About 50 coordinated bomb and arson attacks hit Narathiwat, Pattani and Yala on Saturday night, and another struck a municipal office in Pattani's Pho Ming on Sunday. Officials have not identified a motive or the perpetrators. Peace-restoration talks for the far South are expected to resume in late October. For businesses in the far South, expect heightened security checks and possible disruption to transport and government-linked work in the near term.