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  • Hurdles mount for successful Phuket elections

    Hurdles mount for successful Phuket elections

    PHUKET: Uncertainty looms over Phuket polls as hurdles multiply for a successful national election tomorrow. Perhaps the most significant obstacle to be jumped is getting the party list ballots for Phuket out of Chumphon Province and distributed throughout the island. Protesters in Chumphon are preventing staffers at a post office housing the ballots from distributing them to other southern provinces, said Phuket Election Commissioner Somchai Srisutthiyakorn.

  • Phuket yachties petition against boat stay law as wave of contract cancellations hits

    Phuket yachties petition against boat stay law as wave of contract cancellations hits

    PHUKET: The yachting and marine industry in Phuket has launched a petition calling for Customs officials to repeal the new regulation limiting boat stays in Thailand to a maximum of two months during any one visit.

  • Phuket’s X-Terminal to be tested by Russians, Chinese

    Phuket’s X-Terminal to be tested by Russians, Chinese

    PHUKET: Phuket’s X-Terminal officially opened yesterday and will begin serving the island’s two largest source markets on Wednesday. “The first two weeks are trial weeks for the terminal.

  • Video Report: Phuket protesters block police transfer of election ballots

    Video Report: Phuket protesters block police transfer of election ballots

    PHUKET: Phuket anti-government protesters are blockading the Thalang Police Station in an effort to prevent the transfer of ballots to voting stations for the national election tomorrow. A large crowd of protesters gathered outside of the police station, where the ballots are being held, at about 9pm yesterday. Five protesters, chaperoned by Thalang Police Deputy Superintendent Pisit Chunpet, were allowed to verify the ballots’ location.

  • Phuket doctors unable to save girl found at Nai Harn Beach

    Phuket doctors unable to save girl found at Nai Harn Beach

    PHUKET: Doctors were unable to save the 12-year-old girl pulled unconscious from the bottom of the sea yesterday afternoon at Nai Harn Beach. “The Varissara Thongkham was pronounced dead at about 4pm,” a Vachira Phuket Emergency Medical Service officer told the Phuket Gazette this morning

  • Phuket bus ban trial date pushed back, limited to traffic-heavy hours

    Phuket bus ban trial date pushed back, limited to traffic-heavy hours

    PHUKET: The Patong Hill bus ban, set to begin by the end of February, will only bar buses and large trucks from crossing Phuket’s most infamous hill from 6am to 9am and 4pm to 7pm.

  • Phuket boat tracking system operational

    Phuket boat tracking system operational

    PHUKET: A 15-million-baht system that will track the location of the about 3,000 boats visiting Phuket each year finally has wind in its sails. “Right now, we can use our Automatic Identification System (AIS) to track boats on the north, west and south sides of the island

  • Search called off for mentally-handicapped man lost at sea

    Search called off for mentally-handicapped man lost at sea

    PHUKET: Phuket Marine Police have given up the search for a mentally-handicapped man who was swept from a longtail boat into the sea today. “We spent more than four hours looking for Jirawat Srisomporn, 27, before we had to call off the mission because of big waves,” said Lt Col Panya Chaichana of the Phuket Marine Police. Mr Jirawat, who could not swim, was hit by a large wave and thrown overboard while his father, Chaidon Srisomporn, was fishing east of Phuket between between Rang Yai Island and Maprao Island.

  • Girl in critical condition pulled from bottom of sea at Phuket beach

    Girl in critical condition pulled from bottom of sea at Phuket beach

    PHUKET: Doctor’s are scrambling to save the life of a girl who was pulled unconscious from the sea floor at Nai Harn Beach today. “She arrived at about 3pm in critical condition,” Vachira Phuket Emergency Medical Service nurse Ladda Thongtan told the Phuket Gazette. The girl was one of four children pulled from the water during the rescue.

  • Bang Tao Canal ills on course to be solved by 2015

    Bang Tao Canal ills on course to be solved by 2015

    PHUKET: A multitude of infrastructure projects designed to stifle the stench and improve the quality of water being released from the Bang Tao Canal into the ocean are about 30 to 40 per cent complete, Cherng Talay Administrative Organization officer (palad) Krichanut Suphantakit has confirmed.