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  • Phuket chef charged with setting alight motorbikes

    Phuket chef charged with setting alight motorbikes

    PHUKET: A chef at a seafood restaurant in Karon has confessed to setting alight three motorbikes after he was shown CCTV footage of himself throwing a live cigarette butt at one of the vehicles. Karon Police arrested Ek Musika, 39, at 5:30pm yesterday after officers tracked him down through the CCTV footage of the incident and by questioning local residents. The incident occurred at about 5:30am on April 13, explained Karon Police Deputy Superintendent Sophon Borrirak.

  • Boston bombing prompts Phuket Airport security boost

    Boston bombing prompts Phuket Airport security boost

    PHUKET: Security at Phuket International Airport has been boosted in the wake of the tragic bombing of the Boston Marathon on Monday, which killed three people and injured at least 180 more. The move follows Pongsak Semsant, caretaker president of Airports of Thailand (AOT), announcing the security boost for all major AOT airports in Thailand, including Suvarnabhumi and Don Mueang airports in Bangkok, and Chiang Mai International Airport.

  • Tourists offer high praise for rescue efforts after storm sinks dive boat north of Phuket

    Tourists offer high praise for rescue efforts after storm sinks dive boat north of Phuket

    PHUKET: Tourists have heaped high praise on all those involved in the rescue of 30 people from a sinking dive boat and the safe recovery of 425 others after a severe storm left a flotilla of tour boats returning from the Similan Islands stranded at Koh Ta Chai, north of Phuket. The 24-meter dive boat Little Princess, with 30 people on board, sank within minutes of being struck by a succession of large waves in a freak storm in the Similan National Park yesterday (story

  • Phuket’s first fatality of Songkran Seven Days of Danger hits on day six

    Phuket’s first fatality of Songkran Seven Days of Danger hits on day six

    PHUKET: Phuket’s run of zero road fatalities during the Songkran Seven Days of Danger holiday period ended early this morning, when 75-year-old Phuket native Jingiang Jamreunnam died from injuries sustained in a motorbike accident.

  • Phuket Tech: What, exactly, is a Bitcoin? – Live Wire

    Phuket Tech: What, exactly, is a Bitcoin? – Live Wire

    PHUKET: In the past couple of week, three of my friends in Phuket – all of whom are reasonably savvy with their investments – have asked me about Bitcoin.

  • All safe after dive boat sinks in Similan National Park freak storm

    All safe after dive boat sinks in Similan National Park freak storm

    PHUKET: A dive boat with 40 people on board sank today in the Similan National Park after being caught in a freak storm about four miles off Koh Ta Chai. All passengers and staff were immediately and safely evacuated from the boat after the captain and tour leader launched an emergency raft, Stefan Kaesweber of Khao Lak Scuba Adventures told the Phuket Gazette this evening. Fishing vessels in the area quickly rescued passengers and staff from the emergency raft, bringing them to one of the dive boat’s sister ships.

  • Phuket Songkran road toll remains at zero dead

    Phuket Songkran road toll remains at zero dead

    PHUKET: The fifth day of the Seven Days of Danger nationwide road-safety campaign came to a close at midnight last night with the death toll for the Thai new year holiday period in Phuket remaining at zero. The Department of Disaster Prevention and Mitigation Phuket office (DDPM-Phuket), which collates all road accident statistics in Phuket during the campaign, reported two motorbike accidents and one car accident between midnight Sunday and midnight Monday.

  • Gimp thief not gold shop killer; identified by chicken-frying ladyboy

    Gimp thief not gold shop killer; identified by chicken-frying ladyboy

    PHUKET: It was briefly thought they had snared the Phuket gold shop killer (story

  • Phuket Songkran: Four days without death on the roads

    Phuket Songkran: Four days without death on the roads

    PHUKET: For the first time in years, Phuket has maintained its zero death toll for the first four days of the Songkran Seven Days of Danger national road-safety campaign.

  • Phuket Police release graphic YouTube video of gold shop robbery

    Phuket Police release graphic YouTube video of gold shop robbery

    PHUKET: In an effort to identify an armed robber of a Phuket gold shop, police have released a graphic YouTube video of the man entering C.P. Gold Master & Jewelry store and shooting dead one of the customers (story