said […]
