Artikel posted in 2011

  • Gov Tri gets Red Cross Fair underway

    Gov Tri gets Red Cross Fair underway

    PHUKET: Scores of people turned out last night the opening night of the Phuket Red Cross Fair in Phuket Town, with many people among the huge crowd hoping to win the top prize in the popular lucky draw: a brand-new Honda City car. The 11-day fair, being held at the

  • Phuket boosts water-safety as New Year countdown nears

    Phuket boosts water-safety as New Year countdown nears

    PHUKET: As the Seven Days of Danger road-safety campaign continues across Phuket, the Marine Police are joining the effort on the water by stepping up safety checks and deploying vessels to conduct 24-hour operations.

  • Phuket New Year road toll battered as three die

    Phuket New Year road toll battered as three die

    PHUKET: The Phuket authorities’ goal to keep the road toll this year

  • Russians in hospital after tour van smash

    Russians in hospital after tour van smash

    PHUKET: Four Russian tourists on their way to a Phuket magic show got a painful dose of reality on Thursday night, when the passenger van they were riding in collided with a delivery truck south of Patong. The accident happened at about 7pm on Wiset Road in front of Le Meridien Phuket Beach Resort on the first day of the nationwide Seven Days if Danger road safety campaign.

  • Phuket yachting community remembers lost sailor

    Phuket yachting community remembers lost sailor

    PHUKET: Friends of long-term Phuket expat Leslie Beasley, who was

  • Phuket Media Watch: North Korea defiant; Fires rage in Los Angeles; Sailor rescued 5 days after ship sinks off Vietnam

    Phuket Media Watch: North Korea defiant; Fires rage in Los Angeles; Sailor rescued 5 days after ship sinks off Vietnam

    PHUKET MEDIA WATCH– World news compiled by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community North Korea warns South Korea on ‚hideous crimes‘ Phuket Gazette / News Wires PHUKET: The North Korean military on yesterday said the South „will pay for its hideous crimes“ during the mourning period for Supreme Leader Kim Jong-il, and warned it may launch a retaliatory strike to „smash the stronghold of the puppet forces.“ A statement from the National Defense Commission of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK/North Korea) condemned the South Korean government for immediately putting its forces on alert and convening an emergency meeting following the announcement of Kim Jong-il’s death. „When the whole nation is overcome with grief over the great loss, only the South Korean puppet group committed thrice-cursed crimes,“ the Commission said in a long statement.

  • Russian tourist dies in fall at Phuket home

    Russian tourist dies in fall at Phuket home

    PHUKET: A Russian tourist died in a fall from an interior balcony at a holiday rental home in Kathu, central Phuket, early yesterday morning.

  • Phuket police nab sacrilegious burglar

    Phuket police nab sacrilegious burglar

    PHUKET: Phuket City Police on Wednesday arrested a serial thief caught with stolen religious objects, jewelry and other items. Police Superintendent Chote Chitchai said Wichit resident Eakkat Tipmart, 29, confessed to burglarizing the Phuket Town apartment of Saengduan Chaigma. It was just the latest burglary in a string of similar thefts, Col Chote said.

  • ‚Colorful Phuket Countdown 2012‘ now underway

    ‚Colorful Phuket Countdown 2012‘ now underway

    PHUKET: The clock is now ticking at Sanamchai in Phuket Town, where the „Colorful Phuket Countdown 2012“ got underway at 8pm last night. The opening ceremony was chaired by Phuket Governor Tri Augkaradacha, who took a stroll though a 20-meter-long “under the sea” tunnel of lights and decorations

  • Floods won’t harm Phuket construction sector: P-REA

    Floods won’t harm Phuket construction sector: P-REA

    PHUKET: Following a seminar held recently, Phuket real estate developers are less worried about the impacts of the flooding in central Thailand on the construction industry supply chain. Tanan Tanphaibul, President of the Phuket Real Estate Association, said members had worried that massive government-funded reconstruction of parts of Bangkok and the Central Plains region might have a negative impact on the building industry on Phuket by siphoning away material and labor supplies. To learn more, they invited several speakers to their „Phuket Real Estate Trends Following the 2011 Disaster“ seminar, held at the Royal Phuket City Hotel.