Artikel erschien Mai 2012

  • Phuket Police blame ‘business conflict’ for snake show arson attack

    Phuket Police blame ‘business conflict’ for snake show arson attack

    PHUKET: Phuket’s top police officer said a business conflict was the most likely motive for last week’s

  • Phuket Red Cross pumps up blood donation campaign

    Phuket Red Cross pumps up blood donation campaign

    PHUKET: The Phuket Regional Blood Center (RBC) has stepped up it mobile blood collection campaign as blood stocks are dangerously low following the annual Songkran Festival last month, which resulted in a surge in road accidents in the region. The Phuket RBC, run by the Thai Red Cross Society, is responsible for collection of blood stocks in Phang Nga, Krabi, Trang, Satun and Ranong as well as Phuket

  • Express mail truck flips in Phuket, no injuries

    Express mail truck flips in Phuket, no injuries

    PHUKET: The driver of an express mail service truck will be charged with negligent driving and property damage after his delivery truck crossed over a median strip and overturned on Phuket’s main road from Phuket Town to the airport on Tuesday afternoon. Thalang Police were notified of the accident, at the u-turn on Thepkrasattri Road near the Kan Keha public housing estate, about three kilometers north of Phuket’s famed Heroines Monument, at 3:30pm. Arriving at the scene with Phuket Kusoldharm Foundation workers they found a six-wheeled Hino truck overturned in the middle of the road, its front wheels partially ripped from the chassis.

  • Phuket workers present demands on Labor Day

    Phuket workers present demands on Labor Day

    PHUKET: Union leaders in Phuket yesterday demanded that the government initiate measures to reduce and control the soaring cost of living, which they insist has long outstripped minimum wages. The formal demands for pricing controls headlined a list of six demands presented to Phuket Vice Governor Sommai Prijasilpa at the island’s annual Labor Day Fair held at the Phuket Provincial Office of Labor Protection and Welfare in Phuket Town. Other key officials taking part in the event included Phuket Provincial Administration Organization (OrBorJor) President Paiboon Upatising and Kittipong Laonipon, chief of the Phuket Provincial Office of Labor Protection and Welfare.

  • Phuket police confirm DNA report ‘just a formality’ in Dokset murder case

    Phuket police confirm DNA report ‘just a formality’ in Dokset murder case

    PHUKET: Chalong Police today confirmed to the Phuket Gazette that investigators are still waiting for written confirmation that the DNA tests of the human remains found in the basement of Norwegian expat Stein Dokset’s luxury villa in Kata are those of his ex-girlfriend Rungnapa Suktong. “We were informed by a phone call a few days ago that the remains are indeed those of Ms Rungnapa, and Mr Dokset has already confirmed in his confession to police that the remains were of her,” Chalong Police Superintendent Sirisak Wasasiri told the Gazette.

  • Phuket property developer agrees to pay back buyers after tax protest

    Phuket property developer agrees to pay back buyers after tax protest

    PHUKET: After staging a successful protest in front of the office of a local property development firm yesterday, residents of the Chao Fa Garden Home 3 housing estate in Phuket will get back taxes they claim they were duped into paying by the home builder. About 100 residents of the sprawling estate, located off Thepkrasattri Road in Koh Kaew, gathered in front of the offices of Winpro Property Company Ltd yesterday.

  • Phuket neighborly dispute ends in fatal stabbing

    Phuket neighborly dispute ends in fatal stabbing

    PHUKET: Thung Thong Police today held a re-enactment of the assault that resulted in the death of Kamonchai Suwanin, 38, from Nakhon Sri Thammarat, on Sunday evening. The suspect, Arak Kraisap, 38, from Nonthaburi, confessed to police that following many arguments he stabbed Mr Kamonchai in the throat outside their apartments, opposite the 7-Eleven store on Wichit Songkhram Road near the Caltex gas station in Thung Thong, Kathu

  • Russian language warning sought for Phuket tsunami sirens

    Russian language warning sought for Phuket tsunami sirens

    PHUKET: Phuket officials will ask the National Disaster Warning Center (NDWC) to add Russian language to the spoken messages played by its 19 warning towers along Phuket’s coast.

  • Race to repair Patong Hill road

    Race to repair Patong Hill road

    PHUKET: The Highways Department hopes to begin shoring up one landslide-prone section of the road over Patong Hill in June, but work on another section of the same road will have to wait until at least next year.

  • Tourist, 25, survives six-storey fall from Phuket hotel balcony

    Tourist, 25, survives six-storey fall from Phuket hotel balcony

    PHUKET: A 25-year-old woman from the Philippines has escaped serious injury after falling from the balcony of her sixth-floor Phuket hotel room late last night. Rescue workers from the Kusoldharm Foundation in Patong told the Phuket Gazette that they received a call notifying them of the incident at about half past midnight. The rescue workers arrived to find Jardeliza Samireh lying in the dirt in the vacant plot behind the Patong Pearl Resortel in Soi Sawatdirak Road.