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  • Phuket Governor combats dengue with ‘333’ strategy

    Phuket Governor combats dengue with ‘333’ strategy

    PHUKET: The Phuket Governor has branded his new strategy to combat the spread of dengue fever in Phuket with the lucky number 333, representing a sustained campaign of “three days, three weeks, three months”.

  • Nervous Phuket duo reveal drug bulge in underpants to police

    Nervous Phuket duo reveal drug bulge in underpants to police

    PHUKET: Police stationed at a Thalang checkpoint discovered three packages of ya ice (crystal methamphetamine) after they delved into the pants of two “nervous” men on Friday. Officers manning a checkpoint on Thepkrasattri Road in Srisoonthorn stopped Tossawat Meesukanukoon, 22 and Pasit Kittijaruensin, also 22, because they looked “suspiciously nervous” as they approached the checkpoint on their motorbike.

  • Phuket policeman charged with attempted murder still on active duty

    Phuket policeman charged with attempted murder still on active duty

    PHUKET: A Phuket policeman charged with attempted murder after a violent attack on Valentine’s Day remains on active duty in Thalang, while police prepare their case for the prosecutor. Sen Sgt Maj Wichit Dada of the Thalang Police was charged with attempted murder after he was accused of restraining a teenager while his son threatened the teen with his father’s handgun. Sgt Wichit’s two sons, both under 18 years old, have also been charged with attempted murder over the incident, Thalang Police Superintendent Sirisak Wasasiri confirmed to the Phuket Gazette.

  • Phuket Police release graphic YouTube video of gold shop robbery

    Phuket Police release graphic YouTube video of gold shop robbery

    PHUKET: In an effort to identify an armed robber of a Phuket gold shop, police have released a graphic YouTube video of the man entering C.P. Gold Master & Jewelry store and shooting dead one of the customers (story

  • Russian tour company worker freed after proved legal

    Russian tour company worker freed after proved legal

    PHUKET: The Russian woman arrested for working illegally at a tour counter in Kata last week has been released after her company proved to Phuket police that she was legal. Natalia Nikiforova, 33, was arrested at the Rus Info Tour Center in Kata last Wednesday for working without a work permit and for illegally entering the country (story

  • Fire scare at Phuket student dormitory

    Fire scare at Phuket student dormitory

    PHUKET: Smoke pouring from a second-floor window at a girls’ student dormitory late yesterday afternoon prompted no fewer than three fire trucks to rush to the scene to extinguish the blaze.

  • Phuket doctors unaffected by health care pay reform

    Phuket doctors unaffected by health care pay reform

    PHUKET: The Phuket Provincial Health Office (PPHO) today confirmed that the introduction of the new P4P “Pay for performance” system of calculating rural doctors’ remuneration will not affect any public health care services in Phuket.

  • Phuket Russian teen students still in ICU after motorcyclist crash

    Phuket Russian teen students still in ICU after motorcyclist crash

    PHUKET: Two Russian students from Phuket’s British International School are tonight still in the intensive care unit (ICU) at Phuket International Hospital after being involved in a horrific motorbike accident on the bypass road yesterday. Staff at the hospital declined to give details of the students’ condition, but did confirm that both Vlabislan Adrashko and Sevastan Lukashov were still under observation in the hospital’s ICU. Police are waiting for the two teens to be well enough to question after the accident involving their Honda big bike and a car near Index Living Mall on Saturday.

  • Burmese man crushed under Phuket juggernaut

    Burmese man crushed under Phuket juggernaut

    PHUKET: A 43-year-old Burmese man dodging between another motorbike and a 22-wheeled truck and trailer died instantly yesterday afternoon when he lost control of the motorbike and was crushed under the rear wheels of the juggernaut. Thalang Police were notified of the accident, near the Baan Nai Klum u-turn, about 500 meters south of Tesco Lotus Thalang (map

  • Phuket Police on lookout for three drivers in two fatal hit-and-runs

    Phuket Police on lookout for three drivers in two fatal hit-and-runs

    PHUKET: Chalong Police are looking for the drivers of three vehicles involved in two separate hit-and-runs on Thursday night. Just after midnight yesterday morning, police received a report that a man had died in a road accident near the entrance to Soi Pratana on Chao Fa West Road in Chalong (map