Artikel tagged “Phuket”

  • Praying lizard crashes Buddhist ceremony

    Praying lizard crashes Buddhist ceremony

    PHUKET: A NINE-INCH gecko is talk of the town in a village in the Northern province of Phayao this week – not for its size, which isn’t exactly unusual, but for its piety. On February 27, one of the village families invited a monk to their home to hold a Buddhist ceremony of renewal

  • Royal Thai Consul honors Krabi efforts after Chinese tourist drowns

    Royal Thai Consul honors Krabi efforts after Chinese tourist drowns

    PHUKET: The action by authorities following the drowning of a Chinese tourist in Krabi’s Than Bok Khorani National Park has drawn praise from the Royal Thai Consulate in Chengdu City, China.

  • Wet Phuket: blame La Niña

    Wet Phuket: blame La Niña

    PHUKET: Unseasonably heavy rains along the Andaman coast are the result of the La Niña effect, a forecaster at the Southern Meteorological Center at Phuket Airport has confirmed. The forecaster, asking that his name not be used, told the Phuket Gazette that this was the second year running that La Niña had brought heavy rainfall during what are typically Phuket’s three driest months: January, February and March.

  • Phuket Convention Center project up in the air – again

    Phuket Convention Center project up in the air – again

    PHUKET: Efforts to build a world-class convention and exhibition center in Phuket remain mired in red tape, and a recent visit to the proposed project site by two Government advisers raises little hope that the work will begin any time soon – if ever. The latest twist in the decades-old saga came with a visit to the proposed project site in Mai Khao yesterday by Wuttipong Chaisaeng, adviser to Deputy Prime Minister and Interior Minister Yongyuth Wichaidit, and Dr Boon Wanasin, president of the advisory committee for deputy prime ministers

  • Pla-Wan attack: ‘Eight is enough’, say Phuket police

    Pla-Wan attack: ‘Eight is enough’, say Phuket police

    PHUKET: Phuket City Police are not pursuing their investigation into whether any more suspects are to be arrested in connection with the attack on Vorasit “Pla-wan” Issara. Mr Vorasit is the general manager of the Sri Panwa resort. He was brutally

  • Four dead, five injured as pickup truck slams into Phuket tourist van

    Four dead, five injured as pickup truck slams into Phuket tourist van

    PHUKET: Four tourists are dead and five injured after a pickup truck loaded with fish and a van filled with tourists heading for Phuket collided in Tai Muang, Phang Nga, yesterday evening. Tai Muang Police received a report of the accident, on the Mae Yey Bridge on Petchkasem Road between Tai Muang and Takuapa Moo 1 in Thung Maphrao, Tai Muang District, at 5:30pm At the scene, officers found a white van registered in Trang province with the right side of the van heavily damaged from the driver’s door to the end of the van. Emergency rescue first-responders from the Pu In Foundation as well as rescue workers from Khao Lak and Takuapa rushed to free the tourists trapped inside.

  • Phuket Opinion: There’s an Elephant in the Room

    Phuket Opinion: There’s an Elephant in the Room

    PHUKET: The United Nations estimates that the human population of the Earth quietly surpassed the seven billion mark last October. As a result, humankind is putting ever more pressure on the environment that sustains us

  • Phuket Business Directory 2012 is on sale now

    Phuket Business Directory 2012 is on sale now

    PHUKET: The Gazette Guide for 2012 is now available at vendors throughout Phuket and the Andaman region, and, being eight times the size of other business directories on or off line, is the most comprehensive index to help find the service you need. With contact details of thousands of businesses classified into 142 different categories, the 362-page book is priced at just 50 baht. A list of the Phuket Gazette’s retailers in Phuket, Phang-nga, Khao Lak, Krabi and Koh Samui is available

  • Phuket murder suspect Stein Dokset already on trial for fraud

    Phuket murder suspect Stein Dokset already on trial for fraud

    PHUKET: Norwegian expat Stein Havard Dokset, who this afternoon was charged with the murder of his ex-girlfriend Rungnapa Suktong, is already on trial for defrauding a Swedish man of more than 800,000 baht, the Phuket Gazette has learned.

  • Norwegian man confesses to "accidentally killing" Phuket girlfriend

    Norwegian man confesses to "accidentally killing" Phuket girlfriend

    PHUKET: The Norwegian man arrested last night after the gruesome remains of a human body were found in his Phuket home has confessed to “accidentally killing” Rungnapa Suktong, his girlfriend of nine years. Stein Havard Dokset, a 50-year-old retired car dealer from Oslo, Norway confessed to officers at Chalong Police Station today