Artikel erschien Oktober 2011

  • Phuket may benefit from regional drive to target European tourists

    Phuket may benefit from regional drive to target European tourists

    PHUKET: The Andaman provinces announced last week a plan to launch a joint marketing campaign aimed at luring more Europeans especially Scandinavians and persuading them to stay longer. The Andaman Explorer campaign is the brainchild of the tourism associations in the five provinces along the coast of the Andaman Sea: Phuket, Krabi, Phang Nga, Trang and Ranong.

  • Phuket Opinion: Landslides expose greed, incompetence

    Phuket Opinion: Landslides expose greed, incompetence

    PHUKET: There is a Thai idiom, gam dai khrai gaw gam nan yawm sanawng, that has as its English-language equivalent, You reap what you sow. Similar maxims no doubt exist in every language because of the universal truths they contain.

  • FC Phuket 1 – 0 Samutprakan Customs

    FC Phuket 1 – 0 Samutprakan Customs

    PHUKET: A first-half goal by Sarach Yooyen was all it took for FC Phuket to secure all three points in a lackluster 1-0 home win against Samutprakan Customs United this evening.

  • Caution urged along Phuket airport road

    Caution urged along Phuket airport road

    PHUKET: The Highways Department office in Phuket is asking motorists to slow down and exercise caution when passing work on the airport road expansion project in Thalang. Aroon Saneh, head of the regional Highways Department that covers Phuket and parts of Phang Nga, said work on the 120-million-baht project to widen a 4.6-kilometer stretch of the road from two lanes to four is proceeding according to schedule.

  • FC Phuket take on Customs United tomorrow

    FC Phuket take on Customs United tomorrow

    PHUKET: Following a two-week break from league play, FC Phuket will host Samut Prakan Customs United (SCU) tomorrow (Sunday) at Surakul Stadium in Phuket Town. Kickoff is scheduled for 6pm. …

  • Burmese crews mutiny-murder run ends in Phuket

    Burmese crews mutiny-murder run ends in Phuket

    PHUKET: A mutinous Burmese fishing crewman has confessed to Phuket Police that he hacked to death the ships cruel Thai captain before attacking the vessel technician, who jumped overboard and is presumed dead.

  • Phuket tuk-tuks join Thai flood-relief effort

    Phuket tuk-tuks join Thai flood-relief effort

    PHUKET: The flood-relief effort continues in Phuket, where local tuk-tuk drivers were among those donating boats and other necessities to those affected by the worst flooding in Thailand in decades. Karon vendors and Kata-Karon Tuk-Tuk and Taxi Club members yesterday presented Phuket Vice Governor Somkiet Sangkaosutthirak with 13 fiberglass boats, life-jackets, clothing and other goods to be sent to flood-affected areas

  • Phuket woman takes life by hanging

    Phuket woman takes life by hanging

    PHUKET: In the second suicide by hanging in Phuket in three days, the body of a local woman was found suspended by the neck from a tree near her home in Thalang this morning.

  • Dutch tourist slashed by deranged vagrant in Krabi

    Dutch tourist slashed by deranged vagrant in Krabi

    PHUKET: A Dutch tourist is recovering from neck lacerations sustained in a knife attack by a homeless drifter in front of a McDonald’s outlet in Krabi. Krabi Police raced to the scene at Ao Nang Beach yesterday morning. When they arrived shortly after 11am they found 29-year-old Dutch tourist Reiner Fleaf lying on the sidewalk in a pool of his own blood.

  • Phuket Governor transfer rumors unconfirmed

    Phuket Governor transfer rumors unconfirmed

    PHUKET: The Governors Office today said they could neither confirm nor deny rumors that Phuket Governor Tri Augkaradacha will be transferred out of the province this month. Our office has yet to be informed of any transfer orders regarding the governor or his deputies, Manas Nurak, personal secretary to Governor Tri, told the Phuket Gazette.