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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.
Muddy road traps timber-poaching local politician
Supapong Chaolan, Published on 02/12/2019
» SURAT THANI: A report of a bogged lorry on a muddy road blocking a vehicle taking students to school led to the discovery of a cargo of illegally harvested timber and the arrest of a local government councillor.
Director at heart of school lunch scam dismissed
News, Supapong Chaolan, Published on 16/05/2019
» The director of a primary school in Surat Thani who was suspended from duty for 10 months over a scandal in which the school served poor quality lunch to young students has been dismissed from his job.
19 students hurt when car driver swerves to avoid dogs
Supapong Chaolan, Published on 09/07/2018
» SURAT THANI: Nineteen pupils, aged 6-11, were injured when their school van was hit head-on by a car that swerved to avoid dogs fighting on the road in Ban Na San district on Monday morning.