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  • Blackout in Cherng Talay – Bang Tao Beach

    Blackout in Cherng Talay – Bang Tao Beach

    PHUKET: The Phuket Provincial Electricity Authority (PPEA) has issued a late notice that there will be a scheduled blackout in the Cherng Talay area from 9am to 5pm today. The affected area will extend from Soi Bang Tao 1 to Soi Bang Tao 8.

  • Phuket python accused of fowl play

    Phuket python accused of fowl play

    PHUKET: A Phuket python got into a chicken coop and devoured a prized breeding hen yesterday, while the fowl’s owner was away from home. Sombat Sae-eow realized something was amiss when he came home and discovered the python, sporting a large bulge in its middle, lying under a bamboo chicken pen. Kusoldharm Foundation rescue workers were called to the house in Baan Sakoo, south of Phuket International Airport, and easily captured the reptile, which had been rendered lethargic with digestion.

  • Poll: Who are the real victims of corruption in Phuket?

    Poll: Who are the real victims of corruption in Phuket?

    PHUKET: The recent allegation that at least 60 million baht in corruption payments was fleeced each and every month from businesses and individuals in Patong finally put a figure on just a part of the corruption rampant in Phuket (story

  • Phuket braces for more underpass traffic jams at Tesco junction

    Phuket braces for more underpass traffic jams at Tesco junction

    PHUKET: Motorists who have seen the road blocks placed on the median strip in front of Tesco-Lotus on the bypass road (map

  • Chinese tourist comatose after jet-ski, speedboat collision in Phuket

    Chinese tourist comatose after jet-ski, speedboat collision in Phuket

    PHUKET: A Chinese tourist remains comatose after being seriously injured in a collision between the rented jet-ski he was riding and a paragliding speedboat at Patong Beach today. Rescue workers and police were called to the beach at about 11am.

  • Phuket kratom arrests continue as nation ponders decriminalizing the leaf

    Phuket kratom arrests continue as nation ponders decriminalizing the leaf

    PHUKET: Three Burmese men were arrested in Thalang yesterday for possession of kratom leaves. Their arrest follows the felling of a kratom orchard in Patong three days ago and precedes a meeting of the Narcotics Control Board, Food and Drug Administration, Public Health Ministry and National Police next week about whether to decriminalize the leaf (story

  • Phuket police call for public’s help in identifying cafe thief

    Phuket police call for public’s help in identifying cafe thief

    PHUKET: Phuket City Police today released CCTV images of a man who robbed a cafe at the top of Rang Hill on August 5. “We’ve searched for the man ourselves, but couldn’t find him. We are now releasing these images with the hope that the public can identify him,” said Phuket City Police Deputy Superintendent Prawit Engchuan.

  • Nigerian arrested in Phuket with visa stolen from Malaysia, cocaine

    Nigerian arrested in Phuket with visa stolen from Malaysia, cocaine

    PHUKET: A Nigerian man arrested for possession of cocaine in Phuket yesterday was also found to be carrying a passport with a visa stolen from the Thai embassy in Malaysia. Karon Police on patrol were notified by an undercover officer of the location of the Nigerian, who was believed to be in possession of drugs.

  • Northbound lanes at Phuket underpass to re-open, relieve congestion

    Northbound lanes at Phuket underpass to re-open, relieve congestion

    PHUKET: The northbound lanes entering the Darasamuth Intersection, in front of the Central Festival Festival shopping mall, will be re-opened this afternoon, relieving some of the heavy traffic congestion in the area. Excavating the road required workmen at the site to close all northbound lanes for several hours this morning and redirect traffic along the spur road to join Wichit Songkram Road in front of Surakul Stadium (map

  • More escaped Rohingya rounded up in Phuket; search continues

    More escaped Rohingya rounded up in Phuket; search continues

    PHUKET: Phuket police have taken nine more Rohingya men back into custody, and back to the immigration detention center they had escaped from early on Saturday morning (story