Artikel erschien April 2013

  • Phuket hotels, businesses targeted in dirty beach canal probe

    Phuket hotels, businesses targeted in dirty beach canal probe

    PHUKET: Hotels and businesses located along the canal that empties onto Bang Tao Beach will be inspected and forced to conform to wastewater-treatment standards, Government Spokesman Prompong Nopparit has announced. The news follows the public exposure of dirty water in the canal that has caused a rash of health problems for tourists and local boatmen in the area, some of whom have even been hospitalized for blood infections (story

  • Thai innovation may resolve Phuket’s dirty water woes

    Thai innovation may resolve Phuket’s dirty water woes

    PHUKET: Officers at the Phuket Office of Natural Resource and Environment (NRE) are promoting a new mini wastewater treatment machine developed in Thailand as a possible savior for Phuket’s ongoing water-pollution woes. The machine was developed by Kanok Nakaew, the Research and Development chief at the Energy and Environmental Engineering Center (EEEC) of Kasetsart University in Bangkok.

  • Rusty ex-con nabbed with modern technology in Phuket

    Rusty ex-con nabbed with modern technology in Phuket

    PHUKET: A Songkhla man fresh out of jail for bag-snatching was apparently out of practice and failed in his first attempt to grab a woman’s purse yesterday afternoon. He succeeded on his second try, but landed in the hands of the police shortly thereafter, thanks to the “Find My iPhone” application. Just two days out of prison in Songkhla, Suphada Tuansuwan, 29, had come to Phuket to meet his girlfriend.

  • Former illegal taxi drivers pressure AOT chief over Phuket Airport counter

    Former illegal taxi drivers pressure AOT chief over Phuket Airport counter

    PHUKET: About 50 taxi drivers who previously operated illegal “black plate” taxis arrived at Phuket International Airport on Monday to request permission to open a counter inside the terminal. The drivers, all members of the newly-formed Mook Andaman Business & Travel Co-operative Ltd, asked to open a counter inside the main terminal while Airports of Thailand (AOT) chiefs decide on the terms of the concession the new co-operative will be offered.

  • Phuket motorbike arson continues to spread

    Phuket motorbike arson continues to spread

    PHUKET: Two more motorbikes and the front of a small restaurant went up in flames in Phuket yesterday, bringing the total number of motorbikes scorched by arson since the beginning of March to nearly 30, say police. At 2pm yesterday, Kamala Police received three reports of fires: two were of motorbikes ablaze and the third was of flames at the front of a small restaurant. The first motorbike had a sidecar and was parked beside the Kamala-Patong road.

  • Phuket Governor combats dengue with ‘333’ strategy

    Phuket Governor combats dengue with ‘333’ strategy

    PHUKET: The Phuket Governor has branded his new strategy to combat the spread of dengue fever in Phuket with the lucky number 333, representing a sustained campaign of “three days, three weeks, three months”.

  • Phuket Tech: The death of Windows – Live Wire

    Phuket Tech: The death of Windows – Live Wire

    PHUKET: In the past week, the Windows world received quite a shock. First IDC, then Gartner – the two biggest names in computer industry prognostications – announced that, for the first time ever, shipments of new PCs had declined, year-on-year from the first quarter of 2012 to the first quarter of 2013. And the declines were substantial: somewhere between 11 and 14 per cent, depending on whom you believe.

  • Polluted water plagues Phuket beach

    Polluted water plagues Phuket beach

    PHUKET: Dirty water emptied into the canal that separates Phuket’s Bang Tao and Layan Beaches has caused a spate of health problems and has even sent unsuspecting people to the hospital for skin rashes and blood infections, local residents claim.

  • Billionaire’s bones: another skeleton in closet of alleged Phuket killer

    Billionaire’s bones: another skeleton in closet of alleged Phuket killer

    PHUKET: Samui police, acting on a tip from their counterparts in Hungary, yesterday dug up a skeleton in the basement of a villa owned by Moshe David, who is currently awaiting trial in Phuket for the murder of Hungarian Peter Reisz last year (story

  • Teen masseuse falls from fourth floor after argument with boyfriend

    Teen masseuse falls from fourth floor after argument with boyfriend

    PHUKET: A 17-year-old masseuse is in a coma after falling from the fourth floor of a building following an argument with her boyfriend. The young woman was discovered unconscious and severely injured on the ground behind the Phuket Town massage parlor where she worked, a Kusoldharm Foundation rescue worker told the Phuket Gazette. Rescue workers administered emergency first aid before rushing the masseuse to Vachira Phuket Hospital.