Artikel erschien Februar 2012

  • Phuket Update: Sea search called off for missing Australian

    Phuket Update: Sea search called off for missing Australian

    PHUKET: A sea search for an Australian woman reported to have

  • Search for missing Phuket girl hits two-month mark

    Search for missing Phuket girl hits two-month mark

    PHUKET: The mother of a Phuket girl who went

  • Bob Brindley passes away in Phuket

    Bob Brindley passes away in Phuket

    PHUKET: Friends and family of Bob Brindley are mourning his passing in Phuket on Sunday. Grenville Fordham, commodore of the Ao Chalong Yacht Club (ACYC), informed members of the club of Mr Brindley’s passing with the following announcement: „It is with great regret that I have to inform you that one of ACYC’s staunchest supporters and valued members, Bob Brindley, passed away on Sunday evening.“ „According to his son, Steve, Bob knew it was time and had contacted all his family and friends to say goodbye.

  • Aussie woman falls overboard from yacht near Phuket

    Aussie woman falls overboard from yacht near Phuket

    PHUKET: Friends of an Australian woman who fell overboard from a yacht on its way to Phuket last Thursday and who is still missing are puzzled as to how such an accident could have occurred. Michelle Black, a friend of the woman, said Dr Gerald Goeden and his partner Carmel Brookes were sailing from Lankawai Island to Phuket aboard the yacht Moondancer when Ms Carmel fell overboard.

  • Another child drowns at Phuket’s ‚lethal lagoon‘

    Another child drowns at Phuket’s ‚lethal lagoon‘

    PHUKET: The drowning death of another child at Nai Harn Lagoon in Phuket over the weekend is causing authorities to consider closing the popular recreational area to swimming. The latest victim, six-year-old Supathanwa Choophuek, was reportedly alive when Nai Harn Beach lifeguards pulled him from the water on Sunday, but he died later at Vachira Phuket Hospital. Nai Harn lifeguard chief Samart Chandee, who was in Krabi at the time of the incident, said “On my return today I was told by staff that a boy was pulled from the water in the same place that Methee

  • Civil servant seeks missing mom in Phuket

    Civil servant seeks missing mom in Phuket

    PHUKET: A civil servant in Nakhon Ratchasima is appealing to the public for help in finding his mother, last seen in Phuket in early June last year. Kriengsak Muangkod, the Director of Bureau of Rural Roads Region 5 Office in Nakhon Ratchasima, said his 65-year-old mother Boonna Muangkod was last seen at his niece’s home in Karon on June 3 last year.

  • Alleged ‘call center’ gang of expats busted in Phuket

    Alleged ‘call center’ gang of expats busted in Phuket

    PHUKET: Phuket Tourist Police arrested three Filipino members of an alleged ‘call center’ gang for fraud, but the alleged mastermind, a Briton, remains at large. Nakkaphan Phota of the regional Tourist Police office in Phuket Town told the Gazette yesterday that all of the suspects were foreigners.

  • Phuket ‚White Prison‘ raid reveals rectal stashing of telephones

    Phuket ‚White Prison‘ raid reveals rectal stashing of telephones

    PHUKET: More than 200 officers conducted a surprise inspection at Phuket Provincial Prison yesterday as part of an effort to gain “White Prison” status, said Phuket Prison Chief Rapin Nichanon. The search for drugs was carried out at 5am by officers drawn from all units of the Phuket police, who also targeted mobile telephones, some of which had been smuggled in „rectally“. “We regularly have searches at our prison, but this raid was in response to the new government policies to crackdown on drugs.

  • Phuket Prison inspection comes up empty for drugs, mobile phones

    Phuket Prison inspection comes up empty for drugs, mobile phones

    PHUKET: More than 200 officers conducted a surprise inspection at Phuket Provincial Prison yesterday as part of an effort to gain “White Prison” status, said Phuket Prison Chief Rapin Nichanon. The search for drugs was carried out at 5am by officers drawn from all units of the Phuket police, who also targeted mobile telephones, some of which had been smuggled in „rectally“. “We regularly have searches at our prison, but this raid was in response to the new government policies to crackdown on drugs.

  • Swedish tourist drowns across the bay from Phuket

    Swedish tourist drowns across the bay from Phuket

    PHUKET: An elderly Swedish woman was found dead in the waters off Ao Nang in Krabi yesterday, one of many recent drownings in Phuket and Krabi.