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  • Japanese tourist foils abduction attempt amid Phuket Police ‘media blackout’

    Japanese tourist foils abduction attempt amid Phuket Police ‘media blackout’

    PHUKET: The Royal Thai Police have ordered a “media blackout” for Phuket, with only the local police superintendent authorized to release information to the media, the Phuket Gazette has learned.

  • Meth addicted woman terrorizes Phuket temple

    Meth addicted woman terrorizes Phuket temple

    PHUKET: A deranged, knife-wielding woman had people running for cover at a Phuket temple yesterday until she was finally stripped of the weapon and placed under police custody. Chalong Police were notified at 10:30am that a knife-wielding woman was terrorizing people on the grounds of the Wat Sawang Arom School, off Soi Happy Home in Rawai, according to Siangtai Daily newspaper

  • Heavy rain warning for Phuket, Andaman

    Heavy rain warning for Phuket, Andaman

    PHUKET: A strengthening of monsoonal conditions over the Andaman Sea has prompted the Thai Meteorological Department to issue a weather warning for all six Andaman coast provinces: Ranong, Phang Nga, Phuket, Krabi, Trang and Satun.

  • Firemen scramble as Thai warship catches fire

    Firemen scramble as Thai warship catches fire

    PHUKET: Firefighters this morning scrambled to contain a fire that broke out on the retired warship RTMS Lanta, now a museum and tourist attraction in the heart Krabi Town. Fortunately, no people were injured in the blaze. Lt Col Thongchai Sengrod of the Krabi Town Police said that he received a report at 11am that smoke was billowing out of the ship, kept in dry dock in front of the Krabi Provincial Administration Organization (OrBorJor) offices in Krabi Town.

  • Young couple caught in Phuket meth bust

    Young couple caught in Phuket meth bust

    PHUKET: Phuket Police last night arrested a man and a woman in their 20s in possession of category one drugs at their home in Thalang. The couple are suspected of selling drugs to teenagers in the area

  • Oil slick endangers Krabi mangroves, clean-up ordered

    Oil slick endangers Krabi mangroves, clean-up ordered

    PHUKET: Krabi authorities have launched a massive cleanup operation after a boat struck rocks and spilled a large volume of oil into the sea, resulting in extensive damage to protected mangrove forests in Neua Khlong District, about 130 kilometers east of Phuket across Phang Nga Bay. The spill was first reported at 9am Saturday morning. How much oil was spilled is not known, but one local in an affected area in Khlong Khanan subdistrict reported oil lining 10 kilometers of coastline, with an estimated 1,000 rai of mangrove forest affected.

  • Phuket Simon Cabaret van slams into parked cars to avoid head-on

    Phuket Simon Cabaret van slams into parked cars to avoid head-on

    PHUKET: A Phuket Simon Cabaret passenger van, returning after dropping off guests, late last night slammed into cars parked outside a roadside garage in Thalang as the driver swerved to avoid an oncoming vehicle.

  • Phuket Town ‘Blue Flag Fair’ to start Thursday

    Phuket Town ‘Blue Flag Fair’ to start Thursday

    PHUKET: The Department of Internal Trade (DIT) office in Phuket Town will hold a “Blue Flag Fair” with cheap food and consumer goods at Saphan Hin on July 5-7. The event, to be held at the Central Staging Area at Saphan Hin Public Park, follows the success of the Blue Flag fair held at Sanamchai field, in the government office quarter of Phuket Town, in March.

  • Phuket Police chief calls for integrated, island-wide CCTV

    Phuket Police chief calls for integrated, island-wide CCTV

    PHUKET: Phuket Provincial Police Commander Chonasit Wattanavrangkul this morning revealed plans to ask the central government to fund a project that will see all CCTV cameras across Phuket feed live footage into a single server. Speaking at the monthly ‚Governor Meets the Press‘ meeting at Provincial Hall, Maj Gen Chonasit said that CCTV footage had provided essential information in solving recent criminal cases, such as the stabbing of Australian tourist Michelle Smith. “We are now working on a CCTV project to improve public safety in Phuket by having all CCTV on the island connected to the same server.

  • Phuket tuk-tuk driver gets suspended sentence for attack on tourist

    Phuket tuk-tuk driver gets suspended sentence for attack on tourist

    PHUKET: A Phuket tuk-tuk driver who confessed to assaulting an Egyptian tourist in Patong last week has been sentenced to a three-month suspended prison term and fined 3,000 baht. Patong Police Deputy Superintendent Kittipong Klaikaew identified the driver as 40-year-old Sirapob Ngamriab.