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The PAD in south Thailand threatening to close airports again and the five airports are Hat Yai, Krabi, Nakhon Si Thammarat, Surat Thani and Phuket. They told the press that they will start blocking the airports on Saturday when the new PM trying to visit his home town. The PAD wants him to back to Bangkok since they think he is a proxy for his brother in law Mr Thaksin the former ousted PM of Thailand.

If you travel to south Thailand with flight during the weekend make sure you check this blog for more updates.

If you want to believe the current government of Thailand and off course you do, then there is a cease fire with the south Thailand insurgents.

They declared that 11 insurgents groups have stop fighting and any other groups that continue fighting would be eliminated.

To really point out how serious they were they managed to kill some more people and blow up a police station 4 days after they declared ceasefire. Maybe there is 30 more groups out there and the government need to talk with them as well? From now until today around 3500 people have been killed in the violence.

Let’s wait for another month and see what this is all about and if the government is just trying to turn our eyes to the south and not to Bangkok.

Songkhla is the one of the southern provinces of Thailand. To the south it borders Kedah and Perlis of Malaysia. The present derives from its originative Malay instance Singgora (city of lions). This refers to a lion-shaped barrier prospective the joint of Songkhla. Songkhla is subdivided curiosity 16 districts, which are further subdivided into 127 communes and 987 villages. The districts of Chana (Chenok in Malay), Thepa (Tiba), and Saba Yoi (Sebayu) were detached from Pattani and transferred to Songkhla in recent times by the Thai government.

Songkhla is one of Thailand’s needful ports and coastal provinces. An undeniably historic house endowed with patriarchal ruins, arts, and places of cultural importance, Songkhla, a broiling pot of Thais, Chinese and Malays, charms visitors with its lone traditions, dialect, and rock-and-roll entertainment. These characteristics are reflections of the provinces adorable cultural heritage, which has been preserved and passed down from generations to generations.

Due to it borders to Malaysia, whence masterly are multifold Malaysian comes to Songkla, especially Hat-Yai district. It is the impressive city in Songkhla province. Hat Yai serves as a southern hub of communication, trading and transportation as quite as a gateway to Malaysia and Singapore. In light of this, Hat Yai has gained importance as the driving force of economic growth in the southern region.

The provincial tree is the Sa-dao-thiam.

Festivals and Places to go:

Bull Fighting

Dove Singing Contest

Hat Yai

Hat Yai Municipal Park

Namtok Ton Nga Chang

Ban Sattha (Home of Faith)

Khao Kao Seng

Khao Noi

Ko Nu and Ko Maeo

The Thai Police have discovered 17 bombs in the Southern town of Hat Yai one of the biggest towns in South Thailand. The Police bomb unit managed to diffuse all of the bombs before anyone triggered. If the bombs had gone off it would had created big havoc in the center of Hat Yai. The tourists are already advised from there Embassy to stay away from the area and the Tourism industries are already on their knees.