Artikel tagged “Phuket”

  • Phuket Opinion: Examine Phuket’s crackdown culture

    Phuket Opinion: Examine Phuket’s crackdown culture

    PHUKET: The majority of readers who took part in the Phuket Gazette’s recent

  • Phuket blockade wins tuk-tuk drivers reprieve from Russian operators

    Phuket blockade wins tuk-tuk drivers reprieve from Russian operators

    PHUKET: Tuk-tuk and taxi drivers who established a road blockade in Karon last night will take further action if a meeting at 2pm today does not resolve a dispute over Russian tour operators undercutting local prices, the Phuket Gazette was told. Karon Kamnan Winai Chidchiew broke the news after about 100 tuk-tuk and taxi drivers blockaded the Karon beachfront road at about 10pm last night. To drive their point home, the drivers staged the blockade right in front of the newly established Karon Police Station.

  • Phuket Police bust man with ‘Million-baht meth foot’

    Phuket Police bust man with ‘Million-baht meth foot’

    PHUKET: Phuket Police have busted a man with methamphetamine crystals and pills, worth an estimated street value of one million baht, taped to his foot while they were making routine stops at a road checkpoint.

  • Krabi tourists roused by new year fire

    Krabi tourists roused by new year fire

    PHUKET: Tourists on holiday in Ao Nang, Krabi, across the bay from Phuket, were roused from their new year slumber early yesterday morning as hotel staff ordered an emergency evacuation and firefighters attempted to douse a blaze in a room full of gas cylinders.

  • Phuket 2012: Safety shaken, not stirred

    Phuket 2012: Safety shaken, not stirred

    PHUKET: The need for a quicker exit from Phuket’s nightlife capital of Patong was highlighted by the chaos on the road in the early hours of April 11, after a 7.3-magnitude, submarine earthquake, that struck off Sumatra, caused the National Disaster Warning Center to issue a

  • Phuket 2012: Feeling the pinch from growing pains

    Phuket 2012: Feeling the pinch from growing pains

    The government continues to pour money into Phuket’s infrastructure, as nothing seems to hamper the rapid growth of the island as a tourist destination. Billions of baht have been spent, but when will the results be felt? Stephen Fein reports.

  • Breaking News: Tiger Disco charged over inferno deaths

    Breaking News: Tiger Disco charged over inferno deaths

    PHUKET: The operators of Tiger Discotheque have been charged with negligence causing death and physical and mental injury to others, as well as with trading after hours, Patong Police Superintendent Chiraphat Pochanaphan has confirmed to the Phuket Gazette. The blaze that broke out at the nightclub, just before 4am on August 17, while hundreds of patrons were still inside the venue,

  • Travel Malaysia Consumer Fair starts tomorrow

    Travel Malaysia Consumer Fair starts tomorrow

    PHUKET: Starting tomorrow the Tourism Malaysia Phuket Office for Southern Thailand, will once again be staging the Travel Malaysia Consumer Fair at

  • Patong police defer action in Tiger Disco investigation

    Patong police defer action in Tiger Disco investigation

    PHUKET: Police yesterday declined to commit to pressing any charges against the operators of the Tiger Discotheque over the fire that destroyed the venue and

  • Search launched for 17-year-old feared drowned in Phuket

    Search launched for 17-year-old feared drowned in Phuket

    PHUKET: The search continues for a 17-year-old student who disappeared in strong waves at Nai Yang Beach late yesterday afternoon.