Artikel tagged “Phuket”

  • Phuket Opinion: Time to rein in rogue cops

    Phuket Opinion: Time to rein in rogue cops

    PHUKET: Provincial Police Commander Choti Chavalviwat should be applauded for getting personally involved in the investigation into the attack on a teenage couple who claim to have been assaulted by two sons of a Thalang Police officer on St Valentine’s Day (story

  • Drug dealer attempts to kill Phuket City Police Deputy Superintendent

    Drug dealer attempts to kill Phuket City Police Deputy Superintendent

    PHUKET: Two Phuket Police officers were injured during a sting operation of two Cherng Talay drug dealers after one of the dealers took an officer’s gun and attempted to shoot Phuket City Police Deputy Superintendent Parinya Tanthasuwan. “During the arrest, Witoon ‘Bang Ann’ Piwluang took the gun from one of my men,” said Lt Col Parinya, the case investigator “He pointed the gun at me and pulled the trigger,” Lt Col Parinya said. “But it was locked, so I pushed the gun away.

  • ‘White Police’ to change Thai police culture

    ‘White Police’ to change Thai police culture

    PHUKET: Members of the Office of Inspector General (OIG) arrived on Phuket as part of the launch of a nationwide program designed to oust crooked police officers and slowly change police culture in Thailand. Each of the 1,460 police stations across Thailand will have 10 of its officers selected this year to help gather information about the behavior of police officers and the station’s actions as a whole

  • DBD investigates Thai firms suspected of helping foreigners set up companies illegally

    DBD investigates Thai firms suspected of helping foreigners set up companies illegally

    PHUKET: A special investigation by the Department of Business Development (DBD) into foreign-owned businesses in Phuket has revealed links to Thai legal and accounting firms on the island that may be helping companies set themselves up illegally in Thailand. “We suspect that these firms may be allowing foreigners wanting to open a business to use their company address to represent the physical building of the foreigners’ business.

  • National defense volunteer nabbed with marijuana at Phuket checkpoint

    National defense volunteer nabbed with marijuana at Phuket checkpoint

    PHUKET: Thalang Police arrested a national defense volunteer with two bags of marijuana at a checkpoint in Thalang on Saturday.

  • Police nail multi-million-baht real estate scam artists in Phuket

    Police nail multi-million-baht real estate scam artists in Phuket

    PHUKET: Patong Police yesterday arrested two con artists who allegedly made more than 16 million baht by posing as real estate agents and luring potential clients into fixed gambling matches of fantan. Acting on reports from two men who said they had been scammed out of 200,000 and 900,000 baht, police arrested Wasan Choothong, 29, and Tiwalai Ruprasut,58, at the entrance of Bangla Road in Patong (map

  • German in stable condition after three-storey fall

    German in stable condition after three-storey fall

    PHUKET: The German tourist who fell from the balcony of his third-floor hotel room early Saturday morning was moved from the Vachira Phuket Hospital ICU to a different ward, but is still on life support. Police rushed to the Kalim Resort at 2:45am on Saturday morning to find German national Alexander Sven Zott, 35, unconscious on the pavement after the fall. He was immediately taken to Patong Hospital, but later transferred to the better equipped Vachira Hospital (story

  • VIDEO: This Week Today from the Phuket Gazette

    VIDEO: This Week Today from the Phuket Gazette

    PHUKET: This Week Today from the Phuket Gazette features top news, sports and events from around the Pearl of the Andaman. Anchorman Isaac Stone Simonelli, the Gazette’s managing news editor, introduces the top stories from the island, brought to you by PGTV.

  • Phuket Police officer’s sons accused of Valentine’s Day attack

    Phuket Police officer’s sons accused of Valentine’s Day attack

    PHUKET: A teenager alleged that the sons of a policeman attacked her and her boyfriend with a metal rod and a knife on Valentine’s Day, then threatened her boyfriend with a gun while the policeman restrained him.

  • No shortage of water in Phuket this dry season, officials say

    No shortage of water in Phuket this dry season, officials say

    PHUKET: Phuket has enough water on hand to supply the whole province this dry season, said Pisak Chonlayut, Manager of the Phuket Provincial Waterworks Authority on February 13. At a meeting to discuss Phuket water supplies chaired by Phuket Governor Maitri Inthusut, Mr Pisak said that 48.5 millions cubic meters of water are currently in reservoirs in Phuket province, with 7.