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Phuket hotels offer great escape deals for Bangkok flood evacuees
PHUKET: At least seven Phuket hotels and resorts have signed up for the Tourism Authority of Thailand (TAT) campaign, offering discounted room rates to Bangkok flood evacuees. Bangornrat Shinaprayoon, director of the TAT office in Phuket, said Phuket was one destination that many people from Bangkok were fleeing to. Many are staying in hotels in Phuket Town or returning to stay with their relatives, she said
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Phuket divers sought for coral cleaning day
PHUKET: Fifty divers are needed to take part in the clean-up of a popular dive site off the coast of Phuket later this month.
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Phuket Tourism: TAT in major drive to bring on more tourists
PHUKET: The Tourism Authority of Thailand (TAT) is revising strategies to deal with the economic crisis in Europe and bad situations in the domestic market, such as floods and violence in the South, all of which threaten Thai tourism. Phuket is featured in the plans despite record visitor arrivals during the first half of this year and what some see as formidable …
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TAT confident in big numbers for 2011 Phuket Veg Fest
PHUKET: THE current economic climate will have no effect on the Phuket Vegetarian Festival this year, says the director of the southern regional office of the Tourism Authority of Thailand (TAT).
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Phuket mass Thai massage sets unofficial record
PHUKET: Hundreds of Phuket massage therapists lined Kata Beach this morning ready to play their part in a mass Thai massage session that unofficially broke the standing world record. A total of 584 pairs of hands worked in unison to rub and relax, surpassing the current official record of 232 pairs of hands set by Tourism Victoria Australia. An officer with the Ministry of Health explained that although many of the events including those in Ubon Ratchathani and Phuket had more participants than the current record, Guinness World Records would be invited to attend the official attempt at the record in Bangkok later this year
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Free Thai Massage: Phuket prepares to set world record
PHUKET: A total of 584 pairs of hands will be working together tomorrow at Kata Beach in Phukets attempt to set the world record for the most people simultaneously performing Thai massage. The current record stands at 232 pair, set on March 20 last year by Tourism Victoria Australia. Phukets attempt will more than double the record, but the digits have their own special meaning
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- Monk defrocked after alleged drunk, drugged altercation at funeralPHUKET: A monk has been defrocked in Phuket and is being held by police after a violent and possibly drug-induced incident at a cremation ceremony this morning. At about 10am Nusit Phanu, reportedly leapt from a wall at Wat Saensuk temple in Phuket Town and seized a 12-year-old girl by her neck Taken from: Monk defrocked after alleged drunk, drugged altercat […]
- Phuket rape suspect has not confessed: Chalong PolicePHUKET: Chalong Police Superintendent Sirisak Wasasiri at 2:35pm today confirmed to the Phuket Gazette that Sakchai Thongseedam has not confessed to the rape of a young German tourist in Phuket on Thursday. Mr Sakchai was Visit site: Phuket rape suspect has not confessed: Chalong Police... Weiterlesen... […]
- Man stabs boy, 7, in head with screwdriver on Phuket Town streetPHUKET: Police this afternoon arrested a man after he randomly stabbed a 7-year-old boy in the head with a screwdriver while the child was playing with friends in Phuket Town . Still in tears and shocked by the attack, the boy’s mother, Chareerat Naksri, told the Phuket Gazette that the stab wound narrowly missed the right ear of her son, Krittamet “Best” Ki […]