British backpacker killed by electric shock from faulty fridge on the Island of Koh Phangan Thailand

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British Tourist Killed By Electric Shock

A British tourist was killed by an electric shock as he took a bottle of water from a fridge at a resort on Koh Phangan Island.

Friends said Grant Harrison, 36, from London, had been relaxing by a pool before he went to the fridge for the bottle and received the fatal shock on the island of Koh Phangan.

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Koh Phangan Island Lawyer – I am specialized in Troubleshooting!

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Phangan Island Lawyer

Hi my name is Tom, i come from Germany, My Thai wife and I run the Archery Club here on Koh Phangan.

I haved lived here for 17 years on Koh Phangan. Since that time i know Mr. Thakrit Sritongkul very well; his and my family are good friends over a long time.

So he ask me for some References. What can i say?

Mr. Takrit Sritongkul’s Family has been on the islands (Koh Phangan, Koh Samui and Koh Tao) and is very influential and powerful!

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Beware of J.S Hut Bungalows at Than Sadet Beach Koh Phangan – Dangers Lurks!

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JS Hut Thansadet Koh Phangan

Beware of J.S Hut Bungalows at Thansadet Beach on the east coast of Koh Phangan Island in the Gulf of Thailand.

At least once a week, the bungalow owners, regularly rip people off in every manner, including injury. A small scratch on the motorcycle cost 8000 baht for us and we settled for 5000 … otherwise, they threatened us with injury and would not return our passport. We watched them attack a tourist 3 days ago and he ended up in the hospital with stitches for moving out.

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Bye, Bye Koh Phangan Paradise – Thanks for everything & best of luck!

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Koh Phangan Island

Hello there & a happy welcome back to Koh Phangan Island News – the most debated website about a small island in the Gulf of Thailand called Koh Phangan Paradise Island.

Well … I still do remember the very day when I first stepped my foot on ‘magic’ Koh Phangan Island. It was the 14th November 1992 and I came over from Koh Samui with the Hadrin Queen Express Boat arriving at Hadrin Beach. There was no pier at that time and smaller long tail boats had to come and pick you up outside … and the magic journey began …

I also still do remember the very last day I left the Island Of Madness, this time via a so called international pier at Thongsala. It was the 20th May of 2009 and the magic journey finally came to an end. Crossroad reached!

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Koh Phangan Island News – What’s the future going to be?

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Koh Phangan Island News

Yep … Koh Phangan Island News, the one and only website reporting the real news about the Island of Madness, has finally come to a very end!

But … is it really true? Will there really be no more un-censored & non-corrupted news about one of the last lost paradises on our planet earth called Koh Phangan – The Island of Madness?

Well … this actually just depends on your very participation! On your willingness to share some of your precious time and inform others about the real news & facts from the lost paradise called Koh Phangan Island.

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Corrupt Koh Phangan Party Island – Where the heck are the fresh & up-to-date news?

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Koh Phangan Island News

This website seems to be dead! Where has the awful truth gone? Where the heck are the fresh & up-to-date real news about Koh Phangan Island?

Over the last couple of months Becki received quite a few emails and comments asking about the real news from the Island of Madness.

Well … if you have followed the stories on this website it seems to be more than obvious that the real news about Koh Phangan has finally come to a very end!

Yep … order has finally been re-established and we can now concentrate on some of the more important issues … our right to make money … to succeed … to at last develop our little paradise island called Koh Phangan.

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Koh Phangan Island – Expelled from a lost paradise?

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Koh Phangan Lost Paradise

Hello there and welcome back to the Island of Madness, formerly also known as Koh Phangan Paradise Island … a lost paradise?

Well … sa-lowly but surely the hardened & original Koh Phangan skin on my feet keeps dissolving layer by layer and my gun shot wound is very well healed by now.

It’s been months and months since I have left the original Island of Madness and Koh Phangan – the lost paradise? – seems to be just a very distant memory in my disillusioned mind ;-)

But Becki is in great spirit and doing pretty well here on the other site of the planet called earth. And to be quite honest it simply just feels amazing to be far away from those little & friendly smiling but also snaky Koh Phangan Thai Monkeys.

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Koh Phangan Party Island & Big Trouble in Tourist Thailand Episode 2

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Koh Phangan Big Trouble Tourist Thailand

Shining down up on the paradise island of Koh Phangan is a mighty full moon which means it must be the night of Thailand’s premier Full Moon Beach Party with thousands of revelers all looking for the ultimate holiday high.

The sandy beach has turned into a disco inferno. And where there is a party there is bound to be trouble. And soon the merriments begin to descent into mayhem. It starts of mildly with local thieves preying on the drunken tourists, looking for a quick handbag snatch or easy victims to pick pocket.

On an average Full Moon Party night nearly a hundred wallets can be expected to be lifted from unwitting hedonists on the beach but bigger crimes await the cops. As the high jinks turns into violence fights start breaking out between party goers.

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Thai Officials try to put ‘Big Trouble in Tourist Thailand’ series on hold

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Koh Phangan Big Trouble Tourist Thailand

The second episode in the controversial ‘Big Trouble in Tourist Thailand‘ television series is set to screen in Britain on Monday night – but Thai authorities are now preventing the eight-part series from being completed.

Producer-director Gavin Hill says the Thailand Film Office has sent a letter asking the British production company, Bravo, not to screen any more episodes.

Episode Three, being edited in Britain, is in rough-cut form. The show can only go on with permission from all the people shown on-screen.

That includes Winai ‘JJ’ Naiman, the now-notorious Phuket jet-ski operator, who signed a release form so that his actions could be displayed to viewers with his approval.

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Bangkok Post – Drug Free Party Island Koh Phangan Just say No to Drugs!

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Koh Phangan No Drugs

Long associated with debauchery and wild Full Moon parties, moves are afoot to change Koh Phangan’s image and make it a drugs-free island.

Koh Phangan, long associated with wild Full Moon parties, is undergoing an image change to make the island a family destination. The monthly all-night Full Moon party on the Surat Thani island’s Had Rin beach draws mostly foreign tourists and the event is synonymous with illicit drug use.

However, moves are afoot to rebuild the island’s image as a drugs-free haven for holiday makers, with drugs authorities, residents and tourism operators committed to the efforts. The Office of the Narcotics Control Board’s Division 8, responsible for the upper South, has implemented a joint operation with residents and tour businesses to prevent the use of illicit drugs at the beach side party.

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