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A fugitive Malaysian businessman operating in Thailand has been arrested in southern Songkhla province for alleged money laundering.

A helicopter crash in the southern province of Songkhla on Friday left the 4th Army Region commander and his aide injured.

Ban Chon Thong village in Na Thawi district of Songkhla province has become a home to plain-pouched hornbills, as more than 400 birds were spotted in the area on Monday.

Some 5,000 tourists crossed from Malaysia to Thailand via the Sadao checkpoint on Friday, as border traffic surged fivefold after the Thailand Pass system was scrapped.

The first cat-to-human transmission of Covid-19 was documented in a Prince of Songkla University study and published in the June 6 edition of the US Centres for Disease Control and Prevention’s Emerging Infectious Diseases Journal.

Opposition Move Forward Party is calling for the removal of Democrat-member Deputy Interior Minister Niphon Boonyamanee for mismanagement as chief executive of Songkhla Provincial Administrative Office (PAO).

Songkhla marked World Environment Day by launching a project to preserve the southern province’s main water supply.

A roadside beverage stall in southern Songkhla province has dropped a plan to sell iced milk tea in a plastic bag with a long protruding part at the bottom.

Schools across Thailand reopened on Tuesday for the first time in two years, and though most students got to attend class, one 14-year-old girl couldn’t.

Some 2,000 travellers entered Thailand via the Sadao-Malaysia border crossing in Songkhla on the first two days of the Test & Go measure being scrapped.

Tourism and Sports Minister Phiphat Ratchakitprakarn is confident Malaysian visitors will restore southern Thailand’s tourism industry once the Test & Go scheme ends on Sunday, May 1.

The low number of foreign travellers entering Thailand via the Sadao border checkpoint is due to the added expense of Covid-19 restrictions, not the planned tourist entry fee, the tourism minister says.