Artikel erschien April 2013

  • Phuket Governor to call in Bangkok crew to pave way for B450mn Provincial Hall

    Phuket Governor to call in Bangkok crew to pave way for B450mn Provincial Hall

    PHUKET: Phuket Governor Maitri Inthusut yesterday announced he would call in officers from Bangkok to help verify – or discredit – claims made by opponents to Phuket’s proposed new 450-million-baht Provincial Hall. The debate over whether or not the new five-story building should be built at Sanam Chai (map

  • Phuket power to flow despite Myanmar shutdown

    Phuket power to flow despite Myanmar shutdown

    PHUKET: Phuket’s electrical supply will remain unaffected from today through April 14 while Myanmar shuts down its natural gas fields to fix drilling rigs, the chief of the Phuket Provincial Electricity Authority (PPEA) has assured. “Phuket uses about 380 Megawatts of electricity per day from the national grid. I have been approved a reserve of up to 400MW a day, which means the electrical supply for the entire island will remain unaffected,” PPEA chief Somchai Kureapat explained.

  • Royal flame at cremation to honor revered Phuket Abbot

    Royal flame at cremation to honor revered Phuket Abbot

    PHUKET: The cremation of the former abbot of Wat Chalong, Phra Ajarn Udomwetchakit Uttamuyano, will take place on Sunday using a ceremonial lamp given by His Majesty the King, which will arrive by plane on Phuket. The funeral service, which began on Wednesday and culminates on Sunday, is being held at the special crematory in Wat Chalong and is open to the public

  • Victim of vicious Phuket pit bull attack in fight to save leg

    Victim of vicious Phuket pit bull attack in fight to save leg

    PHUKET: The Phuket resident savaged by a neighbor’s pit bull terriers in February – after he ran out of his house to help a woman who was being attacked by the dogs – is still in hospital fighting to save his right leg, which sustained a deep wound in the attack.

  • Villagers appeal to Prime Minister’s Office over Phuket land claim

    Villagers appeal to Prime Minister’s Office over Phuket land claim

    PHUKET: Villagers fighting a land claim to 83 rai near an old tin mine in Chalong say they have turned to the Prime Minister’s Office to settle the dispute, in which they claim to have lived at the site for nearly a decade. The move to appeal to the Prime Minister’s Office follows more than 50 villagers turning out in force yesterday in their second attempt to stop Land Office surveyors from confirming the boundaries of the plot in question.

  • Phuket Immigration task force targetting foreigners nabs Russian

    Phuket Immigration task force targetting foreigners nabs Russian

    PHUKET: Phuket Immigration officers yesterday arrested a Russian woman caught without a passport and working illegally selling tours at a kiosk in Kata.

  • Phuket teacher sacked for performing Hajj reinstated

    Phuket teacher sacked for performing Hajj reinstated

    PHUKET: A Muslim teacher fired from Muslim Wittaya School for taking unapproved leave to join the Hajj has got his job back. Parinya Payadsub was fired after he went on the Hajj three times in five years, breaking a school rule that allows staff to join the Hajj once every five years

  • Phuket joins Royal project to turn aluminum trash into prosthetic legs

    Phuket joins Royal project to turn aluminum trash into prosthetic legs

    PHUKET: The chief of the Phuket Environment Office is calling for all donations of aluminum to donate to a nationwide project that seeks to recycle at least 80 tons of aluminum into prosthetic legs.

  • Phuket motorcyclist survives slide under chicken truck

    Phuket motorcyclist survives slide under chicken truck

    PHUKET: A motorcyclist riding the wrong way on Thepkrasattri Road ended up under a pickup loaded with fresh chicken meat last night, bruised and scratched but without major injuries. Wang Promma, 38, was riding his motorcycle north in the southbound section of Thepkrasattri Road, about 500 meters north of the Heroines Monument (map here), said Capt Narong Muangdoung of the Thalang Police

  • Phuket Opinion: Toothless, but no fairy

    Phuket Opinion: Toothless, but no fairy

    PHUKET: The other day I had the unpleasant middle-aged experience of breaking a tooth.