Artikel tagged “phuket gazette”

  • Live Wire: A tale of internet worry and woe

    Live Wire: A tale of internet worry and woe

    PHUKET: TWO weeks ago in Live Wire, I produced a list of all the available internet packages in Phuket – at least, all of the packages I know about (click

  • Taxi driver mob tears down Russian tour agency sign, forces closure

    Taxi driver mob tears down Russian tour agency sign, forces closure

    PHUKET: Phuket taxi drivers in the popular tourist beach area of Bang Tao today successfully staged their second protest against Russian tour companies operating in the area. The mob of angry taxi drivers from the Baan Bangtao Taxi Club pulled down the signs of one of their primary targets, Alex Holiday Tour Co Ltd in Cherng Talay, alleging that the company was run by Russians who were undercutting the prices of local people, and making it impossible to survive

  • Italian arrested after naked Phuket joy ride

    Italian arrested after naked Phuket joy ride

    PHUKET: Police arrested an Italian man who stole a BMW that was left running in front of a laundry shop near Phuket Technical College yesterday. Responding to a report from Surawit Siangdee, 36, that his black BMW had been stolen at 3:30pm, Phuket City Police notified police stations island-wide

  • Phuket Police search for drive-by target ‘Dannie’ Knudsen

    Phuket Police search for drive-by target ‘Dannie’ Knudsen

    PHUKET: Patong Police are searching for Danish national Dennis Mark Knudsen, 24, the intended target in the drive-by shooting in Patong on Tuesday night that saw two German tourists accidentally wounded (story

  • Missing Swiss student tourist alive and well, in Thai prison

    Missing Swiss student tourist alive and well, in Thai prison

    PHUKET: A 22-year-old Swiss student tourist reported missing while on holiday in Thailand has been found alive and well. She’s being detained in Ranong Prison for allegedly stealing a camera belonging to an immigration officer. The search for Tscherina Nora Janisch, a foreign-exchange student studying at the National University of Singapore, began on January 15 when her mother, Elizabeth, posted a concerned note on the popular travel website

  • PHUKET BREAKING NEWS: Woman executed with single gunshot to head

    PHUKET BREAKING NEWS: Woman executed with single gunshot to head

    PHUKET: A woman driving alone south of Phuket Town was killed by a single gunshot to head this evening. Police arrived at the scene, at the junction of Kwang Road and Chao Fa East Road (map

  • Phuket Police suspect Arabs in B3mn locker heist

    Phuket Police suspect Arabs in B3mn locker heist

    PHUKET: Phuket Police are on the lookout for three men, all thought to be from the Middle East, who are suspected of doping a front desk officer at a resort near Karon Beach and robbing the resort’s guest safe boxes of about 3 million baht in valuables. The front desk officer at Karon Place Hotel who was allegedly drugged by the gang told the Phuket Gazette that the three foreigners had visited him sometime after midnight on the two nights preceding the robbery

  • Swiss tourist dies after being pulled from Phuket waters

    Swiss tourist dies after being pulled from Phuket waters

    PHUKET: Police are waiting for doctors to confirm whether or not a 75-year-old Swiss man pulled from the water at Patong Beach yesterday afternoon died from drowning or other – more natural – causes. Staff at Patong Hospital notified Patong Police Deputy Superintendent Pratuang Polmana of the man’s death at about 4:15pm. Police named the man as Thomas Nebel, 75.

  • A heart lost in Seoul: an English professor struggles with life after love in Phuket

    A heart lost in Seoul: an English professor struggles with life after love in Phuket

    SPECIAL REPORT PHUKET: In a cautionary, age old island tale, one known by many jaded and broken-hearted men on Phuket, Barry (not his real name) fell in love with a young Thai bar girl.

  • Blockade-sparked tour counter blitz, ‚well received‘

    Blockade-sparked tour counter blitz, ‚well received‘

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