Artikel erschien Januar 2018

  • Bay Regatta returns to Phang Nga Bay

    Bay Regatta returns to Phang Nga Bay

    The 21st Bay Regatta will be held from January 31 to February 4, 2018 in and around the waters of Phang Nga Bay. The Bay Regatta is often referred to as ‘Asia’s fun regatta’, attracting both serious racing yachts and casual cruisers out to enjoy the picturesque maritime scenery

  • The final search – ‘Ocean Infinity’ looks for MH370

    The final search – ‘Ocean Infinity’ looks for MH370

    An oceanographer from Australia’s national science agency CSIRO is expressing optimism that missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 will be found within a month after a new search effort kicked off last week. The private company Ocean Infinity has begun its contribution to the search for MH370, the single largest in aviation history. The flight disappeared en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing in March 2014 with 239 people on board.

  • THAIGER TODAY Monday, January 29

    THAIGER TODAY Monday, January 29

    Krabi coal fire plant hearings get no opposition | Frenchman nabbed over Italian’s murder in Tak | Thailand voted the Number One ranking of the list of Best Countries to Start a Business | Anxious wait for Thai fishing ‘yellow card’ to lifted | Wildlife Selfie Code launched | ‘Upcycling the oceans’ event pulls nearly a tonne of rubbish off beaches. The post THAIGER TODAY Monday, January 29 appeared first on Phuket Gazette .

  • Workers seek help after ‘false promise’ of jobs in Australia

    Workers seek help after ‘false promise’ of jobs in Australia

    Fourteen workers in Chaiyaphum filed complaints with police on Monday stating that they had been cheated by a man who charged them money based on a promise to find them jobs in Australia. The workers filed the complaint at Muang Chaiyaphum Police Station at 9.30am, with the acting Chaiyaphum job-placement officer, Thawatchai Upanan, receiving the complaints at the station. The workers said a resident of Muang district identified only as Korakot Juakudkhamin, 33, had collected between 80,000 baht and 150,000 baht since September and promised to send them to work in Australia by January 16.

  • Russian man dies after walk along Krabi beach

    Russian man dies after walk along Krabi beach

    A 61 year old Russian tourist, Shikokenko Alexander, fainted while walking along the beach at Hong Island in Krabi, was being taken to hospital but died on the way (January 28). At 1pm, the Chief of Bokkoranee National Park received a report that the Russian man was walking with his wife along the beach when he collapsed onto the sand.

  • Krabi power plant public hearing went smoothly. Protesters boycot event.

    Krabi power plant public hearing went smoothly. Protesters boycot event.

    More than 2,500 people attended the public hearing about Krabi’s proposed new coal power plant yesterday (January 28) with 1,150 police and army officers guarding the meeting and watching out for any potential protest activity. The 1,150 officers were guarding the area of the public hearing stage at Klong Kanan Sub District Administration Organisation office (OrBorTor), both in uniforms and undercover. “The officers guarded that area to ensure security from possible conflicts between the supporters and the people who disagree with the project, which has happened numerous times,” said Pol Maj Gen Boontawee Toraksa.

  • 4 metre long python found in goat farm

    4 metre long python found in goat farm

    Last night (January 28), the owner of Kiang Tawan goat farm in Krabi, 56 year old Kiang Yaithong, along with his friends, tried to capture a 4 metre and 15 kilogram python that sneaked inside his farm and ate a cat and a few chickens.

  • Huge python found in 70 year old’s house

    Huge python found in 70 year old’s house

    A big python, actually a HUGE python, was found in front of a 70 year old Somneug Pattanawong’s Phuket home today. He heard his dog barking loudly so opened the door to check what the fuss was all about.

  • Back to the future. Democrats looking over their shoulder for election candidate.

    Back to the future. Democrats looking over their shoulder for election candidate.

    By SOMROUTAI SAPSOMBOON The future of Chuan Leekpai, the Democrat Party’s chief adviser and former leader, is the subject of speculation as some muse that he will return as its chief ahead of the next general election. The speculation stems from two separate assumptions – that the Democrats and the Pheu Thai Party may join forces to prevent the junta’s return to power, and that the Democrats need a new leader to boost their chances of winning the election. The first assumption responds to a growing belief that the ruling junta is attempting to extend its stay in power through returning General Prayut Chan-o-cha as a non-elected prime minister, if he could garner sufficient support from the junta-appointed Senate and pro-junta political parties.

  • Waste water flowing freely onto Krabi’s beaches

    Waste water flowing freely onto Krabi’s beaches

    Krabi Vice Governor, Pol Capt Apinan Puakpong, with a team of military officers, Krabi Office of Natural Resources and Environment and Krabi Provincial Public Health Office, inspected hotels, resorts and restaurants along Tub Kaeg Beach and found that there are five 5-star hotels as well as one restaurant that have their waste water pipe releasing directly into the sea. The inspection followed a complaint from people that they got itchy after swimming at the beach