Artikel erschien Februar 2012

  • Phuket Business: White-collared workers to gain from boom

    Phuket Business: White-collared workers to gain from boom

    PHUKET: The local work force and overall economy of Phuket stand to benefit from the ensuing boom in real estate, an executive of a major real estate developer has said. Speaking exclusively with the Phuket Gazette, Suriya Wannabuit, Executive Vice President of the Project Management and Marketing Department of Sansiri Pcl, shared his thoughts about the local economy.

  • Phuket Business: New biz center opens

    Phuket Business: New biz center opens

    PHUKET: Kasikorn Bank Group opened Southern Thailand’s first Business Services, Securities and Leasing Center, located on Thepkrasatri road in Phuket Town recently. The center will specialize in investment and lending services for Kasikorn clients in Phuket and the entire southern region

  • Phuket weather radar out of service

    Phuket weather radar out of service

    PHUKET: The weather radar at Phuket Airport has been out of service for almost a week, but a technician at Phuket Airport says it should be operational again in a few days.

  • American news round-up

    American news round-up

    PHUKET MEDIA WATCH– World news compiled by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community Former LA teacher charged with molesting 23 childrenPhuket Gazette / News Wires PHUKET: U.S. prosecutors have arrested and charged a former Los Angeles teacher with allegedly molesting at least 23 young children over a two-year period, officials said on Tuesday.

  • Phuket medical tourism threatened by taxi thuggery

    Phuket medical tourism threatened by taxi thuggery

    PHUKET: One of Phuket’s leading hospitals has complained that ‘taxi mafia’ are preventing its drivers from picking up patients staying at certain resort hotels. The complaint was one of many aired at a meeting at Phuket Provincial Hall on the topic of tourists being cheated in Phuket

  • 4 Swedes, 1 Thai dead in horror smash near Phuket

    4 Swedes, 1 Thai dead in horror smash near Phuket

    PHUKET: Two young Swedish couples and their Thai driver were killed instantly yesterday morning when their rented car was hit head-on by a six-wheel refrigerator truck in Takua Thung District, Phang Nga.

  • Phuket Update: British tourist stabber awaits trial in Krabi

    Phuket Update: British tourist stabber awaits trial in Krabi

    PHUKET: A Thai man accused of stabbing a young British tourist at a beach party on Phi Phi Island last year is in Krabi Provincial Prison awaiting trial. Hamed Poonyung, 23, has been charged with attempted murder for allegedly

  • Phuket Sports: PYSC get the cream of Cats

    Phuket Sports: PYSC get the cream of Cats

    PHUKET: Young sailors from the Phuket Youth Sailing Club (PYSC) were recently afforded the chance to experience the thrill of being aboard a new 32-foot Marstrom Cat (M-32) on the waters of Phuket. The M-32 is a vessel built purely for speed with the same state-of-the-art technology as used in the aircraft industry and Formula 1 car racing. Owner of the new catamaran, Albert Loridan, invited the youngsters to sail with him and his crew and even gave one of the older children an opportunity to helm the craft.

  • World number four pair set to give back to Phuket schools

    World number four pair set to give back to Phuket schools

    PHUKET: Schools beach volleyball received a top endorsement recently with the world’s number four pairing of Jennifer Kessy and April Ross from the USA offering to help promote the sport on Phuket. Bob Selznick continues to do sterling work for youth volleyball on the island and his friendship with the 2011 FIVB Phuket Beach Volleyball finalists [Kessy and Ross] has inspired a relationship that will see the schools set up receiving vital equipment over the coming year

  • Phuket Live Wire: Protect yourself from ATM skimming

    Phuket Live Wire: Protect yourself from ATM skimming

    PHUKET: Recently the Gazette ran a story about ATM skimming, describing how two long-term Phuket residents lost hundreds of thousands of baht at the hands of clever thieves. The banks involved came up with good advice: use ATMs either inside or at the front of bank branches; use ATMs from major banks as they have better anti-tamper systems and beware of people milling about or offering to help with your transactions.