Artikel erschien August 2011

  • Officials visit site of latest Phuket landslide

    Officials visit site of latest Phuket landslide

    PHUKET: A landslide at a Phuket construction site for a shrine to the goddess Guanyin sent large boulders tumbling down a steep hillside yet again yesterday. No injuries or deaths were reported in the incident

  • Phuket Live Wire: Unofficial study nets surprising rates of speed

    Phuket Live Wire: Unofficial study nets surprising rates of speed

    PHUKET: The amount you pay for an Internet line has almost no correlation with how fast the line runs internationally. Before you spend a fortune on a new Internet connection, make sure you understand what you are and arent getting.

  • German man still in ICU after dispute with Phuket tuk-tuk driver

    German man still in ICU after dispute with Phuket tuk-tuk driver

    PHUKET: A German man is in intensive care fighting for his life after he was beaten by a mob of Phuket tuk-tuk drivers for refusing to pay a fare of 100 baht (approx US$3.35).

  • Liverpool Legends stop in Phuket canceled

    Liverpool Legends stop in Phuket canceled

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  • Rider in the storm: man killed in Phuket motorbike crash

    Rider in the storm: man killed in Phuket motorbike crash

    PHUKET: A man was killed last night when his motorbike slammed into the back of a 10-wheel truck parked in the breakdown lane of Phukets deadliest road. The tragedy occurred at about 10pm on Thepkrasattri Road inbound, in front a furniture store near the Srisoonthorn Tambon Administration Organization offices

  • Tropical depression: two suicides in Phuket in one day

    Tropical depression: two suicides in Phuket in one day

    PHUKET: A sick and destitute Burmese worker was the second man to take his life by hanging in Phukets Srisoonthorn sub-district yesterday.

  • Phuket Retail: Staff productivity, not piracy, the key to success

    Phuket Retail: Staff productivity, not piracy, the key to success

    PHUKET: Phuket has experienced unprecedented growth across at levels of the retail sector over the past two decades, but without any real improvement in customer service especially in terms of product knowledge and foreign language skills. Rapid improvement in these areas is needed if the island is to capitalize on its many advantages and to emerge as a regional retail hub by 2015, when the terms of the ASEAN Economic Community (AEC) charter take effect. The introduction of the AEC 2015 charter is being heralded as marking the advent of a whole new era of economics for the Southeast Asian bloc.

  • Car plunges into Phuket canal, foreigner drowns

    Car plunges into Phuket canal, foreigner drowns

    PHUKET: A Nepalese tailor drowned when his car plunged into a canal in Phukets Thalang district last night. Thalang Police were notified of an accident near the TOT offices on the road to Ban Don at about 9:40pm.

  • After the floods, Phuket mops up

    After the floods, Phuket mops up

    PHUKET: Emergency response crews across Phuket continued their clean-up operations as the flood waters subsided and breaks in the rain came late this afternoon. Today, there are no major flood waters left standing in the Patong area

  • Tuk-tuk drivers surrender to Phuket police

    Tuk-tuk drivers surrender to Phuket police

    PHUKET: The four tuk-tuk drivers wanted for setting up a blockade on Patongs beach road on August 1 have surrendered to police, Patong Police duty officer Lt Col Kittipong Klaikaew told the Phuket Gazette today.