Special Status for Koh Chang

Jan 23, 2002
The Interior Ministry is to designate Koh Chang in Trat province as a special administrative jurisdiction, a source said yesterday.
A feasibility study committee, chaired by Plodprasop Suraswadi, Royal Forestry Department director-general, had been …

Irishman Killed in Thai Beach Hut Fire

Jan 2, 2002

An Irishman was killed in a fire that engulfed a row of beach huts in an eastern Thai resort popular among backpackers, police said today.
Jerrey Gerard Scanlon, 29, was found dead in the ashes of the huts that burned down at about 4am Saturday …

Paradise Found

Dec 30, 2001
A small library on Koh Chang is providing a window on the outside world for sea gypsy people in the hopes that a love of learning will take root-and grow

If you’re a bookworm who happens to love nature, the Sea Gypsy Library on Koh Chang island in Trat …

PM Wants to Develop Island Resort

22 Oct 2001
Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra is so impressed with the natural beauty of Koh Chang he wants the island to become a popular eco-tourism destination like Phuket.
Gen Chaisuek Ketudat, inspector-general of the Defence Ministry, …

New Islands

12 January 1997
(From The Independent, UK, one of the first mentions in a newspaper of Koh Chang as a tourist destination in Thailand.)
Legendary habitat of Sultans and spices, pirates and traders, Conrad and Maugham, there are 17,000 islands in the world’s largest archipelago in Indonesia – many of them in …