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  • Phuket Marine Police conduct boat safety raids

    Phuket Marine Police conduct boat safety raids

    PHUKET: The Phuket Marine Office conducted safety inspections of speedboats, dive boats and other vessels geared toward tourism at Chalong Pier yesterday. “It is our responsibility to continually check on the boats and strictly enforce regulations to ensure the safety of passengers,” Chatchai Sakdee of the Phuket Marine Police said. Police confirmed that the boats were not carrying more than the maximum capacity of passengers, were being serviced regularly and had enough life jackets available for everyone on board.

  • Phuket expat volunteers strike amid Patong Police fallout

    Phuket expat volunteers strike amid Patong Police fallout

    PHUKET: The ousting of Patong Police Superintendent Chiraphat Pochanaphan on Monday has prompted expat police volunteers in Phuket to go on strike. Expat police volunteers will no longer assist police or carry out their highly-praised night patrols of Patong until a clear structure is established, explained Wal Brown, long-term Phuket expat and head co-ordinator of the Royal Thai Police Region 8 volunteers on the island

  • Phuket mini-crepe maker saved from sharks, gets gift of a lifetime

    Phuket mini-crepe maker saved from sharks, gets gift of a lifetime

    PHUKET: A Phuket vendor who saw his only source of livelihood – a mini-crepe cart – go up in smoke was able to avoid going to loan sharks to replace it because of help from an unlikely source, a New Zealander who has been to the province only twice. Prayoon Inpuang, 44, was preparing to sell mini-crepes in Phuket Town on February 13 when he smelt fuel and heard it leaking. Before he was able to control the leak, his stall burst into flames and was quickly incinerated (story

  • Phuket speed cameras return to bypass road this week

    Phuket speed cameras return to bypass road this week

    PHUKET: Speed cameras on Phuket’s bypass road will be put back in position this week after officials removed them on Friday. “The pictures the cameras were taking at night were not clear or bright enough to identify license plates,” Lt Col Rungrit Rattanapagdee of the Phuket City Police told the Phuket Gazette yesterday morning. “We hired mechanics from Nextech System Service in Bangkok to adjust the brightness of the images and the speed of the cameras.

  • Urgent call for blood to save Phuket teacher

    Urgent call for blood to save Phuket teacher

    PHUKET: The Phuket Regional Blood Center (PRBC) is urgently calling for donations of A-negative blood in order to save the life of Dean Jackson, a teacher who was injured in a motorcycle accident. “We received a request from Phuket International Hospital for two units of A-negative blood to save the patient’s life,” PRBC Chief Pornthip Rattajak told the Phuket Gazette this afternoon

  • Burning rubber in dry grass leads to flaming car

    Burning rubber in dry grass leads to flaming car

    PHUKET: A man trying to free his girlfriend’s new car from the sand of a Phuket beach yesterday sent it up in flames instead.

  • Phuket tuk-tuk blockade ousts Patong Police superintendent

    Phuket tuk-tuk blockade ousts Patong Police superintendent

    PHUKET: A 200-strong tuk-tuk blockade last night ended with Phuket’s top cop agreeing to meet the drivers’ demands, which included transferring the Patong Police superintendent. The blockade formed after four tuk-tuk drivers were arrested yesterday afternoon for not allowing green plate taxi drivers to use public parking spots on Thaweewong Road, said Sakol Srisompoch, president of the Patong tuk-tuk drivers club

  • Woman saved from Phuket mob after fatal motorbike collision

    Woman saved from Phuket mob after fatal motorbike collision

    PHUKET: Rescue workers saved a Phuket woman from the wrath of an angry mob in Pa Khlok early yesterday evening after her car struck a local man and dragged him to his death. The accident occurred in Baan Bangla, about two kilometers east of the Heroines Monument (map here), at about 6:30pm, Lt Chatree Chuwichian of the Thalang Police told the Phuket Gazette.

  • Phuket Provincial Hall fails to re-open

    Phuket Provincial Hall fails to re-open

    PHUKET: Phuket Provincial Hall did not re-open yesterday as anticipated after People’s Democratic for Reform Committee (PDRC) leader Suthep Thaugsuban announced the end of the Bangkok Shutdown. “As I told you on Saturday, the stage in front of Provincial Hall will remain standing until I receive word from Bangkok to dismantle it,” said Phuket protest co-ordinator Amnuay Kumban (story

  • Phuket restaurant owner saves the month for woman in Cherng Talay

    Phuket restaurant owner saves the month for woman in Cherng Talay

    PHUKET: A Phuket restaurant owner saved the day for a woman who left behind her entire month’s living allowance in a motorcycle basket Sunday morning. The 47-year-old Kamala restaurant owner found 6,620 baht and an identification card outside CP Fresh Mart in Cherng Talay, said Peerasit Noopayan of the Cherng Talay Police. “Pradit Samohthong came immediately to the station and left the wallet, so it could be returned to its owner,” said Lt Peerasit.