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  • American surfer dies in Phuket

    American surfer dies in Phuket

    PHUKET: A 60-year-old American surfing on Phuket’s popular break at Kata Beach died after falling from his board into the water.

  • Phuket teenager shot in gang attack

    Phuket teenager shot in gang attack

    PHUKET: A 16-year-old boy from Rawai was shot in the leg four times by a gang of teenagers in a reprisal attack in Phuket Town last night. The teenager, given the pseudonym “Korn” by police, was shot multiple times at the Esso gas station near the busy Slaughterhouse Intersection (map

  • Search for MV Hope Bangladeshi crew called off as salvage efforts begin

    Search for MV Hope Bangladeshi crew called off as salvage efforts begin

    PHUKET: The Royal Thai Navy today called off its search for the remaining missing crewmen of the Bangladeshi cargo ship MV Hope, which capsized in heavy seas south of Phuket on Thursday night (story

  • Phuket Police’s 300 boost Bangla red-light security

    Phuket Police’s 300 boost Bangla red-light security

    PHUKET: In a mass show of police strength, more than 300 officers gathered in Phuket’s famed red-light district of Soi Bangla in Patong on Saturday night in the government’s latest campaign to bolster tourist safety on the island. Led by Phuket Governor Maitri Inthusut, the officers patrolled the bars with an eye to keeping the peace, on the lookout for any troublemakers. “Tourists need to have confidence that Phuket is a safe place, so we are staging raids from July 1 to July 15 to boost security,” Governor Maitri said.

  • Phuket Opinion: Memories of Mario

    Phuket Opinion: Memories of Mario

    PHUKET: Having grown up in the 1980s and 1990s in a middle-class American suburb, much of my outlook on life was admittedly influenced, if not framed, by an ingenious team of Japanese programmers and script writers. Indeed, the original Nintendo Entertainment System (launched in the US in 1985) provided an invaluable framework for the formation and development of some of the critical cognitive reasoning and problem solving skills that continue to serve me well. While my dad in particular didn’t see such value in my childhood gaming obsession (this is the same dad who used to walk 10 miles to school in five feet of snow without any shoes – you know the one), I on the other hand will remain forever grateful for the life-long lessons that I gained from the hard-headed Italian brothers, Mario and Luigi.

  • Phuket Opinion: Refugee runaways – shelters aren’t jails

    Phuket Opinion: Refugee runaways – shelters aren’t jails

    Jiranun Cheamcharoen, 46, from Ratchaburi, received a BA from Thammasat University and an MA from Ramkhamhaeng University. She has been a social worker since 1991 and the director of the Phuket Shelter for Children and Families on Koh Sireh for four years. Here, she talks about the difficulties of housing Rohingya children and what action she took after they ran away from the shelter.

  • Phuket Opinion: Shooting for Island Justice

    Phuket Opinion: Shooting for Island Justice

    PHUKET: The failure of police to bring to justice the man who shot and killed 21-year-old Ekkasit Sangangam in the heart of Phuket Town in early May last year will come as little surprise to veteran observers of Thailand’s criminal justice system. A low-ranking officer assigned to the Patong Police was arrested and charged within minutes of the shooting, which took place on Phuket Town’s infamous Phun Phol Soi 11 (story

  • Phuket police move to snare wanted rapist stepfather from Laos

    Phuket police move to snare wanted rapist stepfather from Laos

    PHUKET: Police have requested an arrest warrant for the Laotian man wanted for repeatedly raping and impregnating his 15-year-old handicapped stepdaughter in Phuket. “The stepfather has left the country,” Patong Police Officer Teerasak Boonsaeng told the Phuket Gazette. The 40-year-old man, originally from Laos, has been at large since June 29, when his wife discovered what he had done (story

  • Glue-huffing monk on holiday in Phuket also a thief

    Glue-huffing monk on holiday in Phuket also a thief

    PHUKET: A monk who came to Phuket to visit a friend was arrested in Rassada yesterday and charged with sniffing glue and theft. Police were alerted by villagers at about 6pm yesterday that a monk was sniffing glue in a pavilion at Pa Aram Rattanaram Temple, near Mission Hospital (map

  • MV Hope: Three more survivors rescued, two bodies brought ashore Phuket

    MV Hope: Three more survivors rescued, two bodies brought ashore Phuket

    PHUKET: Three more survivors were plucked from the sea yesterday as the Royal Thai Navy continued its search for the crewmen still missing from the Bangladeshi cargo ship MV Hope, which capsized in heavy seas south of Phuket on Thursday night (story