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  • Funeral begins for revered abbot of Phuket’s Wat Chalong

    Funeral begins for revered abbot of Phuket’s Wat Chalong

    PHUKET: A seven-day funeral service began yesterday for the revered Abbot of Phuket’s famed Wat Chaithararam, well known among foreigners simply as Wat Chalong (Chalong Temple).

  • Rawai rides for Phuket road safety

    Rawai rides for Phuket road safety

    PHUKET: Local government in Phuket is continuing its battle to reduce the number of motorbike accident fatalities and serious injuries that frequently occur to children of school age. Yesterday, it was the turn of Rawai Municipality to take up the fight at Muang Phuket School on Wisit Road in Rawai. Phuket Democrat MP Anchalee Vanich Thepabutr presided over the opening ceremony of the event, which focused on driving discipline and the continuing campaign to get riders to wear helmets while on motorbikes.

  • Rawai rides for Phuket road safety

    Rawai rides for Phuket road safety

    PHUKET: Local government in Phuket is continuing its battle to reduce the number of motorbike accident fatalities and serious injuries that frequently occur to children of school age. Yesterday, it was the turn of Rawai Municipality to take up the fight at Muang Phuket School on Wisit Road in Rawai. Phuket Democrat MP Anchalee Vanich Thepabutr presided over the opening ceremony of the event, which focused on driving discipline and the continuing campaign to get riders to wear helmets while on motorbikes.

  • Road safety campaign to slash Phuket death toll to 50 per year

    Road safety campaign to slash Phuket death toll to 50 per year

    PHUKET: Officials are moving ahead with a campaign to reduce the number of deaths on Phuket’s roads to just 50 per year within the next three years. Last year, 116 died in road accidents in Phuket. The move is part of a nationwide campaign to reduce the road accident death toll in conjunction with the United Nations’ “Decade of Action for Road Safety”, which aims to reduce the global toll from the current 3,500 lives lost every day in traffic accidents around the globe.

  • Phuket’s first underpass to spur new traffic woes

    Phuket’s first underpass to spur new traffic woes

    PHUKET: Motorists have been warned to expect major delays when construction begins next month on a 599-million-baht underpass at the Darasamuth Junction, on the bypass road near the

  • B100bn up for grabs: Krabi told to prepare for AEC 2015

    B100bn up for grabs: Krabi told to prepare for AEC 2015

    PHUKET: With 100 billion baht (US$ 3 billion) requested by government agencies for Thailand’s preparation for the Asean Economic Community (AEC) in 2015, private and government organizations in Krabi this week called on yesterday by the Asean Secretary-General to step up their efforts in order to establish a “central role” in the Andaman. “Krabi will have an advantage over several other Thai provinces due to its being the central province of the Andaman coast.

  • Phuket gets ready for tourism boom with ‘Big Cleaning Day’

    Phuket gets ready for tourism boom with ‘Big Cleaning Day’

    PHUKET: The three district offices covering the entire island staged cleanups at public areas across Phuket yesterday as part of the “Big Cleaning Day” initiative. More than 500 people, including government officers, staff from private businesses as well as local students and residents, gathered at Saphan Hin Park in Phuket Town, where the Muang District Office held its activity under the banner “Giving back the clean nature to the Andaman”.

  • Phuket Live Wire: Wait until Christmas

    Phuket Live Wire: Wait until Christmas

    PHUKET: Last week I talked about the direction the computer industry is headed as we barrel along toward the Christmas season. If you’re thinking about buying any new electronics – computer, tablet, phone, maybe even a TV – it would be worthwhile to stay on top of developments between now and Christmas.

  • French tourist killed, another comatose in Phuket motorbike crash

    French tourist killed, another comatose in Phuket motorbike crash

    PHUKET: One French tourist is dead and another remains in coma after the motorbike they were riding crashed on the beach road in Karon before dawn yesterday. Chalong duty officer Boonlert Onklang said that police were informed of the accident, at a curved section of the beach road near the Hilton Phuket Arcadia Resort, at 3.40am.

  • Flood takes steam out of Tiger Discotheque extension inquiry

    Flood takes steam out of Tiger Discotheque extension inquiry

    PHUKET: The investigation into whether or not the alleged „extension“ to the ill-fated Tiger Discotheque in Patong was legal fell flat last week after Patong Municipality admitted that it had lost the original plan to the building in a flood nearly a decade ago. The investigation was launched after