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Malaysian school holidays boost tourism in Songkhla

SONGKHLA: School holidays in Malaysia are increasing the flow of tourists to the southern province of Songkhla, with Hat Yai their main destination.

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Track bombing fails to deter Malaysian tourist train

SONGKHLA: A Malaysian train service to promote tourism in Hat Yai will operate as planned this weekend but with some adjustments, after two bombings on the Thai track compelled workers to delay repairs over safety fears.

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Bomb blamed for Songkhla freight train derailment

Authorities say a bomb planted on the tracks was responsible for the derailment of a freight train in Sadao district of Songkhla on Saturday. No injuries were reported.

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Fire destroys Hat Yai railway homes

SONGKHLA: A row of wooden houses for staff of Hat Yai railway station was destroyed by a fire early on Wednesday. Nobody was hurt.

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Teacher kills autistic son before consuming toilet cleaner

SONGKHLA: A teacher killed her autistic son in what police believed she might have smothered him a pillow before she attempted suicide by drinking a glass of toilet cleaner at a condominium unit in Hat Yai district on Tuesday. She was hurt and rushed to a hospital.

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Taiwan through the lens

Last week at SF Cinema MBK and House Samyan, the Bangkok edition of the Taiwan Documentary Film Festival in Thailand 2022 took place. Now it's the turn of film lovers in Chiang Mai, Hat Yai and Songkhla to enjoy the same programme with subtitles in Thai and English. Physical screenings…

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Malaysian pays nearly B100,000 for damage from drifting

SONGKHLA: A Malaysian tourist has paid nearly 100,000 baht to four Thai people whose vehicles he damaged by drifting his car in the parking lot at tourist spot in Hat Yai district on Friday, police said.

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6.2 Sumatra quake felt in southern Thailand

People living in tall buildings in three southern provinces — Songkhla, Phangna and Phuket — felt tremors from an earthquake measuring 6.2 on the Richter scale centred off the northwestern tip of Sumatra in Indonesia early Saturday.

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Hat Yai hotels cheer direct train from KL

SONGKHLA: Hoteliers in Hat Yai hope a special, direct train from Kuala Lumpur to the southern economic hub on Friday will not be the last.

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Hat Yai-Padang Besar train resumes after 2 years

Train services have resumed from Hat Yai to the border town of Padang Besar for onward travel into Malaysia after a Covid-linked closure that lasted more than two years.

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2 motorcyclists killed in Hat Yai accidents

SONGKHLA: Two motorcyclists, one of them a woman GrabBike taxi driver, were killed in two separate accidents in Hat Yai district in the small hours on Sunday, police said.

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Boy,16, caught with 112,000 meth pills

SONGKHLA: A 16-year-old boy was arrested and 112,000 methamphetamine pills seized by drug suppression police in a search of a house in Hat Yai district on Sunday.

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Elderly German dies in fall from Hat Yai apartment building

SONGKHLA: An 81-year-old German man died in fall from the rooftop of an apartment building in Hat Yai district on Wednesday morning.

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Student run over by Hat Yai fire truck

SONGKHLA: A local university student was killed when the motorcycle she was riding was hit by a fire engine at an intersection in Hat Yai city on Wednesday morning.

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Tourism operators in Hat Yai seeking helping hand

Tourism operators in Hat Yai are calling for additional support when it comes to registration for the Thailand Pass and bus services at the Malaysian border, particularly at the Sadao checkpoint, in order to bring back tourists.

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Illegal migrants rounded up after murder

More than 100 illegal Myanmar migrants were arrested when officials raided rented houses in Hat Yai district on Thursday night following the murder of a local man.

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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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Bound, gagged body found in fresh grave

SONGKHLA: The gagged and tied body of a 40-year-old man was found in a freshly dug shallow grave in forest beside a golf course in Hat Yai district on Wednesday morning, police said.

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Baby cobras invade house

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

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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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Hat Yai arrest for Pattani gold shop robbery

A former rescue worker was arrested in Hat Yai district of Songkhla for the armed robbery of a gold shop at Big C superstore in Pattani’s Muang district on Monday night.

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Illegal car-mortgage operation busted in Hat Yai

SONGKHLA: Police on Sunday raided a warehouse in Hat Yai district and arrested a man on charges of operating an illegal mortgage lending service.

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Trafficked Rohingya among illegal migrants caught in Songkhla

SONGKHLA: There were young Rohingya "victims of human trafficking" among 61 illegal migrants from Myanmar caught in Hat Yai district while en route to Malaysia, assistant police chief Pol Lt Gen Surachate Hakparn said.

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Pub raided on Valentine's Day

Local officials and police raided a restaurant pub in Hat Yai and arrested 24 people on Monday night for breaking Covid-19 restrictions on Valentine's Day.

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