Artikel tagged “Phuket”

  • FC Phuket face extinction

    FC Phuket face extinction

    PHUKET: FC Phuket Director Soranan Sanae has sent out a distress call to all wealthy football fans in Phuket to come to the rescue of the team, which is in urgent need of sponsorship, yet again. “If any football-loving foreigners or expat millionaires would like to support the team, they are more than welcome to step up,” he told the Phuket Gazette yesterday. “I have a letter in my hand right now.

  • Phuket likely to get Administrative Court

    Phuket likely to get Administrative Court

    PHUKET: The Thai Parliament yesterday approved draft legislation to establish Administrative Court regional branches in Phuket, Petchaburi and Nakhon Sawan, Matichon has reported. Attached to the bills was a remark that the Administrative Court and all related agencies should expedite processing of all funding and legal issues so that all three courts would be up and running within three years of the new legislation’s publication in the Royal Gazette

  • Phuket hit-and-run driver surrenders, victim still in hospital

    Phuket hit-and-run driver surrenders, victim still in hospital

    PHUKET: The driver of a white sedan that struck a motorbike on Thepkrasattri Road then failed to stop has handed himself in to police, while the victim in the accident remains at Vachira Phuket Hosiptal recovering from serious injury. Motorbike rider Suriya Thathamlay was rushed to hospital by emergency workers after he was thrown to the ground when a

  • Phuket Media Watch: British Airways resume flights; New Zealand plane crash

    Phuket Media Watch: British Airways resume flights; New Zealand plane crash

    PHUKET MEDIA WATCH– World news selected by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community British Airways to resume flights to Libyan capital in May Phuket Gazette / News WiresPHUKET: British Airways plans to reinstate flights to the Libyan capital of Tripoli later this year, the airline announced yesterday. Flights were suspended in February 2011 as a result of the country’s civil war. British Airways said it decided to resume flights between London Heathrow Airport and Tripoli International Airport following a ‚thorough security review‘ in conjunction with the British and Libyan governments.

  • Phuket’s ‚Coconut Island‘ gets new pier

    Phuket’s ‚Coconut Island‘ gets new pier

    PHUKET: The new 10-million-baht pier on Koh Maphrao in Phuket was officially opened with a ribbon-cutting ceremony presided over by the Phuket Provincial Administration Organization (PPAO) President Paiboon Upatising on Friday. The new concrete pier, 170 meters long and three meters wide, replaces a dilapidated wooden structure, making passage to the island safer and more convenient for residents and tourists.

  • Phuket Media Watch: 7 adrift in wooden boat rescued after 7 days; fire claims 29 homes in Reno

    Phuket Media Watch: 7 adrift in wooden boat rescued after 7 days; fire claims 29 homes in Reno

    PHUKET MEDIA WATCH– World news compiled by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community Seven Chinese rescued after a week adrift in wooden boatPhuket Gazette / News Wires PHUKET: Seven Chinese fishermen who went missing in the South China Sea last week have been rescued alive, state-run media reported on yesterday. They were said to be in good condition.

  • Phuket’s Luangpor Daeng passes away, age 79

    Phuket’s Luangpor Daeng passes away, age 79

    PHUKET: More than 1,000 people, including the Phuket Governor, attended a memorial service for Luangpor Daeng, the revered abbot of Mai Khao Temple since 1978. Originally from Nakhon Sri Thammarat, Luangpor Daeng was ordained at Wat Khunapanangtun Temple in Phattalung in 1967. He was appointed abbot at Mai Khao Temple in 1978, serving as a teaching abbot there until his passing.

  • Italian man ‘stabbed by mistake’ in Phuket

    Italian man ‘stabbed by mistake’ in Phuket

    PHUKET: The Italian man who was stabbed at Nai Harn Beach on Monday night has told the Phuket Gazette that he was probably “stabbed by mistake”. Giovanni, 33, who asked for his family name not to be published, is recovering at Bangkok Hospital Phuket, in Phuket Town, where he was released from the hospital’s intensive-care unit (ICU) yesterday.

  • Phuket Media Watch: European round-up

    Phuket Media Watch: European round-up

    PHUKET MEDIA WATCH– World news compiled by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community UN: Global economy to stumble in 2012 as unemployment and EU’s economic crisis continues Phuket Gazette / News Wires PHUKET: With Europe’s sovereign debt crisis continuing to unfold, countries around the world are expected to experience an economic slowdown during the year ahead, according to a United Nations (UN) report yesterday. The UN’s World Economic Situation and Prospects 2012 (WESP) report gives a detailed picture on seven geographical regions and forecasts that growth rates for the next two years will slow down in most of them.

  • Phuket update: US embassy maintains terror threat warning

    Phuket update: US embassy maintains terror threat warning

    PHUKET: The US Embassy in Bangkok sees American citizens in Thailand as still facing the threat of terrorism and will thus keep a controversial warning on its website, despite the Thai government’s insistence that Thailand is not a target for international terrorists, a senior embassy official said yesterday. „Nothing changes“ when it comes to the perceived threats and America’s need to keep its citizens informed, the high-ranking embassy source told The Nation. However, the source would not say how long this warning – which seems to be upsetting the Yingluck government – would remain on the embassy website.