Artikel tagged “phuket privieleges card”

  • [Video Report] Alleged French ATM scammers caught bribing Phuket police

    [Video Report] Alleged French ATM scammers caught bribing Phuket police

    PHUKET: Phuket Police arrested two French nationals for bribing an officer of the law yesterday, while a third man is still on the run. Karin Radoun, 28, was also charged with ATM fraud and being in the country illegally. He and Karim Akrour, 36, denied all the charges when presented to the press this morning.

  • Krabi resort owner vows legal action over demolition

    Krabi resort owner vows legal action over demolition

    PHUKET: The owner of Poda Island Resort is threatening to sue the Department of National Parks, Wildlife and Plant Conservation (DNP) for dismantling his facilities. Chuan Pukaoluan, who has operated the resort for about 20 years, says that he had bought the plots of land the resort was built on legitimately

  • Dozens of fish saved from entangled net at top Phuket dive destination

    Dozens of fish saved from entangled net at top Phuket dive destination

    PHUKET: Divers saved dozens of reef fish trapped in an enormous fishing net draped over one of Phuket’s most popular dive sites: marine conservation area, Shark Point. “We had just spent five or six minutes watching a leopard shark swimming around us, and then, as we came around the corner, we saw a blanket of net covering a large amount of Pinnacle One,” said a Phuket diver asked to be identified only as Instructor Vinnie.

  • New fees and regulations established for Phuket pier

    New fees and regulations established for Phuket pier

    PHUKET: The new regulations to access Chalong Pier, a popular Phuket jump-off point for surrounding islands, will take effect on February 15. Local boat handlers on Saturday demanded unrestricted access to boats moored along the pier (story

  • Russian tourist, 42, drops dead while chatting with friends

    Russian tourist, 42, drops dead while chatting with friends

    PHUKET: Police have yet to determine why a Russian tourist died suddenly in a Phuket hotel room early yesterday morning. Timur Ivanov and his two traveling companions were eating fruit and drinking a hot beverage together at a hotel at Bang Tao Beach when he suddenly passed out

  • Phuket boat crews protest after access denied to Chalong Pier

    Phuket boat crews protest after access denied to Chalong Pier

    PHUKET: A group of local boat handlers this morning staged a protest at Chalong Pier to call for unrestricted access to boats moored along the pier. The gathering at the popular terminal for Phuket tour boats (map

  • Donations delayed as Phuket blood stocks hit five-year low

    Donations delayed as Phuket blood stocks hit five-year low

    PHUKET: Several blood donors were turned away from Bangkok Hospital Phuket yesterday, even though a Norwegian man in the intensive care unit there was in dire need of the blood.

  • Urgent call for O-negative blood to save Norwegian man

    Urgent call for O-negative blood to save Norwegian man

    PHUKET: The Phuket Regional Blood Center is calling for urgent donations of O-negative blood in order to save the life of a Norwegian man in the intensive care unit (ICU) at Bangkok Hospital Phuket. “The hospital said they need three units of O-negative to save the patient’s life,” PRBC Chief Pornthip Rattajak told the Phuket Gazette this afternoon. “We have none of this blood in stock.

  • BREAKING NEWS: Foreigner dies in Phuket ultralight crash

    BREAKING NEWS: Foreigner dies in Phuket ultralight crash

    PHUKET: A foreigner died after his ultralight flying boat fell from the sky off the east coast of southern Phuket this afternoon.

  • BREAKING NEWS:  Protesters keep Phuket polls closed for national election

    BREAKING NEWS: Protesters keep Phuket polls closed for national election

    PHUKET: Protesters successfully shut down Phuket polling stations by 8:30 this morning. “Phuket elections have been terminated for today,“ Phuket Election Commission Director Kittipong Thiengkunakrit told the Phuket Gazette