REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, BANGKOK -- The Thai authorities are seeking to have curfew lifted shortly for more tourist spots in the southern coastal region of the country.

Tourism and Sports Ministry's undersecretary Suvat Sithilor said the agency will ask the National Council for Peace and Order to lift curfew currently imposed from midnight until 4 a.m. in the southern coastal resorts of Krabi, Pang-nga and Haat Yai.

Curfew, which was imposed nationwide as an immediate aftermath of the May 22 coup spearheaded by army chief Gen Prayuth Chan-ocha, has already been lifted for the country's eastern tourist city of Pattaya and the southern island resorts of Phuket and Koh Samui.

Like those world-renowned tropical resorts, the situation in Krabi, Pang-nga and Haat Yai where foreign tourists usually had the penchants for late-night entertainment was not considered to have jeopardized national security or been affected by the current political atmospheres in Bangkok or elsewhere, according to the undersecretary.