Artikel tagged “Phuket Magazine”

  • Don’t drink and ‘sleep’ – Thai driver caught napping at the wheel

    Don’t drink and ‘sleep’ – Thai driver caught napping at the wheel

    PHOTO: Daily News Online A video posted online today shows a car being driven by a man who had reclined the driver’s seat and was claimed to be sleeping while the car was still moving. The car appears driverless as the driver was slumped out of sight. The post was on the Facebook page of “Narawut Nakama Thongsong”.

  • Thailand Tourism Forum 2019 – Reflections #1

    Thailand Tourism Forum 2019 – Reflections #1

    PHOTO: Thailand Tourism Forum 2019 One of the key points made at the recently concluded Thailand Tourism Forum 2019 in Bangkok, was the country’s over reliance on mass tourism.

  • Air quality for Thailand –  January 24

    Air quality for Thailand – January 24

    Northern Thailand Air quality is acceptable; however, for some pollutants there may be a moderate health concern for a very small number of people who are unusually sensitive to air pollution. Central Thailand Members of sensitive groups may experience health effects. The general public is not likely to be affected

  • Drug plant, abuse and extortion. Oh, sorry, it’s all a misunderstanding – Dutch tourist

    Drug plant, abuse and extortion. Oh, sorry, it’s all a misunderstanding – Dutch tourist

    PHOTOS: ONB News A Dutch tourist has apologised to the Pattaya police after he claimed he had drugs planted on him, was abused and was extorted out of 40,000 baht. He also claimed a French volunteer tourist police officer was involved in the extortion. But he later told Pattaya Police that he had found his money in his wardrobe. He thought he had put it in his hotel room safe but says he must have been mistaken

  • Seaweed on Patong Beach – just a seasonal phenomenon

    Seaweed on Patong Beach – just a seasonal phenomenon

    The seasonal mass of seaweed that was washed up onto Patong Beach over the last week is a natural phenomenon.

  • Four dead and at least five injured in Bangkok crane failure

    Four dead and at least five injured in Bangkok crane failure

    Four workers were killed and five others injured when the top part of a crane broke off and fell on them at a condominium construction site on Bangkok’s Rama 3 Road this afternoon. The fallen section of the crane hit the fifth floor of a building in the Lumpini Park Riverside project.

  • Weather for January 23

    Weather for January 23

    Bangkok Abundant sunshine. High 33C

  • Soi Dog’s mobile clinic continues in Phuket, starting in Rawai

    Soi Dog’s mobile clinic continues in Phuket, starting in Rawai

    The mobile clinic of Soi Dog Foundation, which provides sterilisation and vaccination free of charge, has begun in the Rawai area. The mobile clinic forms part of the CNVR program – Catch, Neuter, Vaccinate, Release – which is the core mission of Soi Dog Foundation and the most effective and humane way to control the street dog and cat population and eventually help to bring to an end the suffering of stray animals.

  • HM the King expresses concern for people affected by unrest in the Deep South

    HM the King expresses concern for people affected by unrest in the Deep South

    (Quoted directly from the Government’s Public Relations Department) His Majesty King Maha Vajiralongkorn Bodindradebayavarangkun has been deeply concerned about the people and officials affected by unrest in the southern border provinces. His Majesty on January 21, 2019 assigned Privy Councilor General Paiboon Koomchaya to present baskets of various items given by His Majesty to relatives of the monks killed in the recent temple shooting, as well as a number of bags with royal gifts to other affected people, officials and volunteers. The Commanding-General of the Fourth Army Area Command has instructed the inspection of 388 temples and Buddhist centers in the deep South.

  • Weather for January 22

    Weather for January 22

    Bangkok Partly cloudy. High 33C. Winds ENE at 15 to 25 km/h