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Samui seeks to host Miss Thailand workshop

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Suratthani Gov. Pracha Taerat will nominate Koh Samui as venue for the skills workshop for contestants in the forthcoming Miss Thailand Universe pageant.

The workshop is scheduled in March. The governor said that holding the workshop on Samui could generate a lot of publicity for the island and boost local tourism in the process. The Koh Samui Tourism Promotion and Development Board has endorsed the governor’s bid to have the beauty pageant workshop held on the island.

The committee will ask the Samui Municipality to release Bt1 million as expenses in hosting the beauty contestants and the pageant’s staff. It would also ask hotels on the island to offer rooms for the six-day stay of the Miss Thailand Universe participants.

Mrs.Wanwalee Tantikan, president of the Koh Samui Spa Association, said that tourist interest about the island would be reignited should Samui win its bid as venue for the workshop. Spa, she said, is one of the signature products of Koh Samui.  The industry, she added, would benefit a lot from the visit of the beauty contestants. –

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Worst flooding’ in decade hits Samui

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Days of heavy rains across Southern Thailand have caused what local residents describe as Koh Samui’s worst floods in recent memory. Most of the island’s main roads were inundated and rendered impassable. People climbed trees to escape the rising water and many houses, bungalows and roads were destroyed by rampaging water. With dams and rivers threatening to burst and overflow, hundreds of residents were evacuated from their homes. A number of deaths were being reported from various parts of the South, caused mostly by mudslides.

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Bali Exports to Thailand 2.7 Million U.S. Dollars

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Export value of handicraft items made by the people of Bali to Thailand through the 2.7 million U.S. dollars during January-July 2010, up 64 percent from the same period in 2009 that only 1.6 million U.S. dollars.

Foreign trade of various goods worth of art accessories to Thailand increasingly crowded, said Head of Export Department of Industry and Trade of the Province of SE Bagiada Putu Bali in Denpasar, on Saturday.

Balinese handicrafts are traded abroad are generally sold back after being in the country, let alone visited Thailand is a country that many foreign tourists who vacation there. Post taken from Antara news for Canggu villas

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