Artikel posted in 2012

  • FC Phuket to appeal home match ban

    FC Phuket to appeal home match ban

    PHUKET: FC Phuket has filed an appeal with the Football Association of Thailand (FAT), asking that it be allowed to play its final home match of the season at Surakul Stadium on January 7, as originally scheduled. FC Phuket secretary Soranan Sanae said the appeal follows a ruling by the FAT board that the team lose its right to host the match following the team’s December 21 home loss to Suphanburi FC, after which the referee was surrounded by a contingent of furious FC Phuket supporters and not allowed to leave the pitch.

  • Phuket Media Watch: Sword master behind Darth Vader dies

    Phuket Media Watch: Sword master behind Darth Vader dies

    PHUKET MEDIA WATCH– World news selected by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community Sword master behind Darth Vader, Bob Anderson, dies at 89 Phuket Gazette / News Wires PHUKET: English actor and fencer Bob Anderson, who portrayed Darth Vader in the original Star Wars saga, died on Sunday, the British Academy of Fencing announced yesterday. He was 89. Anderson, of Hampshire in southern England, was the stunt double for Darth Vader in ‚Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back‘ and ‚Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi‘, being one of the seven people who portrayed the famous sci-fi villain.

  • After ‘bloody’ New Year, Phuket holiday road toll eases

    After ‘bloody’ New Year, Phuket holiday road toll eases

    PHUKET: After New Year’s Day claimed the lives of three Phuket motorists, carnage during Day 5 of the “Seven Days of Danger” holiday road-safety campaign was relatively light, with no fatalities and just six injuries reported.

  • Parents hold onto hope as boy lies comatose in Phuket

    Parents hold onto hope as boy lies comatose in Phuket

    PHUKET: The parents of seven-year-old Methee “Shogun” Khunsuinhu have told the Phuket Gazette they will hold on to whatever time they have left with their young boy. Methee remains comatose on life support in the intensive care unit at Vachira Phuket Hospital in Phuket Town after being

  • Phuket Poll: Most-needed tourism development project for 2012

    Phuket Poll: Most-needed tourism development project for 2012

    PHUKET: The year that was 2011 saw rapid development of the tourism sector in Phuket that was largely led by private-sector development in new hotels and new attractions, as highlighted in our Annual Review in the current issue of the Phuket Gazette on news stands now. [Digital subscribers click

  • Russian woman dies in Phuket motorbike accident

    Russian woman dies in Phuket motorbike accident

    PHUKET: A young Russian woman died when her motorbike was hit by a car early yesterday, making her the sixth road accident fatality in the first four days of the “Seven Days of Danger” holiday road-safety campaign in Phuket. The Department of Disaster Prevention and Mitigation Phuket Office (DDPM-Phuket) identified the deceased as 26-year-old Elena Kireeva. According to DDPM-Phuket, Ms Kireeva’s motorbike was hit by a Mitsubishi Pajero on Chao Fa West Rd in Wichit at about 6:30pm.

  • New Year’s Eve pub murder rocks Phuket

    New Year’s Eve pub murder rocks Phuket

    PHUKET: A simmering dispute between two Patong business owners turned deadly on New Year’s Eve when one gunned down his rival outside a well-known Phuket pub just before dawn yesterday. The shooting was reported to Patong Police by 15-year-old Rachain Noonpakdee, said a report in today’s Siangtai Daily newspaper.

  • Phuket Media Watch: Disaster status declared amid floods in South; Phuket not severely affected

    Phuket Media Watch: Disaster status declared amid floods in South; Phuket not severely affected

    PHUKET MEDIA WATCH– Thailand news selected by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community Hospital patients evacuated, military on standby in Hat YaiPhuket Gazette / The NationPHUKET: Songkhla, Yala and Nakhon Si Thammarat provinces in the South have been inundated by flash flooding after days of heavy rain.

  • Phuket Media Watch: 12 killed in pick-up truck in Buri Ram

    Phuket Media Watch: 12 killed in pick-up truck in Buri Ram

    PHUKET MEDIA WATCH– Thailand news selected by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community 12 killed were enroute to family funeral Phuket Gazette / The Nation PHUKET: Police and rescue workers called to the scene of a road accident in Buri Ram province yesterday found a tour bus severely damaged and a pick-up truck in a roadside ditch. Inside the truck, police found 12 dead bodies and one seriously injured person. A police investigation found that the truck was carrying relatives to assist at a funeral in Buri Ram’s Nong Hong district.

  • Boy, 7, on life support after rescue at Phuket beach

    Boy, 7, on life support after rescue at Phuket beach

    PHUKET: A young boy is on life support in the intensive-care unit (ICU) at Vachira Phuket Hospital in Phuket Town this evening after being pulled from a popular swimming area near Nai Harn Beach late yesterday afternoon. “His name is Methee Khunsuinoo, 7 years old.