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  • Phuket Opinion: Refugee runaways – shelters aren’t jails

    Phuket Opinion: Refugee runaways – shelters aren’t jails

    Jiranun Cheamcharoen, 46, from Ratchaburi, received a BA from Thammasat University and an MA from Ramkhamhaeng University. She has been a social worker since 1991 and the director of the Phuket Shelter for Children and Families on Koh Sireh for four years. Here, she talks about the difficulties of housing Rohingya children and what action she took after they ran away from the shelter.

  • Phuket Airshow & Family Picnic ready for takeoff

    Phuket Airshow & Family Picnic ready for takeoff

    PHUKET: On behalf of the U.S.

  • Seminar aims to develop potential of Phuket Muslim women

    Seminar aims to develop potential of Phuket Muslim women

    PHUKET: Recognizing the importance of women’s role in the family and in society, Phuket officials this week held a two-day seminar aimed at developing the leadership potential of Phuket Muslim women. The seminar, held on Wednesday and Thursday and organized by the Phuket Provincial Administrative Organization (PPAO), aimed to improve Muslim women’s knowledge about their rights, roles and responsibilities, and to encourage them to openly communicate their opinions

  • Phuket Vice Governor donates blood for Buddhist holiday

    Phuket Vice Governor donates blood for Buddhist holiday

    PHUKET: Phuket’s Vice Governor Sommai Prijasilpa this week donated blood to help publicize a special blood drive in honor of Asarnha Bucha Day, which marks the day the Buddha outlined the four noble truths that form the basis of Buddhist thought. The blood drive is scheduled for July 20-23. “We will accept donations from 9am to 3pm at the Phuket Regional Blood Center [PRBC],” said Pawinee Inthusut, the president of the Phuket Red Cross chapter.

  • Rohingya rape suspect handed over to court

    Rohingya rape suspect handed over to court

    PHUKET: The Rohingya man charged by police with holding a 25-year-old Rohingya woman captive and raping her repeatedly over three days has been handed over to the Takuapa Court.

  • Phuket manhunt for rapist who impregnated handicapped stepdaughter

    Phuket manhunt for rapist who impregnated handicapped stepdaughter

    PHUKET: Police are searching for a man who repeatedly raped his 15-year-old handicapped stepdaughter, leaving her pregnant before he ran away. The 40-year-old man, originally from Laos, has been at large since June 29, when his wife discovered what he had done

  • Family appeals for help with missing daughter in Phuket

    Family appeals for help with missing daughter in Phuket

    PHUKET: A 20-year-old woman on the verge of moving from Phuket back home to Nakhon Sri Thammarat has been reported missing by her family. Weerawit Sangpan, 28, told Thung Thong Police that his 29-year-old sister, Boonyanee, disappeared sometime early on Sunday. “We talked at midnight on Saturday.

  • Russian tourist dies in ICU after fateful Phuket swim

    Russian tourist dies in ICU after fateful Phuket swim

    PHUKET: The Russian tourist who was comatose after being pulled from the water at Karon Beach on June 23 died on Tuesday at Vachira Phuket Hospital. Kho Khay Gym, 31, had gone swimming with friends at Karon Beach when he was struck by big waves and dragged out to sea. His friends called for help and he was rescued by beach vendors about five minutes later, said Karon Police Sub Lt Niphon Temsang.

  • Phuket road work forces motorists to seek bypass road bypass

    Phuket road work forces motorists to seek bypass road bypass

    PHUKET: The long tailbacks on Thepkrasattri Road caused by the resurfacing of the bypass road at the Bang Khu Intersection in Koh Kaew has forced police to urge motorists to use alternative routes.

  • Phuket dengue numbers highest in 20 years

    Phuket dengue numbers highest in 20 years

    PHUKET: As the number of patients in Phuket diagnosed with dengue fever reached the highest level in 20 years, health officials met at Patong Hospital yesterday to discuss dengue-prevention measures in Kathu. Patong was chosen as the location and the target focus for the meeting as the beach resort town is the most popular district for tourists on the island, said Phuket Public Health Office (PPHO) Chief Bancha Kakong. “In Patong, we’ve had 25 reported cases of dengue in the past two months, and some were tourists,” Patong Hospital Director Sirichai Silapa-acha reported.