Artikel erschien August 2013

  • Phuket out of TAT promotional campaign for 2014

    Phuket out of TAT promotional campaign for 2014

    PHUKET: Phuket is one of several main tourism destinations in the country that will not be promoted under the Tourism Authority of Thailand (TAT) international marketing campaign for next year. Instead, the focus will be on less-developed tourism areas, Director of the Phuket-TAT office Chanchai Doungjit revealed yesterday. “We will not be promoting tourism centers that are already well-established.

  • Phuket bombing ‚civilian scare tactic‘

    Phuket bombing ‚civilian scare tactic‘

    PHUKET: The bomb blast at Phuket Provincial Hall yesterday (story

  • World’s largest floating library booked for Phuket

    World’s largest floating library booked for Phuket

    PHUKET: Logos Hope, the world’s largest floating library, is Phuket bound for the first time, Project Coordinator Eunji Lee told the Phuket Gazette. The 132-meter-ship, roughly half the size of the Titanic, will be at Phuket’s Deep Sea Port from August 14 to 22.

  • Phuket marine specialists helping out with Koh Samet oil spill

    Phuket marine specialists helping out with Koh Samet oil spill

    PHUKET: Five Phuket marine specialists headed to Koh Samet yesterday to help clean up the approximately 50,000 liters of crude oil that leaked into the Gulf of Thailand from a PTT Global Chemical pipeline last Saturday (story

  • Radio DJ killed in Phuket hit-and-run

    Radio DJ killed in Phuket hit-and-run

    PHUKET: A Phuket DJ was killed in a hit-and-run yesterday afternoon after he was dragged beneath a pickup truck for about 700 meters, witnesses said. Police and rescue workers arrived at the scene to find Terdpong “Bao” Phuttapiruk, 29, dying in the middle of the road. “He was rushed to Vachira Phuket Hospital, but he was unconscious and suffering from broken ribs, blood in his lungs and a broken leg.

  • Breaking News: Explosion at Phuket Provincial Hall, bomb suspected

    Breaking News: Explosion at Phuket Provincial Hall, bomb suspected

    PHUKET: The Phuket Gazette has confirmed reports of an explosion at the Phuket Provincial Hall complex in Phuket Town just after 2pm today.

  • Phuket Video Report: 10 rescued from sea after waves swamp Phi Phi cargo boat

    Phuket Video Report: 10 rescued from sea after waves swamp Phi Phi cargo boat

    PHUKET: Ten men were rescued after spending two hours holding onto floating debris between the Krabi coast and Phi Phi Island, off Phuket, late yesterday afternoon. The cargo boat Unity, carrying food, construction materials and other supplies bound for Phi Phi, was struck by large waves reaching up to four-meters high after passing Koh Por Da, the boat’s captain, Thaweep Choonoon told the Phuket Gazette

  • ‘Bombs’ detonated at Phuket Airport drill

    ‘Bombs’ detonated at Phuket Airport drill

    PHUKET: A simulated terrorist bomb drill held at Phuket International Airport yesterday went off without a hitch, organizers said. In the exercise, members of the Phuket Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) unit and Airports of Thailand (AoT) staff short-circuited one bomb with a high-pressure water device, responded to a “fire” when a second was detonated, and cared for “injured” participants

  • Phuket security guard chose wrong bag when he turned to crime

    Phuket security guard chose wrong bag when he turned to crime

    PHUKET: A Phuket security guard who turned to crime may have regretted his decision after the bag he stole turned out to contain nothing more than cosmetics, and CCTV images led police to his rented room the same day.