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  • Thief ransacks Chinese tour guide’s Phuket home, steals 100,000 baht cash, Rolex

    Thief ransacks Chinese tour guide’s Phuket home, steals 100,000 baht cash, Rolex

    PHUKET: A Chinese tour guide withdrew 80,000 baht from her bank account yesterday and by this morning it had been stolen from her house, along with her boyfriend’s Rolex watch valued at 300,000 and 20,000 baht she already had stashed in the house.

  • Ramadan: Feeding the spirit by fasting

    Ramadan: Feeding the spirit by fasting

    Special Report A silent celebration is under way for Phuket Muslims right now, with no firecrackers, water or festive songs piped over department-store loudspeakers. It’s Ramadan, the fasting month.

  • Sunken vessel threat to Phuket marine traffic

    Sunken vessel threat to Phuket marine traffic

    PHUKET: Marine Officers have marked the cargo boat that recently sank, Unity, with a buoy and light to prevent any damage being done to other ships travelling between mainland Krabi and Phi Phi (story

  • Urgent call for more A- blood for injured Briton in Phuket

    Urgent call for more A- blood for injured Briton in Phuket

    PHUKET: Vachira Phuket Hospital has appealed for more blood donations of A-negative blood in order to continue treatment for British national Marc Harrington, 66 years old. Mr Harrington was admitted to the hospital for a head injury sustained in a motorbike accident on June 22 (story

  • V-Phuket burns Thaksin’s coffin to mark ex-PM’s birthday

    V-Phuket burns Thaksin’s coffin to mark ex-PM’s birthday

    PHUKET: About 100 members of the V-Phuket protest group gathered at the Phuket Town waterfront in Saphan Hin to denounce former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra and burn his “coffin” to mark his 64th birthday yesterday. The event was set up like a Thai-style funeral ceremony, which featured a coffin with a wreath in laid in front of it.

  • Phuket airport bus services pared back, full service to resume in August

    Phuket airport bus services pared back, full service to resume in August

    PHUKET: The operator of the recently launched Airport Express bus has suspended some services, but expects to return to the full schedule next month.

  • Phuket’s transport evolution

    Phuket’s transport evolution

    PHUKET: The long awaited new Airport Express bus service between Phuket Airport and the island’s premier party and entertainment town, Patong, started to roll last Friday, four days later than expected.

  • Phuket Beach Safety: Man drowns in 5 minutes

    Phuket Beach Safety: Man drowns in 5 minutes

    PHUKET: A man believed to be a Russian tourist ignored lifeguards’ warnings and entered the surf at Karon Beach yesterday afternoon – and drowned within five minutes, the Phuket Gazette has been told. Uten Singsom, head of the Kata-Karon Lifeguard Club, said that his lifeguards took 20 minutes to recover the man from the strong surf. “He came to the beach alone at about 4pm and ignored the red flags posted on the beach near Karon Circle [map

  • Phuket rain and rockslides in Ranong

    Phuket rain and rockslides in Ranong

    PHUKET: More than 90mm of rain fell at Phuket International Airport overnight and more rain is on its way, according to the latest weather report from the Thai Meteorological Department (TMD). More than 41mm of rain fell across Phuket Town while wind speeds gusted above 32km/h, brought on by a low pressure system reaching all the way from the Philippines, across the South China Sea, Vietnam and Thailand to the Bay of Bengal meeting the strong southwest monsoon. Motorists and beachgoers are urged to exercise caution.

  • Phuket restaurant built illegally on beach, public land to face charges

    Phuket restaurant built illegally on beach, public land to face charges

    PHUKET: Phuket officials were ordered to take action today against a restaurant found to be illegally built and encroaching on the beach south of Patong. “We ordered every relevant government organization to take action against the restaurant’s owner after we established that the restaurant was built on public property,” Chief of the Damrongtham Center Prapan Kanprasang told the Phuket Gazette