Artikel tagged “Phuket”

  • Body found off Saphan Hin on Koh Tapao Noi, Phuket

    Body found off Saphan Hin on Koh Tapao Noi, Phuket

    An unidentified body has been found on Koh Tapao Noi off Saphan Hin along Phuket’s east coast yesterday afternoon. Wichit Police were notified that the body was found on Tapao Noi beach at 5 pm.

  • 2.2 million meth pills seized in Chiang Rai cross-border interception

    2.2 million meth pills seized in Chiang Rai cross-border interception

    In the game of ‘catch me if you can’ between drug smugglers and Thai police, this was another successful interception of a large drug cache making its way into Thailand. Authorities intercepted 2.2 million methamphetamine pills and 11 kilograms of crystal meth (ice) in the hills north of Chiang Rai

  • Thai PM acts on illegal and unlicensed hotels and accommodation

    Thai PM acts on illegal and unlicensed hotels and accommodation

    Owners of shop-houses, rented properties, even entire floors of condos – running them as defacto hotels – are about to get the Article 44 treatment. The PM, acting in his capacity as the head of the NCPO (in the days before it is dissolved), says he will bring an estimated 20,000 illegal hotels and accommodations around the country under control so they run under the same rules as licensed hotels and to boost safety for paying guests. The order cited a number of safety rules, like properly installed and operating fire extinguishers, required under the Hotel Act but usually missing in unlicensed premises, posing safety concerns for people that stay at unlicensed hotels.

  • Pattaya International Music Festival 2019 – Make it a date

    Pattaya International Music Festival 2019 – Make it a date

    This year the annual Pattaya Music Festival takes place on June 14 and 15 along Pattaya Beach Road, Pattaya. Dates were postponed to June, instead of March as in previous years, so that the event is held as part of the 60 th  anniversary of Pattaya tourism. Started in 2002, the Pattaya International Music Festival is a celebration of music

  • Melbourne named as first non-US city to be an Uber flying-taxi testbed

    Melbourne named as first non-US city to be an Uber flying-taxi testbed

    Flying cars. Long awaited, a thing of 1950s editions of Popular Mechanics and sci-fi, now a small step closer to reality.

  • German motorbike driver dies on Patong Hill, Phuket

    German motorbike driver dies on Patong Hill, Phuket

    A German motorbike driver has died at the scene after colliding with a pickup truck travelling down Patong Hill in Phuket. The Kathu police were notified of the accident on Monday night on Phra Baramee Road, on the Kathu side of the notoriously dangerous Patong hill road. Police and emergency responders arrived to find the damaged motorbike

  • Pregnant Krabi mum can’t wait to get to hospital

    Pregnant Krabi mum can’t wait to get to hospital

    A woman in labour ended up giving birth inside an ambulance in Krabi today. Emergency responders were notified that the mother was about to give birth at a house in Mueang Krabi. When they arrived 23 year old Uraiwan Kaebut was already in labour

  • PM Prayut receives Royal endorsement at Government House, Bangkok

    PM Prayut receives Royal endorsement at Government House, Bangkok

    PHOTO: Thai PBS The newly elected ThaiPM, until now the Prime Minister-elect, has now received royal endorsement from His Majesty the King.

  • ‘Phoenix’ fails to attract any bidders at auction. Sits rotting in Phuket boatyard.

    ‘Phoenix’ fails to attract any bidders at auction. Sits rotting in Phuket boatyard.

    Last month’s auction to sell Phoenix , the tour boat that capsized causing the drowning of 47 Chinese tourists on July 5 last year, has failed to secure a buyer. Meanwhile the cursed vessel sits gathering dust and accumulating storage fees of 100,000 baht per month at the Rassada boat yard in Phuket

  • Four metre python caught in Koh Kaew, Phuket

    Four metre python caught in Koh Kaew, Phuket

    PHOTOS: Kusoldarm Foundation A four metre python has been caught in Koh Kaew over the weekend. Kusoldharm rescue workers were notified of the reptile trying to hide in a roof space at a house in Soi Koh Kaew 1. Rescue workers arrived at the home to find the python above the kitchen in the ceiling. Four rescue workers took about one hour to cajole the python out of its hiding place with a snake snare.