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  • Phuket update: ‚Kru Kiew‘ denies torture charge

    Phuket update: ‚Kru Kiew‘ denies torture charge

    PHUKET: A daycare center worker caught on tape … Full story

  • Quiksilver surf competition underway in Phuket

    Quiksilver surf competition underway in Phuket

    PHUKET: The Quiksilver Surf Phuket Thailand Competition 2011 started today, with famous surfers from around the region taking part in the first round of the men’s long board event. There were 24 men taking part in the first round, which got underway off Loma Park in Patong at 2pm. …

  • Paiboon calls for dam healthy Phuket

    Paiboon calls for dam healthy Phuket

    PHUKET: Phuket Provincial Administration Organization President Paiboon Upatising has called for plans to redevelop Bang Wad Dam and Bang Neaw Dam Phukets two main water reservoirs to include jogging tracks and bike lanes as key recreational features at the sites. Mr Paiboon called for the healthy additions yesterday at a public hearing at Kathu Municipality offices to announce the latest plans drawn up by hired consultants Phisut Technology Co Ltd

  • Health checks reveal Phuket police getting heavy

    Health checks reveal Phuket police getting heavy

    PHUKET: Police officers stationed in Phuket are increasingly becoming overweight and suffering high cholesterol, the Phuket Gazette was told today.

  • Use of force necessary in Phuket beach eviction: Police

    Use of force necessary in Phuket beach eviction: Police

    PHUKET: Local police have defended their use of force in removing vendors from a Phuket beach on Sunday, saying that the officers present did only what was needed to arrest the ringleader. Tensions flared when police and municipal officers staged a dawn raid to tear down three restaurants deemed to be encroaching on government land at Karon Beach.

  • Street shooting leaves Phuket mother of two in disbelief

    Street shooting leaves Phuket mother of two in disbelief

    PHUKET: A young mother is contemplating her future after her partner and the father of her two children was gunned down outside their rented room in Phuket on Sunday night. I was watching television with our two children at about 10pm when I heard two loud blasts

  • Phuket Live Wire: Getting connected

    Phuket Live Wire: Getting connected

    PHUKET: WHEN it comes to Internet connections in Phuket, there are three major considerations: reliability, speed and price. In that order. Its almost impossible to measure reliability.

  • More wet weather for Phuket: TMD

    More wet weather for Phuket: TMD

    PHUKET: The Thai Meteorological Department (TMD) has issued a heavy rain warning for Phuket and almost all of Thailand. The warning, simply entitled „Heavy Rain over Thailand“, was issued at 5am today by the TMD’s Weather Forecast Bureau in Bangkok. The source of all the precipitation over the central plains region is a monsoon trough slowly moving across central Thailand, while an active southwest monsoon prevails over the Andaman Sea, southern Thailand and the Gulf of Thailand

  • Phuket-bound yacht crew rescued from southern Thailand storm

    Phuket-bound yacht crew rescued from southern Thailand storm

    PHUKET: Two foreigners sailing to Phuket from Langkawi in Malaysia are safe after being rescued from turbulent seas by the Royal Thai Navy off the coast of Satun early this morning. Vice Admiral Choomnoom Ardwong of the Royal Thai Navy Third Area Command at Cape Panwa, Phuket, was notified of a distress call from the sailing yacht Aqua at 1:45am. Sailors Gionata Bellagamba from Italy and Luke Lockyer from South Africa reported that they could not make landfall at the southern Thailand province of Satun due to strong winds and large waves

  • MoF voices support for Phuket convention center

    MoF voices support for Phuket convention center

    PHUKET: Ministry of Finance General Inspector Prasit Suebchana met Phuket Vice Governor Somkiet Sangkhaosutthirak today to reaffirm that his ministry will fight for Phukets convention center to go ahead. The international convention and exhibition center (ICEC) project stalled early this month when the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment (MNRE) announced that the project’s plan had … Full story