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  • FC Phuket take on Customs United tomorrow

    FC Phuket take on Customs United tomorrow

    PHUKET: Following a two-week break from league play, FC Phuket will host Samut Prakan Customs United (SCU) tomorrow (Sunday) at Surakul Stadium in Phuket Town. Kickoff is scheduled for 6pm. …

  • Phuket tuk-tuks join Thai flood-relief effort

    Phuket tuk-tuks join Thai flood-relief effort

    PHUKET: The flood-relief effort continues in Phuket, where local tuk-tuk drivers were among those donating boats and other necessities to those affected by the worst flooding in Thailand in decades. Karon vendors and Kata-Karon Tuk-Tuk and Taxi Club members yesterday presented Phuket Vice Governor Somkiet Sangkaosutthirak with 13 fiberglass boats, life-jackets, clothing and other goods to be sent to flood-affected areas

  • Burmese crews mutiny-murder run ends in Phuket

    Burmese crews mutiny-murder run ends in Phuket

    PHUKET: A mutinous Burmese fishing crewman has confessed to Phuket Police that he hacked to death the ships cruel Thai captain before attacking the vessel technician, who jumped overboard and is presumed dead.

  • Phuket woman takes life by hanging

    Phuket woman takes life by hanging

    PHUKET: In the second suicide by hanging in Phuket in three days, the body of a local woman was found suspended by the neck from a tree near her home in Thalang this morning.

  • Phuket rain hampers towers of power move

    Phuket rain hampers towers of power move

    PHUKET: The heavy rains across Phuket this week continue to hamper efforts to replace power poles leaning dangerously on Patong Hill.

  • Phuket Governor transfer rumors unconfirmed

    Phuket Governor transfer rumors unconfirmed

    PHUKET: The Governors Office today said they could neither confirm nor deny rumors that Phuket Governor Tri Augkaradacha will be transferred out of the province this month. Our office has yet to be informed of any transfer orders regarding the governor or his deputies, Manas Nurak, personal secretary to Governor Tri, told the Phuket Gazette.

  • Dutch tourist slashed by deranged vagrant in Krabi

    Dutch tourist slashed by deranged vagrant in Krabi

    PHUKET: A Dutch tourist is recovering from neck lacerations sustained in a knife attack by a homeless drifter in front of a McDonald’s outlet in Krabi. Krabi Police raced to the scene at Ao Nang Beach yesterday morning. When they arrived shortly after 11am they found 29-year-old Dutch tourist Reiner Fleaf lying on the sidewalk in a pool of his own blood.

  • Landslide on Phuket bypass road causes serious damage

    Landslide on Phuket bypass road causes serious damage

    PHUKET: Another landslide on the bypass road last night caused over one million baht in damage to stock at the Adisak Trading Company warehouse in Phuket, which was due to be cleared of stock today. Warehouse chief clerk Natthaphum Ongsala, 28, said the landslide breached the warehouse roof and wall, destroying a wide range of stock including buckets of thinner, latex sealant, PVC pipe fittings, automobile spray paint and about 1,000 large buckets of house paint

  • Phuket Prison warden hangs himself

    Phuket Prison warden hangs himself

    PHUKET: A guilt-ridden warden at Phuket Provincial Prison took his life by hanging yesterday evening. Phuket Prison chief Rapin Nichanon identified the deceased as 52-year-old Suwit Srisangthong, who lived in a home for government workers on the prison grounds

  • Phuket Blues Fest moves to Laguna

    Phuket Blues Fest moves to Laguna

    PHUKET: The Phuket International Blues Rock Festival this year will be held at Laguna Phuket for the first time in the events seven-year history. With 1,300 hotel rooms and a large expat village in the immediate neighborhood, as well as easy access from anywhere in the north of the island, Laguna is the perfect place to stage such an event, said Andy Anderson, the events founder and organizer. The charity event, taking place on the last weekend of February, will again be raising funds for organizations dedicated to ensuring the education of Phuket children