Artikel tagged “Asien”

  • Phuket Environment: Time for Racha to sink or swim?

    Phuket Environment: Time for Racha to sink or swim?

    SPECIAL REPORT PHUKET: With only two weeks remaining until the deadline set by Phuket Vice Governor Sommai Prijasilpa to have environmental protections in place on Racha Yai Island, questions are being asked about how much has been achieved and what remains to be done to protect the popular tourist island’s pristine environment. A campaign lasting nearly a year asking for government help to protect the environment on the island, about 25 kilometers south of Phuket, was answered six weeks ago when V/Gov Sommai visited

  • Phuket Tech: How to change your address – Live Wire

    Phuket Tech: How to change your address – Live Wire

    PHUKET: Many of my friends here in Phuket are in the process of changing their email addresses from blahblah@phuket.ksc.co.

  • Trash fires cause evacuations on Koh Lanta

    Trash fires cause evacuations on Koh Lanta

    PHUKET: Villagers on Koh Lanta, across Phang Nga Bay from Phuket, have evacuated their homes because of respiratory problems caused by garbage fires at a landfill.

  • Phuket pond cleanup uncovers dumped motorbike

    Phuket pond cleanup uncovers dumped motorbike

    PHUKET: Police are looking into whether a motorbike found this morning dumped in a lagoon in Rawai was stolen or had been involved in a crime. Rawai Municipality officials found the red-and-black Yamaha Nouvo after they began dredging the Baan Sai Yuan public pond near the Rawai Palm Beach Resort at about 10am. “The pond was shallow because mud was blocking the waterway, so I ordered officers to get in there and clear the pond to ensure better water drainage.

  • Phuket Police on lookout for three drivers in two fatal hit-and-runs

    Phuket Police on lookout for three drivers in two fatal hit-and-runs

    PHUKET: Chalong Police are looking for the drivers of three vehicles involved in two separate hit-and-runs on Thursday night. Just after midnight yesterday morning, police received a report that a man had died in a road accident near the entrance to Soi Pratana on Chao Fa West Road in Chalong (map

  • Phuket gunfight survivors yet to deliver police statements

    Phuket gunfight survivors yet to deliver police statements

    PHUKET: One of the two survivors of the gunfight on March 20, which left two dead and a Tourist Police officer charged with murder, has given police his version of the shooting but has not identified the shooter. Natthapong Kaewkuanchum, 25, was shot three times in the chest in the early morning of March 20, and is in the surgical ward at Vachira Phuket Hospital. Phuket City Police investigators questioned him about what transpired in the room at the Phuket Garden Ville housing estate early on the morning of March 20 (story

  • Phuket Immigration calls for Rohingya aid

    Phuket Immigration calls for Rohingya aid

    PHUKET: Phuket Immigration is calling for donations of essentials for the 67 Rohingya currently under detention.

  • Phuket Opinion: Stray dog ‚final solution‘ should take a pounding

    Phuket Opinion: Stray dog ‚final solution‘ should take a pounding

    John Dalley is Phuket’s well-known founder of the Soi Dog Foundation, a not-for-profit, legally registered charitable organization in Thailand, the United States, Australia, the UK, France and Holland.

  • Phuket to become land probe role model

    Phuket to become land probe role model

    PHUKET: A Deputy Ministry of Interior arrived on Phuket yesterday to launch a land title deed investigation geared to establish Phuket as a role model for land probes. “Many plots of land have been acquired through corrupt officials,” Deputy Interior Minister Pracha Prasopdee told the Phuket Gazette. “This investigation, commencing immediately and lasting 30 days, will establish Phuket as a role model for the rest of the country in how to deal with this problem.

  • Ministry of Justice steps up to help Phuket sea gypsies

    Ministry of Justice steps up to help Phuket sea gypsies

    PHUKET: Thailand’s Ministry of Justice is spearheading a multi-agency effort to provide assistance to sea gyspies in Phuket.