Company backs down in island land row

Students stand at a barrier putup to block the gainaccessto to their school on Koh Lipe in the southern province of Satun. (Photo: Satun Public Relations Office) SATUN: A business at the centre of an advancement row has concurred to getridof a fence stopping gainaccessto to a school on Koh Lipe by Feb 7, marking headway in settling anumberof such disagreements on the popular island. Encroachment versus ethnic seafarer groups, who haveactually inhabited the island for generations, was brought to public attention after an occurrence in December last year when students collected to demonstration versus a company operator they implicated of attempting to claim land ownership which obstructed a course residents utilized to gainaccessto Ban Koh Adang School. Similar issues likewise happened at a regional medicalfacility and even a beach. Sommart Maneeyan, deputy director-general of the Treasury Department
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