Artikel erschien September 2017

  • DSI checking alleged Phang Nga National Park encroachment

    DSI checking alleged Phang Nga National Park encroachment

    The DSI (Department of Special Investigations) are checking two luxury houses located on Pa Kuantohla and Pa Laemsam mountains alongside another 2,000 rai of land that is alleged to have an illegal land deed. After checking the land document at the local land office, DSI have found that the names of landlords are a famous millionaire and his children who have owned the land for more than 10 years. Their names haven’t been revealed.

  • Yingluck guilty

    Yingluck guilty

    Fugitive former prime minister Yingluck Shinawatra has been sentenced to a five-year jail term. The Supreme Court took almost three hours to read the verdict on Yingluck’s alleged negligence in her government’s rice-pledging scheme

  • Crisis unfolding on our doorstep

    Crisis unfolding on our doorstep

    PHOTO: Voice of America A significant regional humanitarian crisis is underway only a few thousand kilometres from our tropical island.   Whilst the situation for the Rohingya has been parlous for decades, it’s only recently become acute after a group calling itself the Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army attacked several Myanmar Army outposts on August 25 – the Myanmar Army has been fighting back, hard, and going further by forcing the remaining Rohingya north and across the Bangladesh border. In their wake villages have been burned, woman and children killed and mass graves discovered

  • UPDATE: Phuket Lifeguard boycott of OrBorTor contract

    UPDATE: Phuket Lifeguard boycott of OrBorTor contract

    The Governor said today (September 27) that there is no auctioneer joining the bid so far, possibly because of the lower budget of this year. “I can see that the budget has been cut down every year, from 25 million to 22 million and this year 19.8 million Baht

  • THAIGER TODAY Wednesday, September 27

    THAIGER TODAY Wednesday, September 27

    Awaiting the BIG verdict | Another parasail accident at Patong beach | A Polish man arrested over the 300,000 Baht ATM theft | HM the Thai King grants extra days for paying respects at the Grand Palace | Lifeguards determined to boycott next year’s beach lifeguard contract. The post THAIGER TODAY Wednesday, September 27 appeared first on Phuket Gazette

  • Thai PM promises to shorten his weekly Friday night address

    Thai PM promises to shorten his weekly Friday night address

    Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha says he’s going to continue with his weekly “Returning Happiness to the People” address on Friday nights, but is promising to cut the speech down by 50%, to around 20 minutes.

  • HM King Maha Vajiralongkorn extends time to pay respects at Grand Palace

    HM King Maha Vajiralongkorn extends time to pay respects at Grand Palace

    His Majesty the King has ordered an extension of the final day Thais can pay their last respects to His Majesty the late King Bhumibol Adulyadej in the Grand Palace from this Saturday to next Thursday, October 5.

  • Another parasail accident at Patong Beach injures Chilean tourist

    Another parasail accident at Patong Beach injures Chilean tourist

    A Chilean man in his late 20s was lucky to escape more serious injuries after his parasail finished up in trees after dragging the man along the ground and into several parked motorbikes. The incident happened at 3.30 this afternoon (September 26) at Patong Beach

  • Karabi’s Bok Koranee Waterfall closed

    Karabi’s Bok Koranee Waterfall closed

    Than Bok Koranee Waterfall in Krabi has been closed due to possible flash flooding. The Chief of Than Bok Koranee National Park, Weerasak Srisajjang, has ordered national park officers to closed down the waterfall today (September 26) after muddy water was found along the swiftly flowing waterfall

  • Buddha decorations cause outcry in Chiang Mai

    Buddha decorations cause outcry in Chiang Mai

    An American and his Thai wife on Tuesday agreed to remove 36 Buddha-head images from the fence at their Chiang Mai house following a Facebook uproar. With tears in her eyes, 34 year old Nualchan Sonchanthuek says she and her American husband, 68 year old Paul Blum did not expect the images would generate a commotion and they simply wanted to live their lives quietly in Chiang Mai’s Hang Dong district.