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  • Chinese-speaking guides protest Phuket Town travel company

    Chinese-speaking guides protest Phuket Town travel company

    PHUKET: About 100 Chinese-speaking Phuket tour guides protested in front of a travel company yesterday, alleging that the company was hiring illegal Chinese guides. Chaifu Saelee, 43, led the protesters to Tranlee Travel Co Ltd in Phuket Town, where they met with Kritchakorn Roongmongkolnam, the Managing Director of the company.

  • Phuket police consider sacking cop over killing

    Phuket police consider sacking cop over killing

    PHUKET: Phuket Police are considering discharging a police officer who shot dead a Soi Bangla bar worker on December 26.

  • Phuket Red Cross winners yet to claim more than B1mn in gold

    Phuket Red Cross winners yet to claim more than B1mn in gold

    PHUKET: One lucky person has yet to learn that he has won the top prize of 750,000 baht in gold from the lucky draw at the annual Red Cross Fair, which drew to a close on Sunday night. Even the winner of the second prize has yet to step forward to claim 375,000 baht in gold bars, Sarawut Rukkaw of the Phuket Red Cross told the Phuket Gazette yesterday. Phuket Governor Maitri Inthusut led the draw for the top prize at 10pm on Saturday at the central stage at Saphan Hin (map

  • Phuket Central Festival legal taxi rank in slow lane

    Phuket Central Festival legal taxi rank in slow lane

    PHUKET: The restructuring of the Central Festival taxi rank into a co-operative, part of a campaign to rid Phuket of violent taxi groups, missed its deadline by over a month. However, the process of becoming a legal co-operative should be completed this week.

  • Phuket Opinion: People, not tinsel or music or gifts

    Phuket Opinion: People, not tinsel or music or gifts

    PHUKET: Christmas has always been a somewhat schizophrenic event for me. Coming from a non-religious family, it was always celebrated as a time for the extended family to get together, share food and catch up on developments over the past year, and had absolutely nothing to do with celebrating the birth of Christ. Nevertheless, my mother is religious in her yearly purchase of a fresh Christmas tree and a liberal supply of presents for our family’s nephews, nieces, cousins and sundry other relatives.

  • Phuket Opinion: A reality check born of resolutions

    Phuket Opinion: A reality check born of resolutions

    Susanna Huza, 41, is CEO of Ignite Inspiration Co Ltd, a Communications Consultancy and Training Company. She has a multinational background and earned undergraduate and advanced degrees in law from the University of Hull in the UK. She is also a Master Practitioner and Trainer in Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP) and Hypnosis, and a Master Trainer of TimeLine Therapy.

  • Special Report: A nation at the crossroads

    Special Report: A nation at the crossroads

    Special Report PHUKET: As Thailand begins a new year, the country finds itself at a crossroads. What seems to be at stake is not only the future shape of democracy in this country, but whether it will even remain a democracy at all

  • Special Report: A year in review

    Special Report: A year in review

    SPECIAL REPORT PHUKET: With 2014 having drawn to a close, Phuket’s top-ranking officials and leading tourism industry figures appear to have avoided a year of stagnant growth, which was almost brought on by the ongoing anti-government protests (click here for our special report) and a slew of other issues that continue to plague the island.

  • Phuket prisoner electrified in jailbreak attempt

    Phuket prisoner electrified in jailbreak attempt

    PHUKET: An attempted jailbreak from at Phuket Prison came to a shocking halt at 12:30pm today when an inmate trying to escape was electrified by wires strung across the top of one of the perimeter walls.

  • 5 dead in Seven Days of Danger; Phuket officials declare success

    5 dead in Seven Days of Danger; Phuket officials declare success

    PHUKET: The nationwide Seven Days of Danger road-safety campaign ended at midnight last night with a final tally of five deaths on Phuket’s roads. “Although we could not maintain zero deaths in Phuket during the Seven Days of Danger campaign, we are satisfied with the record for this year,” said Department of Disaster Prevention and Mitigation-Phuket (DDPM-Phuket) Chief San Jantharawong.