Artikel posted in 2012

  • Phuket’s Big Buddha project cleared of wrong doing

    Phuket’s Big Buddha project cleared of wrong doing

    PHUKET: An internal inquiry by the Royal Forestry Department’s Community Forestry Management Bureau has found no wrong doing by any parties involved in the Phuket Big Buddha project. The inquiry was launched after a flood of

  • Krabi drug rehab student drowned in escape, says friend

    Krabi drug rehab student drowned in escape, says friend

    PHUKET: Eyewitness reports are now indicating that the student who died after escaping a youth drug rehab facility in Krabi last week was not beaten to death by teaching assistants, as

  • Phuket’s Muslim prison inmates gifted supplies for Ramadan

    Phuket’s Muslim prison inmates gifted supplies for Ramadan

    PHUKET: The Phuket Islamic Committee gifted food items to Muslim inmates at Phuket Provincial Prison on Thursday so they could properly partake in Ramadan. At 11:30am, Phuket Islamic Committee President Komon Doomluck handed over rice as well as other dried foods, such as palm dates, which are the traditional foods for breaking fasts, to the 225 male and female Muslim prisoners in the facility

  • Phuket Life Music Festival to honor ‘The Stars’

    Phuket Life Music Festival to honor ‘The Stars’

    PHUKET: Phuket-born Jaruwat “Dome” Cheawaram, better known as “Dome The Star” after winning the popular television singing contest, will headline the Phuket Life Music Festival 2012, to be held in Phuket Town on August 14. The concert will be held at Anuphas Field, near the Phuket bus terminal on Phang Nga Road, from 7pm to 10:30pm.

  • Drug rehab youths escape facility after friend beaten to death

    Drug rehab youths escape facility after friend beaten to death

    PHUKET: More than 200 youths escaped from the drug rehabilitation center at Por Noh Klong Gom School and sought the protection of a local mosque in Krabi on Thursday after one of their classmates was allegedly beaten to death by teaching assistants. The school, although in Krabi, serves as a drug rehabilitation center for about 800 troubled youths from throughout Southern Thailand, most from the border provinces of Pattani, Narathiwat and Yala

  • Anonymous donor gives stranded Kiwi ticket home

    Anonymous donor gives stranded Kiwi ticket home

    PHUKET: Sean Kenzie, the 27-year-old New Zealander stranded and unable to pay his mounting medical bills after a

  • Poll: Is Phuket’s property market over-developed?

    Poll: Is Phuket’s property market over-developed?

    PHUKET: Tanan Tanpaiboon, former head of the Phuket Real Estate Association, recently warned that over-development in the Phuket real estate sector risks creating a “bubble” that could burst, sending real estate prices tumbling due to oversupply. What do you think will be the overall trend in real estate prices on Phuket over the next five years? To have your say in Phuket’s most popular online poll click

  • Phuket gold shop damaged in youth street brawl

    Phuket gold shop damaged in youth street brawl

    PHUKET: A group of eight students attacked two others in front of a gold shop in the heart of Phuket Town yesterday morning. The attack, at about 10:15am, was launched in front of a hardware and electronics store on Ong Sim Pai Road in front of Kaset Market

  • Alcohol linked to Phuket vegetable dealer’s death

    Alcohol linked to Phuket vegetable dealer’s death

    PHUKET: Phuket Police believe that cardiac arrest, possibly triggered by excessive alcohol intake, may have caused the death of a man whose body was found by the side of a road in Sakoo yesterday afternoon. Tah Chat Chai Police were notified of the discovery at 2:45pm. At the scene in Sakoo Village 4, off the old airport road near

  • Fire rips through car parts warehouse in Patong

    Fire rips through car parts warehouse in Patong

    PHUKET: A fire believed to have been started by an electrical fault destroyed a car parts warehouse in Patong this afternoon. No one was reported injured in the blaze, but the damage caused has been estimated at around 100,000 baht.