Artikel tagged “samui”

  • Russian arrested on Samui for theft, drugs and overstaying visa

    Russian arrested on Samui for theft, drugs and overstaying visa

    A Russian man has been arrested for stealing a digital camera as well as taking drugs and overstaying his visa. The incident happed on Koh Samui yesterday, (Sunday). Police from Bophut station arrested 31 year old Kiirti Svami after a digital camera store in one of the island’s major malls caught him returning to their store after already being caught on CCTV stealing a Sony digital camera valued at 99,000 baht before.

  • Top 10 scams in Thailand (2019)

    Top 10 scams in Thailand (2019)

    PHOTO: Thai Travel News By Tim Newton, an eight-year expat and victim of many of these scams… Firstly, I should say that just about any hot tourist spot around the world is going to attract people, sometimes greedy locals, who will be specialists at extracting dollars from your pockets. In Thailand the main difference is that they will usually do it with a smile. There are scams awaiting tourists who come to Phuket and you are best served by spending a few minutes reading articles like this and saving yourself a lot of financial pain, inconvenience or even a trip to hospital

  • 4,000 pills and a 25 year old nabbed at Samui Post

    4,000 pills and a 25 year old nabbed at Samui Post

    A man has been arrested on Koh Samui after collecting a parcel containing 4,000 methamphetamine pills and 500 grams of crystal methamphetamine from a private post office. Acting on tips-off, troops, police and provincial officials staked out at the post office in Tambon Mae Nam and nabbed 25 year old Nattapong Nakwetcharin after he arrived to pick up the parcel

  • Tourist police threaten to ban the alleged Koh Tao rape victim

    PHOTO: Sairee Beach, Koh Tao – saireehutresort.net Maj-Gen Surachate Hakparn says that the London teenager who claims   she was drugged, robbed and raped on Koh Tao will be blacklisted for life if she is lying. He went on saying that “Thailand wants quality tourists – not bad ones. There is not a scrap of evidence to suggest she is telling the truth.” He was commenting after a visit to Koh Tao last week with an investigation team and spoke to 200 or so people about the claimed incident.

  • Tourist police report says evidence doesn’t support assault allegation on Koh Tao

    The Deputy Commander of the Tourist Police has submitted findings from an investigation into the alleged sexual assault of a British tourist on Koh Tao to the Consulate of the United Kingdom in Thailand. Deputy Commander of the Tourist Police, Pol Maj Gen Surachete Hakparn says that the area said to be the scene of the crime would have been too heavily flooded to access at the time, and that legal action is to be taken against the administrator of the Facebook page where the story was posted. He noted that despite the allegation, no report was filed with Thai police

  • Police say they will seek arrest warrants for publishers of Koh Tao story

    Police say they will seek arrest warrants for publishers of Koh Tao story

    FILE PHOTO: Sairee Beach, Koh Tao Khaosod English are reporting that Police are seeking a warrant to arrest the editor of a news site that published accounts of an alleged sexual assault on the tourist island of Koh Tao. According to the report, the editor of the Samui Times, Su Buchanan, will be charged under cybercrime laws for defaming the island’s reputation, according to Tourist Police commander Maj. Gen

  • Indian currency cons arrested on Samui

    Indian currency cons arrested on Samui

    Thai TV Channel 7 has featured the arrest of two Indian citizens who were attempting to rip off currency exchanges on Koh Samui. The scam works as follows… the Indians would bring 10 x US$100 dollar bills to a currency exchange booth, to change to Thai currency.

  • Baby gibbon used for photo-ops in Samui

    PHOTOS: Facebook/Arkadiy Kulev “Endangered gibbon used to entertain tourists on Chaweng Beach in Koh Samui, Thailand.” On Phuket it’s the slow loris which is the ‘cute-creature-for-100-baht-photos’. In Samui they’ve gone for a baby gibbon. A foreign resident on Koh Samui has exposed that a baby gibbon was used for selling photos at Chaweng Beach, resulting in an uproar among expats on Facebook

  • Burmese maid returns bag containing $11,000 to tourist

    Burmese maid returns bag containing $11,000 to tourist

    Daily News is reporting that a tourist from the Netherlands has thanked a Burmese maid at his hotel on Koh Samui. 37 year old Sawee Let Mau showed it was not just the Thais who are high up in the honesty stakes.

  • French tourist says money stolen on Bangkok-Koh Phangan bus

    PHOTO: Bangkok-Koh Phangan bus A 23 year old French woman has filed an official complaint with the Surat Thani police. She claims that 350 euros in cash were stolen from her bag aboard a bus from Bangkok to Koh Phangan (part of the journey is a ferry trip to the island).