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January 3rd - We have a winner!
So we have now drawn the winners of our Customers prize draw (with our thanks to www.random.org for being, well, random), and, pause for drum roll, here they are:
1st Prize - Toshiba Notebook - The Alcoholic Church
2nd Prize - Samsung Galaxy Mini Phone - The Dive Adventure
3rd Prize - Kodak Camera - Cocktail Queen
Congratulations to our winners, we will be delivering your prizes as soon as it stops raining, and thanks again to all of the local businesses who have supported us over the years. And don't forget that our readers competition is still open so be sure and enter for a chance to win the same great prizes.
December 30th - Customers Free Prize Draw
This is a quick message to let all of our advertising customers know that we will be holding the draw for the winner of the Customer's side of our free prize draw on Monday January 2nd in our office at 5pm. So please feel free to join us and (if you are a customer) see if you have won a computer, phone or camera. If you can't make it then don't worry, we will be letting winners know directly and publishing the winners here and on our Facebook page. Please note that the competition for our readers is still open until February 20th, see below for details.
December 24th - WIN STUFF!
Christmas eve seems like a good day to announce our prize draw to celebrate 10 years of the Koh Chang Guide.
In fact we are doing two - one for readers and one for our advertisers.
You will probably be interested in the readers one where our prizes are a Toshiba netbook, A Samsung Galaxy Mini phone and a Kodak Camera. And all you have to do to enter is to send us an e-mail.
All the information that you need is here so go on, and good luck!
We will be drawing the winner in our advertisers prize draw in the next few days and we'll post the winners here and on our Facebook page.
Oh and by the way, here's wishing that you all have a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!
December 22nd - Christmas Presence
As our way of wishing you a merry christmas we thought we'd make the latest issues of our Koh Chang Guide and Treasure Map available on the site for you to read at your leisure as you digest festive feasts. Scroll down the page or just open the Koh Chang Guide here, the Treasure Map front side here, and the other side here.
You will notice that there is a competition to win a load of free stuff which is also open to our online readers - more details on that in the next few days.
By the way we also updated all the detailed maps of Koh Chang and around on the website so if you look through our Koh Chang map section then you'll get the most up to date local maps.
December 3rd - Flood Fight!
We're back. There was a bit of a gap there whilst we finished the latest issues of our Koh Chang Guide and the Treasure Map. Happily they are with our printers now and we finally have a chance to update the site. The weather is great, actually a little hot for the time of year, the island is getting busy and the high season is upon us. This really is the time to get down to the island.
We know it is short notice but the first event to draw your attention to is the "Flood Fight". This is a Muay Thai boxing show and competition in aid of relief for victims of the recent floods. The show features some famous Thai boxers and is being held in the space next to Kacha Resort on White Sand Beach. It kicks off, as it were, at 4pm this afternoon and should hold some good entertainment value.
We spent an enjoyable afternoon at Klong Prao seafood the other day. It is located in a cracking location on Klong Prao beach where a lagoon meets the sea. It doesn't seem to be particularly well visited by tourists but the food was spot on, service was good and it is a fine place to sip a cool beer as you watch the sun setting.
We have just added some interesting new listings to our Koh Chang property section. These include a couple of small businesses in Bailan Beach as well as a plot of land on Koh Mak ideal for a house or a business development.
There is plenty more coming to the site in the next weeks - we will be continuing to share our massive archive of Koh Chang Photos with you and as part of our forthcoming ten year celebrations we'll be giving away a camera, an android smartphone and a notebook computer. Stay in touch.
The view to the right is rather splendid and can be enjoyed by ascending the 121 steps to the new Thai Navy shrine opposite the Bangkok Trat Clinic at the top of the hill out of White Sand Beach. That is of course a lot of steps but it is a nice spot. and worth the climb.
Here are a couple of pictures that we took on Koh Mak when we visited recently. It's a nice place if you want to chill out but there isn't much in the way of parties except for Monkey Island's didgeridoo jam nights. And make sure that you pack some insect repellent because sandfly bites aren't amusing at all.
NewspaperDirect
On the subject of good business opportunities that are available on Koh Chang we should mention that the Exclusive Koh Chang distribution license for NewspaperDirect International is currently available. This is a business that makes over 1500 newspapers from 90 countries available to print on demand. They represent international titles such as The Times, Le Monde, The Australian, Süddeutsche Zeitung and The New York Times as well as a huge number of other titles. The business is already being successfully operated by nine successful and long serving partners elsewhere in Thailand. There are limited technical requirements to implement the business on the island and local marketing and sales support, training and 24 hour technical support are provided. The initial start-up expenses are very low and it is definitely a good business opportunity. You can find more about this opportunity at this website.
Previous updates
Click on the images on the left to download PDF copies of our most recent Koh Chang Guides and Maps. You can also pick up free printed copies when you come to Thailand. You can find them in Bangkok and Pattaya, at Bangkok and Trat Airports and at hundreds of locations around the Koh Chang area.
Books: Koh Chang's largest bookshop is next to the main Post Office between White Sands Beach and Chai Chet. The Online shop is at www.BooksThailand.com. There are thousands of books in about 20 languages so feel free to come and browse or download a spreadsheet of all current stock here. We also buy books individually and in bulk in case you have any taking up valuable shelf space.
You can also win two books of your choice each month by entering a monthly competition on their Facebook Page at http://www.facebook.com/BooksThailand. Just answer the questions, choose your preferred books and see if you have the winning entry.
Over the years there have been quite a few businesses and individual 
photographers who have sold CD's of photos of Koh Chang. There have been some good photos but the overall standards have been fairly run-of-the-mill. But now there's a good one that we can endorse wholeheartedly. The photo collection is called - appropriately enough - Koh Chang Photography and has been prepared by Jon Milnes. There are some striking and original images and not just your standard beach view stuff. If you don't believe us then check out the new issue of our Koh Chang, Trat and The Eastern Islands guide. It contains lots of Jon's images and looks great as a result. You can get yourself a copy of the disk at offices of Scuba Zone all over Koh Chang or by calling 084-727-5413 or mailing jonathanmilnes@yahoo.com.
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