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Business Standard
April 29, 2018
On Sunday a huge crowd of protesters, many wearing green ribbons, called for the demolition of the buildings as they marched through Chiang Mai, the biggest city in Thailand's mountainous north. "About 1,000 people gathered... since 7:30 am (0030 GMT) to protest against the houses," Chiang Mai policeÃâà...
The Phnom Penh Post
April 26, 2018
Most recently, Prime Minister Hun Sen claimed he foiled a KNLF plot to bomb Wat Phnom and Siem Reap during Khmer New Year. ... The Thai government has recently been receptive to Cambodia's extradition requests, including in the case of Sam Sokha, a Cambodian woman who fled the country afterÃâà...
Channel NewsAsia
April 20, 2018
BANGKOK: Thai police on Friday arrested a German man accused of making a bomb threat on a Nok Airlines plane bound for Bangkok, the airline said. The man, who was not named, was arrested after he claimed he was carrying an explosive device in his carry-on baggage on the plane from LoeiÃâà...
WLNS
April 10, 2018
BANGKOK (AP) - Police in Thailand say they believe three bombs that injured 12 people in a town on the border with Malaysia were planted by Muslim insurgents. Police Lt. Traipop Donprailao said the bombs, connected to timers and concealed in parked motorcycles, exploded near a small restaurant,Ãâà...
The Straits Times
April 9, 2018
BANGKOK - At least four people were injured after bombs were detonated in southern Thailand on Monday (Apr 9), Bangkok Post reported. The newspaper said that at least three bombs went off in the Sungai Kolok district in Narathiwat Province. The first bomb exploded near Plaza Hotel and the other twoÃâà...
Channel NewsAsia
April 9, 2018
... four local residents were injured when three bombs exploded simultaneously on Monday (Apr 9) in several areas in Sungai Golok, Southern Thailand. Captain Traipop Donprai-laorong from the Sungai Golok police station said the bombs exploded at about 6pm, local time. “The motive of the bomb attackÃâà...
The Independent
April 5, 2018
A passenger plane bound for Thailand from Singapore was escorted back to its departure airport by two fighter jets after a bomb threat by a passenger that turned out to be a false alarm. After searching the Scoot jet - a low-cost airline owned by Singapore Airlines - and the baggage of the person that madeÃâà...
Express.co.uk
April 5, 2018
The TR634 flight had to be escorted back by Singapore's Air Force after the threat was made on Singapore Airlines' budget carrier Scoot. Singapore Police Force confirmed the live threat, made by a passenger on board the flight, in a statement on its Facebook profile. They said passengers hadÃâà...
The Malaysian Insight
March 17, 2018
Malaysia, Thailand to build border wall in Songkhla Thai police officers inspecting a bomb blast scene following a motorcycle bomb attack in the Thai-Malaysian border town of Padang Besar, Sadao district, Songkhla province, southern Thailand, in July 2015. Thailand and Malaysia share a porous, 640kmÃâà...
benarnews
March 16, 2018
Military officials investigate the site of a roadside bombing in Ja nae, a district of southern Thailand's Narathiwat province, Feb. ... Thai officials have been in contact with armed separatists in Thailand's Deep South in the past, but this approach only leads to more violence, the junta's chief peace negotiatorÃâà...
The Atlantic
March 15, 2018
In 2002, Haspel was in charge of a secret “black site” prison in Thailand where detainees were subject to abusive interrogation techniques. ... of major attacks—and Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri—a Saudi national suspected of involvement in al-Qaeda's bombing of the American destroyer USS Cole in 2000.
Bangkok Post
March 4, 2018
Around one year after Harong Maeroh, a 43-year-old Thai Muslim, reached out to Bring People Home, a project helping people accused of promoting ... After joining Bring People Home, the army region commander helped Mr Harong fight to prove that he was not in Thailand when the bombing took place.
Free Malaysia Today
March 4, 2018
With Malaysia as the facilitator of the talks, the Thai government and MARA Patani, an umbrella body representing militant groups in southern Thailand, finally achieved progress with a ground-breaking agreement on the establishment of a “safety zone” (SZ) in one of the districts in the three southernÃâà...
The Federalist
February 21, 2018
“What was that?” I asked. “Thunder,” my friend replied. “No,” I said. And then, just as I looked over my right shoulder, I saw the second bomb go off. I had front row seats to a terrorist bombing, and I watched everyone in the plaza run for their lives. It turned out that I had walked within inches of the bombs onlyÃâà...
Thai PBS English News
February 18, 2018
Four members of the army's engineering corp were injured in a roadside bomb explosion in Janae district of Narathiwat province this afternoon (Sunday) as they were on their way to build a rural road. The powerful explosion from the bomb sent the pickup truck in which they were travelling turning upsideÃâà...
benarnews
February 15, 2018
Thai soldiers walk toward the site where a motorcycle bomb killed three civilians and injured others at a market in Yala, Jan. ... had finally chosen a district to launch a ceasefire in the Deep South, on a day when the latest bombing in the violence-wracked region injured 10 people including three schoolgirls.
Newsweek
February 15, 2018
Thai soldiers are on high alert after insurgents detonated more than 36 small bombs in the region in Yala, Thailand, on May 17, 2015. Beheadings, bombings, drive-by shootings, assassinations, extrajudicial killings and vicious assaults have left more than 6,000 people dead and at least 11,500 injuredÃâà...
Bangkok Post
February 14, 2018
Two defence volunteers were badly wounded by a roadside bomb explosion in Muang district, Yala, on Thursday morning, while gunmen attacked a walled checkpoint manned by volunteers in Yi-ngo district of neighbouring Narathiwat overnight. In Yala, a bomb detonated on a road in Ban Kupae PurongÃâà...
benarnews
February 11, 2018
Sunday's explosions occurred three weeks after suspected insurgents killed three civilians and injured 28 other people in a bomb attack at the busy Pimonchai market in Yala, a neighboring province in the Deep South province, about 1,072 km (670 miles) from the Thai capital Bangkok. Officials said twoÃâà...
Channel NewsAsia
January 21, 2018
BANGKOK: A motorcycle bomb killed three civilians and wounded 22 others on Monday (Jan 22) morning at a market in Thailand's insurgency-hit south, officials said, the first such attack on a "soft target" in the Muslim-majority region for months. A rebellion against Thai rule in the culturally distinct ThaiÃâà...
New York Times
December 31, 1999
WASHINGTON — Just over a year after the Sept. 11 attacks, the C.I.A. dispatched the veteran clandestine officer Gina Haspel to oversee a secret prison in Thailand. Shortly after, agency contractors in the frantic hunt for the conspirators waterboarded a Qaeda suspect three times and subjected him to brutalÃâà...
The Nation
December 31, 1999
Thailand dart board ban goes NATIONWIDE - bars urged to get registered. Breaking News March 12, 2018 16:35 Ãâ÷ Argentinian stole from Chinese tourists 'to help sick wife'. Breaking News March 12, 2018 15:45 Ãâ÷ Muay thai festival back in Ayutthaya. Breaking News March 13, 2018 01:00 Ãâ÷ TOT union filesÃâà...
The Straits Times
December 31, 1999
The Safety Zone notion has emerged from dialogue between Thai negotiators led by retired General Aksara Kherdphol and MARA Patani, an umbrella ... channel it has opened with MARA Patani, when it is clear that that group has nothing to do with the individuals pulling the triggers and setting off bombs.
Thai PBS English News
December 31, 1999
Police have found pieces of what were believed to be parts of two tiny bombs which were used in the attack of a department store in Narathiwat on Saturday(Feb 25). Officials from the explosive ordnance disposal and scientific crime detection units spent about four hours scouring the Super DepartmentÃâà...
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