Thailand's Troubled South Starts to Recover

Community and micro enterprises stage sharp increase, raising hopes over tensions

By: Asae Sayaka and Murray Hunter

Despite a recent rise in violent incidents across Thailand’s deep south provinces of Pattani, Yala, and Narathiwat over the past year, a host of new community and micro-enterprise start-ups popped up, with rising economic activity the most effective deterrence against the ethnic and religious tensions.

The number of small…