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 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 ...

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.

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.

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.