Koh Surin Tai is the second largest in the group, another oddly shaped amoeba of land.
Half of the Moken living in the Surin Islands have an identity number beginning with 0.
The Thai army also forced Cambodian operators to abandon two casinos in O'Smach, opposite Surin province.
Boats to the Surin Islands depart from Khuraburi, 115 miles north of Phuket by bus.
Despite being articulate and handsome, Surin lacked enough support to win anyway and so was saving face.
Secretary-General Surin Pitsuwan told Reuters news agency that Beijing's plan was "a very serious turn of events".
Surin Uddin, Mohammed Sheikh and Hamza Ali, all from east London, will be sentenced at a later date.
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"The elections are a good development for Indonesia and for the entire region, " says Thai Foreign Minister Surin Pitsuwan.
To raise its profile and clout, ASEAN recruited, in Mr Surin, a former foreign minister, an activist and persuasive boss.
"This is a big step forward for security and diplomacy in the region, " said host Thai Foreign Minister Surin Pitsuwan.
After the 2004 tsunami devastated the region, park officials brought the several Moken settlements together on the same beach on Koh Surin Tai.
Mae Hong Son Gov. Naramol Palawat said the fire destroyed about 100 thatch huts at the Ban Mae Surin refugee camp.
Nui met me in the seaside town of Khuraburi, where we boarded a speedboat to the Surin Islands, located 50km off the Thai coast.
Thai Foreign Minister Surin Pitsuwan, Philippine Foreign Secretary Domingo Siazon and top Singapore foreign ministry bureaucrat Kishore Mahbubani took up the cause.
" Explained Surin: "My point is, hey, let's make ASEAN more open.
They say old habits die hard, and the more time I spent on Koh Surin Tai, the more I saw this to be true for the Moken.
They were connected to a Thai NGO working in the Surin Islands and arranged for me to stay in the village on Koh Surin Tai for a week.
The 200 or so Moken living on the Surin Islands are part of a larger ethnic group spread out across the Mergui Archipelago off the coasts of Burma and Thailand.
The head of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean), Surin Pitsuswan, said he was "very, very relieved" and hoped the move would "contribute to true national reconciliation".
Thailand's Surin seemed especially keen on proving ASEAN's continuing relevance.
The public health chief of Mae Hong Son province, Paisarn Thanyavanichkul, says police and rescue workers found 35 bodies after Friday's fire at the Ban Mae Surin refugee camp.
Surin, with support from Siazon, also advocated constructive intervention.
Addressing reporters on Nov. 3, Thai Foreign Minister Surin Pitsuwan launched an indirect criticism of Kuala Lumpur, saying that while the matter was Malaysia's internal problem, it had far-reaching effects on fellow members of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations.
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