Cabinet extends emergency decree in deep South

The Cabinet meeting Tuesday approved the National Security Council's proposal to extend emergency decree in three southern border provinces for another three months.

The current state of emergency in the deep South will expire on March 19.

The proposal also recommended that, if the Internal Security Operations Command (ISOC) deemed the situation in five districts (Yala's Kabang and Betong districts, Narathiwat's Sukhirin and Waeng districts, and Pattani's Mai Kaen district) as improved and in line to the government's talks with separatists, the emergency decree should be lifted in these districts and replaced with the Internal Security Act, without having to wait for the threemonth term to end.

The Nation