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Canal walls unrepaired, Songkhla residents fear fresh flooding

SONGKHLA - Residents along a major canal draining storm water from Hat Yai city are again living on the edge, with last year's damaged floodwall still unrepaired ahead of the return of the annual wet season in the South.

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Illegal job seekers caught en route to Malaysia

SONGKHLA: Twenty illegal Myanmar migrants hoping to get jobs in Malaysia were arrested at a deserted house in Sadao district of this southern border province.

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Two Vietnamese fishing boats seized, 11 crew arrested

SONGKHLA: Marine police on Thursday seized two Vietnamese fishing boats and arrested 11 crew members in the waters off the southern provinces of Pattani and Nakhon Si Thammarat.

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1,200kg of ‘ice’ destined for Malaysia seized

SONGKHLA: Police seized 1,200 kilogrammes of crystal methamphetamine worth 120 million baht, destined for Malaysia, after surrounding a house in Na Mom district but the smugglers managed to flee.

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101 Malaysia-bound migrants arrested in Hat Yai

SONGKHLA: A total of 101 illegal migrants from Myanmar en route to Malaysia were arrested after they were found in a truck parked in Hat Yai district early Friday. Two Thai men were also arrested.

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30 tonnes of smuggled pork seized in Songkhla

SONGKHLA: Authorities have seized 30 tonnes of smuggled frozen pork from Brazil, worth about 6 million baht, in Sadao district of this southern province.

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Myanmar job seekers, three brokers arrested in Songkhla

SONGKHLA: Thirty illegal job seekers from Myanmar crammed in a pickup truck were arrested in Bang Klam district of this southern border province on Friday night.

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29 illegal migrants arrested after pickup overturns

PHATTHALUNG: Twenty-nine illegal migrants from Myanmar crammed into a pickup truck were arrested after the vehicle overturned on a southbound road in Muang district on Wednesday morning.

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29 illegal migrants crammed inside van, four smugglers arrested

SONGKHLA: Twenty-nine illegal migrants from Myanmar crammed in a van and four members of a smuggling gang were arrested in Bang Klam district of this southern border province on Friday night.

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Southern train services from Bangkok-Hat Yai resume Saturday

SONGKHLA: Train services from Bangkok to Hat Yai resumed on Saturday after the southern tourist town was disrupted by flooding last Sunday (Dec 18).

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Vietnamese trawler seized, crew arrested

A navy vessel has intercepted and seized a Vietnamese fishing trawler and arrested five crew members off the southern province of Songkhla for dredging the ocean bed for sea cucumbers in Thai waters.

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Shotguns found in possession of migrant workers

SONGKHLA: A Myanmar plantation worker fled into the trees, leaving behind his wife and three illegal shotguns, when officials approached to search their hut in Sadao district.

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Fire at Chana power plant, no supply interruption

SONGKHLA: A fire at the Chana power plant on Friday damaged five cooling units, but has not interrupted the supply of electricity to the area.

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11 immigration police, officials arrested on bribery charges

Eleven government officials, including six immigration police, have been arrested and charged for allegedly taking bribes to facilitate the release of five foreign fishing trawlers earlier confiscated for illegally fishing in Thai waters.

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Fleeing smugglers abandon 400 protected birds

PHATTHALUNG: A total of 400 smuggled red-whiskered bulbuls were rescued after the protected wild birds, crammed into five baskets, were abandoned by smugglers in Muang district on Friday morning.

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43 illegal job seekers from Myanmar arrested in southern provinces

SONGKHLA/PHATTHALUNG: Forty-three Myanmar nationals who entered the country illegally to get jobs in Malaysia and seven Thai smugglers were arrested in two separate police operations in these two southern provinces on Friday.

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Tourism back to life in Songkhla after Thailand Pass scrapped

SONGKHLA: Tourism surged back to life at the Sadao immigration checkpoint, as visitors from Malaysia and Singapore thronged to this southern border province on Friday, the first day the Thailand Pass requirement for international visitors was scrapped.

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Drug courier arrested, 390kg of crystal meth seized

SONGKHLA: A drug courier was arrested and 390 kilogrammes of crystal methamphetamine seized from his pickup truck in Chana district of this southern border province on Friday.

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More illegal migrants questioned over murder

SONGKHLA: Another 49 illegal Myanmar migrants were arrested in a forested area in Hat Yai district and taken for questioning in connection with the murder of a 40-year-old man found in a freshly dug shallow grave.

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Arrested illegal migrants, smugglers now suspects in murder

SONGKHLA: Nineteen illegal Myanmar migrants and two Thais arrested in Hat Yai district on Wednesday night were being questioned about the murder of a man whose bound and gagged body was found in a shallow grave beside a golf course earlier that day.

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More job seekers headed to Malaysia arrested in Songkhla

SONGKHLA: Twenty-six illegal Myanmar migrants heading for promised work in Malaysia, after borrowing up to 50,00 baht to pay job brokers, were arrested near the southern border in Sadao district early on Thursday.

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Baby cobras invade house in Songkhla

SONGKHLA: An army of baby cobras invaded a house at a village in Hat Yai district, forcing the family of five to seek refuge at a relative’s home.

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More illegal migrants en route to Malaysia caught in Songkhla

SONGKHLA: Twenty more Myanmar illegal migrants heading for promised jobs in Malaysia were arrested on a dirt track near the Malaysian border in Sadao district in the early hours of Friday.

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Illegal migrants say job brokerage fees soaring

SONGKHLA: Myanmar job seekers arrested in Ratthaphum district told officials their brokerage fees had skyrocketed to 80,000 baht each, from 20,000 to 40,000 baht previously, because of the harsh crackdown on illegal migrants.

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Myanmar job seekers arrested near Malaysian border

SONGKHLA: Fourteen illegal Myanmar migrants heading for promised jobs in Malaysia were arrested near the southern border in Sadao district in the early hours of Thursday.

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