BANGKOK, 9 November 2010 (NNT) – The Cabinet has agreed to provide further assistance to the flood victims down south. According to Deputy Spokesperson of the Prime Minister’s Office Vachara Kannika, the Cabinet has agreed to include all flood victims in the South in its 5,000-baht-per-family assistance plan. The Agriculture and Cooperatives Ministry has, at […]
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 […]
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 […]
Krabi has been chosen for the first elephant hospital in the country’s South to treat animals which have been injured while working in plantations and in the tourism industry. More than 800 elephants work in rubber plantations and at tourist sites in the southern provinces, but there are limited veterinary services in the area to […]
Yala – A Buddhist married couple were killed on their way to a rubber plantation here early Saturday. The couple were identified as Sakhon Meethong, 42, and his wife, Sompit Meethong, 41. Police said the two were rubber tappers for hire. The Nation
A man has been stabbed to death and partially decapitated in Thailand’s insurgency-wracked deep south, police said on Monday. The body of the unidentified victim, believed to be in his early 20s, was found in a rubber plantation in Narathiwat province, near the border with Malaysia. The Sydney Morning Herald
Narathiwat – A Buddhist woman was gunned down apparently by Muslim insurgents in this southern border province Saturday. Ratana Kwanjai, 42, was shot and killed in her rubber plantation in Tambon Kaluwor of Muang district. She suffered multiple gunshot wounds. Police found eight M16 and AK-47 spent shells at the scene. The Nation
A hidden bomb killed a female villager who detonated it when she stepped on a trip wire as she was heading to a plantation to tap her rubber and two ordinance offiers distached to the scene nearly met the same fate when they arrived at the scene, a local official said. The size of the […]
