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  • Pornthip Phuket packaging takes to world stage

    Pornthip Phuket packaging takes to world stage

    PHUKET: Pornthip (Phuket) Co Ltd, the island’s most recognized food-gift brand, submitted two of its award-winning products to contest in the AsiaStar Awards 2011, also known as the „Packaging Oscars of Asia“. Having recently achieved national recognition at the ThaiStar Packaging Awards 2011, Pornthip’s Andaman and Sino-Portuguese gift sets will now join the regional ranks along with 54 other submissions in the Consumer Package category.

  • Phuket Gov to give ‚key to City‘ away for Red Cross Fair

    Phuket Gov to give ‚key to City‘ away for Red Cross Fair

    PHUKET: This year’s Red Cross Fair will be held from December 29 to January 8, 2012 at Saphan Hin central stage in Phuket Town. The opening ceremony, starting at 6pm on December 29, will feature a fireworks show, and performances by nationally-renowned acts will be staged every night.

  • Phuket hotel ponies up B200k to robbed Aussie tourists

    Phuket hotel ponies up B200k to robbed Aussie tourists

    PHUKET: The management of a Phuket hotel agreed to pay more than 200,000 baht in compensation to an Australian couple who claimed their room safe was robbed of 387,000 baht. Australian tourist Jim Nagi, 44, said he first noticed cash missing from the safe in his hotel room at the Andaman Beach Suites Hotel in Patong on December 8

  • ‘Washi’ goes wishy-washy: no effect in Phuket

    ‘Washi’ goes wishy-washy: no effect in Phuket

    PHUKET: Tropical storm “Washi”, which killed nearly 1,000 people in the Philippines, will have virtually no effect on the weather here in Phuket, the Phuket Gazette has been told. However, residents of Nakhon Sri Thammarat, Phatthalung, Songkhla, Pattani, Yala, Narathiwat, Trang and Satun provinces could experience unseasonable rainfall over the next two days.

  • Don’t judge Thorpe… yet.

    Don’t judge Thorpe… yet.

    PHUKET: „It’s not a concern now. Maybe later, but now it’s too premature.

  • Mandala Phuket takes home best condo award

    Mandala Phuket takes home best condo award

    PHUKET: Mandala Condominiums took home the prestigious Best Condo Development at The 2011 Thanachart Bank Thailand Property Awards, held recently at the Grand Hyatt Erawan Hotel in Bangkok. Mandala Condominiums – a collection of 24 over-sized apartments, all with private pools and located in Phuket’s prestigious Laguna area, was recognized at a gala ceremony attended by more than 600 CEOs, managing directors, developers and other senior management figures from the national and regional property sector

  • Phuket’s ‚labor shortage‘ more imagined than real

    Phuket’s ‚labor shortage‘ more imagined than real

    PHUKET: Government assistance to help solve the chronic „labor shortage“ in the island’s tourism industry is unlikely to have much impact this high season, given Phuket’s reputation as an expensive place to live.

  • Peacock delivers ‘pheasant surprise’ in Krabi

    Peacock delivers ‘pheasant surprise’ in Krabi

    PHUKET: A rubber tapper in Krabi, Phuket’s sister province across Phang Nga Bay, got an unexpected surprise this week when he discovered a live peacock of a species thought to be extinct in the region. Jamrad Kuannakorn and his wife arrived at a rubber plantation in Khao Kram sub-district before dawn on Tuesday, starting work as usual, when they heard an unusual sound from above. “We heard an animal noise so loud that we decided to take a look.

  • Tesco launches ‚green bag‘ project in Phuket

    Tesco launches ‚green bag‘ project in Phuket

    PHUKET: Leading retail chain Tesco Lotus launched a pilot project at its new Thalang branch in Phuket yesterday with the aim of reducing plastic bag use nationwide. The project is intended to encourage customers at all its stores in Phuket to use fewer plastic bags in order to help preserve the island’s natural beauty for future generations.

  • Tsunami blamed for Phuket beach encroachment confusion

    Tsunami blamed for Phuket beach encroachment confusion

    PHUKET: A Phuket hotel representative yesterday claimed that the 2004 tsunami washed away property boundary markers between his resort and public beach land, thus causing confusion over alleged beach encroachment. The Surin Phuket, formerly known as The Chedi, situated on Pansea Beach on Phuket’s northwest coast, is in the final stages of renovation in preparation of reopening under the new name.