Artikel erschien Mai 2012

  • Bangkok Police arrest Phuket gold heist bandit

    Bangkok Police arrest Phuket gold heist bandit

    PHUKET: The brazen thief who made off with an estimated

  • Phuket police officer held for off-duty killing

    Phuket police officer held for off-duty killing

    PHUKET: A Phuket police officer and his brother are being detained at Phuket Provincial Court tonight after both were charged with accessory to murder over a fatal shooting in Phuket Town’s red-light district early yesterday morning. Phuket City Police Deputy Superintendent Jamroon Plaiduang told the Phuket Gazette that the shooting occurred at about 2:30am in Phuket Town’s infamous Phun Phol Soi 11. Pol Cpl Rachaporn Semaksorn, currently serving at Patong Police Station, and his brother Dechaporn arrived in the narrow street, pulling up on the opposite side of the alley where 21-year-old Ekkasit Sangangam was sitting on his parked motorbike.

  • Phuket teenage drug addicts blamed for community center fire

    Phuket teenage drug addicts blamed for community center fire

    PHUKET: Phuket City Police believe that a fire at the Austria-Phuket Community Center in Rassada in the early hours of this morning was started by a group of teenage drug addicts known to frequent the area. It was the second time the center had been set on fire within a month. Phuket City Police received a report at 1:10am from residents who live near the center.

  • Phuket sea gypsies celebrate their heritage

    Phuket sea gypsies celebrate their heritage

    PHUKET: Preparations for the first of the twice-yearly sea gypsy Loy Reua festival are underway at Laem Tukkae on Koh Sireh, on the east side of Phuket Town. The festival is renowned as a celebration of local culture during which sea gypsies build a boat by hand and adorn it with garlands, then place inside it personal items and set it adrift as an offering to their spirit of the sea.

  • No lifeguards on beaches as Phuket enters surf danger season

    No lifeguards on beaches as Phuket enters surf danger season

    PHUKET: As the southwest monsoon sets in and Phuket enters the most dangerous period for beach swimmers, the Phuket lifeguards have yet to return to their towers at popular tourist beaches along the west coast. The news comes as the Phuket Gazette today received confirmation that not a single company or organization bid for the government contract to provide lifeguard services at Phuket’s beaches

  • Earthquake aftershock spooks residents in northern Phuket

    Earthquake aftershock spooks residents in northern Phuket

    PHUKET: A 2.3 Richter aftershock centered in Phuket’s Thalang District struck at 4:54am today, waking some residents with a loud bang, while others reported feeling nothing at all of the tremors. “The epicenter of the aftershock was at Latitude 8º 00′ 36″ N, Longitude 98º 21′ 00″ E.

  • Speed radar project most helpful: Phuket poll

    Speed radar project most helpful: Phuket poll

    PHUKET: Phuket Gazette readers overwhelmingly think the installation of radar speed cameras to monitor road traffic and automatically fine violators will be the most helpful of

  • Xayaburi Dam protesters in Phuket maintain threat of closing Thai-Laos Friendship Bridge

    Xayaburi Dam protesters in Phuket maintain threat of closing Thai-Laos Friendship Bridge

    PHUKET: Residents of eight Thai provinces along the Mekong River traveled to Phuket to protest construction of the Xayaburi Dam in Laos during a three-day of the Mekong River Commission (MRC) that ends today in Phuket. The protesters gathered on Tuesday morning at the Movenpick Resort, which is hosting the “Mekong 2 Rio” conference of high-level delegates from Mekong Basin states and their upstream partners.

  • Xayaburi Dam protesters in Phuket maintain threat of closing Thai-Laos Friendship Bridge

    Xayaburi Dam protesters in Phuket maintain threat of closing Thai-Laos Friendship Bridge

    PHUKET: Residents of eight Thai provinces along the Mekong River traveled to Phuket to protest construction of the Xayaburi Dam in Laos during a three-day of the Mekong River Commission (MRC) that ends today in Phuket.

  • Xayaburi Dam protesters in Phuket maintain threat of closing Thai-Laos Friendship Bridge

    Xayaburi Dam protesters in Phuket maintain threat of closing Thai-Laos Friendship Bridge

    PHUKET: Residents of eight Thai provinces along the Mekong River traveled to Phuket to protest construction of the Xayaburi Dam in Laos during a three-day of the Mekong River Commission (MRC) that ends today in Phuket.