Artikel erschien Mai 2013

  • Phuket Opinion: Year-long road safety in Phuket

    Phuket Opinion: Year-long road safety in Phuket

    PHUKET: The nationwide Songkran Seven Days of Danger road-safety campaign was deemed to be a raging success on Phuket, with only one fatality on the island’s roads during that period. The strong police presence and abundance of police checkpoints definitely made a difference. But the checkpoints have vanished along with the police.

  • Phuket Opinion: Partners for life

    Phuket Opinion: Partners for life

    Jeerattakarn Nuannum, 30, was born in Phuket and graduated from Phuket Rajabhat University. After joining Phuket’s renowned Simon Cabaret Show as a performer in 2002, the Phuket native became a fashion model at Phuket Pop Top Model in 2008

  • French expat, 26, found hanged in Phuket

    French expat, 26, found hanged in Phuket

    PHUKET: The body of a 26-year-old French expat was found hanging in a rented Rawai house on Tuesday. Chalong Police and Ruamjai Foundation rescue workers were notified of the death at about 4:30pm, after the owner of the house had entered the building to investigate a stench that was disturbing neighbors. “Officers on duty found the body of the foreigner sitting inside, next to the front door.

  • Governor proposes solution for Rassada water pollution

    Governor proposes solution for Rassada water pollution

    PHUKET: After inspecting the site in Rassada where highly polluted wastewater is pumped directly into the Bang Yai Canal in Phuket Town (story

  • Immigration chief highlights Rohingya plight in Thailand

    Immigration chief highlights Rohingya plight in Thailand

    PHUKET: Immigration Bureau Commissioner Pharnu Kerdlarpphon, in Phuket for a closed-door meeting of high-ranking officials, has expressed his concern for the growing number of Rohingya refugees being detained in Thailand.

  • Phuket bike burner confession treated as ambiguous, police continue search

    Phuket bike burner confession treated as ambiguous, police continue search

    PHUKET: A man who rambled while confessing to police that he had burned several motorbikes in Phuket has been arrested while police continue their investigation and look for accomplices. Police picked up Thaweesak Nathang, 37, on Monday because he looks similar to a man seen in CCTV images of a motorbike burning in Kamala. When questioned by police, Mr Thaweesak confessed to setting several motorbikes on fire on several occassions, but then seemed to retract his confession.

  • Phuket Opinion: Don’t ignore the signs of suicide

    Phuket Opinion: Don’t ignore the signs of suicide

    PHUKET: Mankind, the first of nature’s creations has so “fully evolved” that some of our number willingly end their own lives. For those among us who have never had to battle depression, the very idea of committing suicide probably seems like the ultimate waste.

  • Tourism minister pledges to push B100mn Phuket Port expansion plan

    Tourism minister pledges to push B100mn Phuket Port expansion plan

    PHUKET: The Minister of Tourism and Sports, in Phuket to inspect the Deep Sea Port today, has pledged to push forward the 100-million-baht plan to expand Phuket’s key port facility.

  • Man arrested for selling corals at Phuket market

    Man arrested for selling corals at Phuket market

    PHUKET: Police last night arrested a market trader for selling pieces of dead coral as ornaments fitted to leather bands at the popular Saphan Hin Park in Phuket Town. Officers moved in and arrested Suphachok Worramatamart, 37, after they received a tip-off that dead specimens of coral were being sold at the market. Marine Police Region 8 Deputy Superintendent Lt Col Prasert Srikunrat led the raid, joined by Thanet Munnoy, chief of the Department of Marine and Coastal Resources (DMCR) Phuket office.

  • Phuket to host joint full-scale tsunami drill

    Phuket to host joint full-scale tsunami drill

    PHUKET: Rescue services from three provinces will join Phuket emergency first-responders for three days of intensive training and to conduct a full-scale tsunami response drill on May 29. The fellow rescue teams to join the exercise will be from the Andaman provinces of Krabi, Phang Nga and Trang. The rescue crews will explore response plans on May 27-28 and stage a full-scale tsunami evacuation drill on May 29, starting at 8:30am, Phuket Vice Governor Chamroen Tipayapongtada said.