Artikel erschien Januar 2012

  • Phuket Business: Now is the time to structure your financial investments

    Phuket Business: Now is the time to structure your financial investments

    PHUKET: Now that 2012 is in full swing and no doubt many of the New Year’s resolutions have been thrown out of the window, it’s time to get a hold of the purse strings and have a set plan for the forthcoming year. I have already given my views previously on what I believe we can expect from the year ahead

  • Phuket hit-and-run driver surrenders, victim still in hospital

    Phuket hit-and-run driver surrenders, victim still in hospital

    PHUKET: The driver of a white sedan that struck a motorbike on Thepkrasattri Road then failed to stop has handed himself in to police, while the victim in the accident remains at Vachira Phuket Hosiptal recovering from serious injury. Motorbike rider Suriya Thathamlay was rushed to hospital by emergency workers after he was thrown to the ground when a

  • Eighth suspect, school kid, arrested for Phuket Pla-wan attack

    Eighth suspect, school kid, arrested for Phuket Pla-wan attack

    PHUKET: Police have arrested an eighth suspect wanted in connection with the stabbing of

  • Phuket likely to get Administrative Court

    Phuket likely to get Administrative Court

    PHUKET: The Thai Parliament yesterday approved draft legislation to establish Administrative Court regional branches in Phuket, Petchaburi and Nakhon Sawan, Matichon has reported. Attached to the bills was a remark that the Administrative Court and all related agencies should expedite processing of all funding and legal issues so that all three courts would be up and running within three years of the new legislation’s publication in the Royal Gazette

  • Phuket Local Food Fair starts today

    Phuket Local Food Fair starts today

    PHUKET: The Phuket Local Food Festival 2012 starts today at the central stage area at Saphan Hin Public Park in Phuket Town. The event, funded and organized by the Phuket Provincial Administration Organization (PPAO), runs through Sunday night with a wide variety of staged entertainment, games and shopping opportunities

  • Work underway on Phuket’s newest police headquarters

    Work underway on Phuket’s newest police headquarters

    PHUKET: Work is underway on the headquarters of Phuket’s newest police station, with some officers already taking up residence in barracks near what will eventually be the Wichit Police Station.

  • Phuket Property Briefs: Kata Group; Banyan Tree; Thai Smiles

    Phuket Property Briefs: Kata Group; Banyan Tree; Thai Smiles

    Kata Group opens Khao Lak Resort in November A new Greater Phuket resort called The Sands Khao Lak By Katathani will open this coming November.

  • Phuket Media Watch: British Airways resume flights; New Zealand plane crash

    Phuket Media Watch: British Airways resume flights; New Zealand plane crash

    PHUKET MEDIA WATCH– World news selected by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community British Airways to resume flights to Libyan capital in May Phuket Gazette / News WiresPHUKET: British Airways plans to reinstate flights to the Libyan capital of Tripoli later this year, the airline announced yesterday. Flights were suspended in February 2011 as a result of the country’s civil war. British Airways said it decided to resume flights between London Heathrow Airport and Tripoli International Airport following a ‚thorough security review‘ in conjunction with the British and Libyan governments.

  • House fire leaves Phuket poor homeless

    House fire leaves Phuket poor homeless

    PHUKET: A young girl and her aunt lost what few possession they owned to a house fire yesterday, leaving them without money for their monthly motorbike rent or for the girl’s school fees. Prapha Pongkunchorn, 52, and her niece Mookrin Pongkunchorn, 16, had been living rent-free in the house, which had been converted from a garage and had no address, for about two years. They were sitting in the storeroom adjacent to the house when the fire started.

  • Phuket Police chasing ‚missing money‘ from currency exchange haul

    Phuket Police chasing ‚missing money‘ from currency exchange haul

    PHUKET: Phuket Police are still investigating where the remainder of the two million baht in foreign currencies has disappeared to from the robbery of a currency exchange booth in Karon in November. At a press conference at Chalong Police Station yesterday, Phuket Provincial Police Commander Chonasit Wattanavrangku said his officers were still investigating where most of the money had gone, though they already had confirmation that some of it had been used to fund a spending spree. The press conference was called to present to the media the two suspects who were arrested for the crime