"Ask me if teaching is a risky job in the deep South? My answer is "Yes!" So are the jobs of being a solider or a policeman who has to take a risk almost on daily basis. But many of these people have not asked to be transferred to safer places because they believe in certain ideology. And our ideology is teaching because we are professional teachers,"

As the National Council for Peace and Order has been busy addressing a host of pressing problems ranging from the outstanding payments for farmers under the rice pledging scheme, corruption, illegal gambling, forest encroachment to illegal parking and motorcycle taxies and lottery overpricing since it seized power from the Yingluck government on May 22, not a word was heard from the military junt ...

Two roadside bombing attacks within a month which seriously damaged two armoured cars, killed one officer and injured three others have raised suspicion among security officials in the far South that the Islamic militants might be capable of making more lethal improvised explosive devices (IED).

The steady plunge of natural rubber prices for the past three years since the peak in 2011 due to over-production and declining demand has affected rubber growers across the country, particularly in the three southernmost provinces.

March 13 of every year marks the founding day of the separatist organization Barisan Revolusi Nasional (BRN) or Barisan Revolusi Nasional Melayu Patani as it was officially called.