Artikel erschien September 2017

  • Wet feet at Patong Police Station again – Photo essay

    Wet feet at Patong Police Station again – Photo essay

    Patong traffic police are warning people to avoid traveling on Patong’s roads following the floods and small landslide across the road to Kalim after a sustained downpour. The Patong Police station has been inundated by 60 cm of water.

  • 4 year old Chinese boy drowned in Patong Beach

    4 year old Chinese boy drowned in Patong Beach

    Family and friends assist The Rawai Municipality Rescue Team at Nai Harn in another drowning yesterday Three awful drowning tragedies in the past 24 hours. A 4 year old Chinese boy, Wu Muyang, was taken to hospital from Patong beach last night (September 14) after he was washed into the rough seas by a big wave near a reef.

  • Landslide in Kamala destroys new villa construction

    Landslide in Kamala destroys new villa construction

    Landslide at a construction of a planned 9 villa complex in Kamala after heavy rains overnight and this morning. The landslide appears to have happened near Baan Hua Kuan, Kamala. The building was planned to be a complex of 9 pool villas but only the foundations and one floor were completed when it collapsed with the land slide

  • UPDATE – Typhoon ‘Doksuri’ about to hit Vietnam’s coast

    UPDATE – Typhoon ‘Doksuri’ about to hit Vietnam’s coast

    DATELINE: 8.50am Thai Time • Typhoon Doksuri reaching the coast of Vietnam around midday today. Gusts up to 125 kph. • At least 100,000 residents have been ordered to evacuate in Vietnam as Typhoon Doksuri approaches.

  • Thais – goodbye TM6 Immigration Form. Foreigners – new form on the way.

    Thais – goodbye TM6 Immigration Form. Foreigners – new form on the way.

    From The Nation Good news for travellers: starting Saturday, September 16 Thai nationals do not need to fill out the TM6 immigration form when leaving or returning to Thailand, said Government Spokesman Lt-General Sansern Kaewkamnerd on Thursday. Prime Minister General Prayut Chan-o-cha, as head of the National Council for Peace and Order (NCPO) used Article 44 to order the policy change

  • ‘Boonrod’  – the only survivor of the Racha Island turtle hatching

    ‘Boonrod’ – the only survivor of the Racha Island turtle hatching

    After the first turtle hatched on Racha Island last week,  STORY HERE , officers have now found the other 86 eggs, which unfortunately didn’t make it. After the first hatch on September 8, officers from Marine Endangered Species Unit (MESU) and locals on Racha Island have waited for four days but there was no sign from the other baby turtles. The MESU officers investigated all the eggs by uncovering them and found that they had developed for a while but stopped before they reached 10 days old

  • Tiger Muaythai instructor dies from an apparent electric shock

    Tiger Muaythai instructor dies from an apparent electric shock

    Last night (September 13), Chalong police found 37 year old Nipon Jaiwangchana (Taweesak Sit-O) dead in his room in Soi Nakok on Chaofa West Road. He was found laying down next to a small rice cooker wearing black and orange Muaythai pants with the Tiger Muaythai logo. Police initially checked his body and assumed that he had died at least 3 hours before they found him

  • Patong tunnel to start April/May next year

    Patong tunnel to start April/May next year

    Looks like the island’s long-awaited tunnel through Patong Hill might actually be becoming a reality. Authorities say it will be the first of its kind in Thailand. The Daily News is reporting on the progress of the Patong tunnel project which, it is hoped, will eliminate much of the carnage and delays experienced by drivers on the hill everyday.

  • Double bomb attack in Yala injures nineteen

    Double bomb attack in Yala injures nineteen

    Nineteen rangers, soldiers and police officers were injured this morning (September 14) when insurgents in southern Yala province launched a double bomb attack. Rangers patrolling Moo 1 village in Tambon Katong in Yaha were ambushed in the first attack at 9.26am and briefly exchanged gunfire with the assailants. Two rangers – Sgt Thanet Puttho and Pvt Avudh Uppapong – were wounded

  • 1200 athletes heading to the Laguna Phuket Triathlon

    1200 athletes heading to the Laguna Phuket Triathlon

    During the Governor’s Meet Press event yesterday (September 13), the annual Laguna Phuket Triathlon race updated its progress before the big race day on November 19. To celebrate the 30th anniversary of Laguna Phuket this year, Laguna Phuket has arranged the 1st Laguna Phuket Tri Charity Fun Run on the day before the triathlon. The charity run will feature a 5 kilometre and 10 kilometre route aiming to support  Kao Khon La Kao (‘take one step each’) charity run project, a partner of this year’s charity event