Artikel tagged “Phuket Magazine”

  • Phuket Live Wire: So what’s all this about a 3G auction?

    Phuket Live Wire: So what’s all this about a 3G auction?

    PHUKET: Continuing my series of articles answering questions that I hear most often… the next question is one I expect to hear a thousand times in the next few months. It’s a little complicated, but you’re going to get confused anyway, so let me try to simplify things as best I can. „Woody, I hear that Thailand is finally going to have a 3G auction.

  • Phuket Business: Solar system pilots

    Phuket Business: Solar system pilots

    PHUKET: An innovative new solar power system will be making its world premier in the coming months, with Phuket to serve as a pilot market, and possibly a manufacturing base. The Powerrrup – that’s right, 3 rs – is an ingenious yet simple ground-breaking, renewable energy system developed specifically with the island’s „green conscious“ market in mind.

  • Phuket Sports: Phang Nga Bay regatta beckons

    Phuket Sports: Phang Nga Bay regatta beckons

    PHUKET: Phang Nga Bay’s dramatic scenery will provide the spectacular setting for The 2012 Bay Regatta which is scheduled to run from February 1 to 5.

  • Phuket Media Watch: Monk on fire sparks clashes in Tibet; suspected serial killer arrested; suicide bomber kills 53

    Phuket Media Watch: Monk on fire sparks clashes in Tibet; suspected serial killer arrested; suicide bomber kills 53

    PHUKET MEDIA WATCH– World news compiled by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community Another self-immolation in Tibet, said to be the 16thPhuket Gazette / News Wires PHUKET: A Tibetan Buddhist monk set himself on fire in southwestern China on Saturday, a rights group reported yesterday, triggering clashes between security forces and locals. Free Tibet, a group campaigning for an end to the ‚Chinese occupation‘ of Tibet, said clashes erupted after another Tibetan self-immolated in Ngaba Town, located in Sichuan province, in an apparent protest against Chinese rule. It is believed to have been the 16th self-immolation in Tibet since March last year.

  • Phuket Roads: Another biker critically injured in hit-and-run

    Phuket Roads: Another biker critically injured in hit-and-run

    PHUKET: Phuket Police are seeking the driver of a white sedan involved in a hit-and-run accident that left a motorbike driver critically injured on Thepkrasattri Rd in Thalang last night.

  • Phuket Business: Trade, investment and green innovation on the up

    Phuket Business: Trade, investment and green innovation on the up

    PHUKET: Trade in Phuket flourished in 2011, while prospects for new investment and ground-breaking, eco-friendly innovation on the island are looking quite good in the year ahead. The latest 2011-2012 import-export figures released by the Phuket Customs House indicate that the island’s economy continued to grow over the past several years – mostly thanks to one viable yet heated commodity.

  • Phuket Media Watch: Cabinet to meet in Phuket; PM’s son to participate in celebrations

    Phuket Media Watch: Cabinet to meet in Phuket; PM’s son to participate in celebrations

    PHUKET MEDIA WATCH– Thailand news compiled by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community Mobile Meetings in all 77 PovincesPhuket Gazette / The NationThe Cabinet is expected to hold mobile meetings in all 77 provinces, including Phuket, in order to stay in touch with each locality, Deputy Prime Minister Yongyuth Wichaidit said yesterday, voicing confidence that political stability would enable the government to complete its four-year term. „Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra plans to hold meetings and stay overnight at every province,“ he said.

  • Phuket Police step up staff drug testing at late night venues

    Phuket Police step up staff drug testing at late night venues

    PHUKET: Phuket City Police yesterday drug tested 47 staff, including the general manager, at the Sure Garden restaurant in Phuket Town. The mass drug testing comes amid the ongoing furore over the axe attack on Vorasit “Pla-wan” Issara, the general manager at the Sri panwa resort and son of Thai construction magnate Songkran Issara

  • Phuket newsman killed in gun attack

    Phuket newsman killed in gun attack

    PHUKET: A Phuket newsman was shot dead by a man riding pillion on a motorbike this morning.

  • Phuket Business: Peak season tourism spike sees limited hotel vacancy

    Phuket Business: Peak season tourism spike sees limited hotel vacancy

    PHUKET: Occupancy rates at hotels along Phuket’s beaches have averaged more than 90 per cent during the current peak period and are expected to remain at or near capacity well into 2012, the Tourism Authority of Thailand (TAT) has announced. Bangornrat Shinaprayoon, head of the TAT regional office in Phuket Town, said the island’s tourism sector is bustling not only because it is high season, but also thanks to an increased number of direct flights to Phuket launched last year. Popular destinations such as Patong Beach, Karon Beach, Rawai Beach, Chalong Temple and Phromthep Cape have been packed with tourists in recent weeks, she noted.