Artikel posted in 2011

  • Disgraceful strategy

    Disgraceful strategy

    PHUKET: „We have been done in the past – like with Woodgate. We should have surrounded the referee to get him sent off.“ Stephen Hunt, Wolverhampton Wanderers midfielder, suggests his team mates need to follow the example of other sides by ganging up on officials to encourage correct or even harsher decisions.

  • Phuket employers urged to hire disabled workers

    Phuket employers urged to hire disabled workers

    PHUKET: With the Phuket labor shortage reaching critical levels, authorities are encouraging employers to hire more disabled workers and are advising large organizations that they are legally required to do so.

  • New Phuket Police chief orders holiday crackdown

    New Phuket Police chief orders holiday crackdown

    PHUKET: Newly-installed Phuket Provincial Police Commander Chonasit Wattanavrangku has ordered all officers on the island to strictly enforce the law and ensure public safety over the New Year holiday now underway. Chonasit Wattanavrangkul, whose last assignment was as Songkhla Provincial Police Commander, took over the position from Maj Gen Pekad Tantipong in the latest police reshuffle announced on Christmas Day

  • Phuket Business: a collective island soul

    Phuket Business: a collective island soul

    PHUKET: Life in the brick house is in full holiday swing. Gargantuan cement trucks ante for position alongside monster buses teeming with an endless array of travelers.

  • Istana Phuket design claims global award

    Istana Phuket design claims global award

    PHUKET: Prism Estates have won the Best International Architecture Award (Multiple Residence) as developers of the Istana Phuket residential estate at Naithon Beach. The International Property Awards (IPA) ceremony was held on December 12 at the Savoy Hotel in London, England and produced in association with Bloomberg TV and Google

  • No short-term solution for Phuket Airport Immigration bottleneck

    No short-term solution for Phuket Airport Immigration bottleneck

    PHUKET: Tourists waiting up to an hour and a half to clear immigration during peak periods at Phuket Airport are unlikely to receive any reprieve until a separate international terminal is completed.

  • Phuket Media Watch: Russian regional round-up

    Phuket Media Watch: Russian regional round-up

    PHUKET MEDIA WATCH– World news compiled by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community Russia’s first hybrid vehicle to go on sale next year Phuket Gazette / News WiresRussian automobile manufacturer Yo-Auto on Tuesday announced that it will be offering the country’s first hybrid vehicle late next year. The company’s billionaire co-owner Mikhail Prokhorov spoke on national television on Tuesday to confirm that the first Yo-hybrid is scheduled to come out on sale in December 2012. Prokhorov had said in previous announcements that the goal is to manufacture and offer an eco-friendly vehicle for under $10,000 (approximately 31,650 Thai Baht).

  • Phuket raids land 15mn baht in pirated goods

    Phuket raids land 15mn baht in pirated goods

    PHUKET: Two separate raids in Phuket over the past week have netted pirated copyrighted goods with a combined street value of more than 15 million baht. Prayut Maneechote, director of the Customs Bureau regional head office in Haad Yai, on Monday announced that a team of his officers had traced an illegal importing network of pirated goods to a warehouse in Phuket.

  • Phuket Media Watch: Asian regional round-up

    Phuket Media Watch: Asian regional round-up

    PHUKET MEDIA WATCH– World news compiled by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community Explosions at Myanmar warehouse kill at least 15 Phuket Gazette / News WiresAt least 15 people were killed on early yesterday morning when a fire caused a series of explosions at a government-owned warehouse in the former Myanmar (Burma) capital of Yangon, officials said.

  • Let Phuket’s Countdown to the New Year begin

    Let Phuket’s Countdown to the New Year begin

    PHUKET: The holiday season kicks into high gear today with the opening of two important annual fairs in Phuket Town and the launch of police checkpoints all over the island as part of the nationwide “Seven Days of Danger” road safety campaign. Phuket Governor Tri Augkaradacha is a busy man today, presiding over the openings of both the