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  • Time running out for Phuket Convention Center

    Time running out for Phuket Convention Center

    PHUKET: Time is running out on the plan to build a world-class conference and exhibition center in Phuket. The project has been stalled by a single strand of red tape as the deadline to use the 2.6 billion baht in approved funding draws near.

  • Traffic warning: Phuket Provincial Youth Games today

    Traffic warning: Phuket Provincial Youth Games today

    PHUKET: Motorists be warned: today is the busiest day of the year at Surakul Stadium in Phuket Town, where hundreds of primary and secondary school students from all over the province will amass to take part in the annual provincial youth games. The fun got underway yesterday, with kindergarten-age athletes as young as four taking part in running races, long jump and tennis ball distance throwing competitions.

  • Volcanic eruption: Buriram pounds Phuket 7-0

    Volcanic eruption: Buriram pounds Phuket 7-0

    PHUKET: FC Phuket took their worst pummeling of the season this evening, going down by the embarrassing score of 7-0 at Buriram FC. The Volcanoes took a 2-0 lead into halftime on early goals by Sumanya Burisay (6 minutes) and Suriya Domthaisong (9 minutes).

  • Man on ledge claims being Phuket hitman target for two days

    Man on ledge claims being Phuket hitman target for two days

    PHUKET: Traffic screeched to a halt on Phisit Gorani Road near Patong Temple about 7pm yesterday as motorists and other passers-by watched a team of Phuket rescue workers snatch a man from the ledge of a three-story building while he was preparing himself to jump. The man, 25-year-old tattoo artist Surasak Buranaphanit, later told Phuket police he was being hunted by “powerful men” trying to gun him down. “We saw Surasak running around the building about 6pm,” said Lek Manop, a shop vendor in the building.

  • Phuket Opinion: Time to rein in the beach cowboys, and those who do not govern them

    Phuket Opinion: Time to rein in the beach cowboys, and those who do not govern them

    PHUKET: Given the events that have occurred at Phuket’s beaches in recent weeks, it is difficult to ascertain which is the greater maritime threat: natural phenomena such as the rough monsoon seas that claim the lives of scores of overconfident swimmers every year – or the juvenile carnival that gets underway when the winds subside and the beach business operators return to the water with the same recklessness that we suffer on our roads. In the latest catastrophe, the holiday of Russian tourist Nikolai Nefedov came to a horrific end last Friday afternoon when he was struck off Kata Beach by the propeller of a speedboat used to tow airborne tourists under para-sails.

  • Team Premier wins Phuket King’s Cup Regatta

    Team Premier wins Phuket King’s Cup Regatta

    PHUKET: The strongest winds of the week at the Phuket King’s Cup Regatta bode well for skipper Hannes Weimer and his Team Premier crew as they scored a first place and a second place finish in their two races yesterday to win the IRC Zero Class with 13 points. “We’ve raced in 10 [Phuket] King’s Cups now, but this is the first time we competed as our own team under the name of Team Premier,” Hannes said. “I was feeling fairly comfortable going into the last race because I believe we have the fastest boat; she is a good all-round performer, so we get results whether the wind is light or 17 to 18 knots.

  • Phuket Darts: Hemingways A gets Swedish firepower

    Phuket Darts: Hemingways A gets Swedish firepower

    PHUKET: Hemingways A team has managed to put together quite possibly the best dart side the Phuket dart scene has ever had. One-legged Tony C, the long time Patong league stalwart from the UK, is now supported by Rappe and Tony E, both former Swedish champions, and Big Ronnie.

  • Phuket Dancer: Matt Harding to jig around Siam

    Phuket Dancer: Matt Harding to jig around Siam

    PHUKET: Internet sensation Matthew “Dancing Matt” Harding was in Phuket yesterday to record his latest video and promote the Tourism Authority of Thailand’s most recent promotional campaign: “Go Thailand: All That Is Missing Is You”. Perhaps the world’s most well-known globetrotter, Matt was in Phuket for just one day. He met with the media at Mission Hills Phuket Golf Club prior to a shoot in the Kata-Karon area.

  • TwoVillas multiply in Phuket

    TwoVillas multiply in Phuket

    PHUKET: Since launching some of Phuket’s first affordable luxury pool villas in 2003, the Twovillas Group has expanded and added a flourish of trendy concepts.

  • Patong cricket clinic open for Phuket league

    Patong cricket clinic open for Phuket league

    PHUKET: The fourth match of the Island Furniture League season saw last year’s champions, Patong, take on Island Cricket Club (ICC) on Sunday at the Alan Cooke Ground (ACG). Following an upset against Laguna in the first match of the season, Patong were determined to get their league campaign back on track. However, a number of key players were not on the team sheet due to inclusion of Anthony Van Blerk and Dean Noble.