Phuket-Samui Island Hopping campaign suspended due to infection
By Thai Newsroom Reporters THE ISLAND HOPPING campaign for foreign travellers between Koh Samui and Phuket was suspended from today (July 29) due to reported coronavirus infection on three tourist islands. Tourism and Sports Minister Phiphat Ratchakitprakan confirmed the Island Hopping campaign under which fully-vaccinated foreigners may leave Phuket after a seven-day period on the […]
Read MoreForeign travellers wonder if they’ve been tricked into visiting country under lockdown
By Thai Newsroom Reporters MANY FOREIGN VISITORS to Phuket and Koh Samui are wondering if they have been practically tricked into visiting a country where all domestic flights to and from its capital city are currently banned, remarked former finance minister Sommai Pasee yesterday (July 21). Under the Phuket Sandbox and Samui Plus Model reopening […]
Read MoreSamui Plus Model D-Day today with 3 flights winging in
KOH Samui starts welcoming tourists again today (July 15) with the launch of the “Samui Plus Model” project that reopens three islands with the other two being Koh Phangan and Koh Tao, Amarin TV said. Three Bangkok Airways flights will be mainly bringing members of the media for this launch. However there are foreign tourists […]
Read MoreTourism authority aims to ease quarantine requirements in Thailand and visitors’ countries
THE Tourism Authority of Thailand (TAT) aims to offer “city bubble” and activity-based travel agreement in “sandbox” areas, to ease quarantine requirements both in Thailand and in the visitor’s home country. TAT governor Yuthasak Supasorn said, even though international arrivals can visit “sandbox” areas with quarantine-free entry, they might face quarantine back home, as Thailand […]
Read MoreMove to reopen Koh Samui, Koh Phangan and Koh Tao on July 15
PRIME Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha, as head of the the Centre for Covid-19 Situation Administration (CCSA) executive committee, took up a proposal to reopen Koh Samui, Koh Phangan and Koh Tao islands to tourism on July 15 just days after Phuket does so on July 1 at a teleconference joined by senior officials from Surat Thani […]
Read MoreKoh Samui unveils quarantine-free entry for fully vaccinated tourists
AS the coronavirus outbreak in Surat Thani province, particularly Koh Samui, appears to have been well controlled it is now opening up to tourists with those who have received both coronavirus jabs and test negative for infection 72 hours before travelling need not be quarantined for 14 days, Amarin TV said today (June 8). This […]
Read MoreKoh Samui rolls out vaccination drive to reopen for tourism in July
FAMED tourist destination Koh Samui launched a mobile door-knocking vaccination drive to meet its target of reopening for tourism in July with a 100-year-old grandfather being the first one to get a jab, Thai Rath newspaper said this afternoon (May 29). Mr. Amnuay Klaiudom, the 100-year-old man who got a Sinovac shot, is in […]
Read MoreTwo more survivors found in Koh Samui ferry sinking
MARINE Police found two more survivors of a ferry that sank in rough weather off Koh Samui at 9.50 p.m. last night but also found two dead bodies with the search continue for three more missing victims, INN News and Sanook.com reported this afternoon (August 2). Nine other victims of this accident had been rescued […]
Read MoreKoh Samui police say Ukrainian woman was not murdered
THE mystery surrounding the death of a Ukrainian woman on Koh Samui after her body was found in a gully at a plantation was clarified today (June 11) with police saying they believe she was not murdered and her death could either be a suicide or as a result of her mental illness, Sanook.com reported […]
Read MoreTwo foreign men questioned in Ukrainian woman’s death on Koh Samui
THE discovery of the decomposed body of a young Ukrainian woman in a forest on Koh Samui has prompted police to call her her new British boyfriend and her former Ukrainian husband for questioning, Naewna newspaper reported this afternoon (June 8, 2020). The body of Olha Frolova, 32, was found by Uthen Ruangnon, 47, lying […]
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