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  • Phuket Opinion: Being connected helps save lives

    Phuket Opinion: Being connected helps save lives

    PHUKET: We offer our sincerest condolences to the families of the many victims of Super Typhoon Haiyan that hit the Philippines last week, and commend the multiple relief efforts still underway here in Phuket to help residents on the islands of Samar and Leyte, the most badly affected areas. Among those who deserve praise are some familiar names, such as Phuket’s Rotary Clubs, along with the island’s Filipino community and the people behind the special benefit show by Black Eyed Peas rapper “apl.de.

  • Storm sinks Phi Phi ferry, ravages longtail, speedboat fleet

    Storm sinks Phi Phi ferry, ravages longtail, speedboat fleet

    PHUKET: Heavy seas at Phi Phi Island this morning sunk a large passenger ferry, beached a cargo boat and heavily damaged at least six speedboats and 20 longtail boats, officials have confirmed. The Andaman Jet Wave ferry, registered to carry 250 passengers, had yet to begin its daily operations of carrying tourists to and from Krabi and Phi Phi, explained Krabi Marine Police Inspector Chaiyasit Kancharoen

  • Phuket Airport resumes domestic flights as storm abates

    Phuket Airport resumes domestic flights as storm abates

    PHUKET: Flights at Phuket International Airport have resumed normal service after the storm this morning resulted in hours-long delays, forcing at least hundreds of travellers to seek refuge in the departure lounge. “From about 9am to 11am some domestic flights had to be delayed because of the weather,” Phuket Airport Director Pratuang Sornkham confirmed. “However, all the flights are back on schedule.

  • Phuket yachties in dramatic boat rescue from sea wall

    Phuket yachties in dramatic boat rescue from sea wall

    PHUKET: A handful of brave members at Phuket’s Ao Chalong Yacht Club (ACYC) scrambled to save a French expat’s yacht from smashing into the sea wall in front of the clubhouse this morning.

  • Port closed, yachts beached as storm lashes Phuket

    Port closed, yachts beached as storm lashes Phuket

    PHUKET: Local authroities this morning ordered Phuket Rassada Port closed as strong wind and waves lashed the coast and driving rain wreaked havoc with motorists across the island.

  • Phuket Customs catch Indian drug mule with B15mn of ya ice

    Phuket Customs catch Indian drug mule with B15mn of ya ice

    PHUKET: Customs officers arrested a drug mule attempting to smuggle 4.5 kilograms of ya ice (crystal methamphetamine) into Phuket from Delhi, India, yesterday. The 37-year-old Indian woman, Aizawl Lalchhuanthangi, was presented at a press conference yesterday at Phuket International Airport.

  • Phuket Opinion: Russian cold warms memories of Phuket

    Phuket Opinion: Russian cold warms memories of Phuket

    PHUKET: With all the recent talk about the influx of Russian tourists and expats to our island, I jumped at the chance to attend a Phuket Gazette exhibition in Moscow and see how the other half lives, as it were. Moscow, like any other large European city, has a wealth of grand historic architecture, museums, galleries and cultural attractions – not to mention fantastic public transport, which Phuket can only dream of having. And Moscow certainly has its share – the majestic Saint Basil’s Cathedral, the rich history of the Kremlin and the refined elegance of the renowned Bolshoi Theater.

  • Friends fail to identify body of Gao Yang, parents en route to Phuket

    Friends fail to identify body of Gao Yang, parents en route to Phuket

    PHUKET: The parents of Chinese national and Singaporean student Gao Yang, who slipped from the rocks at Phuket’s Promthep Cape late Wednesday afternoon, are on their way to the island. “We expect them to arrive in Phuket tomorrow or Sunday,” Qin Jian, Vice Consul of the Consulate-General of the People’s Republic of China, told the Phuket Gazette this afternoon

  • Imprisoned Russian pays B310k for damage to statue of Phuket abbot

    Imprisoned Russian pays B310k for damage to statue of Phuket abbot

    PHUKET: The Russian tourist who damaged a statue of a revered Phuket abbot during a drunken spree last month has had relatives wire in 310,000 baht to pay for a new statue to be built. Oleg Fomenko, 31, remains incarcerated at Phuket Prison following his arrest on October 24

  • Chinese tourists on Phuket ladyboy tour safe after bus dies on Patong Hill

    Chinese tourists on Phuket ladyboy tour safe after bus dies on Patong Hill

    PHUKET: An entire busload of 35 Chinese tourists were quickly and safely evacuated from a tour bus after its engine died while climbing the steep road up Patong Hill last night. The tourists were en route from the Aphrodite ladyboy show on the bypass road to the famed Simon Cabaret ladyboy show in Patong when the bus broke down just before the Chao Pho Seua Shrine (also called the “Tiger Temple” – map