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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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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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Parents killed, kids badly hurt when pickup rear-ends parked truck

SONGKHLA: A couple were killed and their two children, aged 4 and 7, seriously injured when their pickup truck rear-ended a parked container truck in Sadao district in the early hours of 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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Vietnamese fishing boat burns, sinks after being caught

SONGKHLA: A Vietnamese fishing boat went up in flames and sank after it was caught trawling in Thai waters and its five crewmen arrested in the Gulf of Thailand off this southern province on Sunday.

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Niphon stands down to battle graft case

Niphon Bunyamanee, a deputy leader of the Democrat Party, has resigned as deputy interior minister to fight a court case for alleged malfeasance while he was president of the Songkhla provincial administration organisation (PAO) in 2013.

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Fire destroys fishing boat in Songkhla

SONGKHLA: A fishing boat up for sale was gutted by fire and a nearby boat slightly damaged by the flames at a pier in Muang district shortly before dawn on Monday.

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Niphon resigns as deputy interior minister

Niphon Bunyamanee, a deputy leader of the Democrat Party, has resigned from his portfolio as deputy interior minister to fight a court case for alleged malfeasance while he was president of the Songkhla provincial administration organisation (PAO) in 2013.

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Man killed, wife shot by former employee

SONGKHLA: A furniture maker was shot dead and his wife wounded by a former employee who barged into their home in Bang Klam district of this southern province on Sunday.

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Temple servant charged with murder, says averted robbery

SONGKHLA: A temple servant surrendered to police on Sunday and confessed he had killed a man he overheard telling people by phone that everyone was asleep and it was safe to come and rob the temple

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Streamer arrested, e-cigarettes seized in Songkhla

SONGKHLA: An online vendor was arrested with 500,000 baht worth of e-cigarettes and related items as she was preparing to live stream her products at a house in this southern province.

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Saving Songkhla's last dolphin pod

The last pod of 14 Irrawaddy dolphins in Songkhla Lake in southern Thailand could become extinct within eight years if a conservation plan is not implemented immediately, says the Department of Marine and Coastal Resources.

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631kg ice seized, 7 arrested

Narcotics suppression police seized 631 kilogrammes of crystal methamphetamine, known as ice, and arrested seven suspects in Songkhla province on Saturday.

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Malaysian billionaire held in Sadao on laundering charge

SONGKHLA: Police have arrested a wealthy Malaysian businessman for allegedly laundering money from online gambling in Thailand.

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Murder suspect arrested in Songkhla

SONGKHLA: The prime suspect in the murder of one brother and wounding of another in Chumphon province four months ago was arrested at an oil palm plantation in Ranot district in this southern province on Wednesday.

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Truck carrying crashed helicopter involved in road accident

An army truck carrying the wrecked Black Hawk helicopter away from its crash-landing site in Songkhla was involved in an accident while passing another truck on Sunday evening.

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Truck carrying crashed Black Hawk involved in road accident

An army truck carrying the wrecked Black Hawk helicopter away from its crash-landing site in Songkhla was involved in an accident while passing another trailer truck in Khao Chaison district, Phatthalung province, on Sunday evening.

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Wreckage of Black Hawk removed from crash site

The wreckage of the army's Black Hawk helicopter that crash-landed in a rubber plantation in Thepha district, Songkhla province, on Friday was removed from crash site to Ingkhayuthaboriharn military camp in Pattani province on Saturday night, according to local media reports.

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7 hurt in helicopter crash landing

The commander of the 4th Army Region and six other soldiers were injured when an army helicopter crashed into a tree during an emergency landing in Songkhla on Friday morning.

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Southern army chief, 6 others hurt in helicopter crash landing

The commander of the 4th Army Region and six other soldiers were injured when an army helicopter crashed into a tree during an emergency landing in Thepha district of Songkhla on Friday morning.

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Migrant worker killed, 10 injured in Songkhla crash

SONGKHLA: One Myanmar worker was killed and 10 injured when the minibus they were in was hit by a trailer truck while making a U-turn in Sadao district on Tuesday evening, police said.

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Opinions sought as Chana plan resumes

The government has insisted it is open to opinions from all stakeholders in the Chana industrial project in Songkhla, amid controversy over the cabinet's resolution to resume development.

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Myanmar job seekers caught in Hat Yai

SONGKHLA: Forty-one illegal migrants from Myanmar were caught on Tuesday as they boarded pickup trucks in Hat Yai district to take them to the southern border with Malaysia, where they had been promised there would be jobs.

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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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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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