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All on board rescued from sinking Koh Tao ferry
Supapong Chaolan, Published on 22/12/2023
» SURAT THANI: All passengers, mainly foreign tourists, and crew were safely rescued after a night ferry travelling to the popular tourist island of Koh Tao was hit by high waves before it sank on Friday morning.
Station master praised for saving elderly woman's life
Supapong Chaolan, Published on 01/05/2023
» SURAT THANI: Members of the public have heaped praise on the station master of Ban Song railway station in Wiang Sa district for saving the life of a 75-year-old woman with impaired hearing as she was about to be hit by a train on Sunday.
Divers sight whale shark off Koh Tao
Supapong Chaolan, Published on 01/10/2021
» SURAT THANI: A large and healthy-looking whale shark was seen and videoed at the popular Kong Hin Chumphon diving site off Koh Tao in Koh Phangan district on Thursday, to the delight and excitement of divers.
Ukranian falls to death in Surat Thani
Supapong Chaolan, Published on 30/07/2020
» SURAT THANI: A 36-year-old Ukranian fell to his death from the rooftop of an empty hotel in Muang district on Thursday morning.
Another whale shark spotted near Koh Tao
Supapong Chaolan, Published on 14/06/2020
» SURAT THANI: Another whale shark was recently spotted by divers at Hin Bai or Sail Rock, a popular diving spot south of Koh Tao and Koh Phangan islands in this southern coastal province, according to a local media report.
Man dies in fall from train
Supapong Chaolan, Published on 24/11/2019
» SURAT THANI: A man was found dead under a railway bridge in Phun Phin district of this southern province on Sunday morning. He was believed to have fallen to his death from a train, police said.
Man starts New Year with heroic act, misses countdown
Supapong Chaolan, Published on 02/01/2019
» SURAT THANI: A man celebrating the countdown missed the climax when he jumped into a river to save a drowning woman and came out of the water only to see the fireworks had already begun.
Police to issue official summons for alleged Koh Tao rape victim
Supapong Chaolan, Published on 28/08/2018
» SURAT THANI: Police in the southern province are to summons the British girl, 19, who was reportedly drugged, raped and robbed on Koh Tao and her British male friend for questioning to verify the report.
British woman's Koh Tao rape story to be investigated
Supapong Chaolan, Published on 27/08/2018
» SURAT THANI: The chief of provincial police on Monday advised a young British woman whose story of being raped on Koh Tao appeared in a London tabloid newspaper to return and file a rape complaint herself, while police investigate.
'We were drunk,' say accused gold thieves
Supapong Chaolan, Published on 23/06/2018
» SURAT THANI: Two Pakistani men charged with stealing a 102,000-baht gold bracelet from a gold shop say they were drunk when the crime occurred, but police are sceptical.