Believe it or not that the government has the temerity to push for the appointment of General Panlop Pinmanee, an advisor to Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra, as acting director of the Internal Security Operations Command (ISOC)?
The deputy national police chief, Pol Gen Adul Saengsingkaew, is in favour of a super agency to deal more effectively with the unrest problem in the deep South.
The name of the village, Ban Kolae Nang, does not ring a bell to most people outside Thepa district of Songkhla. Populated mostly by Thai-Malay ethnic people, the village earned instant notoriety and attracted the attention of security officials when a large band of militants attacked an army development unit based in the village, killing two officials and wounding another on the night of August ...
YALA - The exhibition booths set up in the compound of Ban Kor Meng school in Tambon Arsong, Raman district by the Dong Tarn group on September 7 as part of a seminar titled “Yala Yalan, the Amazing Southern Border” were virtually empty as most of the students left to attend the funeral of their fallen teacher at a temple in the district.
As most people in the restive deep South have chosen to keep silient about the deadly threat from indiscriminate bomb attacks for various reasons, Mr Somphob Soodnaranont, alias Bee, can be counted as an exceptional case.
Who would have wanted to kill a young mother of two who was totally harmless and did not pose a threat to anybody?
Gen Chavalit Yongchaiyudh appears to have been given a big slap in the face by the Pheu Thai Party. During the debate on the government's policy statement last week.
“Disappointing!” So said Associate Professor Dr Sombat Yothathip, dean of Humanities and Social Science Faculty of Ratchaphat University’s Yala campus, when asked by the Isra news desk about how he felt with the government’s policy on the southern unrest problem.
This is a personal account of the prisoners’ riot at the Narathiwat provincial prison on August 11-12 of Mr Kamonsak Leewamoh, Narathiwat provincial chairman of the Muslim Lawyers Centre Foundation.
Her Majesty the Queen has expressed grave concern over the unrest in the far South and, in particular, the attacks on Buddhist monks while they are traveling to receive alms and urged all parties concerned to try to restore peace and order in the region.