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PHUKET: Supply of Canon camera equipment in Thailand has not been disrupted by the recent flooding, a senior manager at Cannon Marketing (Thailand) has confirmed. „Luckily, our camera production facilities are not located in the affected areas,“ said Warin Tantiphongpanid, Senior Director and General Manager Consumer Imaging and Information of Cannon Marketing (Thailand) Co Ltd. „We have a printer factory located in Pathum Thani province that was affected by the floods, but aside from this our camera storage and distribution facilities in Thailand are fine,“ he said, adding that Canon does not manufacture any of its cameras in Thailand.
PHUKET: After waiting months for steps to be taken to prevent boulders from tumbling from the Guanyin construction site into their resort, management at L’Orchidee Residences in Patong have hired their own contractor. Jean-Claude Guillet, the retired developer and the owners’ representative of the resort, explained to the Phuket Gazette that the move follows months of failed attempts to get the contractor to abide by his promise to take full responsibility for the damage caused by the tumbling boulders and to ensure no other boulders roll into the resort.
PHUKET: Bad news moves quickly – constantly – and there is a cast of usual suspects who society likes to push the blame on, people who are “different” or somehow not representative of the whole. Who are they? Illegal immigrants, stateless people, migrant workers and essentially any other minority group that has the misfortune of being a convenient scapegoat.
PHUKET: The Swedish man who died off
PHUKET: The father of Anupong Sae-Yu, the four-year-old boy who died in the accident at the
PHUKET: Popular Thai artist Todd Tongdee Lavelle, a main organizer of the
PHUKET: Jungceylon recently held the Junior Soccer 2011 football tournament, the event’s fourth edition. This year’s tourney hosted a total of 32 teams from 25 schools from all over Phuket. Championship honors went to Tessaban Wat Kitti Sangkaram School, which is also known as Karon Municipality School.
PHUKET: Thailand’s senior national football squad are still in the race for the 2014 World Cup, despite back-to-back losses to Saudi Arabia and Australia on November 11 and 15.
PHUKET: Many athletes feel insecure about their training during the week before race day. This is a highly important time used to recover from the load of training in the previous weeks. Experts call this the “Taper Phase”.
PHUKET: Balance is one of the fundamentals to developing great tennis ground strokes. In today’s game of power tennis, many of the players are leaping in the air to hit their forehands and backhands.