Artikel tagged “Phuket Magazine News”

  • Black Eyed Peas rapper highlights Filipino plight with Phuket show

    Black Eyed Peas rapper highlights Filipino plight with Phuket show

    PHUKET: Over 400 people gathered to watch Grammy-award-winning international pop star and rapper from Black Eyed Peas apl.de.ap drop beats at Xana Beach Club to raise funds for the victims of Super Typhoon Haiyan, which devastated the central Philippines over a week ago.

  • Chinese charge forward with Phuket consulate

    Chinese charge forward with Phuket consulate

    PHUKET: Chinese officials confirmed that a consulate in Phuket will be operational by next year in order to cater for the dramatic increase in Chinese nationals visiting the island.

  • Phuket residential areas hit by water shutoffs

    Phuket residential areas hit by water shutoffs

    PHUKET: Water supply was suspended in parts of Phuket today for the Phuket Provincial Waterworks Authority (PWA) to carry out maintenance work. “We stopped the water supply along the Tha Rua-Muang Mai Road in Pa Khlok. Residences in that area were affected,” PWA officer Sasivimol Sangprakong said.

  • Phuket kratom cooks caught in the act

    Phuket kratom cooks caught in the act

    PHUKET: Police in Kamala, on Phuket’s west coast, nabbed two men cooking up a batch of the illegal drug cocktail “4×100” at a workers’ camp on Friday. “Plain clothes police informed us that two men, Aekkaluk Phanchalard, 29, and Suthep Abdulsamak, 42, were making 4×100 at the camp,” explained Lt Suchart Chompooseang of the Kamala Police

  • New Tourist Police Commander joins Phuket boat safety blitz

    New Tourist Police Commander joins Phuket boat safety blitz

    PHUKET: The new commander of the Tourist Police, Maj Gen Apichai Theamart, yesterday led a team of officers on a safety inspection of boats operating at Rassada Pier, on the east side of Phuket Town. The inspection, aimed at ensuring Phuket tourists’ safety, follows a heavily overloaded ferry from Pattaya capsizing off Koh Lan, injuring many passengers and causing the deaths of seven people (story

  • SuperCheap Burmese miss Phuket employment office deadline

    SuperCheap Burmese miss Phuket employment office deadline

    PHUKET: None of the 100 Myanmar nationals who allegedly quit SuperCheap after an enormous blaze demolished the megashop (story

  • Phuket Opinion: It’s everyone’s job to improve cyclists’ safety

    Phuket Opinion: It’s everyone’s job to improve cyclists’ safety

    Danny Ruangkanch, 54, is a Narathiwat native. He graduated from the California College of the Arts 29 years ago, and spent 10 years working abroad before coming back to Thailand. He came to Phuket 15 years ago and works as a freelance artist and Moderator of Thaimtb.

  • Phuket taxi driver killer turns himself in

    Phuket taxi driver killer turns himself in

    PHUKET: The man who fatally stabbed a Karon taxi driver in Samkong early yesterday morning turned himself in today.

  • Thailand’s favorites keep local hopes alive at Phuket Open

    Thailand’s favorites keep local hopes alive at Phuket Open

    PHUKET: Thailand’s favorites Varapatsorn Radarong and Tanarattha Udomchavee are through to the knock-out stage taking two wins in Pool A, at the 2013 FIVB Beach Volleyball Phuket Open on Thursday.

  • Ships, planes north of Phuket warned of possible Indian rocket fallout

    Ships, planes north of Phuket warned of possible Indian rocket fallout

    PHUKET: Ships and planes were warned yesterday to stay away from the Phang Nga coast, north of Phuket, on November 5 as India will launch a rocket that might jettison a fuel tank into the area. “India’s space center told us that the launch would possibly be on November 5, because the weather on that day is expected to be suitable for the mission,” said Anond Snidvongs, executive director of the Geo-Informatics and Space Technology Development Agency (GISTDA)