Artikel tagged “Asien”

  • Phuket police move to snare wanted rapist stepfather from Laos

    Phuket police move to snare wanted rapist stepfather from Laos

    PHUKET: Police have requested an arrest warrant for the Laotian man wanted for repeatedly raping and impregnating his 15-year-old handicapped stepdaughter in Phuket. “The stepfather has left the country,” Patong Police Officer Teerasak Boonsaeng told the Phuket Gazette. The 40-year-old man, originally from Laos, has been at large since June 29, when his wife discovered what he had done (story

  • Phuket Immigration: British realtor to be deported

    Phuket Immigration: British realtor to be deported

    PHUKET: Phuket immigration today arrested for illegal entry a British man who had been working on the island as a realtor, a profession reserved for Thais, since 2011. Richard James Daffund, 44, was picked up by police as he walked along Phuket Road, just several hundred meters from the Phuket Immigration Office.

  • Phantom sex noises in Phuket, voodoo suspected

    Phantom sex noises in Phuket, voodoo suspected

    PHUKET: An inconclusive police investigation has prompted a Phuket woman to publicly appeal for help in unravelling the mysterious “sex noises” she keeps hearing at her Chalong home. Onanong Waltham, 46, accompanied by her housemate Sujittraporn Tephabutra, made her public appeal at the Phuket Press Club yesterday afternoon

  • Canadian expat, 64, faces deportation from Phuket for visa overstay

    Canadian expat, 64, faces deportation from Phuket for visa overstay

    PHUKET: A 64-year-old expat from Canada will be deported from Thailand after being caught in Phuket after overstaying his visa by three years.

  • Special Report: Navy ships scuttled south of Phuket for fishy passengers

    Special Report: Navy ships scuttled south of Phuket for fishy passengers

    Special Report: Three Royal Thai Navy vessels have been scuttled in Krabi Province to provide superstructures for artificial reefs as part of the province’s bid to create underwater learning centers for divers and boost the Andaman province’s tourism industry. The Gazette’s Irfarn Jamdukor reports

  • Phuket police street shooter walks free

    Phuket police street shooter walks free

    PHUKET: All charges against a Phuket police officer arrested for shooting dead a civilian in Phuket Town have been dropped. Cpl Rachaporn Semaksorn and his brother, Dechaporn, were arrested after witnesses identified Cpl Rachaporn as the man who pulled out a gun and shot 21-year-old Ekkasit Sangangam at point-blank range. The incident occurred on Phun Pol Soi 11, in the heart of Phuket Town’s red light district, at about 2:30am on May 5 last year (story

  • Belgian expat stabbed by Thai girlfriend out of Phuket ICU

    Belgian expat stabbed by Thai girlfriend out of Phuket ICU

    PHUKET: The 62-year-old Belgian expat who was stabbed multiple times by his Thai girlfriend earlier this week is out of intensive care, hospital staff have confirmed.

  • Rohingya trafficking suspect to be charged for abduction, rape

    Rohingya trafficking suspect to be charged for abduction, rape

    PHUKET: The man accused of repeatedly raping a Rohingya woman he was allegedly to smuggle from a welfare shelter in Phang Nga, north of Phuket, to Malaysia will face rape and abduction charges, police today confirmed to the Phuket Gazette. “We were issued an arrest warrant today that will allow us to take him into custody and proceed with pressing deprivation of liberty and rape charges against him,” said Lt Saner Sumard of the Kuraburi Police. Korlimula Mahamutu, as he is named in Thai on the arrest warrant, is currently being detained in Phang Nga Town as he is already facing charges of human trafficking (story

  • Koh Kaew u-turn lane lengthened to relieve congestion

    Koh Kaew u-turn lane lengthened to relieve congestion

    PHUKET: The northbound u-turn lane at the Koh Kaew intersection on Thepkrasattri Road is in the process of being lengthened in an effort to tackle the chronic congestion in the area. “Right now the u-turn lane is not long enough for all the cars that want to turn at the Koh Kaew intersection, and cars that can’t get into the turn lane are blocking traffic that is headed northbound, causing traffic congestion,” Phuket Highways Office Director Samak Luedwonghad told the Phuket Gazette yesterday. “This should help reduce traffic jams during rush hour,” Mr Samak said.

  • Phuket tuk-tuk drivers protest illegal taxis

    Phuket tuk-tuk drivers protest illegal taxis

    PHUKET: A protest by about 100 tuk-tuk drivers today won the drivers a crackdown on illegal taxis, which the tuk-tuk clan says are stealing their jobs. After staging a convoy from Kathu, the protesters parked their tuk-tuks at Sanam Chai, across the street from Provincial Hall in Phuket Town (map