Artikel erschien April 2012

  • Breaking News: 5.3 earthquake rattles Phuket

    Breaking News: 5.3 earthquake rattles Phuket

    PHUKET: The Thai Meteorologicial Department has reported a 5.3-magnitude earthquake striking off the coast of northern Sumatra at 4:46pm. See here:

  • Breaking News: Reports of earthquake flood across Phuket

    Breaking News: Reports of earthquake flood across Phuket

    PHUKET: Reports of an earthquake being felt across all parts of Phuket are flooding in to the Phuket Gazette. Gazette staff felt the strong shudder at 4:45pm. Reports of other Phuket residents experiencing the same have been coming in from all parts of the island, including Chalong to the south, Phuket Town and Kathu in the center of the island and Kamala on the west coast.

  • Breaking News: No tsunami warning or evacuation order yet: Phuket DDPM

    Breaking News: No tsunami warning or evacuation order yet: Phuket DDPM

    PHUKET: The Phuket office of the Department of Disaster Prevention and Mitigation (DDPM-Phuket) have confirmed that a tsunami warning has not yet been issued.

  • Phuket Police arrest armed drug suspects in Good Friday raids

    Phuket Police arrest armed drug suspects in Good Friday raids

    PHUKET: Phuket Police on Saturday announced the arrest of six drug suspects, two of them in possession of firearms.

  • Phuket’s Patong one-way system to go anti-clockwise from June

    Phuket’s Patong one-way system to go anti-clockwise from June

    PHUKET: A long-awaited plan to reverse the direction of one-way traffic flow in Patong should go into effect in June, as soon public hearings and work to complete a new roundabout at the north end of the beach road is completed, local officials say. Phunsak Naksena, Patong Municipality Chief Administrative Officer, or “Palad”, said the public-hearing process to approve the project was nearing its conclusion, with initial indications revealing that most residents are in favor of the new scheme.

  • Two dead in Phuket as pickup slams into house

    Two dead in Phuket as pickup slams into house

    PHUKET: A pickup truck travelling at high speed collided with a motorbike on the main road through Pa Khlok yesterday evening, killing the rider and passenger, and slamming into a house set back from the road at about 7:30pm. Emergency rescue first-responders from the Kusoldharm Foundation arrived at the accident scene, in front of the Pak Cheet Mosque about five kilometers west of the Heroines’ Monument, to find a mob of angry villagers attacking the pickup driver, 32-year-old Nontee Sangnuang, a resident of Rassada, north of Phuket Town. The Phuket-registered Toyota Vigo pickup was heavily damaged and lying on its side beside the house.

  • Renowned Political Analyst Thitinan Pongsudhirak speaks to Phuket

    Renowned Political Analyst Thitinan Pongsudhirak speaks to Phuket

    PHUKET: Dr Thitinan Pongsudhirak Director of the Institute of Security and International Studies at Chulalongkorn University and a former op-ed contributor to the Phuket Gazette, spoke to the island’s International Business Association last week. In an exclusive interview before that talk, he sat down with Phuket Gazette News Editor Stephen Fein and News Manager Chris Husted to discuss several issues affecting Phuket and its future. Stephen Fein: How big a threat to Thai security is the Deep South and the recent bombings there