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Friday, November 4, 2011 4:16:57 PM
PHUKET: This week I’d like to talk about throttling – the infernal ability for Internet Service Providers (ISPs) to look at what you’re doing online, and cut back...
Friday, November 4, 2011 4:11:53 PM
PHUKET: Two-thousand butterflies will be released into the wild on November 26 as part of the fifth annual Butterfly Release Charity event put on by Phuket Butterfly...
Friday, November 4, 2011 4:03:03 PM
PHUKET: A tractor-trailer driver overshot a U-turn on Phuket’s Thepkrasattri Road this morning, crashing into several shops, vehicles and a telephone pole, causing...
Thursday, November 3, 2011 8:29:27 PM
PHUKET: Eight teams from six countries remain undefeated at the 2011 FIVB Beach Volleyball Swatch World Tour Phuket Thailand Open powered by PTT following two rounds...
Thursday, November 3, 2011 8:27:09 PM
PHUKET: Phuket Tourist Association (PTA) Vice President Bhuritt Maswongsa has lashed out against local authorities for their failure to stop taxi drivers from dictating...
Thursday, November 3, 2011 7:03:21 PM
PHUKET: The 28th National Youth Games, originally scheduled to be held in Phuket from March 18-28, have been postponed. Phuket Governor Tri Augkaradacha announced...
Thursday, November 3, 2011 4:39:59 PM
PHUKET: Alcohol will be off the menu as residents go to the polls on November 19 to elect presidents and council members for six Phuket Tambon Administration Organizations...
Thursday, November 3, 2011 6:42:31 PM
PHUKET: American Ronald “Mad Yank” Fanelli has been sentenced to 10 years and three months imprisonment for the stabbing murder of bar hostess Wanphen Pienjai last...
Thursday, November 3, 2011 11:47:56 AM
PHUKET: Progress on the long-awaited Patong tunnel project has stalled, with Patong Municipality still waiting for senior officials in Bangkok to approve the 3.5-billion-baht...
Wednesday, November 2, 2011 9:24:51 PM
PHUKET: Eight teams from six countries advanced from today’s two-round qualification tournament to the 32-team main draw of the 2011 FIVB Beach Volleyball Swatch...
Tuesday, November 1, 2011 9:50:35 PM
PHUKET: Phuket police last night arrested six women for spiking tourists' drinks and robbing them after they fell asleep. The women all worked in bars on Patong’s...
Tuesday, November 1, 2011 9:37:22 PM
PHUKET: An Australian couple on holiday in Phuket have been arrested for filing a bogus report of being robbed in Patong with the aim of filing a fake insurance...
Tuesday, November 1, 2011 9:33:43 PM
PHUKET: Phuket Governor Tri Augkaradacha has been roped into resolving the ongoing dispute between local residents and the Phuket Highways Office over work that...
Tuesday, November 1, 2011 8:13:58 AM
PHUKET: A lack of clarity in understanding which parts of Bangkok were flooded and how travelers could transfer to flights heading to Phuket has resulted in 15...
Monday, October 31, 2011 8:55:52 PM
PHUKET: Singaporean Anthony Chaw Tat Soon, 39, is recovering at
Phuket International Hospital with three broken limbs – a lucky escape from a head-on c...
Monday, October 31, 2011 1:51:19 PM
PHUKET: Phuket's major retailers are reeling from the effects of the floods in Bangkok and Central Thailand, which have crippled their distribution networks, sparking...
Monday, October 31, 2011 12:19:57 PM
PHUKET: A Phuket woman was struck by a car and killed yesterday, moments before embarking on a merit-making tour to a temple in Ranong Province. Police received...
Monday, October 31, 2011 11:42:06 AM
PHUKET: There is growing concern about drug use among children in Phuket, who reportedly make up more than eight per cent of all participants in drug rehabilitation...
Sunday, October 30, 2011 12:45:49 PM
PHUKET: One of the most startling revelations to arise from the bus crash on Phuket's Chalong-Kata Hill was a policeman telling the Phuket Gazette that there...
Saturday, October 29, 2011 5:17:40 PM
PHUKET: A 22-year-old Phuket man has been arrested in connection with yesterday’s brazen 950,000-baht
gold heist. Dechin Gongsinon was arrested at his...
Saturday, October 29, 2011 5:15:03 PM
PHUKET: Sixty-six tourists were towed to safety in Phuket last night after spending hours stranded at sea when the speedboat they were on broke down. In addition...
Saturday, October 29, 2011 11:56:07 AM
PHUKET: A man posing as a customer made off with almost one million baht in gold yesterday after snatching a display tray from a Phuket gold shop. Police received...
Saturday, October 29, 2011 9:11:49 AM
PHUKET: Patong Deputy Mayor Chairat Sukbal today pleaded for Phuket Governor Tri Augkaradacha to order the damaged road on Patong Hill to be repaired. The road...
Friday, October 28, 2011 6:11:21 PM
PHUKET: A search has been launched for a pair of troubled lovers who were last seen on Thepkrasattri Bridge and are now missing, believed to have leaped into the...
Friday, October 28, 2011 6:02:01 PM
PHUKET: Floods in Bangkok have forced trains bound for Surat Thani, a popular jump-off point for tourists heading to Phuket, to start from the Nakhon Pathom railway...
Friday, October 28, 2011 5:23:45 PM
PHUKET: A Japanese man fleeing the flood waters in Bangkok was caught with about 24 grams of marijuana this morning as he entered Phuket by car. Police stopped...
Friday, October 28, 2011 11:44:08 AM
PHUKET: Roads and bus, train and airport terminals in Bangkok yesterday were jammed with people exiting flood-struck Bangkok, heading to safe areas including, quite...
Thursday, October 27, 2011 8:48:02 PM
PHUKET: Governor Tri Augkaradacha today inspected Phuket’s three largest grocery retailers after receiving complaints of price rises on some products following...
Thursday, October 27, 2011 7:07:43 PM
PHUKET: On behalf of the Rotary Club of Patong Bach (RCPB) the Phuket Gazette office in Koh Kaew is serving as a drop-off point for flood-relief donations....
Friday, October 28, 2011 8:50:07 AM
PHUKET: An American man was arrested last night after allegedly committing a string of snatch thefts in popular tourist beach areas on Phuket’s west coast. Jake...