SURAT THANI: About 10,000 foreign tourists were left stranded on three islands of this southern province, including about 5,700 on Koh Samui, when passenger flights were suspended due to the coronavirus pandemic. Tikamporn Sutti-udomrat, tourism and sports chief of Surat Thani, said on Wednesday that apart from the 5,700 visitors on Koh Samui, some 3,300 […]
PHUKET: More than 2,000 passengers and crew on board the Costa Fortuna cruise liner that arrived in Patong Bay this morning (Mar 6) have been refused permission to come ashore. The ban follows officials confirming that 64 Italians on board left Italy in the past 14 days. The move follows the Thai government yesterday instituting […]
Some of the Thai fishermen stranded on two foreign-owned trawlers off the coast of Somalia have already returned to Thailand, while the rest are expected to be home in the next several days, thanks to work by the Labour and Foreign Affairs ministries. Labour Minister Chatumongol Sonakul and Mr. Chatree Athananan, director-general of the Consular […]
About 50 Thai fishermen, stranded on board two fishing vessels in the sea of Somalia with their water, food and fuel running low, are appealing for help to get them back to Thailand. In a video call from one of the fisherman, whose home is in Thailand’s northeastern province of Buri Ram and is aboard […]
TAK, July 9 (TNA) – Over 20 students and teachers were stranded after a heavy rain triggered flash floods and mudslides in Tha Song Yang district of Tak province. Torrential downpours hit villages located in the mountainous terrain of the district for days. Subsequent flash floods swept through Mae Tawo village while waterways overflew Monday […]
PHUKET: Ministry of Tourism & Sports (MoTs) Permanent Secretary Pongpanu Svetarundra has ordered the Tourist Assistance Centre in Phuket to provide him with daily updates on the flight situation at Phuket International Airport after 19 flights were cancelled on Sunday (Sept 16). Mr Pongpanu gave the order yesterday (Sept 17), and requested that Phuket Tourist […]
Several hundreds of mostly office workers were stranded at Taopoon train station of the Purple Line train this evening after its service was temporarily suspended due to technical problems. Many passengers who disembarked from the Blue Line sky train at the final station at Taopoon train station in order to connect with the Purple Line […]
The Navy sent a ship to rescue 161 foreign tourists and 16 Thai hotel staff stranded on Koh Racha Wednesday night and brought them back to the Phuket mainland. The tourists, mostly Chinese and Russians, and the hotel employees arrived on board HTMS Narathiwat at Phuket deep-sea port in Muang district at 10pm. Full story: […]
