This week’s news round up

Here are some of the stories from the last week in the Samui Times

At the beginning of the week Pauline Crowe from the charity Prisoners Abroad warned tourists not to expect a Bridget Jones style rescue if they get busted for drugs. To read the story click here

Two men got arrested for pretending to raise money for the victims of Typhoon Haiyan and pocketed the cash. To read that story click here

A Russian SCUBA diver went missing , you can read that story by clicking here

You can read about the man that got killed by his iPhone by clicking here

Accident victim Stu Kyffin who remains in a coma got flown back to the UK after an anonymous donor put fifty thousand pounds to the fifty thousand pounds already raised, click here for more details on that story.

The Minister of Tourism and Sports met with the Russian Ambassador to try to persuade him that Russian visitors are safe in Koh Samui, more about that by clicking here

The victim of the full moon party speed boat accident is now heading a travel insurance campaign in Australia, you can watch the video by clicking  here

Lee “pitbull” Aldhouse got a 25 year jail sentence after being extradited back to Thailand to face murder charges for killing Dashawn Longfellow an American Maine, more about that by clicking here

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An angry reader wrote in about the travel warnings being issued around the world against Thailand, find out what he has to say by clicking here

And finally an Australian man and his son lost their lives in a fire that looks to have been deliberately started, you can find out more by clicking here

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