Barely with any fanfare despite the controversial nature of the case, the Narathiwat provincial court recently acquitted the only defendant charged with the murder of ten Malay Muslims at the Al Furgon masjid in Ban Aipayae, Cho Airong district on June 8, 2009. 12 other people at the masjid were also wounded.

Rubber farmers in the three southernmost provinces do not just suffer from rubber price slump.

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 ...

The unrest problem in the Deep South is not only confined to ceasefire and troop withdrawal, so said Ms Patimoh Poh-eetae Daoh, chair of the Women for Peace Association, at a seminar held on July 17 at the Thai Journalists Association office.

After the torching of six schools in Thung Yang Daeng and Mayaw districts of Pattani during the early hours of Sunday October 12, the military security has come up with the following term "Thung Yang Daeng Model".