Artikel erschien September 2011
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Phuket Airport tipped to reach breaking point
PHUKET: With tourism numbers surging, Phuket International Airport is expecting a record four million passenger arrivals for the year 2011. As arrivals to Asias leading resort destination in the first half of the year increased 20% over the same period in 2010 and an unprecedented number of new hotel rooms opened, sagging infrastructure is creating a widespread danger to the islands tourism industry
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Fried Noodles: Transformer explodes, food cart incinerated
PHUKET: The explosion of an electrical transformer in Phuket this afternoon incinerated a noodle vendors cart, injured a woman, and damaged several vehicles.
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Phuket News: Spektakuläre Eröffnungsfeier auf Phuket
Phuket: Großes Feuerwerk zur Einweihung eines Springbrunnens Mit einem wunderschönen, großen Feuerwerk und lauter Musik in Hülle und Fülle wurde die Nacht in der Provinzhauptstadt Phuket Town zum Tage gemacht, als der neue Springbrunnen ins Leben gerufen wurde, um die Eröffnung des Phuket Vegetarier Festivals 2011 zu markieren. Der Sturm hat die Zeremonie noch dramatischer […]
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Haitang fallout batters Phuket
PHUKET: The Thai Meteorological Department has issued another tropical storm warning coviering much of Thailand, including the Andaman provinces of Ranong, Phang Nga, Phuket, Krabi, Trang and Satun.
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Phuket’s baby dumping rise sparks stateless alarm
PHUKET: The rising number of babies being abandoned on Phuket is causing alarm among the authorities, with the director of the Phuket Shelter for Children and Families voicing concern that babies who cannot be identified possibly becoming „stateless“.
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Rubber barriers saving lives in Phuket
PHUKET: Old car tyres being used to create median strips along Chao Fa West Road in Chalong have reduced fatal accidents by almost 100 per cent, say Phuket police.
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Lengthen your contact, dont follow through
PHUKET: This weeks tennis tip is on length of contact, comes courtsey of Travis Bertram who is the Tennis Director for Thanyapura Sports and Leisure Club, Phuket.
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Phuket Live Wire: Choosing the right internet landline
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Phuket’s rice prices set to rise
PHUKET: Menus in Phuket and across Thailand will soon be revised with the price of rice set to jump as a result of the Yingluk administrations changes to the rice mortgaging scheme. Pitched as a mechanism to increase rice farmers incomes and spending power, the controversial program first implemented by the Thaksin administration six years ago will offer increased rates on rice for loans to farmers who agree to pledge their yields as collateral.
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Phuket’s Sri Panwa is ready to pilot minimum wage
PHUKET: One of the islands most luxurious lodgings says its ready to pilot daily minimum wages of 300 baht, after the government named Phuket as one of six provinces (along with Bangkok) where higher pay will be introduced first. Songkran Issara, the managing director of Charn Issara Development, which runs the Sri Panwa resort at Cape Panwa, said the company was ready to support the governments policy because in Thailand there was a large wage gap between people in the lower end of the workforce and those in higher positions. …
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- Cha-Am blackwater flowing into the beach is “natural in origin” – District ChiefPHOTOS: Daily News The Cha-Am district chief and a posse of officials have inspected a patch of ‘black water’ flowing into the Gulf of Thailand after social media posts showed “sewage” flowing into the sea at a beach north of Hua Hin. Not surprisingly, and without evidence, Khajornsak Somboon admitted the offensive outflow was “smelly” but […]