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  • Missing Flight MH370 strayed to south of Phuket, Malaysia military says

    Missing Flight MH370 strayed to south of Phuket, Malaysia military says

    PHUKET: Malaysia’s military has traced what could have been the jetliner missing for almost five days to an area south of Phuket, hundreds of miles to the west of its last known position, the country’s air force chief said yesterday. His statement followed a series of conflicting accounts of the flight path of the Boeing 777-200ER with 239 people on board, which left authorities uncertain even which ocean to search in for Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370

  • DNA test confirms body parts are of missing Phuket girl Nong Dear, 7

    DNA test confirms body parts are of missing Phuket girl Nong Dear, 7

    PHUKET: The human remains found in a Chalong pine forest last December are those of missing 7-year-old Nong Dear, police confirmed today. “The Institute of Forensic Medicine in Bangkok unofficially confirmed on Monday that the DNA of the body parts found in Chalong matches those of Nong Dear’s parents,” Capt Thada Sodarak of the Chalong Police told the Phuket Gazette.

  • Russian on motorbike kills Phuket security guard

    Russian on motorbike kills Phuket security guard

    PHUKET: A resort employee in Karon who was helping tourists cross the street was struck and killed by a Russian motorcyclist on Friday morning.

  • Tourist Police confirm round up of Phuket dive instructors

    Tourist Police confirm round up of Phuket dive instructors

    PHUKET: Tourist Police joined forces with the Chalong Police yesterday afternoon and took into custody more than 20 dive instructors as they disembarked from their respective dive tour boats at Chalong Pier. “I don’t think the Chalong Police pressed charges. To my knowledge, the dive shop staffers were taken to Chalong Police Station to have their work permits checked,” Urumporn Koondejsumrit of the Phuket Tourist Police told the Phuket Gazette.

  • Thai Navy relaunches search for missing Malaysian plane off Phuket

    Thai Navy relaunches search for missing Malaysian plane off Phuket

    PHUKET: The Royal Thai Navy Third Area Command has confirmed to the Phuket Gazette that it will continue its search-and-rescue mission for Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 in the Malacca Strait.

  • Unidentified body found off Phuket beach

    Unidentified body found off Phuket beach

    PHUKET: Lifeguards stationed at the Karon Rescue Center, on Phuket’s west coast, recovered an unidentified body near Yanui Beach this afternoon. “The body was discovered a few kilometers offshore,” Kata-Karon chief lifeguard Uten Singsom told the Phuket Gazette

  • Phuket motorbike shop hands out wrong passport in return for a stolen one

    Phuket motorbike shop hands out wrong passport in return for a stolen one

    PHUKET: Police investigating stolen passports linked to the missing Malaysian Flight MH370 questioned the owner of a Phuket motorbike rental shop from which one of the passports used to board the flight was stolen. Luigi Maraldi explained to the press yesterday that he filed a report to the Patong Police on July 25 last year confirming that his passport was lost after he left it as collateral for a rental motorbike (story

  • Third Naval Area Command calls off search for MH370

    Third Naval Area Command calls off search for MH370

    PHUKET: After three days of fruitless searching, the Third Naval Area Command, based in Phuket, will stop looking for missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 this evening.

  • Phuket Police hunt for suspects involved in decapitation

    Phuket Police hunt for suspects involved in decapitation

    PHUKET: Police are hunting for five men who allegedly beheaded their co-worker and dropped the severed head and body in the jungle near the San Chao Phor Suea Shrine on Patong Hill on Sunday night.

  • Phuket officials combat Karon wastewater, put heat on hotels

    Phuket officials combat Karon wastewater, put heat on hotels

    PHUKET: Phuket officials yesterday suggested threatening hotels in Karon with having their licenses revoked if they failed to adequately treat wastewater before releasing it. The meeting between officers of the Karon Municipality and Regional Environmental Office 15 follows reports last month of rank black water pouring out of Nong Harn Canal into the ocean at Karon (story