NARATHIWAT: A pickup in a convoy of six vehicles taking rangers to support an operation was damaged when a bomb exploded on a road in Sungai Padi district on Monday. Nobody was hurt.
Asean park plan puts down roots
Malaysia puts up competing bid for adjoining forest but Yala MP still hopeful of success
published : 18 Jan 2021 at 04:30 A beautiful view across a valley at the Hala Bala Wildlife Sanctuary in Yala s Betong district. The Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment has set up a panel to study a proposal that the rainforests be listed as an Asean Heritage Park, as urged by Adilan Ali-ishak, a Yala MP from Palang Pracharath Party.
Adilan Ali-ishak, a Palang Pracharath Party MP for Yala, is playing a key role in pushing for the Hala-Bala Wildlife Sanctuary in the deep South to become Thailand s Asean Heritage Park.
1 Gold miners Boonsom Aeamprasert (left) and Sunisa Srisuwanno pan for gold on the Sai Buri river, in Sukhirin district of Narathiwat, on Tuesday. (Reuters photo)
NARATHIWAT: As the yellowish mud swirls away in the waters of the Sai Buri river, Sunisa Srisuwanno lifts her wooden pan with a cluster of gleaming specks caught in the centre. That s 100 baht, she said, pointing to grains after little more than 15 minutes work with her gold panning partner, Boonsom Aeamprasert.
With global gold prices near an all-time high, the women are a rare bright spot for an economy hard hit by the collapse of tourism amid coronavirus travel restrictions.