Artikel posted in 2012

  • Phuket Games athlete released from hospital and heading home

    Phuket Games athlete released from hospital and heading home

    PHUKET: The young athlete injured in a motorbike accident that claimed the life of his

  • Phuket marks Visaka Bucha Day

    Phuket marks Visaka Bucha Day

    PHUKET: Phuket Governor Tri Augkaradacha this morning led more than 1,000 people in offering alms to 99 monks at a merit-making ceremony in Phuket Town to mark Visakha Bucha Day. Visakha Bucha Day is observed on the day of the full moon during the 6th lunar month, which usually falls in either May or early June

  • Krabi FC footballer denies rape of American student

    Krabi FC footballer denies rape of American student

    PHUKET: A Krabi FC football player has denied allegations that he raped a 23-year-old American exchange student near Krabi Town, across Phang Nga Bay from Phuket, last Thursday night.

  • Phuket Beach Safety: Man missing after swimming in dangerous surf

    Phuket Beach Safety: Man missing after swimming in dangerous surf

    PHUKET: A Thai man who entered the pounding surf at Patong Beach over the weekend is still missing and presumed dead, the latest in the

  • Phuket’s Bussarin takes tennis gold

    Phuket’s Bussarin takes tennis gold

    PHUKET: Phuket’s Bussarin Raktaengam won the final of the girls‘ singles tennis event of the Phuket Games 2012 this morning with a 6-4, 6-3 straight-sets victory over Rongrong Linbanjong of Bangkok.

  • The Racha steps up campaign to keep Koh Racha green

    The Racha steps up campaign to keep Koh Racha green

    PHUKET: Management at The Racha resort on Koh Racha Yai, a popular day-trip island about 25 nautical miles south of Phuket, has stepped up its campaign in environmental care on the island. The news follows environmentalists‘ accusations against greedy developers, tour operators and resort owners for

  • Phuket police confirm identity of mutilated man

    Phuket police confirm identity of mutilated man

    PHUKET: Phuket Police have identified the mutilated body that

  • Phuket Crime: Mutilated body found on Nai Yang Beach

    Phuket Crime: Mutilated body found on Nai Yang Beach

    PHUKET: Police in Phuket are trying to identify a mutilated body that washed ashore at Nai Yang Beach yesterday morning as the first step in a murder investigation. Tah Chat Chai police were notified of the discovery in Sakoo Village 1 at about 11am. Arriving at the scene with Phuket Kusoldharm Foundation workers, Lt Col Prakob Boonkwan and fellow officers found that lifeguards had covered the body with a pha khao maa (Thai loincloth) and large pieces of plastic, all held down against the whipping monsoon winds by lengths of bamboo and chunks of concrete.

  • Phuket Opinion: Romanticizing our history dishonors ancestors

    Phuket Opinion: Romanticizing our history dishonors ancestors

    PHUKET: Phuket has a long and somewhat checkered history of past industrial development dating back to its tin-mining era, which petered out over the final decades of the last century and finally ended for good in 1992 with the closure of the last mine on the island. [See ‚Riddle of the Sands‘, current issue of the Phuket Gazette

  • Phuket Democrats rally against reconciliation bills

    Phuket Democrats rally against reconciliation bills

    PHUKET: Democrat Party members staged a protest in Phuket on Friday to denounce the reconciliation bills set to be discussed in Parliament. The gathering made Phuket the first province to rally against the bill, said Democrat MP Sathit Wongnongtoey. Over 2,000 joined the rally at Queen Sirikit Park in Phuket Town, led by veteran MP Anchalee Vanich Thepabutr and MP Raywat Areerob.