Artikel erschien Mai 2012

  • Phuket live wire: Thailand’s 3G woes

    Phuket live wire: Thailand’s 3G woes

    PHUKET: UGH! What a mess. If you’ve been following along over the years, you know that the history of 3G wireless internet access in Thailand has been fraught with competing organizations, lawsuits, government changes, allegations of corruption, political infighting, and a whole lot of money floating around.

  • Go Team: Phuket swipes second gold in ‘Go’

    Go Team: Phuket swipes second gold in ‘Go’

    PHUKET: Phuket girls Bussarin Raktaengam, Worakluck Kritsachaikan, Sudaphat Khongkaew and Pichakon Kankanok yesterday defeated their Nakhon Ratchasima opponents to win gold in the soft tennis event at the 28th Thailand National Youth Games being held in Phuket.

  • One sting reported from flood of ‚bluebottles‘ at Phuket beaches

    One sting reported from flood of ‚bluebottles‘ at Phuket beaches

    PHUKET: Phuket lifeguards at Kata and Karon beaches so far have reported only one person being stung by the bluebottle jellyfish that washed ashore in droves yesterday. More than 100 of the “stingers” washed ashore at Kata and Karon beaches, confirmed Uten Singsom, head lifeguard at Kata-Karon patrol unit on Phuket’s southwest coast. He also received reports that some were found on Nai Harn Beach, further south.

  • Evason Phuket opens books to prove ‘no capacity to pay’

    Evason Phuket opens books to prove ‘no capacity to pay’

    PHUKET: At a closed meeting today, representatives from the Evason Phuket & Bon Island resort revealed financial statements to prove that the resort company does not have the capacity to pay for demands made by workers summarily dismissed

  • Phuket yellow shirts bus to Bangkok to join protest

    Phuket yellow shirts bus to Bangkok to join protest

    PHUKET: Phuket members of the People’s Alliance for Democracy (PAD), also known as the yellow shirts, piled into three buses headed to Bangkok this afternoon to join their PAD counterparts in protest. The PAD will stage a mass rally in the capital tomorrow to protest the reconciliation bill and other bills designed to expunge post-coup court verdicts and offer general amnesty to people involved in the recent political conflict. “We will all gather at the King Rama V Equestrian Monument at about 1pm, and then at 3pm we will proceed to the Parliament,” Phuket yellow-shirt coordinator Don Limnunthaphisit told the Phuket Gazette.

  • Phuket tourism takes a hit over ‘Trashing Racha’

    Phuket tourism takes a hit over ‘Trashing Racha’

    PHUKET: The Department of Marine and Coastal Resources (DMCR) was forced to start taking steps to redress the growing concerns voiced in Phuket about the environmental destruction of Koh Racha Yai by negligent tour operators and tourism business owners. The news comes after a leading figure in local environmental conservation blasted greedy tourism operators and the lax enforcement of environmental protection laws at a meeting in Rawai yesterday. “To save the environment we need action now… It’s time to use the rules to enforce [environmental protection] and we need to make private businesses understand [their responsibilities],” said Suta Prateep Na Thalang.

  • Help sought for morbidly obese woman in Krabi

    Help sought for morbidly obese woman in Krabi

    PHUKET: The elderly mother of a morbidly obese woman in Krabi province is seeking assistance to get her daughter the medical help and living assistance they need to survive.

  • Man killed by 6-wheeled truck in Phuket rush hour

    Man killed by 6-wheeled truck in Phuket rush hour

    PHUKET: A man believed to have been drunk was struck dead by a six-wheeled truck on Phuket’s busy Thepkrasattri Road at about 6pm today.

  • Somjai uncontested in run for Phuket City Mayor re-election

    Somjai uncontested in run for Phuket City Mayor re-election

    PHUKET: Somjai Suwansupana will run for re-election as Phuket City Mayor uncontested following the closure of candidacy registrations on Friday. Former Mayor Somjai will lead her Khon Noom (Young Turks) party to the polls in the upcoming Phuket City Municipal election on June 16, marking

  • Phuket lifeguards return to beaches

    Phuket lifeguards return to beaches

    PHUKET: Fully equipped lifeguards are now back on duty at Phuket beaches, ready to rescue swimmers who get into difficulty during the currently treacherous weather. Uten Singsom, head of the Phuket Lifeguard Club unit at Kata-Karon, told the Gazette, “This year we are going to have a new uniform and new flags. Both will be ready next week.