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Students on school trip injured in bus crash
News, Supapong Chaolan, Published on 01/10/2025
» SURAT THANI – Nine students on a field trip received minor injuries when their chartered bus sideswiped a car and then veered off the highway in heavy rain in this southern province on Tuesday.
Director in school lunch scandal to serve 25 years
News, Supapong Chaolan, Published on 27/08/2025
» After a five-year battle, the Supreme Court has rejected an appeal to reduce the sentence of Somchao Sitthichen, former director of Ban Tha Mai School in Surat Thani, in a high-profile corruption case involving fraudulent school lunch funding, according to the National Anti-Corruption Commission (NACC).
Illegal language school raided on Koh Phangan
Supapong Chaolan, Published on 29/01/2025
» SURAT THANI - Police have arrested four Myanmar people for illegally running a Burmese-language school for 190 Myanmar children in a church on Koh Phangan.
11 hurt as school van overturns in Surat Thani
Supapong Chaolan, Published on 15/11/2024
» SURAT THANI: Nine students and two teachers returning from a camping activity were injured when their van overturned in Kanchanadit district of this southern province on Friday afternoon.
Education office defends closure of learning centre
News, Supapong Chaolan, Published on 10/09/2024
» Surat Thani Provincial Education Office has clarified the closure of the Myinttar Yeink Learning Centre, saying the authorities had urged that its students be transferred to Thai education schools many times, but the centre did not cooperate.
Ministry shuts down six Burmese language schools
News, Supapong Chaolan, Published on 07/09/2024
» The Education Ministry has ordered local authorities to investigate if there are Burmese language learning centres operating illegally in their provinces after it found six such centres in Surat Thani and ordered their closure.
Raids target e-cigarette businesses
Supapong Chaolan, Published on 22/04/2024
» Police have raided an e-cigarette shop in Surat Thani which allegedly had a monthly turnover of one million baht and two warehouses in Nonthaburi where e-cigarettes worth 20 million baht were seized.
20k turn up for Full Moon Party
News, Supapong Chaolan, Published on 06/05/2023
» SURAT THANI: About 20,000 tourists attended a Full Moon Party along a nearly one-kilometre-long stretch of beach on Koh Phangan on Thursday night.
Full Moon Party draws 20,000 tourists to Koh Phangan
Supapong Chaolan, Published on 05/05/2023
» SURAT THANI: About 20,000 tourists attended the popular Full Moon Party on Koh Phangan on Thursday night, and it is estimated that the holiday will generate tens of millions of baht for the southern island.
New deaths complicate weekend murder spree investigation
Supapong Chaolan, Published on 10/04/2023
» SURAT THANI: Two more people have been found shot dead following an armed rampage at a house in Khirirat Nikhom district on Saturday when four people were killed. The deaths are all related, further complicating the case, police said.