Artikel tagged “Phuket”

  • HM the King will preside over opening of Parliament on May 24

    HM the King will preside over opening of Parliament on May 24

    Some political water is yet to pass under the bridge with no clear coalition coming together at this stage to form Thailand’s next parliament. Meanwhile it’s been announced that HM the King will preside over the opening of the new parliament on May 24, exactly two months after the general election. A Royal Decree was issued for parliament to convene starting on May 22 after a Royal Command endorsed 250 new senators. The Election Commission has already announced results from the election – 150 party-list MPs and 249 constituency MPs.

  • Krabi police officer shoots and kills himself inside police station

    Krabi police officer shoots and kills himself inside police station

    A Nuea Klong Police officer in Krabi has shot himself inside the police station. Nuea Klong Police became aware of the incident at 7pm last night. Emergency responders arrived to find the body of 50 year old Sen Sgt Maj Udomsak Yujaroen inside the communications room at the Nuea Klong Police Station

  • Booking in advance, standardised tours, limited numbers – Maya Bay’s tourism future

    Booking in advance, standardised tours, limited numbers – Maya Bay’s tourism future

    “Both Thon and DNP executives emphasised that mass tourism would not be allowed again at Maya Bay.” by Pratch Rujivcanarom Maya Bay’s visitors will have to book in advance for limited day tours once the popular tourist magnet reopens to the public. After an official inspection of the rehabilitation efforts at Maya Bay on Koh Phi Phi Ley, local marine biologist Thon Thamrongnawasawat posted in his Facebook that the mission to restore the ecosystems of Maya Bay was going to plan and the two-year environmental restoration of Maya Bay had entered the third and final phase. “We have now nearly reached the goal to revive Maya Bay’s pristine nature

  • Thai troops kill four drug couriers and seize large haul of ketamine

    Thai troops kill four drug couriers and seize large haul of ketamine

    Thai troops have shot and killed four alleged drug couriers and seized more than 300 kilograms of ketamine. The incident happened last night in a corn plantation near a bordering river in the Mae Sai district of Chiang Rai. Acting on a tip-off that the drugs were to be smuggled from Myanmar for delivery to a Thai customer in Ban Pa Daeng in Tambon Koh Chang, Mae Sai district, troops from the Pa Muang Task Force were sent to the area.

  • Deja vu: Dirty, smelly, blackwater flows into the Andaman Sea, again

    Deja vu: Dirty, smelly, blackwater flows into the Andaman Sea, again

    PHOTOS: Newshawk Phuket Phuket’s Governor has given an urgent order to solve the problem of wastewater flowing into Bang Tao Beach yesterday after the issue went viral in social media. If you suddenly having a sense of deja vu and are SURE you’ve read this before, that’s because the issue has been brought up hundreds of time in the past decades with nothing being done to address the shameful situation. Here’s what usually happens… Social media posting or local complaint made about the black water flowing into Phuket’s west coast beaches along any of many canals flowing into the Andaman Sea Governor says he wants ‘immediate attention’ to the matter

  • The Thaiger roars into an online-only future

    The Thaiger roars into an online-only future

    The Thaiger is the bearer of sad news today as we announce the closure of our provincial Phuket FM radio station.

  • Ping-pong bombs used in Samut Prakan gang brawl

    Ping-pong bombs used in Samut Prakan gang brawl

    Samut Prakan police have had to intervene in a confrontation between rival gangs and ended up sending five injured youth to hospital, only for the whole matter to flare up again in the hospital parking area.

  • Motorbike driver dies after colliding with truck in Thalang

    Motorbike driver dies after colliding with truck in Thalang

    PHOTOS: Kusoldharm Rescue Foundation A female motorbike driver died after colliding with a truck in Thalang yesterday. Kusoldharm rescue workers were notified of the accident on Thepkrasattri Road, southbound, in Baan Liphon in Thalang at 6am in the morning.

  • Eight month old baby in ‘walker’ crushed by truck in Samut Prakan

    Eight month old baby in ‘walker’ crushed by truck in Samut Prakan

    PHOTOS: FM91BKK An eight month old baby, who was in a ‘baby walker’, has died after being crushed by a truck in front of the parent’s house in Samut Prakan, just south of Bangkok yesterday. Thairath reports that Phra Samut Jaedee Police were notified of the horrible incident in Soi Suksawat in Phra Samut Jaedee District in Sumut Prakan at 2.30pm yesterday. Police and rescue workers arrived to find the damaged baby walker laying on the road

  • Maya Bay’s new two year closure could be further extended

    Maya Bay’s new two year closure could be further extended

    Maya Bay, closed to the public since last June to allow its beach and coral to recover, will remain shut to visitors for at least another two years as its ecology needs more time to heal.