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  • Phuket media blackout on Hungarian execution case

    Phuket media blackout on Hungarian execution case

    PHUKET: Moshe David was in court today for the execution of Hungarian businessman Peter Reisz, whose body was found with hands bound in a rubber plantation on Phuket in 2012 (story

  • March 30 eyed for Phuket alcohol ban

    March 30 eyed for Phuket alcohol ban

    PHUKET: If alcohol bans during the past two weekends for the national election weren’t enough, the Election Commission of Thailand today revealed that another is on its way, most likely on March 30. Election Commission Secretary-General Puchong Nutrawong explained to Phuket Gazette partner newspaper The Nation that the current term for senators will expire on March 3

  • Phuket songtaew driver returns ticket home to forgetful Finnish tourist

    Phuket songtaew driver returns ticket home to forgetful Finnish tourist

    PHUKET: A Phuket public bus driver saved the day for a Finnish tourist who left behind an important bag in a songtaew this morning. Kamala bus driver Kiattisak Hoksad found tourist Sami Oskari Lyytinen’s bag – containing a passport, a plane ticket to Finland and some cash – in the back of his songtaew at about 11:30am today.

  • Rice farmer protest closes Phuket highway to Bangkok

    Rice farmer protest closes Phuket highway to Bangkok

    PHUKET: The main highway linking Bangkok to Phuket and the rest of Southern Thailand has been closed by rice farmers protesting the government’s failure to pay for rice produced and delivered under the controversial rice-pledging scheme. The blockade is in effect on Petchkasem Road in Ratchaburi, about 100km west of Bangkok.

  • Phuket boy drowns after chasing kite into sea

    Phuket boy drowns after chasing kite into sea

    PHUKET: A 9-year-old boy died after being pulled unconscious from the sea in northern Phuket yesterday.

  • Body of Phuket fisherman’s son, lost at sea, washes ashore

    Body of Phuket fisherman’s son, lost at sea, washes ashore

    PHUKET: The body of a mentally-handicapped man who was knocked off a Phuket longtail boat by a large wave on Friday was found washed ashore yesterday.

  • Phuket Opinion: Creating a family for the ill far from home

    Phuket Opinion: Creating a family for the ill far from home

    Anita Somaini, 51, is the owner of Baan Tschuai Duu Lää, a nursing facility in Rawai. She has degrees in nursing, emergency nursing and pharmacology and worked for 20 years in hospitals, geriatric institutes and pharmaceutical companies in her native Switzerland

  • BREAKING NEWS:  Protesters keep Phuket polls closed for national election

    BREAKING NEWS: Protesters keep Phuket polls closed for national election

    PHUKET: Protesters successfully shut down Phuket polling stations by 8:30 this morning. “Phuket elections have been terminated for today,“ Phuket Election Commission Director Kittipong Thiengkunakrit told the Phuket Gazette

  • Phuket Opinion: Safe Phuket roads still nowhere to be found

    Phuket Opinion: Safe Phuket roads still nowhere to be found

    PHUKET: It is hard to imagine that only two countries in the world have more deadly roads than Thailand. Yes, Phuket Land Transport officials should take a measure of pride in the reduction of road accident deaths in recent years, but the island obviously has far to go before conditions on the roadways can be considered anything close to acceptably safe. The “culture of carelessness” that pervades Phuket roads, and Thai roads in general, has been addressed numerous times in this space; yet, it remains the most fundamental and intractable factor in road deaths.

  • Phuket Opinion: Airport expectations hit rough turbulence

    Phuket Opinion: Airport expectations hit rough turbulence

    PHUKET: Phuket is an international tourist destination – few can argue differently. Islanders may whine that it isn’t what it used to be, but even they are likely to admit that one of the benefits of progress is having an international airport, with international standards.