SURAT THANI: Seventeen foreign nationals and a Thai have been arrested for working illegally and other immigration offences during raids this week on three popular tourist islands in this southern province.

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Investigators from the Surat Thani immigration office, police and local officials raided sites on Koh Samui, Koh Phangan and Koh Tao after alerted about foreign nationals running unregistered nurseries, working without work permits, overstaying visas and other immigration offences, said Pol Col Naruewat Phutthawiro, chief of the provincial immigration office.

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