“Tha Sap Town near Pattani River has good background and stories           To remember that it is a town of fertility.  Tha Sap Town has convenient and rapid transportation system, progressive sub-district Advanced education and we love and care about everyone Nowhere is as happy as this place                     &nb...

Folklore is one of cultural heritages, transmitted with word of mouth, called as pulpit. It brings knowledge, enjoyment, morality and imagination to audiences with reflection of local living way of villagers in the past interestingly. In southern-border provinces, there are numerus folklores and most of them reflect living way of Thai-Muslim people in the southern-border provinces, followed by living ways of Thai Buddhist people and Thai-Chinese people. The features of these folklores are narrat...

According to the study of “future of business” with cooperation between Facebook, World Bank and organizations for cooperation and economic development, jointly surveying millions of small businesses all over the world that use Facebook, 51 % of the business leaders in Thailand that completed a survey was female, and 40 % said that they wanted to be self-employed. Furthermore, these female leaders mentioned important roles of social media in their business. 90% believed that social m...

Melayu Route: Open a new route with the heart of Melayu is the first Manga-style comic book in Thailand, related to Melayu cultures in three southern-border provinces.  It is the work created from lesson learned derived from years of work experience in southern border areas of the author “Jirask Audnoon” and “Kittikhun Kittiamornkul”, members of media production department of Ramajitti Institute who draw cartoons making the stories of “root” and “pa...

Mari Main is Malay meaning “let’s play”. It is a TV program for children, airing in October 2019 until present on Thai PBS Channel every Saturday from 07.40-08.00 hrs. It presents stories of local plays in southern-border areas through story telling of the locals with Nada as the host and friends from different communities asking the audiences to learn backgrounds of the plays. What do the southern-border boys play? Nada is a representative of new-generation southern-bord...

Mentioning the three southern-border provinces, most pictures in media are filled with daily violence or peacemaking way seeking, making people almost forget that the living ways of people in the three southern-border provinces are not just shown out, especially alertness on creative spaces which are opposite to violence. Not many people know that several artists from the three-southern borders work abroad. Creative works are a part of the community, and some creative workers intend to build up ...

If we can choose what our life will be, disability must be a thing that we do not want it to happen with us or our beloved ones. However, when encountering this fate whether it is innate disability, or disability caused by severe events, accidents or illnesses, we have to live our life as long as we still breath. We need to live with dignity of human, and can access basic rights with protection from the government, and care from surrounding people without discrimination. Importantly, the potenti...

While oil and natural gas price rises, alternative energy is another option that we need to pay attention. at present, fuel from plant biomass is highly needed in world markets especially for biomass pellets that play an important role in electricity generating for power plants or industries. The advantages are that they produce more heat than other biomasses and can be conveniently transported due to high density with little ashes. Additionally, they slightly have impacts on the environment esp...

Local music of southern-border provinces or Ronggeng Dance is a musical performance together with dances without lyrics. It is the combination of various kinds of music including wind, string, brass and percussion instruments. Some are universal musical instruments due to influence from Spanish and Portuguese people, performing in Malay Peninsula when there was trading in the past, mixed with local instruments. With sense of Malay, it becomes another identity of southern-border provinces. Rongge...

“Industry for Sustainable Job in Three Southern-Border Provinces” Project or Hand in Hand is initiated by the Department of Industrial Promotion, Ministry of Industry, which is an organization  that has mission to construct and promote economic strengthening and distribute prosperity to different areas. This support leads to medium-sized industry or community enterprise with target area in 3 communities including Rue Soh Ditrict, Narathiwat Province, Raman District, Yala Provinc...