Sun, May 22, 2022
Published: May 22, 2022
Now that the Test & Go scheme has been scrapped and travellers no longer have to undergo an RT-PCR test before boarding flights, more tourists are heading to Thailand.
Published: May 21, 2022
Artificial reefs installed in the Gulf of Thailand around Surat Thani’s Koh Pha-ngan island nine years ago have given a significant boost to marine wildlife in the area.
Published: May 15, 2022
Rescue workers took three hours to retrieve the body of a Romanian woman who plunged from the top of a Koh Samui waterfall where she had been swimming on Saturday.
Published: May 07, 2022
Heavy rains left many provinces in the South inundated on Saturday, with some 100 households affected. There were no reports of casualties.
Published: Apr 30, 2022
A popular beach on the southern island of Wua Ta Lap in Surat Thani remained closed to tourists on Saturday after suffering storm damage.
Published: Jan 21, 2022
Koh Samui was ranked the second-best tourist destination in Asia and seventh-best in the world by the Travel+Leisure magazine recently.
Published: Jan 19, 2022
Presence of beluga whale delights Mu Koh Angthong park staff
Published: Dec 28, 2021
Israeli tourist Ohad Baruch, who was tracked down to Koh Samui on December 22 after escaping his quarantine in Bangkok, was sent to Thong Lor Police Station on Monday to face legal proceedings.
Published: Dec 23, 2021
Israeli national Ohad Baruch, who was caught on Koh Samui on Wednesday after escaping quarantine in Bangkok, was infected with the Omicron variant during a test in the capital.
Published: Dec 22, 2021
Surat Thani police on Wednesday arrested Israel national Ohad Baruch at a restaurant on Koh Samui after he escaped quarantine at a hotel in Bangkok’s Sukhumvit area.
Koh Samui has not been affected so far by the Omicron variant as foreign and Thai tourists continue to visit the Surat Thani island, the Tourism Association chairman said even as tourism businesses voiced concern about the government’s latest move to suspend the Test & Go programme.
Published: Dec 20, 2021
The Marine Police Department on Sunday launched a new rapid response “Dolphin Team” to provide rescue and related medical services to locals and tourists in the South of Thailand.