Artikel erschien Dezember 2013

  • Police raids uncover drug dens in Soi Ya Bah, Phuket Town

    Police raids uncover drug dens in Soi Ya Bah, Phuket Town

    PHUKET: Police yesterday arrested two men after separate raids on the same small street in Samkong, Phuket Town, resulted in the seizure of 1,818 pills of ya bah (methamphetamine) and 4.99 grams of ya ice (crystal methamphetamine). Acting on a tip-off, officers arrived at the house of Worasak Bamrung, 30, in Soi Prayoon 3/1 (map

  • Merry Christmas Phuket! Governor to announce bypass road speed limit

    Merry Christmas Phuket! Governor to announce bypass road speed limit

    PHUKET: Phuket Governor Maitri Inthusut on December 25 will announce the speed limit for motorists travelling along the bypass road, officially called Chalermprakiat Ror IX Road and unofficially one of Phuket’s deadliest motorways. The move will be the first of many measures taken in the hope of achieving zero fatalities over the new year holidays

  • Bad egg arrested at Phuket Prison

    Bad egg arrested at Phuket Prison

    PHUKET: A woman delivering an omelet to an inmate at Phuket Prison was arrested yesterday when guards discovered that the food concealed anti-anxiety pills. When Thitiporn Janerop, 20, was in the prison visiting room, officers conducted a routine search of the food that she had brought. Inside the omelet they found 40 pills of Alprazolam – popularly known as Xanax – stuffed into 10 plastic straws.

  • Colorful New Year coming to Phuket

    Colorful New Year coming to Phuket

    PHUKET: “Colorful Countdown Phuket 2014” is set to usher in the new year with light shows and live concerts at Sanam Chai Park (map here)

  • More human remains found believed to be those of missing Phuket 7-year-old

    More human remains found believed to be those of missing Phuket 7-year-old

    PHUKET: More human remains were found today in the pine woods where family members of missing 7-year-old Nong Dear and villagers yesterday discovered fragments of a human skull, along with shorts and a pair of slippers that matched those the girl was wearing at the time of her disappearance. It was a spirit medium who led the family to the pine forest, when she described seeing the girl in a hut near a pine forest and beach, Capt Thada Sodarak of the Chalong Police explained. Though Nong Dear’s mother, Jaroon Papkaew, acknowledged that the slippers found yesterday appeared to be her daughter’s, she has become unsure about whether or not the shorts belonged to the 7-year-old (story

  • Phuket truck tumbles off Kata Hill

    Phuket truck tumbles off Kata Hill

    PHUKET: An empty holiday home narrowly avoided heavy damage yesterday afternoon when a truck loaded with pallets of cement bags plunged down Kata Hill. The six-wheeled truck rolled down the steep slope, spilling its load of cement bags as it tumbled. It came to rest after bumping into the front of the vacant house.

  • Skull fragment found in Phuket believed to be of missing 7-year-old

    Skull fragment found in Phuket believed to be of missing 7-year-old

    PHUKET: Fragments of a human skull have been found in Chalong along with clothing and slippers that match those of missing 7-year-old Natthapa “Nong Dear” Papkaew (story

  • Four injured in Phuket Graceland Resort & Spa fire

    Four injured in Phuket Graceland Resort & Spa fire

    PHUKET: Three staffers and a carpenter were injured in a fire that broke out yesterday afternoon in the laundry facilities at the Phuket Graceland Resort & Spa in Patong. “When I realized there was a fire, I order hotel staffers to notify guests to evacuate the hotel. We were at about 70 to 80 per cent occupancy, but got all our guests out safely,” Managing Director of Phuket Graceland Resort & Spa Suchart Hirankanokkul told the Phuket Gazette (story

  • Firefighters battle blaze at Phuket Graceland Resort and Spa

    Firefighters battle blaze at Phuket Graceland Resort and Spa

    PHUKET: Hotel staff have evacuated the Phuket Graceland Resort and Spa in Patong as firefighters battle the blaze that started at the hotel’s laundry facilities. The standalone building, part of one of Patong’s best-known resorts, caught fire at about 1:30pm, Patong Police Superintendent Chiraphat Pochanaphan told the Phuket Gazette.

  • Moonlighting Phuket electrician falls asleep at wheel, kills motorbike driver

    Moonlighting Phuket electrician falls asleep at wheel, kills motorbike driver

    PHUKET: A moonlighting electrician fell asleep at the wheel on his way home from work early this morning, striking and dragging a motorbike taxi driver to his death on Thepkrasattri – Nai Yang Road. Police called to the scene at 6:30am found a pickup truck with a badly damaged hood in a ditch alongside the road