Artikel erschien Juni 2013

  • Helmeted motorbike driver survives Phuket hill crash

    Helmeted motorbike driver survives Phuket hill crash

    PHUKET: A helmeted motorbike driver was non-responsive but alive after crashing his motorbike into a drainage ditch while descending Patak Road toward Chalong this morning. Ruamjai foundation rescue workers quickly arrived at the scene and placed the man, Surat Udompol, 53, in a neck brace before loading him into an ambulance and rushing him to Vachira Phuket Hospital in Phuket Town. “At the scene, we found him laying in a ditch.

  • Tortured, executed man connected to Phuket drug business

    Tortured, executed man connected to Phuket drug business

    PHUKET: The man found tortured and executed several hundred meters from a Phuket school was involved with drugs despite having a clean police record, Phuket City Police Deputy Superintendent Yongyuth Kongmalai told the Phuket Gazette yesterday.

  • Australian dies at hospital after leap from Phuket balcony

    Australian dies at hospital after leap from Phuket balcony

    PHUKET: The Australian Embassy has contacted the relatives of a 25-year-old Australian man who succumbed to his injures around midnight last night after having plunged from the third floor of a Patong building. A food shop vendor along Soi Kepsap 2, off Sai Nam Yen Road, contacted Lt Col Jongserm Preecha of the Patong Police when she saw the Australian, Joshua John Smits, standing on the balcony of the building threatening to jump.

  • Russian drug smuggler wanted by Interpol arrested in Phuket

    Russian drug smuggler wanted by Interpol arrested in Phuket

    PHUKET: Responding to a written request from the Russian embassy in Bangkok, Phuket Immigration last night arrested a Russian national wanted in his home country for “illegal transportation of drugs, committed on a large scale”.

  • Phuket Opinion: Samsung’s new gilt trip

    Phuket Opinion: Samsung’s new gilt trip

    PHUKET: So there we were – me, my wife and our nearly 3-year-old daughter – sitting down for a family dinner together when the advertisement for Samsung’s latest technological marvel came on the television. A mother sends her son off to travel the world armed with only his wits, backpack, stunning girlfriend and of course his Samsung S4, reasonably priced at only 21,900 baht – just over the current price of an ounce of gold.

  • Senator sets sights on Army to resolve Phuket land encroachment

    Senator sets sights on Army to resolve Phuket land encroachment

    PHUKET: A member of the Thai Senate is looking to call in the armed forces to wage war against the “big guys” behind land encroachment in Phuket. Pol Col (Rtd) Sontaya Sangphow was in Phuket on Friday to arm himself with information in order to pitch his suggestion to fellow senators in Bangkok. “We are concerned that District Officers are ‘unable’ to arrest the big guys behind land encroachment.

  • Drunk, loaded and arrested: Man brandishes loaded pistol, nunchucks in Phuket Town street

    Drunk, loaded and arrested: Man brandishes loaded pistol, nunchucks in Phuket Town street

    PHUKET: Phuket City Police this morning arrested a man for brandishing a loaded pistol at local residents in Soi Paniang near Samkong, Phuket Town. Maj Rattaket Munmuang of the Phuket City Police – with about 30 other officers – arrived at the scene at about 8:30am to find that the man had exchanged the loaded gun for nunchucks

  • Super moon monsoon rip current takes another life in Phuket

    Super moon monsoon rip current takes another life in Phuket

    PHUKET: Rescue workers today recovered the body of an 18-year-old who was caught in one of the strong rip currents caused by the super moon that is bringing chaos to Phuket’s beaches.

  • Mercedes-Benz driver runs over man on busy Phuket road

    Mercedes-Benz driver runs over man on busy Phuket road

    PHUKET: Police are investigating the death of an unidentified man who was hit and killed instantly last night by a Mercedes-Benz as he was crossing Phuket’s busy Thepkrasattri Road. By the time police arrived at the scene, near the Srisoonthorn Municipality offices, the driver of the Mercedes-Benz sedan, Virat Aumarat, 56, was already en route to Thalang Police Station

  • Phuket surf leaves Russian tourist in coma

    Phuket surf leaves Russian tourist in coma

    PHUKET: A Russian tourist in Phuket lies comatose in intensive care today after being pulled from the dangerous surf at Karon Beach yesterday afternoon. The tourist, named by Patong Hospital as Kho Khay Gym, 31, was pulled from the water by beach vendors at about 4:30pm.