SONGKHLA: A man wanted for alleged involvement in smuggling illegal migrants from Myanmar to Malaysia was arrested at a house in Sadao district of this southern province on Saturday.
SONGKHLA: Three armed militants were killed as they tried to break through security forces surrounding a study centre on the grounds of a mosque in Chana district early Thursday morning.
BANGKOK (The Nation/Asia News Network): Special forces on Thursday (Feb 3) killed three suspected insurgents at a house in Jana district of Songkhla province.
SONGKHLA: A drug suspect was arrested in Muang district of this southern province on Tuesday with 200,000 methamphetamine pills by a police team from the Border Patrol Police Region 4.
Southern corridor under consideration
published : 7 Apr 2021 at 04:25
2 Officials inspect motorists at a provincial border checkpoint between the southern provinces of Pattani and Narathiwat as a preventive measure against Covid-19. AFP
The government is mulling the establishment of a Southern Border Economic Corridor (SBEC), spanning the southern border provinces of Pattani, Yala, Narathiwat, along with four districts of Songkhla province Chana, Na Thawi, Saba Yoi and Thepha to ensure greater efficacy in terms of development plans for the region.
Bordin Rassameethes, acting deputy secretary-general of the Southern Border Provinces Administration Centre (SBPAC), said the SBEC was recently pitched as a way to upgrade the government s development plans for the region, an idea similar in form to the existing flagship Eastern Economic Corridor (EEC).