Artikel tagged “the-request”

  • Australian real estate agent in arson murder-suicide over internet usage

    Australian real estate agent in arson murder-suicide over internet usage

    PHUKET: Jealousy and his stepson’s obsession with the internet drove an Australian real estate agent to burn down his house around him with his family inside, the man’s wife told Krabi Town Police. Naruthai Port, recovering in Krabi Hospital from serious burns across 60 per cent of her body, told police that Australian Richard Port locked all the doors to prevent anyone from escaping and then started the fire

  • Mother, daughter escape falling Phuket power poles

    Mother, daughter escape falling Phuket power poles

    PHUKET: A mother and daughter were unharmed by a power pole that came crashing through the roof of their home on Kata Hill early yesterday morning. The utility pole, which luckily had broken free from the live electrical cables attached to it when it fell, punched a hole through the car port roof attached to the house, explained homeowner Kanlaya Sripitak

  • Phuket Opinion: Changing for a Safer Phuket

    Phuket Opinion: Changing for a Safer Phuket

    PHUKET: While wishing ‚Safer Phuket‘ (story

  • Australian real estate agent, step-son killed in suspected arson attack

    Australian real estate agent, step-son killed in suspected arson attack

    PHUKET: Australian real estate agent Richard Port and his 17-year-old step-son were trapped and killed in a house fire that police suspect was intentionally started across the bay from Phuket early this morning, in Ao Nang.

  • DSI puts violent Phuket taxi driver rank in cross hairs

    DSI puts violent Phuket taxi driver rank in cross hairs

    PHUKET: The head of the Department of Special Investigation (DSI) team operating in Phuket believes that enough information was gathered during a sting operation of a violent taxi rank on the island to launch a full-out investigation. “For us to step in, we must declare a case a ‘special investigation’.

  • Anti-Yingluck protesters in Phuket pledge to not back down

    Anti-Yingluck protesters in Phuket pledge to not back down

    PHUKET: Protesters have vowed to keep pressure on the Phuket provincial government until results of the anti-government rallies are seen in Bangkok. “The protests in front of Provincial Hall will continue until the big protest taking Bangkok by storm sees results,” protest co-ordinator Amnuay Kumban told the Phuket Gazette this morning.

  • Phuket murder convict Lee Aldhouse happy to serve jail time in Thailand

    Phuket murder convict Lee Aldhouse happy to serve jail time in Thailand

    PHUKET: British national Lee Aldhouse, sentenced today to 25 years in jail for the murder of American Marine Dashawn Longfellow in Phuket in 2010, is happy to serve his jail term in Thailand, the Phuket Gazette was told today. The Phuket Provincial Court sentenced Aldhouse, known in Muay Thai kickboxing arenas as the “Pitbull”, to 25 years’ imprisonment for the stabbing murder at 11am today (story

  • Phuket throat slasher arrested in Patong

    Phuket throat slasher arrested in Patong

    PHUKET: Police have arrested one man for the murder of Phuket construction worker Than Zaw, 24, a Myanmar national whose body was found dumped in a pond near the Patong Municipality offices on Sunday. Mr Than’s throat had been slashed and his torso had been stabbed at least 17 times (story

  • Stoney Monday founder faces trial in Phuket for B80mn fraud

    Stoney Monday founder faces trial in Phuket for B80mn fraud

    PHUKET: The Australian who formerly ran the Stoney Monday Oasis Hotel in Patong has been arrested in Krabi and brought back to Phuket to face trial for embezzlement and six counts of fraud. The alleged damages total more than 80 million baht

  • Swedish tourist drowns at popular Phuket beach

    Swedish tourist drowns at popular Phuket beach

    PHUKET: Big Phuket waves at Karon Beach claimed another tourist’s life yesterday afternoon. Swedish national Ann Gorli Teres Fjellner, 59, was knocked over and dragged out by heavy waves at about 9:30am, Karon Police Deputy Superintendent Pachai Matthayan told the Phuket Gazette. “Lifeguards saw the waves pull her out, but when they went to save her, she was already missing in the water.