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  • Phuket Police net 16 ‘shrimp-fish’ losers

    Phuket Police net 16 ‘shrimp-fish’ losers

    PHUKET: Phuket City Police last night raided an apartment building in Chalong, arresting 16 people for gambling on the popular “shrimp-fish” board game and seizing over 400,000 baht in cash. The raid, led by Phuket City Police Deputy Superintendent Serm Kwannimit, caught gamblers off-guard at a makeshift gambling den set up in an eighth-floor room at the Santiphap apartment complex in Chalong Village 1. Raids on gambling dens in Phuket often end with many of the punters scrambling to freedom through pre-planned escape routes, many of them remarkable for their complexity and creativity of design.

  • Krabi tourist vans slam into fallen karst boulder

    Krabi tourist vans slam into fallen karst boulder

    PHUKET: A boulder weighing at least one tonne plummeted off a roadside karst near the tourist-popular Ao Nang beach in Krabi this afternoon.

  • Phuket Update: Phi Phi stabbing suspect pleads not guilty

    Phuket Update: Phi Phi stabbing suspect pleads not guilty

    PHUKET: A Thai man accused of stabbing a young British tourist on Phi Phi Island last year pleaded “not guilty” to charges of attempted murder before Krabi Court yesterday. The suspect, 23-year-old Hamed Poonyung, has been

  • Phuket Live Wire: Keeping malware at bay for free

    Phuket Live Wire: Keeping malware at bay for free

    PHUKET: Continuing the series answering questions I hear most often from PC users here in Phuket, I have a very unpopular choice for antivirus (AV) software.

  • Phuket poll: Irksome complaints by foreigners

    Phuket poll: Irksome complaints by foreigners

    PHUKET: Foreigners in Phuket, both tourists and residents, have developed somewhat of a reputation for complaining over the years. The latest Phuket Gazette readers poll, online now, asks readers: Which of the following topics are you most tired of hearing foreigners in Phuket complain about? And the nominees are: • Overpriced alcohol • Double-pricing (when foreigners pay more than Thais) • Tuk-tuks, taxis • Local driving habits • Immigration requirements • Jet-skis To vote in the poll, click

  • Pregnant Swede still in Phuket hospital after chlorine gas exposure

    Pregnant Swede still in Phuket hospital after chlorine gas exposure

    PHUKET: A pregnant Swedish woman

  • Tremor hits Phang Nga, no damage reported

    Tremor hits Phang Nga, no damage reported

    PHUKET: Coastal residents of Takuapa District in Phang Nga were put on alert this morning following a minor earthquake. The event turned out to be a localized tremor that caused no damage, not the effects of a larger event further away like the tsunami-causing quake that devastated Phuket and the entire Andaman coastline in 2004.

  • Five dead, 16 injured in Phang Nga crash

    Five dead, 16 injured in Phang Nga crash

    PHUKET: Five people returning from a Phuket cremation ceremony were killed on Saturday night when the crowded pickup they were riding in slammed into a tree in Phang Nga. Sixteen others were seriously injured. A songthaew (pickup modified for passenger transport) was returning Buddhist adherents from the

  • Royal Thai Navy intercepts 27 Phuket-bound Burmese

    Royal Thai Navy intercepts 27 Phuket-bound Burmese

    PHUKET: The Royal Thai Navy Third Area Command arrested 27 Burmese en route to Phuket aboard a fishing boat off the coast of Ranong on February 10. The group were charged with entering the country illegally and were taken ashore to be prepared for deportation. The arrest was made by the staff of HTMS Chonburi under the supervision of Lt Commander Warawut Seejarak.

  • Prompong in Phuket to launch tourist safety campaign

    Prompong in Phuket to launch tourist safety campaign

    PHUKET: Government spokesman Prompong Nopparit was back in Phuket last night to launch a new tourist safety campaign that will see a rapid expansion in the number of closed-circuit television cameras in Patong and other popular tourist destinations. Mr Prompong, a party list MP for the ruling Pheu Thai Party, at 7pm held an informal meeting with the press on Bangla Road, where he also met with local business business operators and their staff. The purpose of the latest visit was to launch a nationwide “500,000 eyeballs for tourist safety and security” tourist safety campaign.