About 1,000 surveillance cameras installed in public places in Songkhla and Satun provinces were found to be of low quality, overpriced and 22 percent of them did not work properly, according to the Office of the Auditor-General.

Anybody remembers Nong Wan Mai?

The Pattani United Liberation Organisation (Pulo) is to hold a so-called "unity talk" meeting of anti-government insurgency groups in Hamburg of Germany on January 24 in an attempt to forge a common ground among them before holding peace talks with the Thai government.

Mobile kitchens and drinking water trucks have been deployed by the military in the Deep South to help out hungry and thirsty flood victims who have no access to clean water and food due to flooding.

Miniature Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) drones have been deployed for use in surveillance operations in the restive three southernmost provinces.