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  • Tiger Disco Fire: Friend identifies watch, bracelet of missing Thai waitress

    Tiger Disco Fire: Friend identifies watch, bracelet of missing Thai waitress

    PHUKET: A Thai waitress who worked at the Tiger Discotheque may have been identified today after a friend recognized a wristwatch and a bracelet found on one of the four bodies

  • Protest against Tesco Lotus in Phuket Town

    Protest against Tesco Lotus in Phuket Town

    PHUKET: More than 500 local traders, business owners and residents marched on Provincial Hall yesterday to petition the Governor to stop construction of a new Tesco Lotus outlet planned for Phuket Town. After assembling at Rama X Park (Suan Luang), the protesters marched through the streets carrying signs with slogans reading “Tesco ruins our life in Phuket Town”, “We don’t want Tesco”, among others.

  • Phuket Prisoners bestowed Royal Pardon

    Phuket Prisoners bestowed Royal Pardon

    PHUKET: More than 100 inmates at Phuket Provincial Prison were given a Royal Pardon today in honor of HM Queen Sirikit’s 80th birthday and HRH Crown Prince Maha Vajiralongkorn’s 60th birthday.

  • Satree Phuket takes the initiative for AEC

    Satree Phuket takes the initiative for AEC

    PHUKET: In the next three years, the ASEAN Economic Community (AEC) will come into force, and the region’s languages will be as important as English. A school on the resort island of Phuket in Thailand’s south has been providing Myanmar language classes to its high-school students.

  • Phuket Town underground cable project ’90 per cent complete‘

    Phuket Town underground cable project ’90 per cent complete‘

    PHUKET: Phase two of the 39-million-baht project to bury central Phuket Town’s electricity mains cables is more than 90 per cent complete, Phuket City Mayor Somjai Suwansupana has confirmed.

  • Foul complaints prompt Phuket piggery inspection

    Foul complaints prompt Phuket piggery inspection

    PHUKET: An inspection of a chicken and pig farm led by Phuket Vice Governor Somkiet Sangkaosuttirak has resulted in several recommendations for the farm owners to follow, but otherwise found nothing untoward other than the foul odor emanating from the site. The inspection follows residents at the The Valley 2 housing estate

  • Phuket Live Wire: What exactly is this new 4G?

    Phuket Live Wire: What exactly is this new 4G?

    PHUKET: Thailand has been bombarded with „3G“ advertising for years. As befits a term with no real definition, „3G“ is all about marketing. A phone company can call two tin cans and a piece of string „3G“ and get away with it.

  • Minor Hotel Group pours B3bn into Phuket resort

    Minor Hotel Group pours B3bn into Phuket resort

    PHUKET: Thailand-based Minor Hotel Group is splashing out 3 billion baht on the acquisition and remodeling of Bundarika Villas and Suites on Phuket’s northern west coast. As

  • Surin dared killer into bag snatching, testifies police

    Surin dared killer into bag snatching, testifies police

    PHUKET: The man who wielded the blade in the bungled bag snatch in which

  • Korat Boy, 14, dies after crashing into parked truck in Phuket

    Korat Boy, 14, dies after crashing into parked truck in Phuket

    PHUKET: A 14-year-old boy from Nakhon Ratchasima died after crashing his motorbike into a large truck parked by the side of the road in Phuket yesterday afternoon. Chalong Police at 2:15pm received a report of a crash near the Land & Houses residential estate on Chao Fa West Road in Chalong.