By Sumeth Panpetch

Pol Lance Corporal Yutthapol Promdao, unit commander of a special action force based in Saiburi district of Pattani will soon get a new long-tailed macaque (crab-eating monkey) to replace Santisook, a macaque trained to serve as his assistant which was killed by dogs on August 20.

By the News Desk

Participants of the 1,000-kilometre peace walkathon led by Gothom Arya, director of the Centre for the Study and Peaceful Development of Mahidol University have already arrived in Songkhla and are on their way to their final destination in Pattani, one of the three strife-torn southernmost provinces.

By the News Desk

Army Commander-in-Chief General Anupong Paojinda who is due to retire at the end of September gave a lecture to class 2 students of King Prajadhipok on the restive situation in the far South. On the same occasion, he gave candid answers to a host of questions raised by the students who comprise senior officials, executives of private firms and senior journalists.

By the New Desk

Besides armed insurgency which is killing and maiming both officials and civilians on almost daily basis in the restive deep South, drugs addiction and trafficking has become so widespread that it is posing a serious security and social threat.