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  • Mekong crackdown nets 800 suspects

    21 May 2013 : Police from four countries have detained more than 800 suspects and shut down several drug rings in a crackdown on gangs operating along the Mekong River, Chinese state media said on Tuesday.

  • NSC: June 13 peace talks still on

    21 May 2013 : The third round of peace talks between the Thai delegation and representatives of the Barisan Revolusi Nasional (BRN) and other separatist groups will be held on June 13 in Malaysia as intially scheduled, National Security Council (NSC) secretary-general Paradorn Pattanatabut said on Tuesday.

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  • ARMY

    Three troops hurt in Dusit mortar blast

    22 Apr 2013 : Three soldiers were wounded, two seriously, when an anti-tank mortar exploded at an army camp's ordnance depot in Bangkok's Dusit district yesterday.

  • Temple land fight shifts to World Heritage Commission

    22 Apr 2013 : The opposition is urging the government to make clear its objection to Cambodia's Preah Vihear management plan at the next World Heritage Committee (WHC) meeting.

  • Man held for Rueso bomb

    22 Apr 2013 : Security officers have arrested a man accused of killing the Rueso deputy police chief.

  • Woman killed, 1 injured in Pattani

    21 Apr 2013 : A woman was killed and another injured in a drive-by attack by suspected militants who left a leaflet at the scene in Pattani’s Khok Pho district late on Sunday evening.

  • 3 wounded in M72 rocket explosion

    21 Apr 2013 : Three privates were wounded, two seriously, in when M72 anti-tank rocket exploded in front of an ammunition depot of the 3rd Infantry Battalion of the 1st Infantry Regiment on Rama V road in Bangkok's Dusit district on Sunday morning, the army spokesman said.

  • Militants wreak havoc in Pattani

    21 Apr 2013 : Militants set fires at many different spots in four districts of Pattani province on Saturday night to cause a disturbance, provincial police chief Pol Maj-Gen Ekapop Prasitwattanachai said.

  • Anti-tank shell explodes, injures two

    21 Apr 2013 : Two privates were injured when an anti-tank recoilless cannon shell exploded during a routine clean-up of military equipment on Sunday morning, Col Winthai Suvari, army deputy spokesman said.

  • Pattani hit by waves of violence

    20 Apr 2013 : Fourteen locations in the southern border province of Pattani were hit by violence on Friday night, police said.

  • FAR SOUTH

    Senior cop probing insurgency shot dead

    20 Apr 2013 : PATTANI : A police investigator was shot dead while gathering intelligence in Pattani's Yarang district yesterday in what authorities believe was a premeditated attack.

  • Police kill Boston bomb suspect, hunt for second

    19 Apr 2013 : Police killed one of the Boston marathon bombing suspects in a shootout early Friday and pursued a chaotic street-to-street manhunt for his accomplice, officials said.

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