Artikel tagged “Phuket News”

  • Light-fingered job-seeker nabbed for Phuket hotel thefts

    Light-fingered job-seeker nabbed for Phuket hotel thefts

    PHUKET: An out-of-town job-hunter applying for positions in Phuket’s hotel industry has been arrested for stealing from hotel guestrooms.

  • Who let the Phuket python out?

    Who let the Phuket python out?

    PHUKET: Man’s best friend – in the form of two pet dogs – last night alerted a Phuket resident that a three-meter python had slithered its way into his storage room in Thalang. “I was inside the house when I heard two of my dogs barking outside

  • Monk with Phuket mistress exposed by viral videos

    Monk with Phuket mistress exposed by viral videos

    PHUKET: The Buddhist monk exposed by two sensational videos last night – in which he was pictured naked with his Phuket mistress, who already has a husband – has left the monkhood. Phra Kru Boonyapinant, the former abbot of Wat Pamok in Kapong, Phang Nga, hung up his robes early this morning.

  • French tourist seriously injured in Phuket hotel balcony fall

    French tourist seriously injured in Phuket hotel balcony fall

    PHUKET: A French tourist was seriously injured when he fell from a fifth-floor balcony at a hotel in Patong early this morning. Rescue workers called to the Sea Sun Sand Resort & Spa at 2:50am found Jean-Noel Gregori, 26, with broken limbs and head injuries.

  • Phuket officials bag six kratom, dope peddlers in 24 hours

    Phuket officials bag six kratom, dope peddlers in 24 hours

    PHUKET: A Rassada village headman busted five men for possession of kratom and marijuana on Saturday – and yesterday, in concert with the Phuket Internal Security Office (PISO), arrested a man bringing kratom leaves to Phuket by bus. PISO deputy chief Thammarong Chuayaksorn and Baan Bang Chi Lao village chief Sangkom Sinthupradit, acting on a tip-off that kratom would be arriving on a bus from Trang, went with their officers to Phuket Bus Terminal 2 yesterday and boarded a bus that had just arrived from that province. “We found a suspicious-looking man on the bus, so we asked to search his bag and found 4kg of kratom inside,” said Mr Sangkom.

  • Phuket trial over fatal Tiger Disco fire postponed

    Phuket trial over fatal Tiger Disco fire postponed

    PHUKET: The trial of the operators of the Tiger Disco nightclub for the deaths of four people, including two tourists, in the blaze last year in Patong has been postponed until the end of November.

  • Phuket Opinion: Beauty is only skin deep – even in paradise

    Phuket Opinion: Beauty is only skin deep – even in paradise

    PHUKET: The emergence of Phuket as an important regional center for plastic surgery is great news for the local economy, but raises some important ethical concerns about elective surgeries in general. Throughout history, people – especially women – have wanted to look their best. Until very recently, however, the only certain way to achieve this came, like everything worthwhile in life, through hard work: watching one’s diet, exercising and reducing exposure to solar radiation, to name just a few.

  • Staffer at Phuket Chevrolet dealership arrested after pocketing B1.2mn

    Staffer at Phuket Chevrolet dealership arrested after pocketing B1.2mn

    PHUKET: Police arrested an employee of a Chevrolet dealership in Phuket after the man made off with more than 1.2 million baht of company cash. Somkit “Roon” Yukunthorn, a 27-year-old Phuket native, worked faithfully for about a year as a messenger for VST Autosales 2002 Co Ltd, the Chevrolet dealership on the bypass road.

  • Central Festival Phuket takes over taxi management

    Central Festival Phuket takes over taxi management

    PHUKET: The campaign to eradicate taxi mafias from Phuket took another step yesterday as Central Festival Management agreed to take over the management of taxis at the shopping center.

  • Phuket Opinion: Relegate the blight of jet-skis to the past

    Phuket Opinion: Relegate the blight of jet-skis to the past

    PHUKET: It is time that the provincial government considers phasing out the jet-ski rental industry that has brought so much ill-repute to the island. The latest tragedy involving a jet-ski and a foreign tourist came last weekend, when 27-year-old Chinese visitor Shen Baocheng was rendered comatose after his rented jet-ski collided with a speedboat towing a parasailing tourist in Patong Bay (story