Artikel erschien Mai 2013

  • After Phuket, Capt Tan makes record-breaking landing in Malaysia

    After Phuket, Capt Tan makes record-breaking landing in Malaysia

    PHUKET: Captain James Anthony Tan of Malaysia has completed the world’s youngest solo flight circumnavigation after departing Phuket at 11am today to land safely in Kuala Lumpur at 4:51pm local time.

  • Phuket real estate used as bait in gambling ring

    Phuket real estate used as bait in gambling ring

    PHUKET: Five people have been arrested for operating a real estate scam in which they lured potential customers into illegally gambling on a game of “fan tan”. The scammers used the same ploy as that used by a group arrested in Phuket in February (story

  • Major u-turn for Phuket’s roads; life delivered, not taken

    Major u-turn for Phuket’s roads; life delivered, not taken

    PHUKET: Phuket rescue workers, regular crusaders rendering assistance to all those involved in accidents on the island’s notorious roads, were called to a very different emergency before dawn this morning: the delivery of a baby girl. Staff at the rescue operations center in Mai Khao received a call at 5:15am, asking for assistance to transport Jintara Butrarit, 24, from her home just south of the Tah Chat Chai Checkpoint to Thalang Hospital. “We were nearly at her house when we saw Miss Jintara already in the back of a neighbor’s pickup truck about to head to the hospital, so we decided to escort the pickup instead of taking her there ourselves,” one rescue worker explained to the Phuket Gazette.

  • Phuket Opinion: Learning to drive

    Phuket Opinion: Learning to drive

    PHUKET: Every motorist I have ever met remembers the day he or she was issued a driver’s license and got behind the wheel… legally.

  • Phuket teen motorbike rider survives slam into juggernaut

    Phuket teen motorbike rider survives slam into juggernaut

    PHUKET: A Phuket teenager is in hospital this morning after the motorbike he was riding slammed into the back of a cement truck near the Heroines Monument in Thalang (map

  • Phuket Poll: What would you spend B2.6bn on?

    Phuket Poll: What would you spend B2.6bn on?

    PHUKET: There has been nothing but eerie silence since Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra ignored questions about what happened to the 2.6 billion baht that was once “already dedicated” to building Phuket’s decades-in-waiting International Convention and Exhibition Center (story

  • British national’s extended holiday goes to pot at Phuket ‘dope hotel’

    British national’s extended holiday goes to pot at Phuket ‘dope hotel’

    PHUKET: Phuket Immigration officers today arrested a British man for drug possession and for overstaying his visa by more than one year. The arrest was made at the same resort, off Taina Road in Karon, where a Swedish man was arrested on drug charges last Thursday (story

  • Middle-aged Phuket meth dealer goes quietly

    Middle-aged Phuket meth dealer goes quietly

    PHUKET: Acting on a tip off about frequent drug transactions at the entrance to a soi in Thalang, police arrested a drug dealer in possession of ya bah (methamphetamine), and ya ice (crystal methamphetamine) yesterday.

  • DNA tests for two more Phuket baby elephants

    DNA tests for two more Phuket baby elephants

    PHUKET: Officers raided two locations last week suspected of housing baby elephants illegally snatched from the wild and conducted DNA tests on the two animals to determine their parentage. Officers suspect that the two elephants are the offspring of a wild elephant in Kaeng Krachan National Park

  • Druggy catches Phuket cop on the can, steals firearm, heads to McDonald’s

    Druggy catches Phuket cop on the can, steals firearm, heads to McDonald’s

    PHUKET: A Patong Deputy Superintendent was caught with his pants down in Kathu Police Station during the graveyard shift after a meth-fiend robbed his office as he was taking a 20 minute break in the washroom.