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  • Phuket Heroines Festival to re-enact Battle of Thalang

    Phuket Heroines Festival to re-enact Battle of Thalang

    PHUKET: Phuket Governor Maitri Inthusut tonight will play a leading role as King Buddha Yodfa Chulaloke, also referred to by Thais as “Rama I”, in the annual re-enactment of the Battle of Thalang. The event marks the historical battle in 1785 in which Phuket’s own “angels”, Thao Thepkrasattri and Thao Srisoonthorn, better known as the Phuket Heroines, led local villagers to repel a Burmese invasion. Governor Maitri began today’s celebrations with a wreath-laying ceremony at the Heroines’ Monument in the heart of the island.

  • Human Rights Watch calls for probe into alleged Rohingya shootings

    Human Rights Watch calls for probe into alleged Rohingya shootings

    PHUKET: New York-based Human Rights Watch (HRW) today issued a statement calling for the Thai authorities to investigate reports of Royal Thai Navy sailors opening fire on a boatload of Rohingya off the Phang Nga coast, north of Phuket, allegedly killing at least two of the refugees. “Rohingya fleeing Burma should be given protection, not shot at,” said Brad Adams, Asia director at Human Rights Watch.

  • Phuket Opinion: Tough love for Phuket stray dogs

    Phuket Opinion: Tough love for Phuket stray dogs

    PHUKET: For the past 10 months, Weerasit Puthipairoj, 58, has been the chief of the Phuket Provincial Livestock Office. Originally from Narathiwat, Mr Weerasit has a master’s degree in Agricultural Development from the Prince of Songkla University Haad Yai campus in Songkhla. Here, he talks about stray dogs in Phuket, the best way to deal with them and what to do if you are attacked by a vicious dog: There are many stray dogs on Phuket because Thai tradition is to be kind to them and feed them.

  • Phuket women focus on exercise for International Women’s Day

    Phuket women focus on exercise for International Women’s Day

    PHUKET: More than 1,000 women gathered at Phuket’s landmark Promthep Cape on Friday for a pre-sunset mass exercise to mark International Women’s Day. The event was held under the theme “Women Healthy Creative” as part of an ongoing campaign being conducted by the Phuket Women’s Development Center.

  • Phuket protest delivers possible reprieve for Muslim teacher sacked for joining Hajj

    Phuket protest delivers possible reprieve for Muslim teacher sacked for joining Hajj

    PHUKET: About 100 parents, students, community leaders and other Muslim residents from across Phuket gathered in front of Muslim Wittaya School on Thepkrasattri Road in Koh Kaew this morning to protest a teacher being sacked for taking unapproved leave to join the Hajj.

  • Phuket taxi driver confesses to assault, abduction – denies rape

    Phuket taxi driver confesses to assault, abduction – denies rape

    PHUKET: A Phuket taxi driver has confessed to beating and abducting a karaoke hostess before stealing her valuables and leaving her tied up in a Phuket hotel room.

  • Russian tourist struck down by Phuket bus

    Russian tourist struck down by Phuket bus

    PHUKET: A Russian tourist suffered head and leg injuries when he was hit by a ‘pink bus’ in the middle of Phuket Town yesterday. The tourist was named as Kirill Kulagin by Lt Col Yongyuth Kongmalai, a deputy superintendent at Phuket City Police Station. “The man was hit by an OrBorJor [Phuket Provincial Administration Organization] pink bus at about 10am, when he parked his motorbike in front of Lan Nawamin on Phuket Road,” Col Yongyuth said.

  • Phuket residents protest new B465mn provincial hall

    Phuket residents protest new B465mn provincial hall

    PHUKET: More than 200 Phuket residents protested today against the construction of the new provincial hall. The protesters gathered this morning at Sanam Chai in Phuket Town, opposite the current provincial Hall (map

  • Phuket Police raid cockfight

    Phuket Police raid cockfight

    PHUKET: Police broke up a cockfighting match near a rubber plantation in central Phuket yesterday, arresting 16 men and confiscating two roosters and 220 baht found at the scene. The number of men attending the matches had grown steadily over the past few weeks, causing local residents to complain to police, who sent an undercover agent to discover the time and place of future matches. At 4:30pm yesterday, the officers raided the match in a forest in Pa Khlok, on Phuket’s central east coast.

  • Bottlenose dolphin, rare in Phuket, found dead

    Bottlenose dolphin, rare in Phuket, found dead

    PHUKET: A bottlenose dolphin was found dead on Bang Tao Beach this morning, the first to be found beached in Phuket in years. “The dolphin was a female bottlenose dolphin,” Dr Kongkiat Kittiwattanawong of the Phuket Marine Biological Center (PMBC) said