Artikel erschien Juni 2013

  • Phuket’s new Airport Bus slated for July 1 launch

    Phuket’s new Airport Bus slated for July 1 launch

    PHUKET: The Phuket transport authorities today verbally agreed to launch the new Phuket Airport Bus service on July 1. The provincial transportation committee will meet again next Tuesday to ratify the decision in writing, Phuket Vice Governor and committee chairman Chamroen Tipayapongtada confirmed

  • Phuket tour company robbed after staffer makes bank withdrawal

    Phuket tour company robbed after staffer makes bank withdrawal

    PHUKET: Police are searching for a thief who robbed a small Phuket tour company of almost 70,000 baht this morning. “We questioned all four of the staff at Nonthasak Marine Co Ltd,” said Phuket Provincial Police Commander Choti Chavalviwat. Pornpirom Junthong, a human resources staffer at the company, told police she went to a bank with a friend to withdraw 69,239 baht from the company’s account.

  • Phuket flood warning issued as Patong hospital, police station access hampered

    Phuket flood warning issued as Patong hospital, police station access hampered

    PHUKET: The torrential rains across Phuket this morning caused more flooding in Patong, with access routes to the Patong Hospital and Patong Police Station under water. The downpours this morning saw 56.2mm of rainfall recorded within just three hours in Phuket Town, from 7am to 10am, while the weather monitoring station at Phuket Airport recorded 14.

  • Phuket Police suspect arson in three-truck fire

    Phuket Police suspect arson in three-truck fire

    PHUKET: Three pickup trucks burned early this morning in a fire police believe was caused by a faulty liquid gas tank (LPG) tank or arson. Police responded to a report just after 1am that a vehicle was ablaze at a commercial building near the entrance to Wat Manik in Srisoonthorn, Thalang

  • Long-awaited Patong Phuket Immigration office to re-open Thursday

    Long-awaited Patong Phuket Immigration office to re-open Thursday

    PHUKET: The Patong Immigration office, scheduled to re-open almost a year and a half ago (story

  • Phuket bank stabbing witnesses confirm murder-suicide

    Phuket bank stabbing witnesses confirm murder-suicide

    PHUKET: The two women present in the Bank of Ayudhya meeting room yesterday watched when Phonthakorn Teerabenjakul, 51, pulled out a knife and stabbed Piboon Vachwanichsanong, 71, to death, and then killed himself, police say (story

  • Mass Phuket protest demands Deputy PM step down

    Mass Phuket protest demands Deputy PM step down

    PHUKET: Ahead of the white-mask protest set for Sunday, hundreds of members of the “We Preserve Phuket Club” stormed Phuket Provincial Hall this morning demanding that Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra relieve Deputy Prime Minister Plodprasop Suraswadi of his position after he issued a thinly veiled threat to the people of Phuket concerning the cancelled International Convention and Exhibition Center project (story

  • Phuket Police: Mixed up shoes offer only lead to Cinderella snatch thief

    Phuket Police: Mixed up shoes offer only lead to Cinderella snatch thief

    PHUKET: Police barely have their shoe in the door for a case against a pair of snatch thieves after a botched attempt to grab an Irish woman’s purse led to a motorbike crash and a lost flip flop. Hannah Louise O’Hagan, 27, was driving a motorbike to her boyfriend’s place at Baan Term Fun Housing Estate yesterday evening after a trip to Tesco Lotus when two men on a motorbike started following her, said Preecha Rakjan of the Thalang Police

  • Mosquito virus news buzz batted down by Phuket Public Officials

    Mosquito virus news buzz batted down by Phuket Public Officials

    PHUKET: The news buzz across the Pacific that has worked its way back to Thailand after a Canadian woman was forced to turn to the American Centers for Disease Control (CDC) to identify a mysterious malady has been batted down by Phuket Public Officials. The 45-year-old Canadian tourist, who visited Bangkok and Phuket, was bitten repeatedly by mosquitoes, reported The Canadian Press.

  • Phuket event encourages mindful consumption for World Environment Day

    Phuket event encourages mindful consumption for World Environment Day

    PHUKET: Taking part in a global initiative to increase awareness about environmental concerns, Phuket held an event in line with the theme of World Environment Day (WED) this year: Think. Eat