Bio-diversity in Thailand, especially in the three southernmost provinces, has been reconfirmed with the recent discovery of a new species of fish in Toh Daeng peat swamp forest, Narathiwat, by the royally-sponsored Pikul Thong study centre project in cooperation with Singapore national unversity.
Cabinet reshuffle which saw the replacement of Deputy Prime Minister Kowit Wattana with General Yutthasak Sasiprapa may impact on the ongoing efforts of the Southern Border Provinces Administration Centre (SBPAC) to resolve the unrest problem in the restive deep South.
In light of the cabinet’s decision on January 10 to set aside two billion baht as compensation for victims of political violence in the past few years, the news centre of the Isra news agency took a look of the compensation package for victims of the violence in the deep South.
The dawning of the Year of the Dragon was marred with a fatal bombing giving a bad omen that it could be another year of bloody violence in the restive Deep South.
The Fourth Army Region’s re-educational programme for misguided suspected insurgents appears to have hit the snag after four suspects claimed that they were forced to enter the programme against their will.
The Emergency Executive Decree B.E. 2548 (2005) regarding the powers of the Administrative courts seems to go against the Constitution.
About 70 percent of security-related cases filed with the courts in three southernmost provinces during 2010 until early this year were dismissed by the courts due to insufficient evidences, according to a study undertaken by the Foundation of Muslim Lawyers Centre.
Newly-appointed Pattani Governor Thira Minthrasak, alias Governor Dae, is no stranger to the Deep South nor the unrest problem which has beset the region for several decades.
In the past 3-4 months, there has been a surge of activities from civic groups in the three southernmost provinces against the extension of the emergency decree. Of late, a network of civic groups was established to oppose the extension of the emergency decree by inviting members of the public to write protest letters or send protest postcards to the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rig ...
Without any media publicity, the Songkhla provincial administrative court ordered the Army and the Ministry of Defence to award two Yala students 505,000 baht in compensation plus interest for holding them in custody beyond the legal limits permissible by the Martial Law.