Youngsters wait outside the Robinson Department Store in Phuket Town as power is restored to key areas across the island. Photo: Saran Mitrarat
Motorcyclists brave the dark with street lights out on Phang Nga Road in the heart of Phuket Town. Photo: Saran Mitrarat
Motorcyclists brave the dark with traffic lights out at the Pearl Intersection in the heart of Phuket Town. Photo: Saran Mitrarat
Motorists zoom through the Chartered Bank intersection in Phuket's Old Town quarter. Photo: Saran Mitrarat
The heart of Phuket Town plunged into darkness just before 7pm. Photo: Saran Mitrarat
Tuesday, May 21, 2013 11:27:00 PM
PHUKET: Electricity supply was restored to the south of the island after 9:30pm tonight following what was reported as Thailand’s biggest blackout on record.
Phuket, along with all 13 other provinces that comprise Southern Thailand, was...
PHUKET: A pair of snatch-thief convicts were snapped up by police shortly after they ripped two gold necklaces from the neck of a woman taking her child to school in Phang Nga this morning.
After her necklaces – worth about 30,000 baht – were stolen, Waroon Chaisang called the police, who notified officers at a checkpoint down the road in the direction the men were last seen heading.
“Officers at the checkpoint were ready, but the two thieves didn’t stop,” Takua Pa Police Superintendent Khemmarin Hutsiri. “Racing on with police in pursuit, they got as far as a rubber plantation, where they ditched their bike and started running.”
Police gave chase and caught up with Kiatthichai Taiwang, 28 and Thaet Chaichana, 26.
Both men are fathers of young children, Col Khemmarin said.
PHUKET: In a recent edition of the British newspaper, the Weekly Telegraph (February 12-19, 2013), Suzi Dixon examines the lot of internationally mobile parents seeking an appropriate education for their children. Essentially, she compares International Baccalaureate (IB) programs with the International General Certificate of Secondary Education (IGCSE).
Ms Dixon begins her article by noting that many schools use curricula specially designed...
PHUKET: According to leading real estate consultant, CBRE Thailand, Phuket’s residential market is experiencing a significant change in direction, which started late last year.
The change is likely to be the most significant since the Asian crisis in 1997 and is driven by a number of factors – the entry of Bangkok-based and Thai public listed developers; the move towards...
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...
PHUKET: A shambolic fake monk recently attracted the suspicions of local people in Nakhon Ratchasima Province – and the attention of the police – by trying to collect alms in the afternoon.Villagers c...
PHUKET: A 35-year-old Indian Sikh is in police custody after allegedly tricking villagers in Surin Province into believing he was a yogi with magic powers.Balvinder Singh extracted thousands of baht f...
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