The director of the Department of Disaster Prevention and Mitigation Monday said that residents in southern eight provinces on the east coast are at risk for flash floods during Nov. 15-17. Residents in southern provinces of Chumphon, Nakhon Si Thammarat, Songkhla, Phatthalung, Narathiwat, Yala and Pattani are experiencing heavy rains caused by northeast monsoon that […]
BANGKOK, 07 November 2010 (NNT) – According to the Department of Disaster Prevention and Mitigation, 161 deaths by floods have been reported in 30 provinces, and people in 7 southern provinces have been warned of mudslides. The Department of Disaster Prevention and Mitigation has revealed that, currently, 30 provinces have been severely affected by floods, […]
Yala, 25 October 2010 (NNT) – Several bombs exploded simultaneously in the three southernmost provinces of Narathiwat, Pattani, and Yala. Nine bombs exploded in four districts of Narathiwat; bombs in two other provinces went off in para-rubber fields. Police from Yala province rushed to the bomb scene in the rubber field. Upon investigation, they said […]
BANGKOK, THAILAND (BNO NEWS) — The government of Thailand on Tuesday renewed the executive decree on public administration in emergency situations in its three southern regions which have been plagued by violence, officials said. The emergency decree, which was first introduced 5 years ago, takes effect in the three southernmost provinces – Yala, Pattani, and […]
PATTANI, Oct 14 – An employee of the Pattani branch office of the Government Savings Bank was gunned down in this southern province on Thursday. Pornsak Thongseng was shot in the torso by a gunman on a motorcycle as he drove home from the bank in Khok Pho district. He died en route to hospital. […]
A man and a woman in a Muslim headscarf seen in security-camera footage at a Nonthaburi apartment where a powerful explosion occurred on Tuesday have been identified by police. Police have linked them to suspicious activities and acquired arrest warrants for them. The man is identified as Kasi Ditthanarat, 48, who has changed his name […]
Pattani, Thailand – Suspected separatist militants killed one soldier and three civilians in a series of attacks in Thailand’s troubled deep south, security officials said Wednesday. Troops were searching a house on Wednesday afternoon in Sri Sakon district of Narathiwat province, 800 kilometres south of Bangkok, when a bomb went off, killing one soldier instantly […]
Bangkok, Sep 21 (DPA) Separatists have killed 135 teachers in southern Thailand over the past eight years in their efforts to rid the region of ‘Siamese infidels’, a human rights group said Tuesday. Since January 2004, insurgents in Thailand’s southernmost provinces of Narathiwat, Pattani and Yala have deliberately targeted school teachers in their fight against […]
