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Thai police beef up checks on foreigners on isles
News, Supapong Chaolan, Published on 22/10/2025
» SURAT THANI — The Royal Thai Police (RTP) has intensified checks on foreigners on Koh Samui and Koh Phangan following the discovery of multiple legal violations, including nominee businesses, land encroachment and unauthorised work, deputy national police chief Pol Gen Samran Nuanma has announced.
Illegal villas closed, tenants ordered out, on Koh Samui
Supapong Chaolan, Published on 18/09/2024
» SURAT THANI - Authorities have closed 21 villas built illegally on Koh Samui, some of them housing foreign tenants who were ordered to leave.
Hilltop villas 'don't have construction permits'
News, Supapong Chaolan, Published on 05/07/2024
» Authorities found that most of the 52 villas on a hilltop on Koh Samui under investigation for land encroachment did not have construction permits.
Isoc to help probe Koh Samui violations
News, Supapong Chaolan, Published on 08/06/2024
» The Internal Security Operation Command (Isoc) Region 4 has joined hands with local authorities to investigate land encroachment on Koh Samui in Surat Thani, focusing on 600 villas built on the island's hilltops.
Cockle farmers given 15 days to dismantle ocean platforms
Supapong Chaolan, Published on 21/07/2020
» SURAT THANI: Owners of 176 roofed platforms built to guard illegal cockle farms in the waters of Bandon Bay have been given 15 days to dismantle them, or face legal action.
'Cockle wars' drawing to an end, navy chief says
News, Supapong Chaolan, Published on 26/06/2020
» SURAT THANI: Local figures wielding influence are being neutralised and a disruptive dispute between cockle farmers and local small-boat fishermen is drawing to an end, navy chief Adm Luechai Ruddit said yesterday.
Cops shunted after house built with logs from protected area
Supapong Chaolan, Published on 18/01/2019
» SURAT THANI: Six senior police officers have been transferred from their station after one of them was suspected of building a house with wood felled in an area that was about to be declared a forest reserve.
Resorts, restaurant seized for encroachment on Phangan
Supapong Chaolan, Published on 06/02/2018
» SURAT THANI: Three resorts and one restaurant on the island of Koh Phangan, notorious for the popular full moon party, were seized for illegally occupying public land on Monday.
Purge starts of encroachers on Samui, Phangan
Supapong Chaolan, Published on 17/01/2018
» SURAT THANI: Authorities are gearing up for action against people illegally occupying land on Koh Samui and Koh Phangan after an aerial survey revealed large scale forest encroachment on the two tourist islands.