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!

If we have a closer look at those numbers it finally reveals that I have survived an amazing 16 years, 6 months and 7 days on the Island Of Madness, formerly also know as 'magic' Koh Phangan Paradise Island.

It can also be counted as 6032 days or 861 weeks! If we would like to go into even more details then it would be an amazing 144.768 hours, 8.686.080 minutes or 521.164.800 seconds.

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.

As mentioned earlier douche bag dickhead pussy Becki has decided to leave the Island Of Madness and therefore I’m no longer in the position to provide you with the latest island gossip … the latest Full Moon Party reviews … the latest reports about the Techno Party Battlefield in Ban Tai village … the latest motorbike accidents … the latest police road blocks along the quiet coast roads … the latest murders … dead tourists … shootings … killings …or even stabbings of some unsuspecting tourist during the infamous Full Moon Party night down at world famous Hadrin beach.

But there is indeed no reason to always publish so called 'negative' news about Koh Phangan Island! You could indeed, as suggested by one of our lovely comment poster, transform your negative island perception and find back to your beautiful heart and publish a few extraordinary notes about that awesome deep throat blowjob experience little miss Gung selflessly serviced you at the 'Give me all your money or I will stab you in the back' girly bar down the horny mile between Thongsala and Ban Tai village.

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.

I really wish you guys best of luck with all your top notch 21st century future plans for this nice little island and hopefully you will not get lost in between things and always try to remember to respect each other. Be good, nice & take care of each other - especially take care of this nice, little island called Koh Phangan!

You are all one & love is all you need!

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.

Oh my god … I just called them little Thai Monkeys ;-) Well … keep on posting your comments and call me a racist … a dick … whatever you like ;-)

But … it simply feels awesome being able to sleep every single night without any close or even distant deranged techno rave party bum bum bum around your home. It simply feels inspiring not to be bombarded with any demented ‘Come and Satisfy Your Soul’ style stupid techno party signs along the streets.

It actually feels more than terrific to no longer be part of the "original" Koh Phangan community which I really used to love many, many years ago when things were quite different.

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.

"It's always alcohol … the worst drug. It start's getting violent the more drunk people we are getting. Then the violence comes out!" says Louise Rawlings, Thai Tourist Police, Head of Volunteers

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.

Mr Hill said tonight's second episode does not reflect badly on Thailand. That was never the intention of 'Big Trouble in Tourist Thailand,' he added.

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 beachside party.

"The operation is the vehicle of our social order campaign to ensure partygoers stay away from drug abuse at the party," said Division 8 chief Surasak Klam-in.

The campaign is being conducted in consultation with stakeholders, including local leaders and tourism businesses from nearby Koh Samui, he said.

Hello there and welcome back to Koh Phangan Island News reporting about the daily increasing insanity on the island of madness!

Thanks to our very good friend google.com and one of its features called google alert, which I recommend setting up to receive regular alerts about Koh Phangan, another critical documentary about the Land of the Smile came to our attention.

As already mentioned earlier in a previous article by one of our beloved comment posters this new Bravo documentary is called "Big Trouble in Tourist Thailand" and first aired on British Sky TV last Monday 6th September 2009 with seven more weekly episodes to come.

The program tracks the travails of British tourists in Phuket, Koh Samui, Koh Phangan and Pattaya, with holidaymakers getting in trouble mostly with drink and drugs, but of course some sex, guns and rock-and-roll thrown in.

The first episode of "Big Trouble in Tourist Thailand" features a skint young woman at a Koh Phangan Full Moon Party, who got caught with her boyfriend’s ganja and gets locked up. Furthermore some British Royal Marines who ignore good advice and rent a jet ski in Phuket only to get ripped off by Thai businessman called JJ. And finally the documentary follows the squad of Pattaya foreign police tourist assistants led by Pattaya One News boss and anchor Howard Miller.

Sawadee Khrap & welcome back to Koh Phangan Island News and our second part of Koh Phangan shooting and the story of filing a police report.

The first part of our small series can be found here -> Koh Phangan Shooting and the story of a police report – Part One!

After my recent visit to the totally non-corrupt Koh Phangan police station and my final call for assistance to the German Embassy in Bangkok I still had the impression that things were going into a good direction.

The German Embassy told me that they would initiate an official course of action and apply for a copy of the police report which would be sent to me in the next couple of days. All this sounded very promising to me and got me thinking that official & public pressure by other institutions regarding the gunshot attack would be beneficial for the ongoing investigation.

But how naive and blue eyed was my thinking actually? So I waited a couple of days and to my surprise (?) nothing happened at all … again ;-)

Sawadee Khrap & welcome back to Koh Phangan Island News – the one and only news magazine reporting about the daily increasing insanity on the Island of Madness!

Just 2 weeks after the gunshot attack I finally managed to get hold of the tourist police on Koh Samui so they could provide me protective service while being on Koh Phangan trying to file a police report regarding the gunshot aassault.

Actually I was quite amazed about the tourist police on Koh Samui. Shortly after the gunshot attack happened I phoned the Tourist Police Headquarters in Bangkok and told them what happened. Then a few days later two friendly tourist police cops showed up at the hospital and took a report about the gunshot attack. I told them the whole story, told them about my suspects and even showed them this website so they can gather as much information as possible.

Then the two friendly and fluently English speaking tourist police cops handed me over some freaking chicken soup basket, took a few pictures, asked for my mobile number and just left. So I expected they would do some awesome police investigation and phone me a few days later to inform me about the outcome of their detective work but to my surprise (was I really surprised?) nothing happened at all ;-)