Artikel erschien März 2013

  • Phuket crackdown on Russians heads north

    Phuket crackdown on Russians heads north

    PHUKET: Local officials will start conducting raids across Phuket’s Thalang District, which covers the northern third of the island, targeting any businesses involving foreigners. The raids will first target businesses involving Russians, a meeting at Phuket Provincial Hall was told yesterday.

  • Patrons and staff of Phuket bars, nightclubs subjected to drug tests

    Patrons and staff of Phuket bars, nightclubs subjected to drug tests

    PHUKET: Phuket Governor Maitri Inthusut has launched a campaign to conduct random drug tests at bars and nightclubs across the island. “Police will conduct random urine drug tests of venue staff and customers,” Governor Maitri said during raids on eight nightlife venues in Phuket Town on Monday night. “We will also check that the entertainment venues are legally registered as well,” he added.

  • Governor orders justice in Phuket arson attack over land dispute

    Governor orders justice in Phuket arson attack over land dispute

    PHUKET: Phuket Governor Maitri Inthusut has ordered the Chalong Police to take swift action in bringing to justice the three men seen setting homes ablaze in Chalong early yesterday morning. With the aid of windy conditions, it took just 30 minutes for the fire to destroy three wooden homes in Soi Palai (map

  • Phuket gunfight survivors yet to deliver police statements

    Phuket gunfight survivors yet to deliver police statements

    PHUKET: One of the two survivors of the gunfight on March 20, which left two dead and a Tourist Police officer charged with murder, has given police his version of the shooting but has not identified the shooter. Natthapong Kaewkuanchum, 25, was shot three times in the chest in the early morning of March 20, and is in the surgical ward at Vachira Phuket Hospital. Phuket City Police investigators questioned him about what transpired in the room at the Phuket Garden Ville housing estate early on the morning of March 20 (story

  • Phuket Immigration calls for Rohingya aid

    Phuket Immigration calls for Rohingya aid

    PHUKET: Phuket Immigration is calling for donations of essentials for the 67 Rohingya currently under detention.

  • Marked Phuket grave gone to the dogs

    Marked Phuket grave gone to the dogs

    PHUKET: Following a report from local villagers that they feared a foreign expat was buried at a grave near the Big Buddha image in the Nakkerd Hills, Karon Police today trooped up the hill and exhumed the remains – only to find the body of a buried dog. “At about 10:40am today, we received a report from a local plantation owner that he had found a grave marked with a rough gravestone on his land,” said Lt Sathaporn Seenoon of the Karon Police. “He said that last month he came to cut the grass in the area and at that time he did not notice anything odd.

  • Lucky escape from injury as Phuket tuk-tuk flips

    Lucky escape from injury as Phuket tuk-tuk flips

    PHUKET: A pickup driver, a tuk-tuk driver and a motorbike rider all escaped serious injury yesterday when they piled into one another after the pickup driver slammed on the brakes to avoid a huge pothole on Kata Hill. “The accident occurred near the sharp Sator Curve at about 12:20pm,” said Ruamjai Rescue Foundation emergency responder Sayan Thammaphan, who was among the first to arrive at the scene.

  • Body of Russian tourist washes ashore on Phuket beach

    Body of Russian tourist washes ashore on Phuket beach

    PHUKET: The body of a Russian man last seen spearfishing a few hundred meters offshore from Kata Beach on Friday was found washed ashore at the same beach (map

  • Bank employee surrenders over Phuket hit-and-run

    Bank employee surrenders over Phuket hit-and-run

    PHUKET: The bank employee involved in a lethal hit-and-run in central Phuket late last month has surrendered himself to police. Chaowarot Jantarak, 38, was wanted by police after witnesses saw his car hit security guard Jarin Weenada, 21, who died at the scene (story

  • Greenpeace goes over the edge to protest Krabi coal plant

    Greenpeace goes over the edge to protest Krabi coal plant

    PHUKET: Hanging from the cliffs of Railay Bay in Krabi (view