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  • South Thailand NewsSpecial committee to investigate Yala judge suicide attempt
    Maya TaylorPublished: 10:47, 08 October 2019
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    Special committee to investigate Yala judge suicide attempt

    Photo montage: Bangla Tribune The Nation reports that a special panel will investigate the case of a judge in southern Thailand shooting himself in court, after he was allegedly made to change the verdict he handed down. The committee is expected to report back in 15 days, confirms deputy secretary-general of the Office of the Judiciary, Sarawut Benjakul. It’s understood…

  • South Thailand NewsInvestigative panel to probe alleged judicial meddling – reports in 15 days
    ThaigerPublished: 07:30, 08 October 2019
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    Investigative panel to probe alleged judicial meddling – reports in 15 days

    “The 3 member panel will now have 15 days to wrap up the initial probe and submit their conclusions to the Judicial Commission.” PHOTO: Mariyam Ahmad/BenarNews In a story that has shaken Thais, who have broadly rallied behind the Yala Chief Judge, the government has been forced to act swiftly with an independent enquiry. Yesterday, the Judicial Commission has announced…

  • South Thailand NewsOutpouring of public support for Thai judge who shot himself in Yala court
    ThaigerPublished: 06:29, 07 October 2019
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    Outpouring of public support for Thai judge who shot himself in Yala court

    “Return verdict to the judge, return justice to the people.” People have been placing fresh flowers in front of the Yala Provincial Court to show their support for Khanakorn Pianchana, the local judge who tried to kill himself last Friday in the court room after reading a verdict. Among the flowers message, a message reading “Return verdict to the judge,…

  • South Thailand NewsPheu Thai calls for urgent probe about alleged meddling in Yala’s judicial affairs
    ThaigerPublished: 07:58, 06 October 2019
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    Pheu Thai calls for urgent probe about alleged meddling in Yala’s judicial affairs

    PHOTO: Bangla Tribune “Future Forward secretary-general Piyabutr Saengkanokkul claimed that he had received a 25 page document from the judge in September, alleging meddling by the chief judge of Region 9.” The Pheu Thai party is urging the government to investigate alleged meddling with the judiciary after a judge in the Yala provincial court shot himself on Friday in an…

  • Phuket NewsAccused pedophile arrested in Phang Nga after 14 years on the run
    ThaigerPublished: 16:18, 10 August 2019
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    Accused pedophile arrested in Phang Nga after 14 years on the run

    PHOTO: Police questioning Honchao Sae Oun – Crime Suppression Division A man, wanted over the indecent assault of a five year old girl in Yala 14 years ago, has been arrested in Phang Nga. 62 year old Honchao Sae Oun was arrested at a house in Thai Muang district yesterday by the Crime Suppression Division. Officials say that Mr Honchao…

  • Politics NewsThai PM visits the South amid tight security
    ThaigerPublished: 16:10, 09 August 2019
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    Thai PM visits the South amid tight security

    The Thai PM Prayut Chan-o-cha visited the southern border province of Yala yesterday (Thursday). During the visit, he opened the Southern Border Provinces Government Complex and the One Start One Stop for Development Centre, and met with local people amid tight security. Soldiers were assigned to keep a close watch for suspicious objects as well as people acting suspiciously at…

  • South Thailand NewsVillagers taken in under martial law for questioning over Yala shoot-out, Southern Thailand
    ThaigerPublished: 07:14, 29 May 2019
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    Villagers taken in under martial law for questioning over Yala shoot-out, Southern Thailand

    PHOTO: Charoon Thongnual Security officials have interrogated 18 people living near the site of this week’s clash between soldiers and suspected insurgents in Yala’s Yaha district. “They were brought in for questioning under martial law as authorities intend to go after the unidentified gunmen in Monday’s clash,” a source said yesterday. The Nation reports that the gunfight lasted several hours…

  • Hot NewsCo-ordinated pipe bomb attacks in Yala injure five
    ThaigerPublished: 13:09, 16 May 2019
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    Co-ordinated pipe bomb attacks in Yala injure five

    FILE PHOTO Five Army troops and rangers have been injured after southern insurgents threw pipe bombs. Security officials say the incidents happened at three locations in Yala in what appears to be a co-ordinated incident. The commander of Muang Yala police station, Pol Col Narawee Binwaearong, says two insurgents on a motorcycle rode to a security checkpoint on the Siroros…

  • Hot NewsSouthern ranger killed, two injured in Yala bomb ambush
    ThaigerPublished: 17:04, 26 February 2019
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    Southern ranger killed, two injured in Yala bomb ambush

    PHOTOS: The Nation Southern insurgents have detonated a home-made bomb in a roadside ambush of a patrol unit of rangers in Yala’s Bannang Sata district. The fatal incident happened this morning, killing one ranger and injuring another. Yala provincial police were informed of the blast at 9.25am. It occurred on the main road in Tambon Bacho’s Ban Ubae village. 33…

  • South Thailand NewsHistory of Thailand’s Southern Insurgency
    ThaigerPublished: 10:12, 26 February 2019
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    History of Thailand’s Southern Insurgency

    Whenever there’s news about violence in southern Thailand, Thaiger readers may wonder who’s fighting who, and why. So we present a brief history of the insurgency which has gripped Thailand’s southernmost provinces for decades. The area has been coined the ‘deep south’ or the ‘restive south’ and has become, statistically, a more bloody conflict than the situation on the Gaza…

  • South Thailand NewsSouthern insurgency: Ranger shot dead in Songkhla house
    ThaigerPublished: 14:49, 18 February 2019
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    Southern insurgency: Ranger shot dead in Songkhla house

    FILE PHOTO: The latest shooting in a spate of recent violence in the southern provinces – The Nation A ranger based in Yala has been shot dead at his home in Songkhla’s Muang district. Pol Capt Adirek Burintrapibal, the deputy inspector of Muang Songkhla police station, was alerted at 8.30pm last night of the shooting at a house in Moo 10…

  • South Thailand NewsCouple murdered in Yala. Police believe political motives.
    ThaigerPublished: 08:09, 15 January 2019
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    Couple murdered in Yala. Police believe political motives.

    FILE PHOTO Police are hunting a group of gunmen in Yala after a home invasion and shooting when they shot dead an election candidate and his wife. Investigators suspect political motives at this stage. The couple’s two children narrowly escaped and are the only witnesses to the incident. Warin Saengchan a local politician preparing his campaign to run for office…

  • South Thailand News18 children dead as officials try to fight vaccine denial – Measles outbreak
    ThaigerPublished: 09:20, 22 November 2018
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    18 children dead as officials try to fight vaccine denial – Measles outbreak

    “Young kids should avoid known infected areas, and patients should be quarantined.” Measles has now infected 2,280 people in the South and killed 18 in the mainly Muslim border provinces already this year. The largest group affected were young children up to the age of four. “Measles vaccination is free and is in line with Islamic principles,” Songkhla’s public-health chief…

  • South Thailand NewsMuslim leader rules measles vaccine ‘not prohibited’ by Islam
    ThaigerPublished: 08:48, 20 November 2018
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    Muslim leader rules measles vaccine ‘not prohibited’ by Islam

    The Chularajamontri in Yala, Thailand’s Islamic spiritual leader, has made an unofficial ruling that Muslims can receive measles vaccine. Ahmad Abdull Hazima, the Islamic leader in Yala, said the Chularajamontri and 39 provincial Islamic committees have made unofficial rulings that vaccines are not prohibited by Islam. The rulings were sought after an ongoing outbreak of measles in four southern border…

  • South Thailand NewsNarathiwat officials swing into action to combat deadly measles outbreak
    ThaigerPublished: 10:48, 03 November 2018
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    Narathiwat officials swing into action to combat deadly measles outbreak

    by Narong Nuansakul The southern province of Narathiwat is stepping up vaccinations against measles as the disease has already claimed up to twelve lives in Yala and Pattani since June this year. A huge number of youngsters aged between one and five in Yala and Pattani have come down with measles in recent months, claiming the lives of 12 children.…

  • South Thailand News10 children have died from southern measles outbreak
    ThaigerPublished: 20:43, 30 October 2018
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    10 children have died from southern measles outbreak

    The measles outbreak in Yala has worsened with 859 children now having been infected and the death toll standing at 10 cases, Betong district health official Wongwit Akarawarothai said on Tuesday. Wongwit joined other health officials in knocking on doors to have people in Ban Na Kor (Moo 9) in Tambon Ai Yer Weng vaccinated, resulting in 75 children under…

  • World NewsGiving peace a chance – Malaysian PM visits Thailand next week
    ThaigerPublished: 12:21, 19 October 2018
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    Giving peace a chance – Malaysian PM visits Thailand next week

    PHOTO: The Nation This year’s Malaysian election has opened up new opportunities for peace negotiations over the long-running border clashes and insurgency in southern Thailand. New Malaysian PM Mahathir Mohamad, who will visit Thailand next week, says he is keen to solve the conflicts in southern Thailand coupled with the upcoming general elections in Thailand, which “provide a new window…

  • South Thailand NewsPoliceman killed and four injured in insurgent ambush in Yala
    ThaigerPublished: 11:22, 20 September 2018
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    Policeman killed and four injured in insurgent ambush in Yala

    FILE PHOTO – The Nation A policeman has been killed and four villagers injured in an apparent ambush by insurgents in Yala’s Raman district yesterday (Wednesday). Tha Thong police in Raman were alerted just after 5pm about the attack on a pickup truck at the boundary between Raman and Pattani’s Thung Yang Daeng district. When police and an Army unit…