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unusual facts about southern Thailand


Cnemaspis

A new species of Cnemaspis(Sauria: Gekkonidae) from Southern Thailand.


OK Baytong

But after hearing that his sister has been killed in an attack on a train by insurgents, he decides to leave the monastery and make his way to southern Thailand where his sister ran a beauty salon in a town called Betong in a district in Yala Province on the border with Malaysia.

Vibhavadi Rangsit Road

It is named in honor of HRH Princess Vibhavadi Rangsit (1920-1977), a well-known Thai novelist who dedicated the final decade of her life to developing rural Southern Thailand, and was killed in an attack by insurgents while trying to rescue injured Border Patrol police.


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22 December 2013 South Thailand bombings

The 2013 Southern Thailand bombings were a series of bombings that took place in Danok, Padang Besar and Sadao, Songkhla Province, Thailand near the Malaysian border on December 22, 2013.

Buddhadasa

In 1932, Buddhadasa founded his forest hermitage Suan Mokkh ('garden of release'), a center for study and serious practice in the Chaiya district, Surat Thani Province of southern Thailand.

Chin Peng

On December 2 of that year, at the town of Had Yai in Southern Thailand, Chin Peng, Rashid Maidin and Abdullah CD met with representatives of the Malaysian and Thai governments.

Elysia bangtawaensis

Elysia bangtawaensis was first found in mangrove swamps in southern Thailand, but has since also been identified in eastern Australia and Goa.

Gerakan

Gerakan Mujahideen Islam Pattani (GMIP), also known as the Pattani Islamic Mujahideen Movement, a Malay-Muslim terrorist group from Southern Thailand

Japanese invasion of Thailand

Escort ship IJN Shimushu escorted transports Zenyo Maru, Miike Maru and Toho Maru to Nakorn Sri Thammarat, southern Thailand, with more of the 143rd Regiment

Kedah danio

Originating from Southeast Asia in southern Thailand, Kedah, and Sumatra, this fish is rarely found in the fish-keeping hobby, usually accidentally mixed with the pearl danio.

Pig-tailed macaque

Southern Pig-tailed Macaque or Beruk, Macaca nemestrina (Northern Malaysia and southern Thailand to Borneo and western Indonesia)

Presbyterian Church in Malaysia

Pastoral responsibility of Penang's St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church eventually extended beyond Penang to Province Wellesley, Kedah, northern Perak, southern Thailand and North Sumatera.

Quanzhou ship

For example, seams between planks were sealed with a tree-derived resin known as chu-nam, which was commonly available e.g. in the port of Satingpra, near today's Songkhla in southern Thailand.

Spotted-winged fruit bat

At the edges of their range, they have also been reported from Trang Province in southern Thailand, from a small area in Sumatra, and from the Riau Archipelago.

Tapi River

Tapi River, Thailand (Thai: ตาปี, also sometimes spelled Tapee), in Surat Thani Province, Southern Thailand