Artikel erschien Oktober 2017

  • Drugged-up driver trying to harm Rawai tourists

    Drugged-up driver trying to harm Rawai tourists

    Late yesterday afternoon (October 27), a bus driver from a tour company, 35 year old Suthon Klasamuth, went ‘crazy’ after allegedly taking methamphetamine and tried to harm tourists and others gathered around the windmill viewpoint in Rawai overlooking Nai Harn Beach and the Andaman Sea. After being contacted, Rawai Municipality officers did their best to try and calm him down. The man had a piece of wood in his hand as a weapon and was throwing rocks at cats and motorbikes when he got frightened by a group of people and officers trying to calm him and prevent him from doing any more harm to himself or the people around.

  • Phuket’s Burasari Group Expands Into Hotel Management

    Phuket’s Burasari Group Expands Into Hotel Management

    Bursari Phuket.

  • Storm forming over South China Sea and heading our way

    Storm forming over South China Sea and heading our way

    The forecast path for the tropical storm A new storm is forming in the South China Sea and expected to move westwards across the Gulf of Thailand and hit the southern sections of Thailand next week. The storm warning came from the Thai Meteorological Department yesterday.

  • Dead body of a deputy mayor’s brother found in Saphan Hin

    Dead body of a deputy mayor’s brother found in Saphan Hin

    The dead body of 53 year old Sanit Kumban was found floating in the sea of Saphan Hin, approximately 300 – 500 metres away from the shore today (October 27). The team of water police and Kusoldham Phuket brought him back to land and found a brown leather bag and a clothes bag with the body.

  • Five tips for TEFL job seekers in Phuket

    Five tips for TEFL job seekers in Phuket

    by Eric Haeg, Course Director of TEFL Campus  info@teflcampus.com. TEFL (Teaching English as a Foreign Language) October is a fantastic month for finding a job teaching English in Thailand.

  • Time to head home

    Time to head home

    Mourners, who made the long trip to Bangkok in recent days to pay their final respects for their beloved King Rama 9, are now starting to head home cramming bus stations, airports and roadways out of the capital. Despite the government providing opportunities for mourners to pay their final respects at replica crematoriums around the country (85 were constructed for the purpose) many still chose to head to the capital be witness of the grand Royal funeral services and processions. Mourners were in a single chorus saying they were happy to have attended the event which was a once in lifetime historic occasion.

  • 16,000 ‘overwhelmed’ by yesterday’s ceremonies

    16,000 ‘overwhelmed’ by yesterday’s ceremonies

    At least 16,000 people sought medical help from mobile medical units based near the Royal Crematorium ceremonial grounds on Wednesday and yesterday morning. About 100,000 mourners have crowded into the areas along the route of the Royal Processions held in honour of HM the late King Bhumibol Adulyadej since Wednesday

  • The collection of the Royal Relics and Ashes, this morning from Sanam Luang

    The collection of the Royal Relics and Ashes, this morning from Sanam Luang

    Watch in English by clicking the selection at the bottom-right of the frame. Courtesy Thai PBS. The post The collection of the Royal Relics and Ashes, this morning from Sanam Luang appeared first on Phuket Gazette

  • Mourners weep around the nation as they bid their final goodbye

    Mourners weep around the nation as they bid their final goodbye

    Silence fell over Sanam Luang when the time came for the Royal Cremation of His Majesty the late King Bhumibol Adulyadej on Thursday night.

  • AFTER 5PM: The symbolic Royal Cremation at the Sanam Luang Royal Crematorium

    AFTER 5PM: The symbolic Royal Cremation at the Sanam Luang Royal Crematorium

    Click in the lower right corner to listen to the English commentary. The post AFTER 5PM: The symbolic Royal Cremation at the Sanam Luang Royal Crematorium appeared first on Phuket Gazette .