PHUKET: The Phuket Seafood Fiesta casts its net today in an effort to draw more visitors to the island during the current low season for tourism. The Seafood Fiesta, held in conjunction with the Andaman Hoteliers 2012 event, runs from 3pm to 10pm today and tomorrow at the Jungceylon shopping complex in Patong
PHUKET: Phuket Police are investigating the drowning death of a 60-year-old man found floating face-down in a tin mine pond in Thalang late yesterday afternoon. The discovery of the body was reported to Thalang Police at 5:30pm by a roommate of the deceased who gave his name only as “Gai”. Mr Gai told investigators he went looking for his friend, Waan Nantaphrom, after he failed to return from a fishing trip to the pond behind the Tah Reua Temple on Wednesday.
PHUKET MEDIA WATCH– Thailand news selected by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community Transvestites, women warned against sex trade in Mideast Phuket Gazette / The Nation PHUKET: Many Thai male cross-dressers get legitimate jobs in Oman as masseuses but choose to also offer sexual services on the side, a Thai embassy official in Muscat said Panida Somao said the laws in Oman were very strict and only men were allowed to work at massage parlors for male customers. „But some Thai transvestites have exploited these laws and also offer sexual services,“ she said, adding that many came to Oman before undergoing the sex-change operation. „Many of them work in Oman to earn enough money to finance this operation,“ Panida said.
PHUKET: Two tourists on holiday from Vietnam panicked after witnessing the full-scale tsunami rescue drill being conducted off the east coast of Phuket this afternoon. “Oh my God! My friend and I thought it was some kind of terrorist attack or that a really big accident had happened.
PHUKET: Forensics experts at the Institute of Forensic Medicine in Bangkok have officially announced the names of two more victims of the
PHUKET: Dinosaurs are taking a holiday in Phuket, along with all the other old bones on the island, in a travelling museum exhibition open from August 28 to September 16. The free-entry exhibition, with information in Thai and English about paleontological and geological discoveries in Thailand, will be open daily at the Phuket Marine Biological Center (PMBC) between 8:30am and 4:30pm
PHUKET: Tentative estimates by officials are that about 500 households were affected by the floods yesterday. The news follows Phuket City Mayor Somjai Suwansupana’s confirmation that despite more rain today, the floodwaters in Phuket Town have completely receded and the situation has returned to normal. “Our trucks had washed off all the mud from the main roads in Phuket Town by last night and cleanup teams finished their work on the main roads by early this morning,” Mayor Somjai told the Gazette today.
PHUKET: Rescue workers who recovered the bodies of the four people who died in the
PHUKET: Rescue workers yesterday captured a huge python they believe was slithering to higher ground to avoid floodwaters that affected much of Phuket yesterday. Phuket Kusoldharm Foundation workers at Baan Kor En, in Mai Khao, were notified of the serpent by nearby villagers, who called for assistance after the legless creature appeared behind an unnumbered rental home in their community
PHUKET: A 15-year-old boy who confessed to murdering his stepfather with an axe told police yesterday that the attack was motivated by the man’s abusive behavior to his mother.