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 student and allowing a fellow [...]

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 Khanueng Iadkaew, 52. The Nation [...]

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 25 last year when he [...]

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 hours in Janah district, local [...]

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 11,047 violent incidents had taken [...]

Two people were killed and four wounded in three separate gun attacks, believed to be by insurgents, in Pattani province from late Sunday night to Monday morning, police reported. About 10pm on Sunday an assistant village chief was attacked by an unknown number of gunmen hiding on the roadside near Ban Khao Tum in Yarang district while he was leaving [...]

Army Commander-in-Chief Gen Anupong Paochinda Tuesday expressed confidence that the new Southern Border Province Administrative Centre will contribute to the efforts of the authorities to end violence in the deep South. The Army chief welcomed the House’s passage of the Southern Border Province Administrative Centre Bill last week. The bill will remove he agency from the jurisdiction of the Interior [...]

(RTTNews) – Thailand also is joining the international forces patrolling the dangerous waters of the Gulf of Aden and Indian Ocean infested with Somali piracy. A 371-member Thai naval fleet will begin its 98-day-long anti-piracy mission in the waters off Somalia in September, reports said. Thai government spokesman Supachai Jaisamut said the Cabinet on Monday approved a decision to allocate [...]

Islamic insurgents have shot three people in the Yala region of Thailand Saturday. This is the first fatal attack in Thailand since the start of the holy Islamic festival, Ramadan. The first victim, a police officer, was killed after a drive-by shooting as he drove his motorcycle in Pattani. The police report he died in the hospital. The second and [...]

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 Share