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Sandbox runs out of toys
News, Published on 16/01/2022
» The Sandbox scheme, now expanded to tourist magnets in the South, is no match for the suspended Test & Go programme although it is keeping the country's tourism heart beating, say tourism experts.
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Sandbox now open to everyone
Published on 02/10/2021
» Fully vaccinated travellers from “any country in the world” can now book holidays in Phuket and other provinces taking part in the sandbox scheme, the Tourism Authority of Thailand (TAT) says.
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'7+7' tourist spot hopeful of bookings
News, Post Reporters, Published on 23/08/2021
» Phangnga's local tourism council expects to welcome 3,000 visitors and earn up to 500 million baht in tourism revenue in the early phase of the government's next tourism sandbox scheme.
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The shame of Thai tourism
Oped, Editorial, Published on 07/08/2021
» The large numbers of deaths caused by the pandemic have already brought down the collective spirit of Thai society. Yet, the recent murder of a Swiss national in Phuket, a female tourist visiting the province under the Phuket Sandbox scheme, is morally appalling and a disgrace to the country.
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Loved to death
Asia focus, Erich Parpart, Published on 22/10/2018
» In March, Thai authorities ordered the temporary closure of Maya Bay on Phi Phi Leh Island for the first time since 1999 to halt the environmental damage caused by too many tourists. A month later the Philippine island of Boracay, one of the world's most famous beach destinations, was closed for the same reason.
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Is jailing efficient?
News, Postbag, Published on 15/10/2018
» Re: "Death penalty taints the record", (Editorial, Oct 14). The debate on whether the death penalty for certain crimes continues unabated with both sides putting forward their reasons for keeping it or not. The editorial, obviously on the side of abolishing it, states "...life imprisonment, without a commuting term, is a more acceptable and efficient punishment choice for people committing heinous crimes". What it failed to state is to whom is it more acceptable and how is it more efficient.
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VDOs search for " Koh Tao tourist deaths "
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Thai police search for suspects after two British tourists found dead on beach
By Reuters
Posted at 17/09/2014 Clip length 01:17
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Competing to be the noisiest
News, Postbag, Published on 14/10/2018
» Re: "Keeping the noise down", (Opinion, Oct 12).
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Rethink this London trip
News, Editorial, Published on 18/09/2018
» Just when it seemed the story had plumbed the depths, the unsavoury claim of a June 25 drugging and rape on already infamous Koh Tao has turned worse. Pol Maj Gen Surachate "Big Joke" Hakparn has announced an imminent trip to London. There, he claimed late last week, he intends to interrogate the 19-year-old woman who claims to be the victim. Pol Maj Gen Surachate, the high-profile deputy chief of the Tourist Police Bureau, has quite loudly doubted the woman's claim she was a crime victim. He said his London visit could end up proving the rape claim was false.
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It's a dry argument
News, Postbag, Published on 13/09/2018
» A Bangkok Post report on Sept 12 says the truck that overturned was carrying 120 tonnes of beer. Nope, nope, nope!
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Don't pick on Koh Tao
News, Postbag, Published on 11/09/2018
» It is disappointing that so many readers, letter writers and commenters in the <i>Bangkok Post</i>'s various forums exude so much blind hate for an island many have never been to, or they set foot on it for a day, decided it's nothing special and then left again.
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