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  • Phuket Airport tipped to reach breaking point

    Phuket Airport tipped to reach breaking point

    PHUKET: With tourism numbers surging, Phuket International Airport is expecting a record four million passenger arrivals for the year 2011. As arrivals to Asias leading resort destination in the first half of the year increased 20% over the same period in 2010 and an unprecedented number of new hotel rooms opened, sagging infrastructure is creating a widespread danger to the islands tourism industry

  • Fried Noodles: Transformer explodes, food cart incinerated

    Fried Noodles: Transformer explodes, food cart incinerated

    PHUKET: The explosion of an electrical transformer in Phuket this afternoon incinerated a noodle vendors cart, injured a woman, and damaged several vehicles.

  • Phukets 70.3 Ironman gets Kailua-Kona slots

    Phukets 70.3 Ironman gets Kailua-Kona slots

    PHUKET: Ironman 70.3 Asia-Pacific Championship at Laguna Phuket has scored a major coup by securing 30 qualifying slots from the World Triathlon Corporation for its prestigious 2012 Ford Ironman World Championship in Kailua-Kona, Hawaii. Laguna is one of only three worldwide Ironman 70.

  • Phuket’s Gov to bring illegal hotels into the fold

    Phuket’s Gov to bring illegal hotels into the fold

    PHUKET: Tri Augkaradacha, Phukets 43rd governor, was promoted to the top job on October 1, 2010, when he set tourism promotion as his prime policy objective.

  • Phuket Island View – Soi Dog in it for the long haul

    Phuket Island View – Soi Dog in it for the long haul

    PHUKET: THE recent … Full story

  • Phuket’s Sri Panwa is ready to pilot minimum wage

    Phuket’s Sri Panwa is ready to pilot minimum wage

    PHUKET: One of the islands most luxurious lodgings says its ready to pilot daily minimum wages of 300 baht, after the government named Phuket as one of six provinces (along with Bangkok) where higher pay will be introduced first. Songkran Issara, the managing director of Charn Issara Development, which runs the Sri Panwa resort at Cape Panwa, said the company was ready to support the governments policy because in Thailand there was a large wage gap between people in the lower end of the workforce and those in higher positions. …

  • Phuket’s rice prices set to rise

    Phuket’s rice prices set to rise

    PHUKET: Menus in Phuket and across Thailand will soon be revised with the price of rice set to jump as a result of the Yingluk administrations changes to the rice mortgaging scheme. Pitched as a mechanism to increase rice farmers incomes and spending power, the controversial program first implemented by the Thaksin administration six years ago will offer increased rates on rice for loans to farmers who agree to pledge their yields as collateral.

  • Phuket Live Wire: Choosing the right internet landline

    Phuket Live Wire: Choosing the right internet landline

    PHUKET: In my last … Full story

  • Lengthen your contact, dont follow through

    Lengthen your contact, dont follow through

    PHUKET: This weeks tennis tip is on length of contact, comes courtsey of Travis Bertram who is the Tennis Director for Thanyapura Sports and Leisure Club, Phuket.

  • Rubber barriers saving lives in Phuket

    Rubber barriers saving lives in Phuket

    PHUKET: Old car tyres being used to create median strips along Chao Fa West Road in Chalong have reduced fatal accidents by almost 100 per cent, say Phuket police.