Artikel tagged “phuket gazette”

  • Wife begs gold-thief husband to turn himself over to Phuket Police

    Wife begs gold-thief husband to turn himself over to Phuket Police

    PHUKET: The captured wife of a brazen

  • Where the Phuket buffalo roam

    Where the Phuket buffalo roam

    PHUKET: To highlight the diminishing number of buffalo still grazing on the island, Phuket Democrat MP Raywat Areerob joined local farmers on Tuesday at a small country fair that included a bovine beauty contest. The event, organized by the

  • Police set up cordon to capture brazen Phuket gold shop robbers

    Police set up cordon to capture brazen Phuket gold shop robbers

    PHUKET: Police have surrounded a disused fish processing plant on the east side of Phuket Town this afternoon in the hope of capturing two men who shot a gold shop owner with an air pistol before making off with an estimated 3 million baht in jewelry. Phuket City Police were informed at 1:30pm that the Yong Chuan gold shop in the Rassada National Housing Estate, just north of Rassada Pier, had just been robbed.

  • PM Yingluck pledges splurge on developing Phuket tourism

    PM Yingluck pledges splurge on developing Phuket tourism

    PHUKET: Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra on Saturday named Patong Beach, Old Phuket Town and Promthep Cape as three Andaman tourist attractions to receive “emergency budget” support.

  • Prime Phuket land sold to mystery buyer for B1.64bn

    Prime Phuket land sold to mystery buyer for B1.64bn

    PHUKET: An unknown buyer has acquired 455 rai of land on Phuket’s west coast from the Bangkok Mass Transit System Public Company for 1.64 billion baht, reports Phuket Gazette Property columnist Bill Barnett.

  • Phuket Immigration launch search for fugitive Filipino Reyes brothers

    Phuket Immigration launch search for fugitive Filipino Reyes brothers

    PHUKET: Phuket Immigration officers are scouring the island for fugitive Filipino brothers Mario Joel Tolentino Reyes and Mario Tolentino Reyes Jr, despite not yet receiving any formal request to apprehend the pair. The news comes as Phuket Immigration Superintendent Panuwat Ruamrak told the Phuket Gazette this afternoon, “Even though we have yet to receive any formal requests, we are searching for the two.” Col Panuwat confirmed that his office had yet to receive any requests from the Philippines embassy in Bangkok or authorities in Manila.

  • Damrong to ramp up Phuket national park probe

    Damrong to ramp up Phuket national park probe

    PHUKET: The Director-General of the Department of National Parks, Wildlife and Conservation, Damrong Phidet, has warned that come September 25 he will order 400 officers to start a full-scale investigation into land encroachment along the boundaries of Phuket’s Sirinath Marine National Park. In Phuket yesterday, Mr Damrong flamed some officials for their slow progress in the investigation of 12

  • Phuket blood bank calls for A-, O- donors

    Phuket blood bank calls for A-, O- donors

    PHUKET: The Phuket Regional Blood Center (PRBC) is calling for donations of Rhesus-negative (Rh-) blood types to bolster stocks that are now critically low. “We have only one unit of ‘A negative’ and one of ‘O negative’ blood,” PRBC Director Pornthip Rattajak told the Phuket Gazette

  • Phuket Governor to retire September 30, but replacement yet to be named

    Phuket Governor to retire September 30, but replacement yet to be named

    PHUKET: Phuket Governor Tri Augkaradacha is set to retire from civil service on September 30, just 19 days away, but his replacement has yet to be named, the Phuket Gazette has learned.

  • Phuket Food Festival goes ‘booze-free’, but lays on the entertainment

    Phuket Food Festival goes ‘booze-free’, but lays on the entertainment

    PHUKET: For the first time in its 15-year history, the annual Phuket Good Taste Food Festival at Saphan Hin in Phuket Town this year will be held specifically without any alcohol for sale and with no plastic food containers. Announcing the news on Saturday, Phuket City Mayor Somjai Suwansupana said that about 100 booths selling food will be at this year’s week-long festival, together generating about 10 million baht.