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  • Baby buffalo killed in Phuket hit-and-run, owner blamed

    Baby buffalo killed in Phuket hit-and-run, owner blamed

    PHUKET: A pickup truck struck and killed a young buffalo and then drove off north of Phuket Town on Saturday night, but authorities say the buffalo’s owner was at fault. “In this case, the owner of the buffalo must pay for the damage to the pickup truck,” Phuket City Police chief Col Sermphan Sirikong explained to the Phuket Gazette

  • Phuket book launch makes history

    Phuket book launch makes history

    PHUKET: It was standing room only as more than 250 people crammed into the auditorium next to Les Anges bakery at Royal Phuket Marina (RPM) yesterday evening for the launch of Colin Mackay’s potentially seminal work,“A History of Phuket and the Surrounding Region”. More than six years in the making, the book references more than 800 texts detailing the arrival of man onto the Malay Peninsula and the developments thereafter that produced what is known today as the tourist haven isle of Phuket

  • Dokset murder trial postponed for want of a translator

    Dokset murder trial postponed for want of a translator

    PHUKET: The murder trial of Stein Havard Dokset was due to continue yesterday but was postponed until August 22 after it was discovered that no court translator was available. Mr Dokset, accused of murdering his ex-girlfriend Rungnapa Suktong and leaving her remains in a trash bin for months, appeared at Phuket Provincial Court yesterday at 9am (story

  • Aussie life savers dive in to boost Phuket beach guard training

    Aussie life savers dive in to boost Phuket beach guard training

    PHUKET: The Phuket Lifeguard Club (PLC) yesterday announced it has joined with the renowned Surf Life Saving Australia (SLSA) to develop world-class public education programs that aim to improve water safety and reduce the number of drownings on Phuket’s beaches.

  • Phuket protest delivers possible reprieve for Muslim teacher sacked for joining Hajj

    Phuket protest delivers possible reprieve for Muslim teacher sacked for joining Hajj

    PHUKET: About 100 parents, students, community leaders and other Muslim residents from across Phuket gathered in front of Muslim Wittaya School on Thepkrasattri Road in Koh Kaew this morning to protest a teacher being sacked for taking unapproved leave to join the Hajj.

  • Southern Resurgence: Drug cocktail 8×100 makes a comeback

    Southern Resurgence: Drug cocktail 8×100 makes a comeback

    PHUKET: The police crackdown on the indigenous plant kratom, a mild narcotic, is taking its toll, with youngsters now reportedly turning to longkong leaves in order to make a new version of the long-known drug cocktail “4×100”. The new recipe using longkong leaves even sports a new, improved nickname: “8×100”

  • Phuket Opinion: Praise for the little ‚Heroes‘ of Phuket

    Phuket Opinion: Praise for the little ‚Heroes‘ of Phuket

    PHUKET: Although accorded little, if any, attention in the local media, the recent winning of a national championship in the “To Be Number One Teen Dancercise 2013” competition by a team of young dancers from the Baan Bangneaw Municipal School in Phuket Town deserves a great deal of recognition and praise. It was a considerable achievement, the first ever by a team representing Phuket.

  • DNP outlines conservation issues to be presented to CITES

    DNP outlines conservation issues to be presented to CITES

    PHUKET: In town yesterday for the investigation into encroachment on Phuket’s Sirinath National Park (story

  • French family saved from speedboat adrift

    French family saved from speedboat adrift

    PHUKET: A French man and his family were rescued on Tuesday night after their speedboat broke down about two nautical miles from Koh Sirae. Phuket Marine Police received a distress call from Patick Legros, 58, at about 8:30pm informing them that he, his wife and his 7-year-old daughter were in need of help. Chatchai Sakdee of the Marine Police led a quick rescue operation, eventually towing the boat back to Rassada Pier.

  • Bottlenose dolphin, rare in Phuket, found dead

    Bottlenose dolphin, rare in Phuket, found dead

    PHUKET: A bottlenose dolphin was found dead on Bang Tao Beach this morning, the first to be found beached in Phuket in years. “The dolphin was a female bottlenose dolphin,” Dr Kongkiat Kittiwattanawong of the Phuket Marine Biological Center (PMBC) said