Popular Koh Samet beach concert ordered cancelled

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Popular Koh Samet beach concert ordered cancelled

 

Picture: Thai Rath

 

KOH SAMET: -- A concert entitled "Samet in Love 8" planned for Sai Kaew beach on the island has been ordered cancelled because it would be "inappropriate".

 

Despite tickets having already been sold for the eighth edition of the event the organizers have been told by the National Parks' Commission that it must be cancelled this year out of respect for the departed King Bhumibol Adulyadej.

 

The commission said that they did not disagree in principal with holding the event on the island but it would not be appropriate this year, reported Thai Rath.

 

Our picture shows an unidentified woman on Samet indicating where the concert would have been held.

 

Meanwhile in other national park news, a contingent of officers 300 strong were out in force in western Kanchanaburi province yesterday serving notice on 35 hotels and resorts that must be pulled down due to encroachment.

 

The properties - 31 owned by Thais and four by foreign investors - are mostly in Thong Pha Phoom and Sangkhaburi districts.

 

The raiding party split up into five groups to serve the notices of encroachment on forest and national park land.

 

Source: Thai Rath

 

-- © Copyright Thai Visa News 2017-04-27

[sandrabbit]

I don't understand why they're cancelling this, they allowed the Ban Phe festival to go ahead?. 

 

I spy something beginning with 'S' .......

[rebo]

The newspaper which isn't allowed here to be linked to tells a completely different story ...

[OJAS]

On 4/27/2017 at 4:02 PM, rebo said:

The newspaper which isn't allowed here to be linked to tells a completely different story ...

Indeed. What this newspaper said was that a meeting of island residents and businesses had voted unanimously against this year's event going ahead since they had, quite understandably IMHO, grown heartily sick and tired at having to pick up the pieces (almost literally) at their own expense of the disorder and vandalism caused at/by previous events.

 

However it would appear that a final decision on whether or not this year's event should go ahead has yet to be taken. That being the case and this being Thailand, the palms of those responsible for taking this final decision will, no doubt, be well and truly greased by the organisers - for whom this event will, of course, be highly profitable financially - to ensure that it still goes ahead in June, regardless of the islanders' wishes.

Edited April 29, 2017 by OJAS

[sandrabbit]

2 hours ago, OJAS said:

Indeed. What this newspaper said was that a meeting of island residents and businesses had voted unanimously against this year's event going ahead since they had, quite understandably IMHO, grown heartily sick and tired at having to pick up the pieces (almost literally) at their own expense of the disorder and vandalism caused at/by previous events.

 

However it would appear that a final decision on whether or not this year's event should go ahead has yet to be taken. That being the case and this being Thailand, the palms of those responsible for taking this final decision will, no doubt, be well and truly greased by the organisers - for whom this event will, of course, be highly profitable financially - to ensure that it still goes ahead in June, regardless of the islanders' wishes.

Ok I see now but it must be they're not getting their share of the pie as you just have to see the state of the island after new years celebrations.

[KhunBENQ]

Referring to the mourning period sound like a pretended reason.

After 100 days there was little to no such cancellation news.

The report from the other newspaper sounds much more plausible.