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Today a bitter and bloody conflict in southern Thailand, not far from the country's famous tourist

beaches.

A rare protest on the streets of Singapore, there's mounting anger it seems in Asia's wealthiest nation.

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in Italy and transport wasn't much of a problem for King Tut but we find the

going tough in Egypt's Valley of the Kings. A little reported yet vicious

insurgency has been raging in southern Thailand, only hours from some of the country's most popular tourist destinations.

In the last 10 years, more than 5,000 people have been killed in the conflict in Thailand's southernmost provinces near the

Malaysian border.

There have been almost daily gun and bomb attacks by rebels fighting for greater autonomy.

In the last few days a series of explosions left three dead and

17 injured in the provincial town of Patany. Last week 16 rebels were killed in an

attack on a nearby military base. Jonathan Head has been to the area.

As you head south from Bangkok along the narrow neck of land that connects mainland

Southeast Asia with the Malay Peninsula, you cross one of Asia's great cultural

watersheds. The preponderance of glittering Buddhist temples gives way to squat

mosques nestled among the palm trees. The language changes too, from the melodic tones of

tie to the guttural rhythms of Malay. But the political border between Thailand and Malaysia

lies further south. What was the Malay Kingdom of Patany,

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