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  • Cat alerts home owner to 5-meter python house call

    Cat alerts home owner to 5-meter python house call

    PHUKET: A woman was alerted to the presence of a giant snake in the carport of her home in Phuket Town yesterday by her cat.

  • Washing machine fire cleans out Chalong Temple SuperCheap staff room

    Washing machine fire cleans out Chalong Temple SuperCheap staff room

    PHUKET: Two fire trucks rushed to the SuperCheap convenience store located about 30 meters from Phuket’s renowned Wat Chalong temple on Saturday after being notified of a fire there at about 8:30am.

  • Police: case of missing Phuket woman romantic, not criminal

    Police: case of missing Phuket woman romantic, not criminal

    PHUKET: Police confirmed today that they do not consider the disappearance of Bunyanee Sungparn, 29 (story

  • Phuket Hajj pilgrims line up for free vaccines

    Phuket Hajj pilgrims line up for free vaccines

    PHUKET: More than 200 Muslims planning to make the Hajj this year took advantage of free vaccinations at the Phuket Provincial Administration Organization Hospital on Saturday. “The Provincial Hospital has partnered with the Phuket Public Health Office to offer free meningococcal meningitis and influenza vaccines to people in Phuket and nearby provinces who plan to travel to Mecca for the Hajj,” said Hospital Director Anan Lohapattanabamrung. “We also gave free checkups and advised on how to protect against Middle East Respiratory Syndrome [MERS],” he added (story

  • Foul play not suspected in death of Microsoft engineer at Phuket villa

    Foul play not suspected in death of Microsoft engineer at Phuket villa

    PHUKET: Phuket Police see no reason to open a murder investigation in the case of a former Microsoft engineer found dead at his villa at Ao Makham last week (story

  • MV Hope at Langkawi, four more bodies spotted at sea

    MV Hope at Langkawi, four more bodies spotted at sea

    PHUKET: The Bangladeshi cargo ship MV Hope, which capsized in heavy seas south of Phuket on Thursday night (story

  • Phuket health officials brace for MERS

    Phuket health officials brace for MERS

    Special Report MIDDLE East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) was first identified in Saudi Arabia in September last year.

  • Relatives cry murder, Phuket police disagree

    Relatives cry murder, Phuket police disagree

    PHUKET: Relatives of a woman found dead in her car in an old tin mining pond on Monday believe she was murdered, but police do not agree. Wattana Itthisan, the 27-year-old owner of Fasai Minimart in Chalong, was found in her submerged car in an old tin mining pond behind Chalong Temple on Monday morning. “The driver’s window was open and the gear had been shifted into the park position.

  • Phuket man confesses to suffocating ‘nagging’ mother-in-law

    Phuket man confesses to suffocating ‘nagging’ mother-in-law

    PHUKET: A man who suffocated his mother-in-law after an argument in Phuket confessed to the killing several hours after the horrific encounter. The body of Prayad Phawaphutanon, 50, was found half-clothed and lying on her bed by her 14-year-old son when he returned from school yesterday evening, said Thalang Police Superintendent Sirisak Wasasiri today. “After finding his mother dead in bed, he called his father and his father reported it to us,” Col Sirisak said.

  • Phuket chief denies drug payoff, developer extortion claims

    Phuket chief denies drug payoff, developer extortion claims

    PHUKET: Kathu District Chief Veera Kerdsirimongkol has denounced accusations claiming that he accepted cash from drug suspects to overlook test results and that he attempted to extort money from developers by holding their machinery for ransom. Chief Veera flatly denied the allegations: “I have never sought benefits, money or otherwise, to release drug suspects. It’s not true, and all the other things the handbills say are not true.