SAKON NAKHON, March 18 – Sakon Nakhon police on Sunday arrested two men en route to deliver methamphetamine pills, worth some Bt76 million (over US$2.53 million) to the southern province of Narathiwat. Phet Saneha and Yingyod Sukaha were captured at a police checkpoint in Wanon Niwat district of this northeastern province with 762,000 speed pills. […]
Narathiwat province authorities say drug traffickers and the southern insurgency are closely connected, and sought to seize 1,400 rai of land they say is also involved in extortion rackets. Provincial police chief Chote Chawalwiwat said several properties are thought to be linked to drugs rings and insurgency groups. He said drug traffickers were in league […]
BANGKOK, March 13 – Thailand’s Cabinet on Tuesday approved further extension of the emergency decree in the three southern border provinces for another three months. Formally termed the Executive Decree on Public Administration in Emergency Situations, the measure first took effect on July 19, 2005 in Narathiwat, Pattani and Yala. It was renewed for three […]
BANGKOK, 9 March 2012 (NNT) – Deputy Prime Minister General Yuthasak Sasiprapha will propose to the cabinet a 3-month extension period for the emergency decree in Thailand’s Deep South, hoping to reduce violence in the region. General Yuthasak said the emergency decree committee had decided that it would be best to extend the decree in […]
12 Thai soldiers wounded by M79 fire in two insurgent attacks at Narathiwat’s Bacho district base. Read more: MCOT
The latest bombing in the deep southern province of Narathiwat on Thursday, which left four soldiers dead, may prompt the cabinet to extend the emergency decree due to worsening violence, Deputy Prime Minister Yuthasak Sasiprapa conceded on Thursday. He was referring to the bomb attack in Rue Soh district, which killed four soldiers last night. […]
NARATHIWAT, March 8 – Four Thai Army soldiers were killed and one was severely wounded as they returned from security escort duties for Buddhist worshippers attending a candlelight procession on Makha Bucha day. The powerful bomb, estimated at weighing about 20 kilogrammes, badly destroyed soldiers’ jeep and caused a one metre deep and three metre […]
BANGKOK, March 5 – Thai Deputy Prime Minister Gen Yuthasak Sasiprapa said the government is considering revoking the state of emergency imposed in the violence-plagued far South if the situation returns to normal. Gen Yutthasak made the statement following a national security meeting with the Internal Security Operations Commands (ISOC) Friday regarding the insurgency in […]
