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Southeast Asia's traditional wet season, which typically spans October through March, is driven by the Australian-Indonesian monsoon (AIM) system. This meteorological phenomenon generates air currents flowing from Asia toward Australia, transporting significant moisture that results in substantial precipitation across the region.
Local news reports have identified the tourist as 24-year-old Kamilla Beliatskaya, an apparent aspiring actor from Russia, who they said was swept away by a large wave in Koh Samui, Thailand while ...
The 2025 "No List" from the travel guide Fodor's highlights 15 places struggling with tourism, including Venice, Barcelona, and Koh Samui.
The tropical warmth of the water attracts many tourists. Some of the most important tourist destinations in the Gulf of Thailand are the islands of Ko Samui and Ko Pha Ngan in Surat Thani Province, Pattaya in Chonburi Province, Cha-am in Phetchaburi Province, Hua Hin in Prachuap Khiri Khan Province, and Ko Samet in Rayong Province.
Ko Samui (or Koh Samui), often locally shortened to Samui (Thai: เกาะสมุย, pronounced [kɔ̀ʔ sā.mǔj]), is an island off the east coast of Thailand. Geographically in the Chumphon Archipelago , it is part of Surat Thani Province , though as of 2012, Ko Samui was granted municipal status and thus is now locally self-governing.
The Thai island Koh Samui is about to be hit by the “White Lotus Effect”. Filming for the third series is currently underway and when the show is finally released in early 2025, the island ...
The flow headed towards Bangkok equated to 16 cubic kilometres (3.8 cu mi). Thailand's Royal Irrigation Department predicted, provided there is no new rain, that it would take 30–45 days for this quantity of water to reach the sea. [33] Until water flows out to sea, it must go somewhere. This meant flooding on unprotected low-lying land.
Buildings encroaching over waterways were found to have obstructed water flows. The Royal Irrigation Department would speed up dredging canals and build more reservoirs to retain water. [36] Thailand's only aircraft carrier has been converted into a floating kitchen, to airlift hot food to people affected by massive flooding in the south.