Artikel tagged “Phuket”

  • Canadian motorbike driver killed in Phuket road accident

    Canadian motorbike driver killed in Phuket road accident

    A female Canadian motorbike driver has died after her head was crushed under a truck’s wheels after trying to overtake a truck in Kata today. Karon Police were notified of the incident on Kata Hill at 11am

  • Wanted Russians walk into Pattaya immigration office

    Wanted Russians walk into Pattaya immigration office

    Two Russians wanted on an arrest warrant originating in Phuket have been found and arrested hiding in Pattaya. Immigration police had no trouble in locating 48 year old Artur Stotskii and 34 year old Iaroslav Scherobatyk

  • Italian couple killed as truck rolls on top of them in Chumphon – VIDEO

    Italian couple killed as truck rolls on top of them in Chumphon – VIDEO

    PHOTO: Screenshot from Thai Rath’s video Two Italian tourists have been killed after an oil truck’s brakes allegedly failed coming down a hill. The truck overturned and rolled onto the pair in Chumphon. Workpoint News reports that the incident happened at an intersection in Paknam, Chumphon yesterday afternoon

  • American man and Thai woman arrested in Chiang Mai cannabis factory raids

    American man and Thai woman arrested in Chiang Mai cannabis factory raids

    PHOTOS: The Nation Narcotics police in Chiang Mai have arrested a 44 year old American man and a 37 year old Thai woman in separate raids on two houses in Mae Rim district. Police alleged the houses were used as cannabis production facilities. Police allegedly found cannabis in multiple forms – dried, liquid, tablets as well as plants

  • Beware: Dangerous jellyfish. Just don’t tell the Chinese.

    Beware: Dangerous jellyfish. Just don’t tell the Chinese.

    Dozens of signs have been erected, in multiple languages on Cha-Am beach in Petchaburi, warning swimmers about potentially dangerous jellyfish and ‘stingers’. Manager Online reports that, despite Chinese being frequent visitors to the area, someone forgot to include the warnings in Chinese language.

  • Phuket Police investigating attack on Chinese passengers by taxi driver

    Phuket Police investigating attack on Chinese passengers by taxi driver

    Phuket Police are investigating an incident where Chinese passengers were allegedly attacked by a taxi driver in Patong this morning. Cherng Talay Police report that they were notified from some Chinese tourists that they had been attacked by a taxi driver after they were unable to negotiate a taxi fee from Patong to Cherng Talay.

  • Pregnant wild turtle rescued from Lampang forest fire

    Pregnant wild turtle rescued from Lampang forest fire

    PHOTO: Lampang PR Office Fire fighters have rescued a pregnant wild turtle which was trying to escape from a forest fire at Doi Prabat in Lampang yesterday. The Thai News Agency reports that fire fighters from the Royal Forest Department, who were fighting at the firefront on Doi Prabat in Lampang found the pregnant wild turtle which was doing its best to escape from the blaze. The turtle was rescued to a safe area where it can now lay its eggs.

  • Counterfeit items valued over 1 million baht destroyed

    Counterfeit items valued over 1 million baht destroyed

    8,904 counterfeit items, with a potential street value over one million baht, including prohibited imported goods, have been torched at the incinerator in Phuket Town today. The destruction of the fake goods was held this afternoon and led by Phuket Customs Office Chief Kanjana Suwachino

  • Locals and business operators protest luxury condo in Kata Noi

    Locals and business operators protest luxury condo in Kata Noi

    Business operators and locals in Kata Noi have marched to protest a luxury condo construction. Kata Noi locals were led by executive president of the Kata Thani Collection hotels group, Sombat Adiset.

  • Phuket City mulls water restrictions, again

    Phuket City mulls water restrictions, again

    PHOTO: Bang Wad Dam, Kathu Despite issuing orders for odd/even water restrictions, and then rescinding them the day after, the Phuket City Municipality is again urging residents to take care in the use of their tap water to stretch the available water supply through to the end of the dry season, and has issued its second warning in a week that water pressure may be introduced in order to conserve water-supply reserves. Another notice was issued this week on the same day that Thailand officially started the annual hot season.