Artikel erschien September 2011

  • Phuket Poll: What’s your favorite Thai dish?

    Phuket Poll: What’s your favorite Thai dish?

    PHUKET: In the latest online readers poll, the Phuket Gazette lightens up the subject matter to ask readers which of six popular Thai dishes they would choose to dine on exclusively if stuck on an island for two weeks. To vote in the poll click …

  • Quicksilver surf competition underway in Phuket

    Quicksilver surf competition underway in Phuket

    PHUKET: The Quiksilver Surf Phuket Thailand Competition 2011 started today, with famous surfers from around the region taking part in the first round of the men’s long board event. There were 24 men taking part in the first round, which got underway off Loma Park in Patong at 2pm

  • Phuket update: ‚Kru Kiew‘ denies torture charge

    Phuket update: ‚Kru Kiew‘ denies torture charge

    PHUKET: A daycare center worker caught on tape … Full story

  • Quiksilver surf competition underway in Phuket

    Quiksilver surf competition underway in Phuket

    PHUKET: The Quiksilver Surf Phuket Thailand Competition 2011 started today, with famous surfers from around the region taking part in the first round of the men’s long board event. There were 24 men taking part in the first round, which got underway off Loma Park in Patong at 2pm. …

  • Health checks reveal Phuket police getting heavy

    Health checks reveal Phuket police getting heavy

    PHUKET: Police officers stationed in Phuket are increasingly becoming overweight and suffering high cholesterol, the Phuket Gazette was told today.

  • Paiboon calls for dam healthy Phuket

    Paiboon calls for dam healthy Phuket

    PHUKET: Phuket Provincial Administration Organization President Paiboon Upatising has called for plans to redevelop Bang Wad Dam and Bang Neaw Dam Phukets two main water reservoirs to include jogging tracks and bike lanes as key recreational features at the sites. Mr Paiboon called for the healthy additions yesterday at a public hearing at Kathu Municipality offices to announce the latest plans drawn up by hired consultants Phisut Technology Co Ltd

  • Phuket Live Wire: Getting connected

    Phuket Live Wire: Getting connected

    PHUKET: WHEN it comes to Internet connections in Phuket, there are three major considerations: reliability, speed and price. In that order. Its almost impossible to measure reliability.

  • Street shooting leaves Phuket mother of two in disbelief

    Street shooting leaves Phuket mother of two in disbelief

    PHUKET: A young mother is contemplating her future after her partner and the father of her two children was gunned down outside their rented room in Phuket on Sunday night. I was watching television with our two children at about 10pm when I heard two loud blasts

  • Use of force necessary in Phuket beach eviction: Police

    Use of force necessary in Phuket beach eviction: Police

    PHUKET: Local police have defended their use of force in removing vendors from a Phuket beach on Sunday, saying that the officers present did only what was needed to arrest the ringleader. Tensions flared when police and municipal officers staged a dawn raid to tear down three restaurants deemed to be encroaching on government land at Karon Beach.

  • More wet weather for Phuket: TMD

    More wet weather for Phuket: TMD

    PHUKET: The Thai Meteorological Department (TMD) has issued a heavy rain warning for Phuket and almost all of Thailand. The warning, simply entitled „Heavy Rain over Thailand“, was issued at 5am today by the TMD’s Weather Forecast Bureau in Bangkok. The source of all the precipitation over the central plains region is a monsoon trough slowly moving across central Thailand, while an active southwest monsoon prevails over the Andaman Sea, southern Thailand and the Gulf of Thailand