PHUKET: Polluted water with a stench so overpowering it is making people physically ill has become the bane of residents along the banks of the Bang Yai Canal in Phuket Town.
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PHUKET: Police are trying to determine the identity of a man whose body was discovered off Cape Panwa, on the east coast of Phuket, today. Local villagers found the body floating near the channel marker to the Deep Sea Port at about 12:30pm
PHUKET: Patong Police are looking for a gang of teenagers who were seen setting alight four motorbikes in the beach resort town early this morning. Firefighters were called to Soi Klong Bang Wad, near Wat Patong (map here), at 4:30am after local residents saw the motorbikes, parked opposite the Aood Watch and Optic store, go up in flames. “Firefighters from Patong Municipality took about 15 minutes to put out the fire,” said policeman Maj Pathapee Srichai.
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PHUKET: A Muslim teacher fired from Muslim Wittaya School for taking unapproved leave to join the Hajj has got his job back. Parinya Payadsub was fired after he went on the Hajj three times in five years, breaking a school rule that allows staff to join the Hajj once every five years
PHUKET: Officials may have just thrown a wet blanket on party plans for Phuket residents and locals alike with the announcement that the sale, purchase and consumption of alcohol will be banned on Patong’s famous Soi Bangla on April 12 as part of a slew of new precautions to make Thai New Year festivities safer. Phuket officials today established six main “water play zones” – the only places where water play will be legal – and outlawed alcohol in those zones.
PHUKET: More than 300 officers from every police station in Phuket have been rehearsing their riot control skills at the field behind Phuket City Police Station yesterday and today in preparation for a contest that will pit them against fellow police from throughout Upper Southern Thailand. “The objective is to maintain our preparedness for situations of civil unrest and to prepare for a competition at Provincial Police Region 8 headquarters in Surat Thani,” Phuket Provincial Police Commander Choti Chavalviwat said.
PHUKET: Deputy Interior Minister Chat Kuldilok yesterday announced that people engaging in running water battles from the backs of trucks and pickups during the upcoming Thai New Year Songkran festival will be subject to criminal charges. The news follows a meeting of the national Road Safety Center on Thursday to draw up road-safety measures to be enforced during Songkran, Lt Gen Chat explained. “The number of road accidents during Songkran is much more than normal, so this year we have launched new road-safety plans.
PHUKET: A murder fugitive on the run for a decade was arrested yesterday in Phang Nga, north of Phuket, after an armed drug binge ended with police shooting out his front tyres.