Artikel erschien Februar 2013

  • DBD investigates Thai firms suspected of helping foreigners set up companies illegally

    DBD investigates Thai firms suspected of helping foreigners set up companies illegally

    PHUKET: A special investigation by the Department of Business Development (DBD) into foreign-owned businesses in Phuket has revealed links to Thai legal and accounting firms on the island that may be helping companies set themselves up illegally in Thailand. “We suspect that these firms may be allowing foreigners wanting to open a business to use their company address to represent the physical building of the foreigners’ business.

  • National defense volunteer nabbed with marijuana at Phuket checkpoint

    National defense volunteer nabbed with marijuana at Phuket checkpoint

    PHUKET: Thalang Police arrested a national defense volunteer with two bags of marijuana at a checkpoint in Thalang on Saturday.

  • Phuket Live Wire: Landing that special connection

    Phuket Live Wire: Landing that special connection

    PHUKET: In the past five editions of Live Wire, I’ve been talking about the things you need to consider if you want to get a good internet connection in Phuket.

  • Police nail multi-million-baht real estate scam artists in Phuket

    Police nail multi-million-baht real estate scam artists in Phuket

    PHUKET: Patong Police yesterday arrested two con artists who allegedly made more than 16 million baht by posing as real estate agents and luring potential clients into fixed gambling matches of fantan. Acting on reports from two men who said they had been scammed out of 200,000 and 900,000 baht, police arrested Wasan Choothong, 29, and Tiwalai Ruprasut,58, at the entrance of Bangla Road in Patong (map

  • ‚Missing‘ Swiss student discovered in Ranong prison pleads guilty

    ‚Missing‘ Swiss student discovered in Ranong prison pleads guilty

    PHUKET: The Swiss student, who was thought to be missing for a month before being found in Ranong Prison, has pleaded guilty to the theft charges levied against her after she balked at an immigration overstay fine and stole an immigration officer’s camera. When Tscherina Nora Janisch, a 22-year-old Swiss exchange student, refused to pay a three-day visa overstay fine, she was arrested by Ranong Immigration officers (story

  • Confessed killer Aldhouse, a fighter afraid to fight

    Confessed killer Aldhouse, a fighter afraid to fight

    PHUKET: British national Lee Aldhouse admitted in court today that he was afraid to fight the premeditated murder charges he faces for the slaying of former US Marine Dashawn Longfellow in 2010. Nonetheless, the confessed killer entered a plea of „not guilty“ in front of a judge at the Phuket Provincial Court

  • Phuket’s top cop pushes for Valentine’s Day violence investigation

    Phuket’s top cop pushes for Valentine’s Day violence investigation

    PHUKET: Phuket’s top cop took the reigns in a Valentine’s Day violence case after an allegedly attacked teen couple expressed their concern that the perpetrators would be protected from the law by their father, a Thalang police officer. Police Commander Choti Chavalviwat summoned Thalang Police Acting Superintendent Sirisak Wasairi to report to him immediately about the case, which revolves around the allegations by a 17-year-old teenager, given the pseudonym “Koy” because of her age, that she and her boyfriend had been attacked by two teenage boys and their father, Sen Sgt Maj Wichit Dada of the Thalang Police (story

  • German in stable condition after three-storey fall

    German in stable condition after three-storey fall

    PHUKET: The German tourist who fell from the balcony of his third-floor hotel room early Saturday morning was moved from the Vachira Phuket Hospital ICU to a different ward, but is still on life support. Police rushed to the Kalim Resort at 2:45am on Saturday morning to find German national Alexander Sven Zott, 35, unconscious on the pavement after the fall. He was immediately taken to Patong Hospital, but later transferred to the better equipped Vachira Hospital (story

  • VIDEO: This Week Today from the Phuket Gazette

    VIDEO: This Week Today from the Phuket Gazette

    PHUKET: This Week Today from the Phuket Gazette features top news, sports and events from around the Pearl of the Andaman. Anchorman Isaac Stone Simonelli, the Gazette’s managing news editor, introduces the top stories from the island, brought to you by PGTV.

  • Phuket Police officer’s sons accused of Valentine’s Day attack

    Phuket Police officer’s sons accused of Valentine’s Day attack

    PHUKET: A teenager alleged that the sons of a policeman attacked her and her boyfriend with a metal rod and a knife on Valentine’s Day, then threatened her boyfriend with a gun while the policeman restrained him.