Artikel erschien Februar 2012

  • Prompong in Phuket to launch tourist safety campaign

    Prompong in Phuket to launch tourist safety campaign

    PHUKET: Government spokesman Prompong Nopparit was back in Phuket last night to launch a new tourist safety campaign that will see a rapid expansion in the number of closed-circuit television cameras in Patong and other popular tourist destinations. Mr Prompong, a party list MP for the ruling Pheu Thai Party, at 7pm held an informal meeting with the press on Bangla Road, where he also met with local business business operators and their staff. The purpose of the latest visit was to launch a nationwide “500,000 eyeballs for tourist safety and security” tourist safety campaign.

  • Patong Carnival tops poll as Phuket’s top funfair

    Patong Carnival tops poll as Phuket’s top funfair

    PHUKET: The annual Patong Carnival is Phuket’s top free funfair according to a recent readers’ poll by the Phuket Gazette.

  • Phuket experts date Krabi relics at 3,000 years old

    Phuket experts date Krabi relics at 3,000 years old

    PHUKET: A trove of ancient artifacts unearthed in Krabi recently could be up to 3,000 years old, experts at the Fine Arts Department Office in Phuket have estimated. Reporters invited by a village headman in Baan Klang subdistrict, Ao Luek, were the among the first to view the items, discovered by residents of Baan Khao Ngam village last week

  • Sunday Opinion: Swift actions to regulate Phuket crime

    Sunday Opinion: Swift actions to regulate Phuket crime

    PHUKET: Efforts by the Phuket Provincial Office and related agencies to tackle the problem of unregulated “swiftlet ranching” are admirable in their foresight, but regrettable in approach. (See

  • Tourism finds Phuket swiftlet aviaries difficult to swallow

    Tourism finds Phuket swiftlet aviaries difficult to swallow

    SPECIAL REPORT Having caused problems in other regions of Thailand, the growing number of swiftlet barns in Phuket came under scrutiny at Phuket Provincial Hall last week. Officials have decided to set up ‘zones’ for the business – despite the fact that it is illegal.

  • Jetstar flights to Phuket to airlift stranded Aussies home

    Jetstar flights to Phuket to airlift stranded Aussies home

    Suggested Heading: PHUKET: Jetstar has scheduled an additional ad-hoc service from Phuket to Australia on Sunday in order to assist travellers stranded by the

  • Chlorine gas guests return safely to Phuket resort

    Chlorine gas guests return safely to Phuket resort

    PHUKET: All the guests affected by the chlorine gas cloud at the Phuket Orchid Resort in Karon

  • Dozens injured in Phuket resort pool chlorine ‘blast’

    Dozens injured in Phuket resort pool chlorine ‘blast’

    PHUKET: Dozens of tourists and resort workers were rushed to hospital this morning after a mix of pool cleaning agents “exploded” into a cloud of gas beside a pool at a Phuket resort. Staff at the Phuket Orchid Resort in Karon confirmed to the Phuket Gazette that the cloud of gas was formed by a mix of chlorine and other cleaning agents rapidly expanding in a tank beside the pool.

  • Phuket forecast: good chance of rain this weekend

    Phuket forecast: good chance of rain this weekend

    PHUKET: The weekend forecast for Phuket calls for „widely scattered to scattered“ thundershowers through Monday, with variable winds and temperatures at night reaching as low as 22°C. For the 24-hour period starting at noon today, the forecast by the Thai Meteorological Department (TMD) center at Phuket Airport calls for partly cloudy conditions with scattered thundershowers covering 60% of the province.

  • Phuket kickboxer murder fugitive Lee Aldhouse wins right to appeal extradition

    Phuket kickboxer murder fugitive Lee Aldhouse wins right to appeal extradition

    PHUKET: The return to Phuket of fugitive British murder suspect Lee Aldhouse remains on hold, as the kickboxer has won the right to appeal an extradition order, the UK media has reported. Lee Aldhouse, 27, successfully