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'Samui Plus' scheme kicks off for journos
News, Supapong Chaolan, Published on 16/07/2021
» The "Samui Plus" tourism scheme kicked off on Thursday to welcome fully-vaccinated foreign tourists, two weeks after the Phuket Sandbox reopening.
Surat Thani to manage foreign traveller virus risk
News, Supapong Chaolan, Published on 14/07/2021
» Surat Thani has in place "Samui Plus'' model measures to help curb the risk of any possible spread of the coronavirus among foreign travellers wanting to visit the province from Thursday onwards.
About 10,000 foreigners stranded on Surat Thani islands
Supapong Chaolan, Published on 22/04/2020
» SURAT THANI: About 10,000 foreign tourists were left stranded on three islands of this southern province, including about 5,700 on Koh Samui, when passenger flights were suspended due to the coronavirus pandemic.
Chengdu-Surat Thani flights suspended
Supapong Chaolan, Published on 03/02/2020
» SURAT THANI: Spring Airlines, a Shanghai-based low-cost carrier, has suspended charter flights from Chengdu, the capital of China's Sichuan province, to Surat Thani until Feb 28 following the ban on Chinese travelling abroad because of the coronavirus epidemic.
Grateful Chinese motorbike crash victim returns home
Supapong Chaolan, Published on 25/02/2019
» SURAT THANI: A Chinese tourist who lost a leg in a motorbike accident on Koh Samui left for home on Monday, expressing gratitude for the hospitality and treatment he received.
2 arrested over stabbing to death of Israeli 'mafia boss'
News, Supapong Chaolan, Published on 23/01/2018
» Two Israeli nationals were detained at Don Mueang airport on Sunday night and held for questioning about the murder of a compatriot on Koh Samui, in Surat Thani province -- an attack local media described as a "mob hit".
Human remains found off Koh Tao
News, Supapong Chaolan, Published on 11/03/2017
» SURAT THANI: Human tissue and bone samples have been collected underwater and sent for forensic tests in Bangkok as the search continues for the missing Russian tourist who was on a diving expedition off Koh Tao.
Man charged over fatal crash
News, Supapong Chaolan, Published on 08/07/2015
» An 18-year-old man was charged yesterday with reckless driving and driving without a licence over a fatal car crash that killed five soldiers in Surat Thani on Monday.
Cigarette butt DNA points to Koh Tao killers
Supapong Chaolan, Published on 18/09/2014
» The search for the killers of two British tourists on Koh Tao has focussed on two men who shared a cigarette and whose semen was found on the murdered woman's body.
Air force jet sonic boom panics tourists, residents
News, Supapong Chaolan, Published on 11/09/2014
» Surat Thani: A sonic boom created by an air force jet caused panic over Koh Samui yesterday.