Artikel erschien Oktober 2017

  • Young dolphin washes up on Kamala Beach

    Young dolphin washes up on Kamala Beach

    Officers from the Rare Sea Animal Division of the Phuket Marine Biological Center (PMBC) have revealed today (October 17) that the dead dolphin found on Kamala Beach washed up ashore yesterday was a young Fraser’s Dolphin, which is rare in the Andaman Sea. The body is 2 metres long and weighs approximately 70 kilograms.

  • King to mark completion of Royal Crematorium

    King to mark completion of Royal Crematorium

    After Sunday’s rehearsals, Princess Sirindhorn suggested adjustments of music played during processions. Meanwhile, HM King Maha Vajiralongkorn will tomorrow install the grand nine-tiered umbrella at the top of the elaborate Royal Crematorium for his late father.

  • Thinking of coming to Thailand at the end of October?

    Thinking of coming to Thailand at the end of October?

    COMMENTARY: Tim Newton Don’t come to Thailand at the end of October if you expect things to be the same same. For all the right reasons, it will be very different indeed

  • Don’t come to Thailand at the end of October

    Don’t come to Thailand at the end of October

    OPINION: Tim Newton Don’t come to Thailand at the end of October. For all the right reasons, it will be quietly chaotic

  • Northern rains – house walls crack and roads open up

    Northern rains – house walls crack and roads open up

    Days of heavy rain have caused cracks in the land and pieces of earth have broken away in Lampang’s Mae Mo district affecting eight homes located within an eight-rai (1.3 hectares) radius early on Monday morning. Tambon Mae Mo mayor Chucheep Boonnak led disaster prevention and mitigation officials as well as local bodies and police to inspect the scene on a slope of land near a creek in Ban Huai King (Moo 6) in Tambon Mae Mo. The discovered that the cracks and subsidence, had caused cracks in house walls and collapsed toilets in some homes.

  • 52 arrested in crackdown on black migrants and tourists

    52 arrested in crackdown on black migrants and tourists

    Immigration, narcotics and 191 police jointly searched 10 locations in Bangkok early on Monday and arrested 52 Nigerians, Tanzanians and Uzbekistanis on various charges.   The operation was led by Pol Maj-General Surachat Hakpal, deputy commissioner of the Tourist Police Bureau. The searches were jointly launched by over 200 policemen from the Immigration Bureau, the Patrol and Special Operation (191) Division and the Narcotics Suppression Bureau

  • THAIGER TODAY Monday, October 16

    THAIGER TODAY Monday, October 16

    A drowning and near-misses at Phuket beaches | Royal rehearsals in Bangkok | Crocodiles escape in Petchabun floods | Myanmar Army about to release a report about alleged atrocities. The post THAIGER TODAY Monday, October 16 appeared first on Phuket Gazette .

  • Three locals arrested for drugs and gun’s in Chalong.

    Three locals arrested for drugs and gun’s in Chalong.

    Yesterday afternoon (October 15), Chalong police arrested Panya Chidchiew and Kwanjai Kaewbamrung in Soi Chalermprakiet 6 with 351 amphetamine pills and 6 grams of meth amphetamine. Police found that they are connected to another bigger drug dealer who lives in Soi Koktanod in the same area and, after an investigation, police arrested Nopporn Rawanghet on the same day with a homemade (Thai Pradit) shotgun and 2 bullets, along with 19 amphetamine pills and 5.16 grams of meth amphetamine

  • Chinese tourist drowns near Koh Racha whilst snorkelling

    Chinese tourist drowns near Koh Racha whilst snorkelling

    Yesterday afternoon (October 15), 26 years old He Sixiang drowned during a snorkelling tour near Racha Noi Island.

  • Taiwan seeking visa-free entry for tourists into Thailand

    Taiwan seeking visa-free entry for tourists into Thailand

    PHOTO: The Nation Taiwan is seeking visa-fee entry into Thailand. A representative of the Taipei Economic and Cultural Office in Thailand, Chen-Yuan Tung, says visa free entry will attract more Taiwanese tourists and investors to the Kingdom