Artikel tagged “Phuket News”

  • Rampaging Phuket elephant whereabouts unclear

    Rampaging Phuket elephant whereabouts unclear

    PHUKET: The whereabouts and future plans for Captain, the bull elephant that went on a … Full story

  • Phuket’s architects at the helm of development

    Phuket’s architects at the helm of development

    PHUKET:Discussing the future of Phuket property is often left to analysts, investors and developers. Rarely do we receive insight from the professionals who turn these ideas into reality.

  • Phuket Opinion: Scofflaw hotels have little to fear

    Phuket Opinion: Scofflaw hotels have little to fear

    PHUKET: The Phuket Gazette wishes Governor Tri Augkaradacha the best of luck in his efforts to make legal the unknown thousands of unregistered hotels on the island he is certainly going to need it. According to figures from Gov Tris office [see page 8, current issue of the Gazette, or click …

  • Elephant rampage: Tragedy strikes Phuket honeymooners

    Elephant rampage: Tragedy strikes Phuket honeymooners

    PHUKET: A Ukrainian couples honeymoon turned to tragedy when a bull elephant went berserk on a Phuket trekking tour, attacking the female elephant she and her husband were riding. Tetiana Meia, 26, suffered clean breaks to her left femur, right tibia (shin bone) and right fibula, along with scrapes and bruises all over her body when Captain, a bull elephant at Camp Chang in Kalim, attacked the elephant she was riding with her husband, Artem Perepelitsyn, 24

  • Phuket Number 3 in Thailand for AIDS

    Phuket Number 3 in Thailand for AIDS

    PHUKET: Phuket has the third-highest reported incidence per capita of HIV/AIDS in Thailand, with Patong having one of the highest concentrations of people in the province contracting the virus, the Health Office has revealed. The current statistics for HIV/AIDS-infected patients in Phuket is quite shocking, Dr Wiwat Seetamanotch, Deputy Director of the Phuket Public Health Office, told a recent meeting of high-level health officials.

  • Quiksilver surfing competition opens in Phuket

    Quiksilver surfing competition opens in Phuket

    PHUKET: Quiksilver Thailand 2011 Surf Competition hit Patong Beach today with an early morning wake up call and the first day of action. Almost 100 competitors from nine different countries have signed up to compete in the four-day Asian Surfing Championship sanctioned 3-star Quiksilver Thailand 2011 Surf Competition

  • Thanyapura nets international tennis event

    Thanyapura nets international tennis event

    PHUKET: Tennis on Phuket has received a spectacular boon with Thanyapura Sports and Leisure Club (TSLC) announcing that their facility will host one round of the Chang International Tennis Federation (ITF) Thailand Pro Circuit 2011 tournament. The competition will run from October 29 to November 12 and is the very first tennis event of this caliber to be held in Phuket

  • Street shooting leaves Phuket mother of two in disbelief

    Street shooting leaves Phuket mother of two in disbelief

    PHUKET: A young mother is contemplating her future after her partner and the father of her two children was gunned down outside their rented room in Phuket on Sunday night. I was watching television with our two children at about 10pm when I heard two loud blasts

  • Para-normal accident in Phuket

    Para-normal accident in Phuket

    PHUKET: A Phuket rubber tapper was left unconscious and unable to move yesterday when a para rubber tree he was cutting down fell on him. The rubber-tapper, 29-year-old Seree Thongampol, went out to fell mature rubber trees in a plantation in Paklok Village 8 yesterday afternoon.

  • Phuket passenger van crashes in Trang: 1 dead, 4 injured

    Phuket passenger van crashes in Trang: 1 dead, 4 injured

    PHUKET: One person was killed and four badly injured when a Phuket passenger van bound for Haad Yai lost its brakes and crashed into a car in Trang yesterday afternoon. Muang District Police in Trang were notified of the accident at 2pm yesterday