Artikel erschien Januar 2013

  • Taxi drivers trigger full inquest into all Phuket tour business

    Taxi drivers trigger full inquest into all Phuket tour business

    PHUKET: Phuket Vice Governor Chamroen Tipayapongtada has ordered the Phuket Provincial Employment Office (PPEO) to inspect the business licenses of all tourism businesses across Phuket that have foreigners registered as part-owners. The news follows an inspection raid of a single tour operator in Bang Tao, on Phuket’s central western coast, at the request of local taxi drivers yesterday. The taxi drivers’ complaint: “foreign business operators” were [allegedly] stealing their jobs.

  • Autopsy results unclear about role of head wound in drowned Dutch tourist’s death

    Autopsy results unclear about role of head wound in drowned Dutch tourist’s death

    PHUKET: Bangkok autopsy results have confirmed that Dutch tourist Stephan Buczynski died from drowning, but were unable to determine the role the serious wound to his head played in the incident. Doctors at Patong Hospital were fairly certain Mr Buczynski, 26, had drowned, but police requested the autopsy because there was also a deep gash on the back of his head, Patong Police Deputy Superintendent Akanit Danpitaksat told the Phuket Gazette (story

  • Phuket News: Rohingya risk births at sea to flee Myanmar

    Phuket News: Rohingya risk births at sea to flee Myanmar

    PHUKET: A newborn baby just eight days old was among the boatload of Rohingya refugees who made landfall yesterday in the Surin Islands archipelago, in Phang Nga province, to the north of Phuket. As the boat landed, local people brought food and drinks to the refugees, Khura Buri District Chief Manit Pianthong said.

  • Runaway wheel from Phuket tour bus narrowly misses policeman

    Runaway wheel from Phuket tour bus narrowly misses policeman

    PHUKET: A wheel that had come off a Phuket tour bus raced off on its own down Thepkrasattri Road yesterday morning, narrowly missing a policeman in its path. The bus, displaying a Pegas sign in its front window, had picked up 32 passengers at Phuket Airport and was heading towards a hotel in Kata when it lost a rear wheel near the U-turn in Srisoonthorn at about 8:15am. Luckily, Thalang Traffic Police officer Sen Sgt Maj Sayumphu Nhucharoen saw it coming.

  • Phuket Poll: Can Phuket handle the Russians?

    Phuket Poll: Can Phuket handle the Russians?

    PHUKET: Phuket in recent months has suffered a spate of public protests against Russians operating tour services here, including mob action that saw one tour operator in Bang Tao being ordered to close (story

  • Phuket police net dealers in fire hydrant meth bust

    Phuket police net dealers in fire hydrant meth bust

    PHUKET: Phuket City police yesterday made two arrests and seized more than 2,000 pills of ya bah (methamphetamine) and 102.29 grams of ya ice (crystal methamphetamine) after staking out a Phuket Town fire hydrant. Acting on a tip-off from an informant, officers took up positions surrounding a fire hydrant in Soi Kamnan in Phuket Town, and waited for suspicious activity.

  • Phuket tourists injured as waves swamp Phi Phi tour boat

    Phuket tourists injured as waves swamp Phi Phi tour boat

    PHUKET: Six tourists were injured when a tour boat heading to the Phi Phi Islands (view

  • Overcrowding at Rohingya shelter raises slew of concerns

    Overcrowding at Rohingya shelter raises slew of concerns

    PHUKET: Overcrowding at the Phang Nga Shelter for Children and Family, which was housing more than 100 Rohingya refugees, has forced the shelter’s director to have more than 50 of them transferred to a welfare center in Surat Thani. A bus with 13 Rohingya women, 19 boys and 20 girls is now en route to the Baan Srisurat shelter (website

  • Racha Rohingya ‘helped on’ by Thai Navy

    Racha Rohingya ‘helped on’ by Thai Navy

    PHUKET: The group of Rohingya refugees discovered off Koh Racha Noi today – numbering 205 in total – were given food and water before being “helped on” in their southbound journey. On hearing the news of the refugees’ arrival, Rawai Municipality quickly dispatched a speedboat with basic provisions. The boat departed Chalong Pier about midday, and on arriving at Koh Racha Noi officers on board discovered that a Royal Thai Navy vessel was already there.

  • Krabi police raid turns up war weapons, meth

    Krabi police raid turns up war weapons, meth

    PHUKET: Police raids at a shrimp farm and the nearby home of a subdistrict chief (Kamnan) in Krabi province, across the bay from Phuket, has turned up an Uzi, a Thompson machine gun, six shotguns, several handguns and two grams of ya ice (crystal methamphetamine). Region 8 Police yesterday presented Kamnan Anan Sanhad, the 55-year-old subdistrict chief of Klong Khanan, to the press. Anan is being investigated as the prime suspect behind the ambush that resulted in the death of local activist Paruhas Kongbannuek in July last year (story