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.

The National Security Council is experiencing an headache about how to trim down proposed additional budgets requested by four agencies responsible for security and development affairs in the restive deep South.

Fourteen state witnesses who reversed their testimonies in a criminal case related to the raid of an army’s armoury in Narathiwat in 2004 against former Narathiwat MP Natmudin Uma are now facing a charge of giving false statements to the authorities.

The Southern Border Provinces Administration Centre (SBPAC) is to propose the cabinet more pay teachers of the Tadika Islamic schools and more subsidies for the mosques in the deep South.

Three more separatist groups want to join the Barisan Revolusi Nasional (BRN) in the next round of peace talks with the government to be held probably at the end of September or early October in Kuala Lumpur.