Artikel posted in 2014

  • Phuket Poll: How to stop Patong Hill carnage?

    Phuket Poll: How to stop Patong Hill carnage?

    PHUKET: Two people crushed to death by an runaway bus in December is only the most recent disaster on the notorious Patong Hill road (story

  • Second unidentified body recovered in Phuket in two days

    Second unidentified body recovered in Phuket in two days

    PHUKET: A second unidentified body was found floating in the sea off Rassada this week.

  • Phuket’s 250-million-baht provincial mosque to be built in forest reserve

    Phuket’s 250-million-baht provincial mosque to be built in forest reserve

    PHUKET: Land within a forest reserve was approved this week for the construction of the 250-million-baht Phuket provincial mosque complex in Thalang.

  • Phuket taxi driver killed in Bangkok bombing

    Phuket taxi driver killed in Bangkok bombing

    PHUKET: A Phuket protester was the first to die in the “Bangkok Shutdown” after an unidentified person lobbed a bomb at a procession of demonstrators yesterday (story

  • Police pounce on pot peddler in Phuket

    Police pounce on pot peddler in Phuket

    PHUKET: Police arrested a Myanmar national yesterday morning for selling marijuana at the Phuket Fishing Port in Koh Sirey. Min Min, 38, was caught with 295 grams of marijuana, drug paraphernalia and 980 baht in cash by officers from the Region 8 Police Crime Suppression Division.

  • Governor paves way for congestion free Phuket

    Governor paves way for congestion free Phuket

    PHUKET: Phuket Governor Maitri Inthusut led a survey yesterday of two road projects that should ease traffic congestion on the island.

  • Phuket Police attempt to identify dumped body

    Phuket Police attempt to identify dumped body

    PHUKET: The body of a man who had been violently assaulted was retrieved from the water near Chokpanuchit fish processing plant in Rassada yesterday afternoon. “We think he was attacked about 24 hours earlier and then dumped from a fishing vessel,” said Lt Col Chaleaw Taihoo of the Phuket City Police.

  • Phuket Town shop fire doused

    Phuket Town shop fire doused

    PHUKET: Police presume an electrical short circuit started a fire that broke out in a small ceramics store in Phuket Town late last night. No one was injured in the blaze, which caused an estimated 50,000 baht in damage.

  • Night vision: No more faulty infrared sensors for Phuket speed cameras

    Night vision: No more faulty infrared sensors for Phuket speed cameras

    PHUKET: Speed cameras which had faulty infrared sensors are now in full working order on the bypass road in Phuket. “After installing cameras to monitor speeds on several major roads on the island, we found that the cameras on the bypass road were not reading speed levels at night,” Lt Col Rungrit Rattanapagdee of the Phuket City Traffic Police told the Phuket Gazette

  • Phuket bus drivers test positive for ya bah

    Phuket bus drivers test positive for ya bah

    PHUKET: Two Phuket bus drivers tested positive for ya bah (methamphetamine) yesterday afternoon during an anti-drug blitz led by Phuket Governor Maitri Inthusut. “We tested 33 bus drivers from two companies: Je-Siam Holiday Phuket and MKR Transportation,” Muang District Chief Administrative Officer (palad) Suthee Sirianan said. “Natthapong Chimree and Udon Sainate, both from MKR Transportation, tested positive for ya bah.