Artikel erschien Oktober 2011

  • Phuket Opinion: Making news a social obligation, and a two-way street

    Phuket Opinion: Making news a social obligation, and a two-way street

    PHUKET: The Phuket Gazette would like to thank its readers for their support in our continued growth, not only with the newspaper, which is now on board 10 of the worlds leading airlines, but also on the Web; in the whole new world of handheld devices; and in broadcasting, where next PGTV goes on UBC/True Visions with two prime time shows. The centerpiece of everything we do is Phuket.

  • Phuket Tourism: TAT in major drive to bring on more tourists

    Phuket Tourism: TAT in major drive to bring on more tourists

    PHUKET: The Tourism Authority of Thailand (TAT) is revising strategies to deal with the economic crisis in Europe and bad situations in the domestic market, such as floods and violence in the South, all of which threaten Thai tourism. Phuket is featured in the plans despite record visitor arrivals during the first half of this year and what some see as formidable …

  • FC Phuket fly north for the winner

    FC Phuket fly north for the winner

    PHUKET: FC Phuket should be well rested for tomorrow nights away match against Chiangmai FC, having flown up to the northern capital yesterday afternoon on a flight operated by team sponsors AirAsia.

  • South African family said to suffer Phuket holiday nightmare

    South African family said to suffer Phuket holiday nightmare

    PHUKET: A South African familys holiday in Phuket turned into a nightmare on their last day here when the father was arrested and detained for almost a month for allegedly being in possession of fake U.S. dollars.

  • Drunken Dane fails Phuket bar test

    Drunken Dane fails Phuket bar test

    PHUKET: A group of young foreigners out celebrating their graduation from the European Bartender School in Patong received a lesson in Phuket bar etiquette this week when one man was chased down and vigorously apprehended by tuk-tuk and motorcycle taxi drivers. The objection among the drivers was the rough treatment given to a Thai barmaid following a disagreement late Thursday night over the bill at the Ice Bar, off Soi Bangla. Following the altercation, the Thai woman involved was taken to Patong Hospital to receive treatment for injuries, and a doorman at the Tai Pan nightclub saw two foreign men running into Soi Sunset, at about midnight.

  • Phuket construction worker dies of high blood pressure

    Phuket construction worker dies of high blood pressure

    PHUKET: Police believe that a Cambodian construction worker found dead this morning died from high blood pressure. Thalang Police Duty Officer Praman Yapphayak said he was notified of the death at about 7:30am

  • Phuket taxi thugs apologize, pay damages for attack on tour driver

    Phuket taxi thugs apologize, pay damages for attack on tour driver

    PHUKET: The three taxi drivers who assaulted another driver working for a Phuket elephant camp have apologized for the attack and paid 40,000 baht in damages. Kamala Police Duty Officer Anek Mongkol confirmed today that the three taxi drivers Wasan Sanae, 35, Sitthikorn Boonsri, 28, and Thanawut Poksakul, 25 were each fined 1,000 baht for the attack.

  • Kidney dialysis center opens in Phuket

    Kidney dialysis center opens in Phuket

    PHUKET: The Laem Son Health Center in Wichit began providing kidney dialysis treatment to patients yesterday, and in doing so became the first center in Phuket to offer such treatment outside government hospitals. The center (pictured here), located on …

  • Park chief preps Similan Islands for tourist high season

    Park chief preps Similan Islands for tourist high season

    PHUKET: The chief of the Similan Islands Marine National Park is calling for all tour boat operators to register in order to be able to legally enter the park when it reopens on November 1.

  • Bangkok student trumps Phuket as national winner in Thailand’s Dublin Literary Awards

    Bangkok student trumps Phuket as national winner in Thailand’s Dublin Literary Awards

    PHUKET: Sirada Chatikavanij, a 17-year-old student from Triam Udom Suksa school in Bangkok has won the Junior Dublin Literary Award for Thailand in a contest that saw close to 1,000 English-language essays submitted.