Artikel tagged “Phuket Magazine”

  • Phuket Opinion: Proactive CCTV use necessary to protect resorts

    Phuket Opinion: Proactive CCTV use necessary to protect resorts

    Phuket Tourism Association (PTA) Vice President Bhuritt Maswongssa, 51, is also the Vice Chairman of the Patong Resort hotel. He received law degrees from both Ngee Ann College in Singapore and Ramkhamhaeng University in Thailand. In the wake of a recent spate of hotel robberies across the island, he discusses how to boost hotel and resort security.

  • Gold shop thefts on the rise, police practice response

    Gold shop thefts on the rise, police practice response

    PHUKET: With millions of baht worth of gold being snatched from Phuket gold shops over the last year, Phuket police and gold shop owners joined together for a gold shop crime drill earlier this week. “The recent increase in the number of gold shops and supermarket robberies has made it necessary for shop owners and police to know exactly what to do in these scenarios,” said Phuket Provincial Police Commander Choti Chavalviwat

  • Phuket house construction worker dies in fall

    Phuket house construction worker dies in fall

    PHUKET: A Phuket construction worker died yesterday after falling from scaffolding at a house being built in Thalang. Thalang Police were called to the site, in Soi Lak Maung in Baan Muang Mai, at about 10:30am

  • Phuket hit by major blackout

    Phuket hit by major blackout

    PHUKET: A major power outage struck across Phuket just before 7pm tonight.

  • Joyriding Phuket King Cobra nabbed in truck

    Joyriding Phuket King Cobra nabbed in truck

    PHUKET: A three-meter King Cobra was captured in Phuket’s Khao Phra Thaeo Wildlife Sanctuary last night after it went along for a ride in one of the park trucks. The driver of the truck, park employee Wad Promya, 59, had taken the truck to run an errand at a friend’s house

  • Phuket Police scour Patong for motorbike ransom gang

    Phuket Police scour Patong for motorbike ransom gang

    PHUKET: Phuket Police are on the lookout for three men who evaded arrest last night when officers raided an address given as that of the ringleader of a teenage motorbike extortion gang. The raid originated from a complaint filed by Sasiprapha Sukhang, 18, from Buri Ram, who told police she lent her motorbike – which she had rented – to a friend about a week ago.

  • Phuket tourist hits pedestrian on Thepkrasattri Road

    Phuket tourist hits pedestrian on Thepkrasattri Road

    PHUKET: A tourist arriving on Phuket from Bangkok in his pick-up truck last night struck an unidentified man who allegedly had stepped out into one of Phuket’s busiest roads. Thalang Police received a report at 11:45pm that a man had been hit in the southbound lanes of Thepkrasattri Road about 150 meters north of the Heroines’ Monument (map

  • Thalang defense volunteer charged for illegal possession of a firearm

    Thalang defense volunteer charged for illegal possession of a firearm

    PHUKET: A Thalang defense volunteer was charged with illegal possession of a firearm and ammunition after being pulled over at a checkpoint in Phuket. Krit Meesit, 52, wearing military trousers and a black shirt with “Royal Thai Marine Corps” written across it, was stopped at a checkpoint on Nanai Road in Patong at about 2am yesterday.

  • Officials stage rapid-response drill to bird flu outbreak

    Officials stage rapid-response drill to bird flu outbreak

    PHUKET: Officials in Phang Nga, north of Phuket, yesterday staged a rapid-response exercise simulating an outbreak of bird flu. “Phang Nga is a well-known tourist destination

  • Australians consider opening consulate on Phuket

    Australians consider opening consulate on Phuket

    PHUKET: A decision on whether or not to open an Australian consulate in Phuket is expected to be made within a month, Australian Honorary Consul Larry Cunningham told the Phuket Gazette this morning. “We have more deaths in Phuket than we have in Bali. We certainly need extra staffing,” he said.