Artikel tagged “Phuket News”

  • Phuket Property Watch: Stand up and deliver

    Phuket Property Watch: Stand up and deliver

    PHUKET: Winter has hit the northern hemisphere and somehow the „Occupy Wall Street“ movement looks to have lost momentum.

  • Phuket Media Watch: 800 dogs rescued; Thailand number 1 for Brits

    Phuket Media Watch: 800 dogs rescued; Thailand number 1 for Brits

    PHUKET MEDIA WATCH– Thailand news compiled by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community 800 dogs rescued from smugglers in Nakhon Phanom Phuket Gazette / The NationPHUKET: A Mekong patrol unit headed by Captain Thirakiart Thong-aram found the dogs detained in more than 40 cases on a six-wheel truck on the riverbank in Don Paeng village in Tambon Ban Paeng, Ban Paeng district.

  • Pheu Thai’s Prompong inspects B4bn ’stolen‘ Phuket land

    Pheu Thai’s Prompong inspects B4bn ’stolen‘ Phuket land

    PHUKET: Pheu Thai Party spokesman and party list MP Prompong Nopparit arrived in Phuket yesterday to inspect 65 rai of land near Patong that is under investigation for having been illegally issued land titles. The land, located behind Freedom Beach on the southern headland south of Patong, was brought to the attention of the National Counter Corruption Commission after it was discovered there was an attempt to sell the 65 rai for about 4 billion baht – an amount equivalent to about US$125.78 million.

  • Phuket Prison ‚kingpin‘ suspected in huge meth bust

    Phuket Prison ‚kingpin‘ suspected in huge meth bust

    PHUKET: Police have arrested three members of a major methamphetamine trafficking ring operating throughout Phuket that is allegedly masterminded by a ‚kingpin‘ resident behind the walls of Phuket Provincial Prison, officials said today. Seized as evidence in the case was the biggest drug haul in Phuket in recent memory: 20,200 ya bah (methamphetamine) pills and 718 grams of ya ice (crystal meth). The scale of the operation was such that a press conference held this morning at Phuket Provincial Hall, was presided over by Phuket Governor Tri Augkaradacha.

  • Phuket Media Watch: Balloon crash kills 11; New planes for HK Airlines; Saudi executions soar; US unemployment falls

    Phuket Media Watch: Balloon crash kills 11; New planes for HK Airlines; Saudi executions soar; US unemployment falls

    PHUKET MEDIA WATCH– World news compiled by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community Hot air balloon crashes in New Zealand, killing 11 Phuket Gazette / News Wires PHUKET: Eleven people were killed yesterday morning when a hot air balloon crashed near a town on New Zealand’s north island, police said. There were no survivors.

  • ‚Wrong place, wrong time‘: Phuket axe victim’s parents say

    ‚Wrong place, wrong time‘: Phuket axe victim’s parents say

    PHUKET: The parents of stabbing victim Vorasit “Pla-wan” Issara held a press conference yesterday to explain that their son was simply “in the wrong place at the wrong time” and lucky to survive multiple wounds inflicted by staff in a vicious attack at the Rachada Pub early Wednesday morning.

  • New Phuket City Police chief to tackle drugs, traffic woes

    New Phuket City Police chief to tackle drugs, traffic woes

    PHUKET: Phuket City Police Superintendent Chonasit Wattanavrangku today met Phuket Governor Tri Augkaradacha to formally introduce himself and to deliver a New Year’s gift basket. At the 11:30am meeting at Provincial Hall, Maj Gen Chonasit said his priority since he started work as the Phuket City police chief on December 29 has been to ensure the safety of the public during the New Year’s festivities at Saphan Hin, Patong Beach and Karon Beach. “The safety precautions taken during the holiday period were successful,” he said.

  • Phuket Business: Ingredients of good showbiz

    Phuket Business: Ingredients of good showbiz

    PHUKET: Siam Niramit Phuket recently launched the second edition of “Thailand’s Must-See Show”, opening a massive new theater on the bypass road near Phuket Town to house it.

  • FC Phuket to play at Surakul on Saturday, but no cheering allowed

    FC Phuket to play at Surakul on Saturday, but no cheering allowed

    PHUKET: An appeal by FC Phuket to be allowed to play their last home match of the season at Surakul Stadium has been approved by the Football Association of Thailand (FAT), but only under the bizarre proviso that home-side fans not be allowed to cheer their team in any way. “Fans will only be allowed to sit still.

  • Phuket records second day without death on the roads

    Phuket records second day without death on the roads

    PHUKET: Today marks the last day of the “Seven Days of Danger” holiday road-safety campaign. No fatalities were recorded in Phuket yesterday, Day 6 of the campaign, with the number of fatalities standing at six. According to official figures from the Department of Disaster Prevention and Mitigation Phuket Office (DDPM-Phuket) this morning, Day 6 ended with nine serious injuries in eight reported accidents, but no deaths.