Artikel erschien März 2013

  • Phuket Opinion: Playing by all the rules

    Phuket Opinion: Playing by all the rules

    PHUKET: Saphan Hin’s 4,000-seat Indoor Sports Complex is where Phuket United play their Thai Futsal Premier league home games in front of a vocal crowd of around 1,000 supporters. In addition to being the home of the Andaman Pearl, the stadium was also used for several different sporting events over the past few months, including Thailand’s most significant international basketball tournament, the TOA Thailand Open 2012, as well as the 2012 National Youth Games and the first-ever Phuket International Choi Yong Seok Taekwondo Championship. But as Phuket United head coach Suphol Senapeng told the Phuket Gazette in January, certain local authorities are making life difficult for those wanting to use Saphan Hin’s stadium (story

  • Under Investigation: Phuket villagers foraging for turtle eggs

    Under Investigation: Phuket villagers foraging for turtle eggs

    PHUKET: The safety of turtle eggs in a protected nesting ground at the northern tip of Phuket is under investigation by the Mai Khao Marine Turtle Foundation. The Phuket Gazette contacted the foundation after a reader reported seeing turtle tracks and people probing for eggs in the area between Maikhao Dream Villa Resort and Spa and Maikhao Beach Bungalows (map

  • Phuket Opinion: Praise for the little ‚Heroes‘ of Phuket

    Phuket Opinion: Praise for the little ‚Heroes‘ of Phuket

    PHUKET: Although accorded little, if any, attention in the local media, the recent winning of a national championship in the “To Be Number One Teen Dancercise 2013” competition by a team of young dancers from the Baan Bangneaw Municipal School in Phuket Town deserves a great deal of recognition and praise. It was a considerable achievement, the first ever by a team representing Phuket.

  • Pharmacy raid nets 24 youths in cough syrup blitz

    Pharmacy raid nets 24 youths in cough syrup blitz

    PHUKET: A raid on a Phuket Town pharmacy early yesterday evening turned into a bumper haul for officers as they arrested a procession of youngsters turning up to buy cough syrup specifically to make the local drug cocktail “4×100”. Following an order by Muang District Chief Supachai Pochanukul, the 15 officers arrived at the Pharma Sure drug store on Si Sena Road (map

  • DNP outlines conservation issues to be presented to CITES

    DNP outlines conservation issues to be presented to CITES

    PHUKET: In town yesterday for the investigation into encroachment on Phuket’s Sirinath National Park (story

  • Mother of savaged pit bull victim presses criminal charges

    Mother of savaged pit bull victim presses criminal charges

    PHUKET: Criminal negligence charges were filed this week against the owners of the three pit bull terriers that mauled a man outside his own Phuket home in early February. Tiansak Aikpaiboon, 33, was savaged by three of his neighbor’s five pit bulls right in front of his home in Suan Thai Village, behind Wichit Songkram School near Central Festival, at about 8am on February 6 (story

  • Phuket Police hunt continues for Jintana killers

    Phuket Police hunt continues for Jintana killers

    PHUKET: Police are continuing to question individuals over the murder of Jintana Mahattanapak as they await the results of CCTV-footage analysis being conducted in Bangkok (story

  • DNP chief bolsters support for Phuket park probe

    DNP chief bolsters support for Phuket park probe

    PHUKET: The recently installed Department of National Parks, Wildlife and Plant Conservation (DNP) Director-General Manopat Huamuangkaew arrived in Phuket yesterday to hear firsthand the update on the investigation into 14 plots allegedly encroaching on Sirinat National Park on Phuket’s west coast. “So far we have investigated the land documents of 14 plots of land and found that all were issued illegally. So far, we have asked police to press charges against five of those involved,” Sirinart National Park chief Cheewapap Cheewatham told Mr Manopat.