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  • Patong Tunnel inches forward to 2018

    Patong Tunnel inches forward to 2018

    PHUKET: The Expressway Authority of Thailand (EXAT), the government agency tasked with conducting a feasibility study of the Patong Road Tunnel project, has said that the tunnel from Kathu to Patong could be completed by 2018 if the budget is procured by the 2013 financial year. A study undertaken in November 2011 projected the amount required from the central government at

  • Patong electricity chief denies transformer started Tiger inferno

    Patong electricity chief denies transformer started Tiger inferno

    PHUKET: The chief of the Provincial Electricity Authority (PEA) Patong office today refuted allegations that the

  • Round-the-clock treatment fails to save Phuket dolphin

    Round-the-clock treatment fails to save Phuket dolphin

    PHUKET: The ailing striped dolphin that was under treatment at the Phuket Marine Biological Center (PMBC) died last weekend, two weeks after she washed ashore in Phang Nga. Despite round-the-clock treatment that included the fitting of a harness to help her swim, the female dolphin took her last breath on August 12

  • Mass-circulation ‚Asia Weekly‘ launched in Phuket

    Mass-circulation ‚Asia Weekly‘ launched in Phuket

    PHUKET: The Phuket Gazette is proud this week to be ushering into Phuket the China Daily Asia Weekly, a world-class publication built in Hong Kong by, among others, senior expatriate editors from the UK, the United States, Europe, India, Australia, South Africa and New Zealand. Please find the launch issue tucked into this week’s Phuket Gazette, now on sale throughout the island.

  • Phuket B12mn meth bust ‘tip of the iceberg’, say Bangkok Police

    Phuket B12mn meth bust ‘tip of the iceberg’, say Bangkok Police

    PHUKET: The lead officer in the investigation that led to 12 million baht in methamphetamine being seized in Phuket last weekend has told the Phuket Gazette that the bust was the “tip of the iceberg” of the true volume of drugs being trafficked to the island from Bangkok. Kittisak “Ton” Sew-Eaw, 29, from Phuket, and Dusit “Boy” Chaiphan, 30, from Petchabun, were arrested in Rawai on Saturday after a sting operation was set up by officers from Bangkok Metropolitan Police

  • Tiger Disco Fire: Friend identifies watch, bracelet of missing Thai waitress

    Tiger Disco Fire: Friend identifies watch, bracelet of missing Thai waitress

    PHUKET: A Thai waitress who worked at the Tiger Discotheque may have been identified today after a friend recognized a wristwatch and a bracelet found on one of the four bodies

  • Protest against Tesco Lotus in Phuket Town

    Protest against Tesco Lotus in Phuket Town

    PHUKET: More than 500 local traders, business owners and residents marched on Provincial Hall yesterday to petition the Governor to stop construction of a new Tesco Lotus outlet planned for Phuket Town. After assembling at Rama X Park (Suan Luang), the protesters marched through the streets carrying signs with slogans reading “Tesco ruins our life in Phuket Town”, “We don’t want Tesco”, among others.

  • Tiger disco fire: Police to call in forensics experts from Bangkok

    Tiger disco fire: Police to call in forensics experts from Bangkok

    PHUKET: Forensics experts from Bangkok will be called in to assist Phuket officers in their investigation into what caused the

  • Tiger fire ‘sounded like a bomb’, report staff

    Tiger fire ‘sounded like a bomb’, report staff

    PHUKET: Staff at the Tiger Discotheque in Patong initially thought the sound of an exploding transformer was a bomb, which caused people to panic and stampede towards the door when

  • 4 dead, 11 injured in Tiger disco inferno

    4 dead, 11 injured in Tiger disco inferno

    PHUKET: A pre-dawn blaze at the popular Tiger Bar and Discotheque in Phuket has left four people dead and 11 people injured. Among the injured were four French nationals.