Artikel posted in 2012

  • Phuket international airport expansion set to bring 12.5mn visitors

    Phuket international airport expansion set to bring 12.5mn visitors

    PHUKET International Airport (PIA) will be able to receive 12.5 million visitors per year by 2014 following a planned 5.7 billion-baht expansion, Thailand’s deputy transport minister told reporters during a recent visit to the island.

  • Phuket resort GM ’safe‘ after stabbing attack

    Phuket resort GM ’safe‘ after stabbing attack

    PHUKET: The well-known general manager of a luxury resort in Phuket is out of danger following emergency surgery for stab wounds sustained in a brawl outside a Phuket Town nightclub early yesterday morning.

  • Phuket Property Watch: Rocking or rolling this season?

    Phuket Property Watch: Rocking or rolling this season?

    PHUKET: Whenever anyone mentions ‘The Rock’ I am always inclined to think of that other island just off the dock by the bay – Alcatraz. Certainly there is little resemblance between that former maximum security prison island and our own destination resort of Phuket.

  • Phuket Property: Boom in Pattani?

    Phuket Property: Boom in Pattani?

    PHUKET: When news about Thailand’s deep South breaks in the press, images of strife and unrest are quickly conjured up. And while this article is an update about a massive uprising in the heart of downtown Pattani, one of three troubled provinces near Thailand’s border with Malaysia, this latest development does not feature any unrest, but rather cranes and concrete pillars. Indeed, Pattani is on the verge of a boom and the numbers are explosive.

  • Foreigner saves drowning toddler at Phuket beach

    Foreigner saves drowning toddler at Phuket beach

    PHUKET: Just a day after 7-year-old drowning victim Methee Khunsuinhu

  • Phuket records second day without death on the roads

    Phuket records second day without death on the roads

    PHUKET: Today marks the last day of the “Seven Days of Danger” holiday road-safety campaign. No fatalities were recorded in Phuket yesterday, Day 6 of the campaign, with the number of fatalities standing at six. According to official figures from the Department of Disaster Prevention and Mitigation Phuket Office (DDPM-Phuket) this morning, Day 6 ended with nine serious injuries in eight reported accidents, but no deaths.

  • Marriott, Destination part ways over Courtyard brand in Phuket

    Marriott, Destination part ways over Courtyard brand in Phuket

    PHUKET: Marriott International and Destination Properties Thailand have parted ways over the management of four hotels in Thailand, three of which are in Phuket. The properties in Phuket are the Courtyard by Marriott hotels in Patong, Kamala and at Surin Beach. The fourth hotel to no longer operate as a Marriott brand is the Courtyard by Marriott in Hua Hin.

  • Best of Phuket Awards announced on line today

    Best of Phuket Awards announced on line today

    PHUKET: The 29 winners of Phuket’s 2011 ‚Best of Phuket‘ Awards in the Business, Service, Environment and Restaurant categories have been announced and go

  • Methee, 7, passes away at Vachira Phuket

    Methee, 7, passes away at Vachira Phuket

    PHUKET: The Phuket Gazette is sad to report that Methee Khunsuinhu, the seven-year-old boy

  • FC Phuket to play at Surakul on Saturday, but no cheering allowed

    FC Phuket to play at Surakul on Saturday, but no cheering allowed

    PHUKET: An appeal by FC Phuket to be allowed to play their last home match of the season at Surakul Stadium has been approved by the Football Association of Thailand (FAT), but only under the bizarre proviso that home-side fans not be allowed to cheer their team in any way. “Fans will only be allowed to sit still.