Artikel erschien Februar 2012

  • Groundbreaking movement on Phuket Bus Terminal impasse

    Groundbreaking movement on Phuket Bus Terminal impasse

    PHUKET: Construction workers this morning began work to remove the median strip in front of Phuket Bus Terminal 2 on Thepkrasattri Road in Rassada, raising hopes the long-dormant facility might go into operation soon. Workers were at the site at 8am, putting up warning signs to alert motorists of the work, which will close two lanes to traffic during work hours.

  • Phuket Blues and Rock fest feasts on talent

    Phuket Blues and Rock fest feasts on talent

    PHUKET: Friday nights don’t get much better. A superb venue and organization matched with a range of music that voiced soulful lyrics and pumped out thumping rock rifts helped kickstart the 2012 Phuket International Blues Rock festival at Laguna Beach Resort last night. A slightly later than scheduled opening allowed visitors to drift in to the Festival Marquee having not missed the first acts of Australian Jack Derwin and the emotive Moscowfish from Canada.

  • Another Phuket student dies in motorbike crash

    Another Phuket student dies in motorbike crash

    PHUKET: A Phuket teenager returning from school was killed yesterday when he lost control of his motorbike and hit the back of a pickup truck parked by the side of the road in Srisoonthorn. Thalang Police were notified of the accident at 5:20pm.

  • Phuket Rotary Club rolls out high-tech devices for the disabled

    Phuket Rotary Club rolls out high-tech devices for the disabled

    PHUKET: The lives of nine disabled people from Phuket and Phang Nga took a turn for the better on Thursday when they took possession of high-tech wheelchair “pullers” donated by local and international chapters of Rotary International. The handover ceremony, at Queen Sirkit Park on Thalang Road, was presided over by Sanguan Kunaporn, head of the Rotary Club of Tongkah and a nominee for the governorship of Rotary District 3300, which covers Phuket and Phang Nga.

  • Phuket Gazette: Tourists go ape for Krabi bus stops

    Phuket Gazette: Tourists go ape for Krabi bus stops

    PHUKET: Tourists to Phuket’s neighboring Krabi Province are impressed by a new two million baht network of bus stops that feature a striking monkey design, the province’s transport chief says.

  • Phuket Blues Festival and Blue Sky Air Show set to play to large crowds this weekend

    Phuket Blues Festival and Blue Sky Air Show set to play to large crowds this weekend

    PHUKET: Only hours away, this year’s Phuket International Blues Rock Festival is set to bring the canvas roof down at its new venue in the Festival Marquee at the Laguna Beach Resort’s Y-Junction. It is the place to be today and tomorrow for a sublime celebration of blues rock music with some of the finest musicians ever to appear on Phuket. Chris Thomas King from the US is simply a blues legend with a literally record-breaking music background.

  • Red light confusion ends in Phuket pickup sideswipe

    Red light confusion ends in Phuket pickup sideswipe

    PHUKET: A two-vehicle collision in Thalang last night was likely the result of one pickup braking for a red light, only to be slammed from behind by a second pickup whose driver expected him to run through it, Phuket Police said. Each of the vehicles had two passengers, none of whom were injured in the crash

  • Bangers bike riders hightail it to Phuket

    Bangers bike riders hightail it to Phuket

    PHUKET: Four days of hard pedaling has taken its toll, but the 2012 Bangers on Bikes Bangkok to Phuket Charity Bike Ride is nearing the final leg while the hardy cyclists are on their last legs with only 140km to go. On Monday, 11 riders and five support crew left Bangkok on a 916km saddle mission to raise 500,000 baht for the Asia Center Foundation (ACF) in Phuket and the Nak Suu Tigers program in Bangkok. The group will leave Takuapa tomorrow morning for the stretch home and plan to cross Sarasin Bridge at about 11:30am and on to the ACF in Kathu for a reception at 3.

  • DAM! Taxi driver forgets handbrake, plunges car into Phuket reservoir

    DAM! Taxi driver forgets handbrake, plunges car into Phuket reservoir

    PHUKET: A taxi driver from Khao Lak, the coastal tourist town in Phang Nga to the north of Phuket, this morning found his chicken and sticky rice too tasty to remember to put his handbrake on. The result being his Honda Civic plunging into the reservoir behind Phuket Rajabhat University.

  • Phuket theater worker found hanged

    Phuket theater worker found hanged

    PHUKET: A depressed theater worker took his life by hanging in a rented room in Phuket last night, leaving behind a farewell note and money for his parents. Phuket City Police were called to a rented room on Soi Samkong 1, Rassada, just before dusk.