Artikel erschien März 2013

  • Body washes ashore near Phuket Town

    Body washes ashore near Phuket Town

    PHUKET: Police are trying to determine the identity of a man whose body was found this morning washed ashore at Laem Tukkae, on the east side of Phuket Town. The man was likely a Burmese crewman aboard one of the many vessels operating out of Phuket, said Phuket City Police Duty Officer Chaleaw Taihoo.

  • Russian tour agent in Phuket faces deportation

    Russian tour agent in Phuket faces deportation

    PHUKET: Phuket Immigration officers arrested a Russian tour saleswoman in Patong yesterday for working illegally and for illegally entering the country. “We inspected the Kathu area for illegal foreign workers,” explained Phuket Immigration Investigator Chidchanok Sakornyen

  • Sit still Singapore – Live Wire

    Sit still Singapore – Live Wire

    PHUKET: I was in Singapore last weekend, and frankly am surprised by the way „4G“ technology is being marketed in all sorts of places: the tops of taxis, television ads, magazine and newspaper ads, radio and TV. Everybody, it seems, wants to know more about 4G, and how to can get it. It’s not just Singapore.

  • Phuket’s international boat show comes of age

    Phuket’s international boat show comes of age

    PHUKET: The 10th Anniversary Phuket International Boat Show (PIMEX) opened today to a large gathering of island dignitaries, VIPs, exhibitors, visitors and media. While the traditional boating markets of Europe and the USA continue to struggle in the current economic climate, Phuket is driving Asia’s growth and continues to attract top international boat brands and marine products to exhibit. Pivotal to Asia’s marine industry, Phuket is the region’s yachting playground and has often been referred to as the ‚Monaco of the East‘.

  • Phuket Opinion: Housing boom making snail mail slower

    Phuket Opinion: Housing boom making snail mail slower

    Boonsong Maneechai, 52, from Nakhon Sri Thammarat, served as Postmaster of the Thaweewong Post Office in Patong for four years before becoming the Postmaster of the Rawai Office in 2009. Here, he talks about why the residents of Rawai and Chalong have been experiencing mail delivery delays, and outlines the steps he is taking to correct the problem

  • No wildfire warning in Phuket, but fire alert remains

    No wildfire warning in Phuket, but fire alert remains

    PHUKET: The lack of rainfall across the island in recent weeks has yet to prompt the authorities to issue a wildfire warning for Phuket, but they have called for people to be vigilant as a precaution. “We have not issued a fire warning as there are small packets of rain falling on scattered areas,” Phuket Forest Protection and Fire Control Director Kejboon Leawtrakul told the Phuket Gazette. “However, there is a danger of forest fires if, for example, people drop cigarette stubs in drought-hit forest.

  • Police arrest 25 Sri Lankan refugees trafficked to Phuket

    Police arrest 25 Sri Lankan refugees trafficked to Phuket

    PHUKET: Police today arrested at least 25 refugees found walking along the busy Chao Fa East Road in Chalong. “The group included 18 men, six women and a 2-year-old boy. Among the six women, one was two months pregnant,” Chalong Police Superintendent Krittapas Det-intarasorn told the Phuket Gazette.

  • Phuket Russians targeted in Thai New Year crackdown

    Phuket Russians targeted in Thai New Year crackdown

    PHUKET: Kathu District Chief Weera Kerdsirimongkol, who took up his position in Phuket less than a month ago, will target Russians, Nepalese and Vietnamese working illegally in Phuket, starting on April 14, the first day of the Thai new Year, he told a Provincial Hall meeting yesterday.

  • Tourist Police hit in Phuket Town shootout, killing two

    Tourist Police hit in Phuket Town shootout, killing two

    PHUKET: A Phuket Tourist Police officer is in hospital this morning recovering from wounds sustained after a gunfight in a neighbor’s room which left two men dead early this morning. Sen Sgt Maj Pinchai Piyadilok was shot in the leg and in the stomach in the incident, and is recovering from surgery.

  • Fear of attacks on Phuket’s new airport buses delays launch date

    Fear of attacks on Phuket’s new airport buses delays launch date

    PHUKET: The long-awaited and much supported Phuket Airport Bus Express – marking Phuket’s first ‚hop on-hop off‘ bus service from the airport to major tourist beaches along the west coast (story