Tourists staying at Ao Phrao (Phrao Bay) on Thailand’s island of Koh Samet have been evacuated as the bay turned black from an oil spill over the weekend. Authorities estimated that around 5,000 ...

An oil spill has spurred cleaning works on the beaches of popular resort island Koh Samet in Thailand as the beaches have turned black from the oil slick. The incident occurred on 27 July when a ...

Authorities on Thursday announced Koh Samet's Ao Phrao beach will reopen to tourists on Nov 1 following the oil spill on July 27 in which about 50,000 litres of crude oil leaked from a PTT Global ...

Thai sailors have joined the battle to clean up an oil spill which damaged a popular tourist beach on an island in the Gulf of Thailand. The oil spill hit Ao Phrao beach on Koh Samet on Sunday night.

A picture postcard beach on one of Thailand’s most popular tourist islands is now the focus of frantic efforts to staunch a tide of oil sweeping ashore. Where pleasure seekers would normally relax on ...

An oil spill that prompted evacuations from one of Thailand’s most popular tourist spots threatens the country’s tourism and fishing industries, Thailand’s deputy prime minister has warned, amid ...