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  • Phuket forecast: heavy rain to continue through the weekend

    Phuket forecast: heavy rain to continue through the weekend

    PHUKET: Over the past 24 hours Phuket experienced the heaviest rains since the freak storms of last March, with reports all over the island of flooding and downed trees and power poles. One of the heaviest hit areas was Patong, where knee deep water caused traffic jams along parts of Phang Muang Sai Kor road, especially near Patong Hospital and the Jungceylon complex. Remarkably, the notorious stretch of Nanai Road nearby, that got the name Nanai River in recent years, was completely free of water thanks to a drainage project completed there by the municipality last year

  • TAT confident in big numbers for 2011 Phuket Veg Fest

    TAT confident in big numbers for 2011 Phuket Veg Fest

    PHUKET: THE current economic climate will have no effect on the Phuket Vegetarian Festival this year, says the director of the southern regional office of the Tourism Authority of Thailand (TAT).

  • Toyota League Cup: Phattalung def FC Phuket, 4-3 on aggregate

    Toyota League Cup: Phattalung def FC Phuket, 4-3 on aggregate

    PHUKET: FC Phukets hopes of advancing to the final four of the 2011 Toyota League Cup were squashed Wednesday night by Division 2 upstarts Phattalung FC, who played to a wild 3-3 extra time draw to win on aggregate 4-3. The pressure was on for the Southern Sea Kirin in their first home match in seven weeks, fueled by a crowd of about 8,000 anxious fans welcoming Phuket back in a high-stakes homecoming

  • FC Phuket need win by two goals

    FC Phuket need win by two goals

    PHUKET: Football action returns to Surakul Stadium tonight at 7pm with FC Phuket set to host Pattalung FC in the second leg and deciding match of the Toyota League Cup 2011 quarterfinals. Phuket’s loss to Pattalung last week from a solitary … Full story

  • Phuket Land Dept officer dies in motorbike crash

    Phuket Land Dept officer dies in motorbike crash

    PHUKET: A young woman employed by the Phuket Land Office died when her motorbike was struck from behind by a pickup on Thepkrasattri road in Thalang this morning. Witnesses told police the victim, 24-year-old Wattana Jamchat, was riding her motorbike along Thepkrasattri Road northbound near the new PTT service station in Srisoonthorn subdistrict when she was struck from behind by a black Toyota Vigo pickup

  • Mother reclaims Phuket Ramadan

    Mother reclaims Phuket Ramadan

    PHUKET: The mother of the baby reported … Full story

  • Fire destroys Phuket’s Koh Kaew Market

    Fire destroys Phuket’s Koh Kaew Market

    PHUKET: A large fire ripped through an undercover clothes market of more than 200 stalls in the heart of Patong, on Phukets west coast, early this morning. The fire broke out at the Koh Kaew Market, next to the Jungceylon shopping complex on Rat-U-Thit 200 Pi Road, at about 3am

  • HRH Chulabhorn grants free medical care to three Phuket afflicted

    HRH Chulabhorn grants free medical care to three Phuket afflicted

    PHUKET: HRH Princess Chulabhorn Valayalaksana today granted much-needed specialist medical care to three Phuket residents who would otherwise not receive the treatment they need. Princess Chulabhorn arrived at Baan Sapam Mongkol Wittaya School in Koh Kaew, just north of Phuket Town, at 2:30pm in support of a free mobile medical clinic being held there under the Princess Mothers Medical Volunteer Foundation. The foundation is renowned for providing free general healthcare and critically needed medical services to people who otherwise could not afford it.

  • Phuket Live Wire: WiFi you wouldnt believe

    Phuket Live Wire: WiFi you wouldnt believe

    PHUKET: THERES important breaking news on the internet scene in Phuket: TOT is now offering something they call „WiFi“.

  • Dutch diplomat warns of Phuket tourism landslide

    Dutch diplomat warns of Phuket tourism landslide

    PHUKET: Critical issues affecting Phuket tourism must be contained, or else the industry could slide out of control, the Dutch Ambassador to Thailand warned yesterday. On his first official visit to Phuket, Ambassador Joan Boer asked Phuket Governor Tri Augkaradacha what he intended to do about the problems, specifically naming jet-ski rip-off scams and unscrupulous tuk-tuk drivers as the key culprits