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	<title>Samui News &#187; Samui News</title>
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		<title>Samui developers suffering losses</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Apr 2010 01:00:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The property consultancy firm Agency for Real Estate Affairs (AREA) has disclosed that 21 property projects on Koh Samui have been adversely affected by the current global economic crisis, suffering losses of as much as Bt16.943 billion for lack of buyers during the first half of the year. Vasan Khongjan, AREA managing director, said his [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Officials visit Samui</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Mar 2010 05:30:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Members of the Bangkok Metropolitan Council led by its chairman, Somchai Vasaratchatrakoon, recently visited Samui to learn how the island was managing its tourism industry. The council is the legislative arm of the Bangkok metropolitan government. Samui mayor Ramnet Jaikwang said that during their three-day (Dec. 1-3) visit, the councilmen tried to study various aspects [...]]]></description>
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		<title>W Retreat Koh Samui</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Mar 2010 01:03:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Conferences in Thailand will take a hip twist from June 2010, when the W Retreat Koh Samui opens for business. The 75-villa property will be the second W Retreat to open in Asia-Pacific after the Maldives and comes ahead of the highly-anticipated W Retreat and Spa Bali in Seminyak, scheduled to be completed in late 2010. An all-villa beachfront [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Samui hotels in the face of serious water-shortage</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Mar 2010 05:49:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A CONCERNED hotelier has urged the local government to issue guidelines on water conservation to hotels in the face of serious water-shortage threats. Roland Henkel, general manager of the Amari Palm Reef Koh Samui, said continuous hotel and residential development could lead to a shortage of natural water even during the rainy season. &#8220;Clear guidelines [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tourists lost in jungle rescued</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Feb 2010 01:35:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[TWO Ukrainian tourists, who had lost their way in the fastnesses of a jungle near Na Muang Waterfall 2 at nighttime, were rescued by the police and civilian volunteers. Kwenda Dema, 27, said that last Jan. 8 he and his girlfriend, Karolina Achin, 34, rented a motorbike to explore Samui island. Upon reaching Na Muang [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tourist arrivals from China up by 50 percent</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Dec 2009 13:20:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>FindSamui</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The number of Chinese tourists visiting Samui has doubled since last year, according to Mr.Vichit Prakobkoson, president of the Thai-Chinese Tourism Relationship  Association. He said most of these tourists are drawn to the island by cheap package tours. Tour operators specializing on the Chinese market offer chartered tours to the island at less than Bt10,000 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Samui, Phangan land prices overvalued?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Dec 2009 22:59:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>FindSamui</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[THE Chamber of Commerce of Suratthani has issued an urgent letter to the Finance Ministry to protest what it thinks are the overly high prices of lands fixed for Koh Samui and Koh Phangan by the Treasury Department. The prices represent an average increase of 200 percent. It said the land valuations were higher than [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Taiwanese Idol Jerry Yan Visited Koh Samui</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Dec 2009 00:20:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Popular Taiwanese actor Jerry Yan and his rumored girlfriend Terri Kwan were spotted by the media when they went on a romantic getaway on Samui Island recently. On their return to Taiwan, Jerry was all smiles but refused to answer any questions on their secret holiday. A member of the Taiwanese boy band F4, 32-year-old [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Oil leak damages beach in Lipa Noi</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 00:40:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>FindSamui</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Gallons of oil have leaked into the sea off the coast of Lipa Noi but nothing is being done about it, witnesses said. Photos of the oil spill have been sent by e-mail to Samui Express by concerned residents who claimed it came from an inter-island ferry plying in the area. No ferry company, however, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Train strike adds woes to Phangan tourism</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2009 01:35:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>FindSamui</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Scores of package tours to the Nov. 2 Full Moon Party on Koh Phangan have been cancelled due to the continuing train strike in Southern Thailand, dealing a lethal blow to the island’s already struggling tourism industry. Trains to Suratthani have stopped since Oct. 16, leaving tourists from Hat Yai and Bangkok unable to travel [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Five Costly Mistakes in Thailand</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 23:33:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>FindSamui</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Southern Thailand islands also known as the &#8220;Paradise&#8221; Islands are among the most popular tourist destinations in the world. More than 12,000,000 tourists have visited Thailand in 2005, and the majority of them had left the Bangkok International Airport immediately after their arrival and headed straight to the Southern Islands. Some of the visitors were [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Do&#8217;s and Don&#8217;ts in Koh Samui</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2009 13:48:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>FindSamui</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you’re planning a vacation to Koh Samui, make sure you’re familiar with their specific cultural etiquette and body language gestures before venturing in, especially if you’re from a Western country. Asian countries have far different customs and understanding of body languages and as visitors, it is your duty to adjust to these etiquette and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Under-Supply of Koh Samui Property Drives Up Prices</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2009 23:30:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Under-supply of resort property on Thai islands like Koh Samui and Phuket is generating substantial growth in their respective resale markets. The under-supply has been caused because of developer&#8217;s reluctance to go ahead with new projects in case government restrictions on foreign ownership hinder sales. It is hoped that the government will soon raise the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Island hotels sending staff to learn Chinese</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Oct 2009 08:02:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hotels and other tourist-oriented businesses in Samui are sending their staff to language schools to study Chinese. The move is in anticipation of a continued surge in Chinese arrivals. Chinese tourists brought in by chartered flights are slowly replacing the European tourists on the island whose numbers have dwindled since the start of the global [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Swine-flu infections in Phangan up</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2009 04:06:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>FindSamui</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The public health office in Suratthani has listed Koh Phangan as number one of the various districts in the province with confirmed swine-flu infections in terms of ratio. Provincial public health chief Dr. Nattawuth Prasertsiriphong said that as of Sept. 21, the island had eight people confirmed infected. The ratio they use, he said, is [...]]]></description>
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