Artikel tagged “Phuket”

  • MV Hope: Three more survivors rescued, two bodies brought ashore Phuket

    MV Hope: Three more survivors rescued, two bodies brought ashore Phuket

    PHUKET: Three more survivors were plucked from the sea yesterday as the Royal Thai Navy continued its search for the crewmen still missing from the Bangladeshi cargo ship MV Hope, which capsized in heavy seas south of Phuket on Thursday night (story

  • Waves take man to sea, return his body the next day

    Waves take man to sea, return his body the next day

    PHUKET: The body of a man who disappeared while fishing with friends in Phuket yesterday was found washed ashore at Kalim Beach, north of Patong, this morning.

  • Phuket Navy resumes sea-rescue search for Bangladeshi crew

    Phuket Navy resumes sea-rescue search for Bangladeshi crew

    PHUKET: Officers from the Royal Thai Navy Phuket base resumed their search this morning for 11 crewmen still missing from the Bangladeshi cargo ship MV Hope, which remains foundering in the Andaman Sea south of Phuket. “We sent out two helicopters and the HTMS Pattani at 6am,” Capt Thammawat Malaisukkarin, Director of the Naval Civil Affairs told the Phuket Gazette.

  • Phuket raid nets B100mn of pirated goods in Patong

    Phuket raid nets B100mn of pirated goods in Patong

    PHUKET: A Department of Special Investigation (DSI) task force in Phuket yesterday arrested seven people and seized pirated goods with an estimated street value of more than 100 million baht. Armed with a search warrant and joined by officers from the Patong Police, the DSI agents raided two three-story shophouses in Soi Sukcharoen, off Phang Muang Sai Kor Road in Patong (map

  • More rain forecast as Phuket housing estate goes underwater

    More rain forecast as Phuket housing estate goes underwater

    PHUKET: More rain is forecast for the coming days as Phuket suffers heavy deluges causing minor flooding at locations across the island. More than 68mm of rainfall was recorded at Phuket International Airport yesterday and 56mm fell on Phuket Town, with both locales recording more than 25mm within a three-hour period.

  • Phantom sex noises in Phuket, voodoo suspected

    Phantom sex noises in Phuket, voodoo suspected

    PHUKET: An inconclusive police investigation has prompted a Phuket woman to publicly appeal for help in unravelling the mysterious “sex noises” she keeps hearing at her Chalong home. Onanong Waltham, 46, accompanied by her housemate Sujittraporn Tephabutra, made her public appeal at the Phuket Press Club yesterday afternoon

  • Phuket driver escapes injury as car slams into tree

    Phuket driver escapes injury as car slams into tree

    PHUKET: A Phuket woman escaped serious injury late last night when her car slammed into a tree at high speed, ripping the engine from the vehicle and flinging it 50 meters from where the car came to rest. Maj Kittiphum Tinthalang of the Thalang Police received a report of the accident, on Srisoonthorn Road in Baan Manik, in central Phuket, at about 11:30pm.

  • Phuket Opinion: Human trafficking is Thailand’s failure

    Phuket Opinion: Human trafficking is Thailand’s failure

    PHUKET: Few issues are more tragic and complex than human trafficking.

  • False start for Phuket murder trial of Swedish man

    False start for Phuket murder trial of Swedish man

    PHUKET: The murder trial of Johan Sebastian Ljung – charged for his role in the killing of fellow Swedish national Maksim Schantz in Phuket two years ago – floundered yesterday after the case investigator failed to present himself in court. Mr Ljung, 25 at the time of the killing, was brought from Phuket Provincial Prison, located immediately next to the court, to appear in front of the judge at 1:30pm. However, after an hour and a half of waiting, the judge informed the court that he had been told the case investigator was unable to attend, and so decided to defer the trial until September 9.

  • Poles are for climbing at Phuket Agricultural Fair

    Poles are for climbing at Phuket Agricultural Fair

    PHUKET: Seven kinds of goats could be found behind Tesco Lotus in Cherng Talay on Monday and Tuesday this week, during Cherng Talay’s ninth annual agricultural fair, which also entertained local residents with durian races, pole-climbing matches, cooking contests and animal competitions.