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  • Joyriding Phuket King Cobra nabbed in truck

    Joyriding Phuket King Cobra nabbed in truck

    PHUKET: A three-meter King Cobra was captured in Phuket’s Khao Phra Thaeo Wildlife Sanctuary last night after it went along for a ride in one of the park trucks. The driver of the truck, park employee Wad Promya, 59, had taken the truck to run an errand at a friend’s house

  • Phuket alcohol ban for Visakha Bucha on Friday

    Phuket alcohol ban for Visakha Bucha on Friday

    PHUKET: Bars, restaurants and other retailers across Phuket are required to refrain from selling alcohol from midnight Thursday night to sunrise Saturday morning as a total ban on alcohol sales comes into effect nationwide for the Buddhist holy day Visakha Bucha on Friday. “Visakha Bucha Day is one of the four annual religious days on which the sale of alcohol is banned,” explained Lt Col Akanit Danpitaksat, Deputy Superintendent of the Patong Police.

  • Phuket tourist hits pedestrian on Thepkrasattri Road

    Phuket tourist hits pedestrian on Thepkrasattri Road

    PHUKET: A tourist arriving on Phuket from Bangkok in his pick-up truck last night struck an unidentified man who allegedly had stepped out into one of Phuket’s busiest roads. Thalang Police received a report at 11:45pm that a man had been hit in the southbound lanes of Thepkrasattri Road about 150 meters north of the Heroines’ Monument (map

  • Phuket Opinion: Meth-ods for drug abuse prevention

    Phuket Opinion: Meth-ods for drug abuse prevention

    PHUKET: Dr Ruangsit Netnuanyai, the psychiatric social worker who runs the drug treatment center at Vachira Phuket Hospital, is absolutely right that more needs to be done to prevent youths from falling into the potentially fatal trap of drug abuse (story

  • Phuket hospital offers free checkups in honor of HM Queen Sirikit

    Phuket hospital offers free checkups in honor of HM Queen Sirikit

    PHUKET: Phuket residents are invited to sign up for free medical checkups at the Phuket Provincial Hospital on May 31 in honor of HM Queen Sirikit’s 81st birthday later this year. The first 1,253 Phuket-registered residents to contact the Provincial Hospital (map

  • Police urge Phuket tourists to use Tourist Buddy app

    Police urge Phuket tourists to use Tourist Buddy app

    PHUKET: The Phuket Tourist Police are urging visitors to the island to download and register the agency’s Tourist Buddy application, which is now available on Google Play for devices running the Android platform (click

  • Phuket coral restoration begins as seawalking continues

    Phuket coral restoration begins as seawalking continues

    PHUKET: Marine officers and volunteer divers who headed to Khai Nai island on Tuesday to help restore damaged coral – allegedly wrecked by a seawalking tour company (story

  • New school year means busy Phuket pawnshops

    New school year means busy Phuket pawnshops

    PHUKET: As the new school year started in Phuket yesterday, parents turned to the Phuket City Municipality Pawnshop to cash in items to pay for their children’s school supplies. Trade was brisk at the government pawnshop, up 20 per cent on last year, said staff.

  • Phuket taxi meter cheats under fire

    Phuket taxi meter cheats under fire

    PHUKET: The Phuket Land Transportation Office (PLTO) will seek help from the Highway Police to tackle metered taxi drivers who refuse to use their meters. “I am aware that many tourists are unhappy with taxi drivers. We are going to talk about how to stop metered taxi drivers from cheating,” PLTO Chief Terayout Prasertphol told the Phuket Gazette.

  • Australians consider opening consulate on Phuket

    Australians consider opening consulate on Phuket

    PHUKET: A decision on whether or not to open an Australian consulate in Phuket is expected to be made within a month, Australian Honorary Consul Larry Cunningham told the Phuket Gazette this morning. “We have more deaths in Phuket than we have in Bali. We certainly need extra staffing,” he said.