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  • Students holidaying in Phuket survive Phang Nga crash

    Students holidaying in Phuket survive Phang Nga crash

    PHUKET: Five medical students on holiday in Phuket escaped with minor injuries when the car they were traveling in struck a tree in Phang Nga yesterday. Lt Eakkapop Phuthong of Takua Thung Police received a report at 5:30pm that a vehicle had overshot a curve on Takua Thung Road at Baan Kuan, Kok Kloy

  • Phuket Poll: Which inbound market has highest growth potential?

    Phuket Poll: Which inbound market has highest growth potential?

    PHUKET: By almost all accounts, 2011 was

  • Body lotion bust uncovers Phuket motorbike, drug gang

    Body lotion bust uncovers Phuket motorbike, drug gang

    PHUKET: Two shoplifters apprehended at a Phuket 7-Eleven store were later found to be involved in the theft of seven motorbikes and were dealers of ya ice (crystal methamphetamine), police announced yesterday. Staff at the 7-Eleven store near Phuket International Airport informed police that a man and woman were caught on the store’s CCTV system stealing items from the shop.

  • Phuket tourist electrocution brings probe, safety blitz

    Phuket tourist electrocution brings probe, safety blitz

    PHUKET: The electrocution of 45-year-old Russian tourist Fedor Samsonov at a high-end Phuket resort last night has prompted an investigation by police and a full-scale safety inspection of the resort’s electrical system. “This is very tragic and we feel very much for the family,” said Lars Ydmark of resort management company Tri-Asia, which manages the Dewa Karon Beach Resort.

  • Phuket Crime: Dokset DNA results show human skull hit with heavy object

    Phuket Crime: Dokset DNA results show human skull hit with heavy object

    PHUKET: Preliminary results from forensics tests conducted on

  • Phuket Convention Center project up in the air – again

    Phuket Convention Center project up in the air – again

    PHUKET: Efforts to build a world-class convention and exhibition center in Phuket remain mired in red tape, and a recent visit to the proposed project site by two Government advisers raises little hope that the work will begin any time soon – if ever. The latest twist in the decades-old saga came with a visit to the proposed project site in Mai Khao yesterday by Wuttipong Chaisaeng, adviser to Deputy Prime Minister and Interior Minister Yongyuth Wichaidit, and Dr Boon Wanasin, president of the advisory committee for deputy prime ministers

  • Laguna Phuket denies ‘wrongdoing’ in baby elephant trade

    Laguna Phuket denies ‘wrongdoing’ in baby elephant trade

    PHUKET: Laguna Phuket today issued a public statement in response to a two-year-old

  • Phuket rail link gathers steam

    Phuket rail link gathers steam

    PHUKET: The move to build a rail link from Surat Thani to a point just north of the bridges onto Phuket gained momentum on Friday when it was confirmed as one of the projects to be presented to the Cabinet during the minister’s meeting in Phuket on March 19-20.

  • Phuket woman dies in motorbike accident

    Phuket woman dies in motorbike accident

    PHUKET: A motorbike passenger was killed last night when her driver swerved to avoid a fallen branch, putting the vehicle in the path of a fast-moving pick-up truck in the north of Phuket. Tah Chat Chai Police were notified of the accident on Thepkrasattri Road southbound at 9:25pm.

  • Swede falls victim to Russian snatch thieves in Phuket

    Swede falls victim to Russian snatch thieves in Phuket

    PHUKET; A Swedish tourist in Phuket had his gold chain and other valuables snatched by a pair of women he claims were Russian, according to a local media report. Swedish tourist Peter Wentzel, 40, was walking along the Karon beach road at 11:30pm last night when two foreign women pulled up in front of him on a motorbike and asked for cigarettes, reported this morning’s edition of Siangtai Daily.