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Samui quietly reopens to vaccinated foreign travellers
AFP, Published on 15/07/2021
» Koh Samui opened to vaccinated foreign tourists on Thursday despite a nationwide surge in Covid-19 cases propelled by the Delta variant.
Mothers of Koh Tao convicts beg for clemency
AFP, Published on 24/10/2019
» The mothers of two Myanmar men sentenced to death for the murder of a pair of British backpackers on Koh Tao submitted a plea for clemency from His Majesty the King on Thursday, in a case tainted by claims of irregularities.
Tourists flee islands as tropical storm Pabuk closes in
AFP, Published on 03/01/2019
» KHAO LAK, Phangnga: Tens of thousands of tourists have fled some of the country's most popular islands and resort areas as tropical storm Pabuk closes in and threatens to batter the southern region with heavy rains, winds and seven-metre waves.
Cambodians jailed for brutal attack on French tourists on Koh Kut
AFP, Published on 05/03/2018
» A court has sentenced five Cambodian fishermen to 50 years each for a violent 2016 attack on French tourists in which two women were raped, an official said Monday.
Myanmar army chief asks Thailand for death sentence review
AFP, Published on 27/12/2015
» YANGON - Myanmar's army chief has called on Thailand to review the sentencing of his two countrymen to death for murdering a pair of British backpackers after a controversial trial that sparked protests.
Ruling in Koh Tao murders case Thursday
AFP, Published on 22/12/2015
» BANGKOK - Two Myanmar migrant workers could face the death penalty if convicted this week of murdering a pair of British backpackers on a Thai island, in a grim case that stained the kingdom's reputation as a tourist haven.
Evidence against Myanmar men in Koh Tao trial 'unreliable'
AFP, Published on 26/10/2015
» Two Myanmar men accused of murdering a pair of British backpackers in Thailand last year should be acquitted because of "unreliable" forensic evidence and a flawed police probe, a court heard Monday.
Police didn't check CCTV on Koh Tao pier
AFP, Published on 23/07/2015
» Police failed to check CCTV footage from the only pier on the island where two British tourists were murdered last year, a lawyer for the two Myanmar nationals accused of the killings said Thursday.
Koh Tao victims' families call evidence 'convincing'
AFP, Published on 06/12/2014
» LONDON - The families of two Britons murdered on Koh Tao say the evidence against the two Myanmar migrants accused of the crime is convincing, in statements supportive of a much-criticised police investigation.
Koh Tao witnesses 'scared to testify'
AFP, Published on 04/12/2014
» A lawyer for two Myanmar migrants accused of murdering a pair of British holidaymakers on Thursday said key witnesses are too afraid to come forward, hampering his clients' defence as they prepare to enter a plea.