Artikel erschien August 2017

  • Russian Woman shot and robbed in Rawai

    Russian Woman shot and robbed in Rawai

    A 52 year-old Russian woman, Aiena Ksarenko, was shot and robbed in her villa in Rawai. Police are on the lookout for the two thieves they believe are involved in the crime.

  • 3,000 items snared in Patong counterfeit crackdown

    3,000 items snared in Patong counterfeit crackdown

    A 33 year old Burmese man, Dam Bha Du and a 34 year old Vietnamese, Lam, have been arrested with a total of 3,000 counterfeit items from Patong. Following a report that a large number of counterfeit goods were being sold in Soi Kebsup on Taweewong Rd, a taskforce led by Phuket’s Governor, the ECD Police force and the Commander-in-Chief of Royal Thai Navy Region 3 visited the reported location and found 293 items including handbags, purses and belts, all imitations of luxury brand names such as Chanel, Gucci, Louis Vuitton and Hermes which belonged to Lam. A further 2,360 pairs of counterfeit shoes branded with logos from Nike and Adidas were in the possession of Dam Bha Du.

  • Phuket Fisheries Department to survey crocodile location on Bang Tao

    Phuket Fisheries Department to survey crocodile location on Bang Tao

    Thalang Fisheries Officers commented on the incident when two locals spotted a crocodile in the Bang Tao beach area, off the Movenpick Resort. He said the reptile are likely to have come from the neighbouring provinces as Phuket was never a natural breeding ground for crocodiles. Another similar reptile was spotted last year.

  • Fixing Phuket’s coral. Restoration projects around Phuket

    Fixing Phuket’s coral. Restoration projects around Phuket

    For the past few years the Department of Marine and Coastal Resources – Phuket Office has been working on the construction and installation of artificial reefs around the island.

  • THAIGER TODAY Tuesday, August 29

    THAIGER TODAY Tuesday, August 29

    Interpol been alerted over arrest of Yingluck Shinawatra | Two tech colleges in Bangkok closed because of student attacks | Thailand’s cleanest beaches. Is Phuket on the list? | Interpol looking out for Boss, the Red Bull heir | Thepa power plant gets EIS go-ahead

  • Three metre crocodile spotted off Bang Tao beach

    Three metre crocodile spotted off Bang Tao beach

    So this is how it happened… Phuket expat ‘Mike’, along with his wife, were walking their dogs along Bang Tao beach last Friday. They say they normally start their walk around 2 kilometres south of the small island adjacent to the beach near Layan.

  • 3 metre crocodile spotted off Laguna

    3 metre crocodile spotted off Laguna

    So this is how it happened… Phuket expat ‘Mike’, along with his wife, were walking their dogs along Bang Tao beach last Friday.

  • Robber caught with a long list of items worth 400,000 Baht

    Robber caught with a long list of items worth 400,000 Baht

    This morning (August 29), a Ratchaburi man, Pinit ‘Nit’ Tuihun was arrested by Phuket police after robbing several houses in Thalang and the Phuket Town area. He was also found in possession of drugs. 52 items, worth about 400,000 Baht, stolen from houses across Phuket, were found inside Pinit’s house in Srisunthorn subdistrict, in Thalang, including 8 televisions, 5 notebook computers, 8 DVD players, 5 amplifier sets, 3 amplifiers, 2 CCTV camera, a combination set of stove and hood, an electronic stove, a CD player, a fibre-cement cutting blade, a desktop computer, an underwater camera, a luggage, two fans, a plastic tool box, a handbag, a french fries fryer and a number of foreign bank notes.

  • Immediate attention to Phuket’s worst flood areas

    Immediate attention to Phuket’s worst flood areas

    Patong’s Mayor has announced, what she hopes are, solutions to the recurrent floods and set a budget to solve the problems in the long term. As Patong is one of the areas that always suffers from the flood on the island, the Mayor, Chalermluck Kebsup, said that she has surveyed several spots in Patong and can now specify the actual problems around the tourist town

  • Thailand’s Best Beaches 2017. How many are in Phuket?

    Thailand’s Best Beaches 2017. How many are in Phuket?

    The results are in for Thailand’s annual ‘beach star rating’ study by the Pollution Control Department. 13 beaches around Thailand have been awarded five-star ratings.