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BANGKOK — A 58-year-old German national, dubbed “Mr. Spray” by locals, was arrested on 4 February for spray-painting messages at more than 40 public loc [1]

SURAT THANI, Thailand – Koh Samui police, in coordination with the local immigration office, have seized 5,653 counterfeit US dollars from two Israeli men [2]

ထိုင်းနိုင်ငံမှာ ဗြိတိန်နိုင်ငံသား ကမ္ဘာလှည့်ခရီးသွားနှစ်ဦး အသတ်ခံခဲ့ရတဲ့ အမှုအတွက် အပြစ်ရှိကြောင်း ဆုံးဖြတ်ပြီး မြန်မာနိုင်ငံသား အလုပ်သမား ၂ ဦးကို ထိုင်းတရားရုံးက ဒီကနေ့ပဲ သေဒဏ်ချမှတ်လိုက်ပါတယ်။ လိပ်ကျွန်းလူသတ်မှု တရားခွင် (သတင်းဓာတ်ပုံများ) ![ Davi... [3]

CHIANG MAI, Thailand — Thailand’s Region 8 Appeals Court accepted an appeal filed by defense lawyers for two Burmese migrant workers who were sentenced to death for the murder of two British backpackers on Thailand’s Koh Tao Island in 2014, according... (confirmed by 3 sources) [4]

CHIANG MAI, Thailand — Three Burmese witnesses in the double murder case on Thailand’s Koh Tao island have been released by authorities after giving testimony before a judge at a provincial court in Koh Samui on Tuesday. [5]

CHIANG MAI, Thailand — The head of Burma’s Armed Forces has called on Thai authorities to review the evidence that led to the conviction and sentencing to death of two Burmese migrants for the 2014 murder of two British tourists on a Thai resort isla... [6]

Thailand’s most prominent forensics expert, Dr Pornthip Rojanasunand, who is head of the country’s Central Institute of Forensic Science, was recently called on by the defense team representing two Burmese men accused of murder to reexamine crucial D... [7]

CHIANG MAI, Thailand—Thailand’s Supreme Court on Thursday upheld the convictions and death sentences of Myanmar migrant workers Zaw Lin and Win Zaw Htun for the 2014 murders of two British nationals on the island of Koh Tao. [8]

Sources
[1] TH www.khaosodenglish.com · 2026-02-04 · 85% match

German man ‘Mr. Spray’ arrested over Koh Phangan ‘Save Gaza’ graffiti spree

BANGKOK — A 58-year-old German national, dubbed “Mr. Spray” by locals, was arrested on 4 February for spray-painting messages at more than 40 public loc

[2] TH www.pattayamail.com · 2025-10-12 · 75% match

Police seize counterfeit dollars on Koh Samui as two Israeli men questioned

SURAT THANI, Thailand – Koh Samui police, in coordination with the local immigration office, have seized 5,653 counterfeit US dollars from two Israeli men

[3] MM burmese.voanews.com · 2015-12-24 · 75% match

လိပ်ကျွန်းလူသတ်မှု တရားခွင် (သတင်းဓာတ်ပုံများ)

ထိုင်းနိုင်ငံမှာ ဗြိတိန်နိုင်ငံသား ကမ္ဘာလှည့်ခရီးသွားနှစ်ဦး အသတ်ခံခဲ့ရတဲ့ အမှုအတွက် အပြစ်ရှိကြောင်း ဆုံးဖြတ်ပြီး မြန်မာနိုင်ငံသား အလုပ်သမား ၂ ဦးကို ထိုင်းတရားရုံးက ဒီကနေ့ပဲ သေဒဏ်ချမှတ်လိုက်ပါတယ်။ လိပ်ကျွန်းလူသတ်မှု တရားခွင် (သတင်းဓာတ်ပုံများ) ![ Davi

[4] MM www.irrawaddy.com · 2016-05-23 · 75% match

Thai Court Accepts Defense Appeal in Koh Tao Murder Case

CHIANG MAI, Thailand — Thailand’s Region 8 Appeals Court accepted an appeal filed by defense lawyers for two Burmese migrant workers who were sentenced to death for the murder of two British backpackers on Thailand’s Koh Tao Island in 2014, according

[5] MM www.irrawaddy.com · 2014-10-15 · 75% match

Offering Little Insight, Koh Tao ‘Witnesses’ Released: Lawyer

CHIANG MAI, Thailand — Three Burmese witnesses in the double murder case on Thailand’s Koh Tao island have been released by authorities after giving testimony before a judge at a provincial court in Koh Samui on Tuesday.

[6] MM www.irrawaddy.com · 2015-12-28 · 75% match

Burma Army Chief Calls for Review of Koh Tao Verdict

CHIANG MAI, Thailand — The head of Burma’s Armed Forces has called on Thai authorities to review the evidence that led to the conviction and sentencing to death of two Burmese migrants for the 2014 murder of two British tourists on a Thai resort isla

[7] MM www.irrawaddy.com · 2015-09-14 · 75% match

Dr Pornthip: ‘Victims or Suspects Have the Right to Ask For a Second Opinion’

Thailand’s most prominent forensics expert, Dr Pornthip Rojanasunand, who is head of the country’s Central Institute of Forensic Science, was recently called on by the defense team representing two Burmese men accused of murder to reexamine crucial D

[8] MM www.irrawaddy.com · 2019-08-29 · 75% match

Thai Supreme Court Upholds Death Sentences for 2 Myanmar Migrant Workers

CHIANG MAI, Thailand—Thailand’s Supreme Court on Thursday upheld the convictions and death sentences of Myanmar migrant workers Zaw Lin and Win Zaw Htun for the 2014 murders of two British nationals on the island of Koh Tao.

[9] MM www.irrawaddy.com · 2015-12-30 · 75% match

Koh Tao Verdict: Lingering Questions as Protests Continue

CHIANG MAI, Thailand — On Dec. 24, the Koh Samui Provincial Court sentenced Wai Phyo and Zaw Lin to death for the murders of British tourists Hannah Witheridge and David Miller on the Thai resort island of Koh Tao.

[10] MM www.irrawaddy.com · 2015-10-12 · 75% match

Koh Tao Accused Describes Police Torture as Trial Concludes

CHIANG MAI, Thailand — One of two Burmese migrants on trial for the murder of two British backpackers on a Thai resort island last year has described to the court how he was tortured and sexually abused under interrogation by Thai police.

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