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Phuket Cinema: Funny ghost love story breaks Thai box office records
 
Davika Hoorne and Mario Maurer in ‘Pee Mak Phrakanong’ showing across Phuket. Their love is greater than war and death. Photo: The Nation
Davika Hoorne and Mario Maurer in ‘Pee Mak Phrakanong’ showing across Phuket. Their love is greater than war and death. Photo: The Nation
 
 
Thursday, May 23, 2013  5:54:54 PM
PHUKET: Thailand’s top grossing movie of all time, ‘Pee Mak Phrakanong’, stars five war buddies with black teeth and silly hairstyles. One still wears a toddler’s topknot of the Rattanakosin period, explaining, “I got sick...

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Phuket illegal taxi driver charged with sexual assault
Thursday, May 23, 2013  3:21:26 PM
PHUKET: The illegal taxi driver accused of holding a 19-year-old Chinese tourist captive in his vehicle for five hours has been charged with sexual assault, the Phuket City Police chief confirmed.

Paitoon Kruain, 32, who operated an illegal taxi picking up tourists at Phuket International Airport, presented himself to police for questioning last Saturday (story here).

After intensive questioning by police – the interrogation on Saturday lasted six hours – Mr Paitoon was taken into custody and is now being held at Phuket Prison.

“Mr Paitoon has been charged with deprivation of liberty and with being under the influence of drugs,” Phuket City Police chief Sermphan Sirikong told the Phuket Gazette. “He has now also been charged with sexual assault."

The sexual assault charge follows the Chinese tourist giving her statement to Phuket Provincial Court on...
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Phuket house construction worker dies in fall
Thursday, May 23, 2013  12:35:00 PM
PHUKET: A Phuket construction worker died yesterday after falling from scaffolding at a house being built in Thalang.

Thalang Police were called to the site, in Soi Lak Maung in Baan Muang Mai, at about 10:30am.

At the scene they found Manit Mongkhon, 42, from Nan Province in Northern Thailand, dead from a fatal head injury.

Coworkers Sataphon Phaojumroon, 49, and Manoo Kumsorn, 65, told police Mr Manit fell from scaffolding on the second floor.

“The three of us were working inside the house. Manit was on the second floor scaffolding welding steel while the two of us were downstairs handing steel and equipment to him,” said Mr Sataphon.

“He suddenly fell and hit his head really hard on the floor. We believe that he fell because of an electric shock.” Mr Manoo added.

Thalang Police led by...
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Phuket Gazette World News: British soldier beheaded in London attack
Thursday, May 23, 2013  11:18:58 AM
PHUKET MEDIA WATCH
– World news selected by Gazette editors for Phuket's international community

British soldier beheaded in suspected Islamist attack
Reuters / Phuket Gazette
PHUKET: A British soldier was hacked to death by two men shouting Islamic slogans in a south London street on Wednesday, in what the government said appeared to be a terrorist attack.

A dramatic clip filmed by an onlooker just...
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Phuket shop owners urge mayor to reverse parking ban
Thursday, May 23, 2013  10:55:41 AM
PHUKET: More than 30 vendors with stores located opposite Vachira Phuket Hospital in Phuket Town have appealed to the Phuket City Mayor to reverse the decision to install no parking signs in front of their shops.

The new signs, which prohibit parking in the area from 7am to 6pm, were installed on May 16 as a way to try to alleviate...
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Phuket Gazette Queer News: Villagers hope to get lucky with ‘elepig’
PHUKET: Residents of a village in Nakhon Sri Thammarat are queuing up to visit a household where a pig has just given birth to an unusual piglet.The mother of the “elepig” gave birth to a litter of 15...
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Issues & Answers - life in Phuket

   
 
Traffic police in Phuket on the take?
I have heard from various friends that the police stop foreign motorists and ask for their international driver’s license – especially on the way to the airport, when drivers are in a hurry.If dr...
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Law hound needs cultural sensitivity
Is there a law that says you cannot bring your dog to the beach in the morning? There have been some problems on some of the islands in the area.I have been told on one of the islands that because it ...
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Keeping Phuket motor vehicle safety in check
I remember when private outlets were first established to help customers expedite the process of renewing licenses for motor vehicles. These outlets saved people from having to make the drive to the L...
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Avoiding a Phuket prison sentence
My Thai fiancée was recently jailed for the intent to sell 800 milligrams of ya ice (crystal methamphetamine). I was told that if I came up with 350,000 baht, she would be let go and not have to serve...
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Wages, slave driving and work permits in Phuket
I have been informed by various sources that I must pay my four employees 9,000 baht a month each in order for me to maintain a work permit.If I give them two days off a week, this means I pay them at...
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