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Phuket Gazette’s Top Sporting Tips: Tennis
PHUKET: This weeks tennis tip about the serve comes courtsey of Travis Bertram who is the Tennis Director for Thanyapura Sports and Leisure Club, Phuket.
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Phuket Opinion: Signs of progress against roadside pollution
PHUKET: The Phuket Gazette fully supports the long-overdue effort by the Phuket Highways Office to remove billboards and other unsightly advertising signage from roadsides under its authority, and we would encourage the local Department of Rural Roads and other agencies with similar authority to follow suit as soon as possible. If there is another tropical island paradise with roadsides that have been so severely tarnished, we wouldnt want to visit it
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Phuket braced for landslides as more rain falls
PHUKET: Phuket officials are urging more residents to evacuate as torrential rain continues to fall on exposed soil at a landslide risk zone along the bypass road northbound in Rassada. Rassada Mayor Suratin Lianudom, who has been at the scene all day, told the Phuket Gazette this afternoon that officials are closely monitoring several stretches of the road. This morning a small landslide near the „bypass waterfall“ opposite the Hino dealership caused concern
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Special report: Phuket foreigners losing homes to con men
PHUKET: Phuket homeowners are a prime target for regional fraud gangs that leave their „marks“ heartbroken and penniless, with wives of wealthy foreigners often falling victim. Reports of people being cheated out of tens of millions of baht in such scams are rife on the island, but the victims are often too ashamed to come forward to warn others
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Phuket officials helpless in bypass road landslide threat
PHUKET: Local officials have decided on a hands-off approach to the nearly 250,000 cubic meters of soil threatening to break loose, destroy buildings and spill across the heavily-trafficked bypass road, a major artery skirting Phuket Town Following a landslide on Wednesday morning and the … Full story
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Phuket News Hound: Steve Jobs is dead; Phuket tennis tourney shaping up; Listeria alarm in US
Phuket NEWS Hound World news compiled by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community Apple co-founder Steve Jobs has died Phuket GazetteApple co-founder Steve Jobs died last night in California. In a statement, Apple’s Board of Directors confirmed the passing of Jobs
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Phuket News Hound: Thai floods; PM to visit Burma; Thailand’s Boxer going for gold
PHUKET NEWS HOUND news about Thailand compiled by Gazette editors for Phuket readers Thai flood death toll reaches 212Phuket GazetteThe death toll as a result of widespread flooding across Thailand in recent months has risen to at least 212, according to the latest reports released on yesterday. Permanent Interior Secretary Phranai Suwannarat confirmed the number of deaths, adding that two others remain missing as flood waters continue to affect 25 provinces in Thailand’s North, Northeast and Central regions, the MCOT news agency reports. The unusually strong rainfall in recent months has affected almost 2.
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New games for ‚Phuket‘ Youth Games 2012
PHUKET: Three new sports have been added to the official program of the 28th Thailand National … Full story
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Kidney dialysis center opens in Phuket
PHUKET: The Laem Son Health Center in Wichit began providing kidney dialysis treatment to patients yesterday, and in doing so became the first center in Phuket to offer such treatment outside government hospitals. The center (pictured here), located on …
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Phuket taxi thugs apologize, pay damages for attack on tour driver
PHUKET: The three taxi drivers who assaulted another driver working for a Phuket elephant camp have apologized for the attack and paid 40,000 baht in damages. Kamala Police Duty Officer Anek Mongkol confirmed today that the three taxi drivers Wasan Sanae, 35, Sitthikorn Boonsri, 28, and Thanawut Poksakul, 25 were each fined 1,000 baht for the attack.
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- Blackwater at Phuket’s Nai Harn beach due to ‘natural causes’‘Blackwater’ has returned at one of Phuket’s favourite beaches, this time in the lagoon behind Nai Harn beach, which flushes out naturally when the tide conditions are right. For now, it is dammed up by the sand and has developed into an ugly cesspool for passersby to see. Responding to complaints from local residents, Rawai […]
- Another baby Dugong found on a Krabi beachPHOTO: Thai Rath Another lost baby dugong has been rescued after being found injured in Krabi. The baby dugong was found washed up on the shores in Klongthom District, Krabi yesterday (June 1) and was rescued by the officials from the Phuket Marine Biological Centre (PMBC). Thai Rath reports that the baby dugong had a […]
- Cha-Am blackwater flowing into the beach is “natural in origin” – District ChiefPHOTOS: Daily News The Cha-Am district chief and a posse of officials have inspected a patch of ‘black water’ flowing into the Gulf of Thailand after social media posts showed “sewage” flowing into the sea at a beach north of Hua Hin. Not surprisingly, and without evidence, Khajornsak Somboon admitted the offensive outflow was “smelly” but […]