Artikel tagged “Phuket Magazine”

  • Phuket Opinion: Happy days again

    Phuket Opinion: Happy days again

    PHUKET: Do you miss your childhood?

  • Phuket’s X-Terminal successfully inaugurated

    Phuket’s X-Terminal successfully inaugurated

    PHUKET: Phuket International Airport’s X-Terminal saw its first successful charter flight depart for China yesterday. “The check-in system for the flight went well.

  • BREAKING NEWS: Foreigner dies in Phuket ultralight crash

    BREAKING NEWS: Foreigner dies in Phuket ultralight crash

    PHUKET: A foreigner died after his ultralight flying boat fell from the sky off the east coast of southern Phuket this afternoon.

  • Malaysia Airlines inaugurates Kuala Lumpur-Krabi flights

    Malaysia Airlines inaugurates Kuala Lumpur-Krabi flights

    PHUKET: Malaysia Airlines flight MH770 made its inaugural flight from Kuala Lumpur to Krabi yesterday, initiating a four-times-a-week service between the two destinations. The new B737-800 flights will operate on Monday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday, departing from Kuala Lumpur at 2:55pm (local time in Malaysia) and departing from Krabi at 5:20pm (local time)

  • March 30 eyed for Phuket alcohol ban

    March 30 eyed for Phuket alcohol ban

    PHUKET: If alcohol bans during the past two weekends for the national election weren’t enough, the Election Commission of Thailand today revealed that another is on its way, most likely on March 30. Election Commission Secretary-General Puchong Nutrawong explained to Phuket Gazette partner newspaper The Nation that the current term for senators will expire on March 3

  • Body of Phuket fisherman’s son, lost at sea, washes ashore

    Body of Phuket fisherman’s son, lost at sea, washes ashore

    PHUKET: The body of a mentally-handicapped man who was knocked off a Phuket longtail boat by a large wave on Friday was found washed ashore yesterday.

  • Phuket yachties petition against boat stay law as wave of contract cancellations hits

    Phuket yachties petition against boat stay law as wave of contract cancellations hits

    PHUKET: The yachting and marine industry in Phuket has launched a petition calling for Customs officials to repeal the new regulation limiting boat stays in Thailand to a maximum of two months during any one visit.

  • Search called off for mentally-handicapped man lost at sea

    Search called off for mentally-handicapped man lost at sea

    PHUKET: Phuket Marine Police have given up the search for a mentally-handicapped man who was swept from a longtail boat into the sea today. “We spent more than four hours looking for Jirawat Srisomporn, 27, before we had to call off the mission because of big waves,” said Lt Col Panya Chaichana of the Phuket Marine Police. Mr Jirawat, who could not swim, was hit by a large wave and thrown overboard while his father, Chaidon Srisomporn, was fishing east of Phuket between between Rang Yai Island and Maprao Island.

  • Girl in critical condition pulled from bottom of sea at Phuket beach

    Girl in critical condition pulled from bottom of sea at Phuket beach

    PHUKET: Doctor’s are scrambling to save the life of a girl who was pulled unconscious from the sea floor at Nai Harn Beach today. “She arrived at about 3pm in critical condition,” Vachira Phuket Emergency Medical Service nurse Ladda Thongtan told the Phuket Gazette. The girl was one of four children pulled from the water during the rescue.

  • Bang Tao Canal ills on course to be solved by 2015

    Bang Tao Canal ills on course to be solved by 2015

    PHUKET: A multitude of infrastructure projects designed to stifle the stench and improve the quality of water being released from the Bang Tao Canal into the ocean are about 30 to 40 per cent complete, Cherng Talay Administrative Organization officer (palad) Krichanut Suphantakit has confirmed.