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A LOCAL tough guy was shot dead, minutes after he had threatened to kill the staffs of a popular pub in Lamai Beach.
Choomphol “Khongchalut” Phromsuwan, 43, of Moo 4, Na Muang subdistrict, Koh Samui, was shot to the stomach and chest and sustained se...
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Village headmen on Koh Samui oppose an order from the Interior Ministry abolishing their posts.
About 100 village chiefs on the island are affected by the order, said Charoen Chantra, chairman of the Village Headmen Association.
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POLICE recently raided the rented room of a suspected drug dealer in Bophut and seized an undetermined amount of “ice” hidden in a sanitary-napkin box along with a .38-cal. gun and 100 counterfeit-brand shoulder bags.
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Three Filipinos were arrested recently for allegedly cheating tourists and working as musicians without work permits.
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IMMIGRATION officials on the island are coordinating with the Immigration Department in Bangkok in tracking down another farang reportedly involved in the Santi Thani project without a work permit.
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A big robbery gang victimizing foreign residents has been busted with the lightning arrests of seven suspected members.
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DAYS after the arrest of Coco Group director Boonruen Boonsong, another director of the financially beleaguered group of companies surrendered to the Khun Thale police in Suratthani on June 3.
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A teenage nephew of Koh Samui Mayor Ramnet Jaikwang and two others were arrested recently for snatching a shoulder bag from a Chinese female tourist.
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A caretaker of a fruit orchard was found hanging under the roof of his hut located near the Wang Sao Thong waterfall recently.Nam-mon Jitphong, 30, was dead for at least 12 hours before his employer, Preecha Baunak, discovered his body.
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Provincial health authorities reported 27 suspected cases of swine or A/H1N1 flu on Koh Samui.
Earlier, it was reported that a Hong Kong tourist who had visited Samui between June 4 and 5 was confirmed last June 12 to have contracted the disease.
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AMERICAN pop singer Britney Spears and tennis star Rafael Nadal are coming to Samui for a holiday.
Twenty-seven-year-old Spears has reportedly chosen Samui for a much-needed rest for her and her crew after her successful “comeback tour” of Europe.
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Immigration police arrested three Westerners for running a business on Koh Samui without work permits recently.
Taken into custody were Swiss Bernard Edmond Junet, 69; British Dianne Serla Virks, 58; and German Carmen Dailn, 51.
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A FORMER councilor in Sri Thammarat province’s Chain Yai district, who moved to Samui and became a sugarcane juice vendor, was shot dead by an unidentified man recently in a temple fair. ...
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THE Regional 8 Appeals Court has ordered new elections for chief of the Suratthani Provincial Administration Organization (PAO) and one membership slot in PAO representing the Koh Samui district after it ruled that poll frauds involving Deputy Prime Minis...
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CONCERNED residents, civic groups, tourism operators and NGOs have expressed their opposition to a planned oil-exploration project by giant oil firm Chevron off the three jewel islands in the Gulf of Thailand. ...
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THE police recently arrested Somsak Phansranoi, 38, in Chumphon province for overspeeding and driving a car with a fake license.But Somsak had a secret to tell the arresting officer that he had been keeping for over eight months: he killed his wife. ...
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A HOTEL owner in Lamai complained to the police that a guest had surreptitiously checked out without paying her room bill amounting to around Bt100,000. ...
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A STRUGGLING hotel earlier reported to have been put up for sale, the Samui Buri Resort and Spa, has opted to get a well-known hotel chain to manage it.Accor, the largest international hotel operator in Thailand, announced the opening of the newly rebrand...
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A DIRECTOR of the financially beleaguered property firm Coconut Montana Co. Ltd has been arrested after being charged with labor fraud, a press release e-mailed to Samui Express said.Boonruen “Aoy” Boonsong was reportedly arrested by the Samui police ...
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HOTELIERS on Koh Samui won’t be cowed by the global economic crisis, the country’s political turmoil and the swine-flu outbreak threatening to become a pandemic.During the “Amazing Thailand Grand Sale,” which the Tourism Authority of Thailand held...
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French Mediterranean dining at Hansar Samui
A stunning 74-room beachfront property located on Koh Samui’s upmarket Bophut Bay, Hansar Samui offers authentic French Mediterranean dining. It is served at the resort’s H Bistro Restaurant.
Job 2 Do at the Rock Beach Bar
The Rock Beach Bar at the Hinta-Hinyai rocks will hold an eco-friendly event on the beach dubbed “Back 2 the Nature” on Aug.6, 2010 featuring Thailand’s number one reggae band Job 2 Do.
The...
Thai yoga retreats
Up until just a few years ago, going on a yoga retreat usually meant a rigorous journey to the inner regions of India to study with a yoga guru while staying at a spartan ashram, and was an...