Artikel tagged “Phuket Magazine News”

  • Crash helmet saves minibiker at Phuket ‘curve of death’

    Crash helmet saves minibiker at Phuket ‘curve of death’

    SPECIAL REPORT By Thawit Bilabdullar and Orawin Narabal PHUKET: A high-quality crash helmet is credited with sparing a “minibike” enthusiast from critical injury after he lost control and crashed at one of Phuket’s most notorious traffic accident blackspots late last night. News of the crash was reported to Phuket Kusoldharm Foundation rescue workers at 11:30pm. At the scene, on Thepkrasattri Road northbound in Srisoonthorn, they found a 150cc Kawasaki minibike on the pavement, with 29-year-old local resident Noppon Petchluan lying on the median strip nearby covered with blood from multiple abrasions.

  • 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

  • Online poll highlights fears of Phuket property ‘bubble’

    Online poll highlights fears of Phuket property ‘bubble’

    PHUKET: A majority of Phuket Gazette online readers feel that real estate prices in Phuket will fall over the next five years due to oversupply, according to the most recent online poll. A total of 1,868 readers who took part in the 12-day poll were asked: Tanan Tanpaiboon, former head of the Phuket Real Estate Association, recently warned that over-development in the Phuket real estate sector risks creating a “bubble” that could see real estate prices fall due to oversupply. What do you think will be the overall trend in real estate prices on Phuket over the next five years

  • D-Day looms for illegal Phuket taxis, jet-skis

    D-Day looms for illegal Phuket taxis, jet-skis

    PHUKET: The Phuket Governor will sign an order giving illegal taxi operators 15 days to register their vehicles, officials were told yesterday. The news came at a meeting headed by Phuket Vice Governor Chamroen Tipayapongtada, who said the order will be signed into effect ahead of a report being submitted to Deputy Prime Minister Chalerm Yoobamrung.

  • Phuket’s Big Buddha project cleared of wrong doing

    Phuket’s Big Buddha project cleared of wrong doing

    PHUKET: An internal inquiry by the Royal Forestry Department’s Community Forestry Management Bureau has found no wrong doing by any parties involved in the Phuket Big Buddha project. The inquiry was launched after a flood of

  • Krabi drug rehab student drowned in escape, says friend

    Krabi drug rehab student drowned in escape, says friend

    PHUKET: Eyewitness reports are now indicating that the student who died after escaping a youth drug rehab facility in Krabi last week was not beaten to death by teaching assistants, as

  • Phuket’s Muslim prison inmates gifted supplies for Ramadan

    Phuket’s Muslim prison inmates gifted supplies for Ramadan

    PHUKET: The Phuket Islamic Committee gifted food items to Muslim inmates at Phuket Provincial Prison on Thursday so they could properly partake in Ramadan. At 11:30am, Phuket Islamic Committee President Komon Doomluck handed over rice as well as other dried foods, such as palm dates, which are the traditional foods for breaking fasts, to the 225 male and female Muslim prisoners in the facility

  • Anonymous donor gives stranded Kiwi ticket home

    Anonymous donor gives stranded Kiwi ticket home

    PHUKET: Sean Kenzie, the 27-year-old New Zealander stranded and unable to pay his mounting medical bills after a

  • Aussie tourist who cried ‚rape‘ in Phuket deported today

    Aussie tourist who cried ‚rape‘ in Phuket deported today

    PHUKET: Stevie Rochelle Bamford, the 21-year-old woman convicted of falsely reporting that she was raped in Patong, was deported to her native Australia today.

  • Phuket Live Wire: Faster and  closer, but not for us

    Phuket Live Wire: Faster and closer, but not for us

    PHUKET: Investors are lined up, and ground is about to be broken on the Asia Pacific Gateway, the fastest, slickest submarine data cable ever constructed. And it’s coming to Thailand