{"id":942,"date":"2013-01-03T14:15:17","date_gmt":"2013-01-03T14:15:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ididgo.com\/blog\/?p=942"},"modified":"2013-01-10T00:07:15","modified_gmt":"2013-01-10T00:07:15","slug":"fco-warns-travellers-over-dangers-of-thai-travel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ididgo.com\/?p=942","title":{"rendered":"FCO warns travellers over dangers of Thai travel"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"idg_loctags\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" alt=\"FCO warns travellers over dangers of Thai travel\" src=\"http:\/\/www.breakingtravelnews.com\/images\/sized\/images\/uploads\/tourism\/Ao-Nang,-Thailand-250x155.jpg\" width=\"250\" height=\"155\" \/><\/div>\n<div id=\"idg_wrapperj\">\n<p>Exert from <strong>BreakingTravelNews<\/strong>\u00a0&#8211; The British Foreign &amp; Commonwealth Office (FCO) has updated information for travellers heading to Thailand.<\/p>\n<p>However, officials at the body have stopped short of issuing a travel warning for the destination.<\/p>\n<p>The move follows the fatal shooting of London City trader Stephen Ashton on Koh Phangan on January 1st.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWestern tourists have been victims of vicious, unprovoked attacks by gangs in Koh Phangan,\u201d explained Foreign Office information.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese attacks are particularly common around the time of the Full Moon parties and generally occur late at night near bars in Haad Rin on Koh Phangan.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cExercise caution when in this area at any time, especially after dark.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Seven British nationals have been murdered in Thailand since January 2009.<\/p>\n<p>In the Ashton case police said the suspect, Ekkapan Kaewkla, claimed his group was outnumbered during a fight at about 05:00 am on January 1st so he decided to use his homemade gun to protect himself.<\/p>\n<p>Ashton was hit by a stray bullet as he danced on the beach.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Exert from BreakingTravelNews\u00a0&#8211; The British Foreign &amp; Commonwealth Office (FCO) has updated information for travellers heading to Thailand. However, officials at the body have stopped short of issuing a travel warning for the destination. The move follows the fatal shooting of London City trader Stephen Ashton on Koh Phangan on January 1st. \u201cWestern tourists have [&#038;hellip<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":948,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[216],"tags":[350,295,296],"class_list":["post-942","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-news-2","tag-thailand-tourism-board","tag-warning-issued-to-british-travelers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ididgo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/942","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ididgo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ididgo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ididgo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ididgo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=942"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.ididgo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/942\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1205,"href":"https:\/\/www.ididgo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/942\/revisions\/1205"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ididgo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/948"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ididgo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ididgo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ididgo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}