The assassination of several policemen in southern Thailand, for instance, has improbably been blamed on al-Qaeda.
On Thursday, hundreds of extra troops poured into southern Thailand to try to pacify the region.
The smog has even reached southern Thailand, where face-masks have been distributed to the public in one province.
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Southern Thailand is now among the most lethal conflicts in South-East Asia.
The Borneo skirmish led the Wall Street Journal helpfully to publish a short run-down of these regional troubles, including the long Muslim insurgency in southern Thailand.
The Democrats may have some bright, articulate and well-intentioned national figures, but they still rely on the dinosaur dons of southern Thailand for most of their votes.
At least 89 people, most of them foreigners, were killed when an aeroplane skidded off the runway on landing during bad weather at Phuket airport in southern Thailand .
Shariah is now firmly established in the northern half of Nigeria and a vicious Islamist insurgency is raging out of control in southern Thailand and again in the Philippines.
Speaking of war, the very real, lasting and under-covered one in southern Thailand claimed an additional 16 lives this week when Muslim insurgents tried to attack a government base.
In fact, during our visit to the lab, news came through of the seizure, in southern Thailand, of a load of ivory in a van actually driven by a police captain.
BANGKOK, Thailand (CNN) -- Thai authorities say more than 300 people have been killed as a result of tsunamis that devastated southern Thailand after an enormous earthquake off the coast of Indonesia.
Economists in Thailand suggest reviving plans for a gargantuan construction project digging a hole through the isthmus in southern Thailand (not quite pure Keynes: the hole would not be filled in, but form a canal tunnel linking the Pacific and Indian oceans).
More recently, when the conflict in southern Thailand re-erupted in 2004, the shadowy insurgent movement found refuge by blending in with the people of the neighboring Malaysian state of Kelantan, who speak a virtually identical dialect and share a similarly proud royal heritage their two sultanates having intermarried through the ages.
Papuan separatists in eastern Indonesia, meanwhile, are fighting to break away from central rule in Jakarta, while an ethnic-Malay Muslim insurgency in southern Thailand has killed more than 5, 000 people since 2004 as guerrillas rebel against the annexation of the old Pattani sultanate by what was then Siam in 1902.
Thai police said the injured man, Mr. Moradi, entered Thailand through the southern resort island of Phuket and arrived at Bangkok International Airport.
Officials at the Commerce Department have yet to give their judgement on four other countries named in the initial Southern Shrimp Alliance complaint - Thailand, India, Brazil and Ecuador.
Things are different again in Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand and the Southern Philippines, where American troops have been helping to fight Abu Sayyaf, a group that many Filipinos regard more as bandits trying to make a profit from kidnapping than rebels campaigning for a separate Islamic state.
China debt is near the U.S., and Thailand and Malaysia are better than southern European countries.
The British government is still advising against non-essential travel to Sri Lanka's eastern, southern and south-west coasts or to Thailand's west coast.
The colonel alleged to have organised the dumping of refugees at sea is also accused of overseeing an atrocity against Muslims in Thailand's strife-torn southern provinces in 2004.
The rebels in mostly Muslim southern provinces are fighting for greater autonomy from Buddhist-majority Thailand and carry out almost daily gun and bomb attacks against civilians and security forces.
The three southern provinces of Pattani, Yala and Narathiwat were annexed to Siam, as Thailand was then known, more than a century ago.
Thailand native Supap Kirtsaeng, a mathematics student at the University of Southern California, noticed that some of the college textbooks he used and sampled from his local college bookstore were selling at a lower price in Thailand than here in the United States.
The Muslim militants, who are fighting for greater autonomy from Buddhist-majority Thailand, carry out almost daily gun and bomb attacks against civilians and security forces across three southern provinces of Yala, Pattani and Narathiwat.
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