BANGKOK (NNT) – Tourism operators in Koh Samui are calling for more direct flights to the island and an improvement in infrastructure and tourism distribution as the industry is on track for recovery after the pandemic. President of the Tourism Association of Koh Samui Ratchaporn Poolsawadee said that only 70% of independent hotels with a […]
Surat Thani Immigration officers told the Phuket Express that recently they have arrested MR.(name removed), 34, a Swedish national. He was arrested on the Chaweng Beach Road in front of a department store. He is now at 75 days of overstaying his visa according to police. He was taken to the Bophut Police Station to […]
A Myanmar man was arrested after he attacked four Thais with a pair of scissors and a wooden stick. The man’s romantic advances to one of the victims had been rejected, causing the incident. The Samui Public Relations Department told the Phuket Express that on Saturday (March 11th) Mr. AUNG HTWE NAING, 31, Myanmar National, […]
A minivan carrying ten Russian tourists from Pattaya to Chanthaburi province for visa extensions crashed into a tree, resulting in one tourist sustaining a broken leg. The driver said he was spooked by a screaming tourist who mistook him for napping while driving. Police officers in Rayong province took the van driver, Mr. Mongkol Srichand, […]
A 14-year-old girl was killed in front of a mosque in Mueang district of Thailand’s southern restive province of Pattani this morning (Friday) in a drive-by shooting. According to the police, the victim was talking with her mother in front of the mosque in Village 6, Puyut sub-district, when the shot was fired. Full story: […]
Five people in a pickup truck were killed when their vehicle was hit by a trailer truck travelling in the opposite direction on the Asian Highway in Pa Bon district of Thailand’s southern province of Phatthalung late Wednesday night. According to the Phatthalung police report, the trailer truck, loaded with rubber timber, was heading towards […]
A Swedish man was found dead inside a tent on Ao Nang Beach in Mueang Krabi. The Ao Nang Police told the Phuket Express they were notified of the body on Tuesday (March 7th) on Ao Nang Beach. Emergency responders and police arrived shortly after on the beach. The body of a 60-year-old Swedish man […]
PATTANI: Two rescue vehicles owned by the Hilal Ahmar Foundation were set on fire by arsonists in Yaring district of this southern border province early on Wednesday. The pickup truck and the van were parked in front of the foundation’s office on Highway 42 (Pattani-Narathiwat) at Moo 1 village in tambon Bue Cho. Full story: […]
