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  • After Phuket, ambassadors target tourist safety in Krabi

    After Phuket, ambassadors target tourist safety in Krabi

    PHUKET: The British, Canadian and Dutch Ambassadors to Thailand met with the top cop in Krabi yesterday to discuss tourism-safety measures and to follow up on several prominent police cases. The visit comes just two days after the three ambassadors spoke with Phuket Governor Maitri Inthusut to highlight their

  • Unidentified body found in Phuket canal

    Unidentified body found in Phuket canal

    PHUKET: The body of an unidentified Asian man with head wounds and heavy bruising was found floating in a canal near Layan Beach (map

  • Live Wire – Help! my email is not sending

    Live Wire – Help! my email is not sending

    PHUKET: Reader ‘PS’ wrote in with an interesting question that frequently dogs local residents and visitors alike: „Hi Woody, I thought you might be interested in this, but knowing you, you already know about it! The problem I have been having is sending e-mails through True, because sometimes they will not go for a couple of days and other times they are fine.

  • Migrant worker deportations still on hold: Phuket Employment chief

    Migrant worker deportations still on hold: Phuket Employment chief

    PHUKET: Migrant workers in Phuket still waiting to complete the nationality verification process, in order to become legally registered laborers, have at least a one-week reprieve from any deportation crackdown, the Phuket Provincial Employment Office (PPEO) chief Yawapa Pibulpol confirmed this morning. The news follows the Cabinet, headed by Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra, not discussing the issue of whether or not to officially extend the deadline for migrant workers to complete the nationality verification process at the regular Cabinet meeting in Bangkok yesterday

  • Iranian tourist attacks Phuket parking attendant

    Iranian tourist attacks Phuket parking attendant

    PHUKET: Iranian tourist Khalili Sina today attacked a Phuket parking service operator who was trying to shift the tourist’s rented jeep. Khalili Sina allegedly smashed a broken beer bottle over the head of Muhammad Manoch, 21, and slashed his cheek. The incident happened on Rat-U-Thit 200 Pi Road in Patong at about 12:45am, Lt Col Jongserm Preecha of the Patong Police said.

  • 8 injured as Phuket pickup flips, rolls into field

    8 injured as Phuket pickup flips, rolls into field

    PHUKET: Two youngsters, a 12-year-old boy and an 18-year-old woman, are in hospital with serious head injuries after the pickup truck they were travelling in flipped and rolled down an embankment while returning to Phuket from Krabi last night. Natchanon Kaewrua, 12, and Jinta Petchkrua, 18, were thrown out of the back of the pickup when driver Somchai Kaewrua, 48, lost control of the vehicle at a sharp curve at Baan Suan Maphrao, Lt Col Watcharin Jiratthikanwiwat of the Tah Chat Chai Police explained. “They were travelling back to their home in Rawai after visiting relatives in Krabi when the accident happened.

  • Russian tour counters closed in Phuket, pending probe

    Russian tour counters closed in Phuket, pending probe

    PHUKET: All Russian tour counters in the Kata-Karon beach areas have been ordered to close until further notice and the local Labor Office has been requested to investigate them for possible breach for foreign worker regulations. The news came at a meeting at Kata-Karon Municipality yesterday, held to resolve the ongoing dispute between local tuk-tuk and taxi drivers and Russian companies operating tour counters in the area. The dispute reached flashpoint on Thursday night when the drivers

  • Phuket tourism leaders lambast Sydictive new year party for noise, trash

    Phuket tourism leaders lambast Sydictive new year party for noise, trash

    PHUKET: Leading Phuket tourism and hotel figures yesterday personally brought forward a barrage of complaints to the Phuket Governor about the

  • Migrant workers can stay ‘for now’: Phuket Employment Chief

    Migrant workers can stay ‘for now’: Phuket Employment Chief

    PHUKET: Migrant workers in Phuket will not be deported while waiting to complete the nationality verification process, the Phuket Provincial Employment Office (PPEO) has confirmed. “Whether or not illegal workers will be deported will be announced after the Cabinet meeting on January 8,” PPEO chief Yawapa Pibulpol told the Phuket Gazette today. “It all depends on the Cabinet.

  • Marine police hook Phuket fish smuggler

    Marine police hook Phuket fish smuggler

    PHUKET: A local resident in Rawai, at the southern end of Phuket, was arrested yesterday trying to smuggle more than 200 protected-species fish to Bangkok. Marine Police and Department of Marine and Coastal Resources (DMCR) Region 5 office in Phuket arrested Boonsuan Raknawa, 41, after officers received information about protected fish being smuggled to Bangkok via a public bus. “The suspect was caught with 232 fish, including sleepy goby, combtooth blenny and cleaning wrasse,” Marine Police Region 8 Superintendent Montri Pancharoen said.