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Friday, October 14, 2011 4:26:04 PM
PHUKET: In the second suicide by hanging in Phuket in three days, the body of a local woman was found suspended by the neck from a tree near her home in Thalang...
Friday, October 14, 2011 1:43:03 PM
PHUKET: Another landslide on the bypass road last night caused over one million baht in damage to stock at the Adisak Trading Company warehouse in Phuket, which...
Friday, October 14, 2011 4:38:31 PM
PHUKET: A guilt-ridden warden at Phuket Provincial Prison took his life by hanging yesterday evening. Phuket Prison chief Rapin Nichanon identified the deceased...
Friday, October 14, 2011 7:05:54 AM
PHUKET: The Phuket International Blues Rock Festival this year will be held at Laguna Phuket for the first time in the event’s seven-year history. “With 1,300 hotel...
Thursday, October 13, 2011 8:22:47 PM
PHUKET: Officers from Patong Municipality’s Engineering Division today patched yet another section of the road over Patong Hill, this time on the left-hand eastbound...
Thursday, October 13, 2011 8:09:49 PM
PHUKET: The Department of Disaster Prevention and Mitigation (DDPM) office at Patong Municipality today launched a campaign to collect donations of flood relief...
Thursday, October 13, 2011 4:25:29 PM
PHUKET: A nine-year-old Phuket student was yesterday honored with a personal visit from David Lipman, the Head of the Delegation of the European Union (EU) to Thailand....
Thursday, October 13, 2011 3:50:12 PM
PHUKET: The cause of a fire in an uninhabited Phuket shop-house this morning remains unknown, with police saying it was not a short circuit. No one was injured...
Thursday, October 13, 2011 12:48:57 PM
PHUKET: Inmates at Phuket Provincial Prison were dispatched to Thalang over the past two days to clear canals of overgrowth and to improve drainage in flood-affected...
Thursday, October 13, 2011 10:51:57 AM
PHUKET NEWS HOUND – Regional News selected by Phuket Gazette editors for Phuket readers Strong earthquake strikes off Bali, Indonesia Phuket Gazette...
Wednesday, October 12, 2011 2:05:58 PM
PHUKET: Two more small landslides were reported in Phuket’s Rassada subdistrict yesterday, one causing a temporary road closure and the other damaging the wall...
Wednesday, October 12, 2011 2:02:35 PM
PHUKET: Crystal meth dealers in Phuket are attracting new users by claiming the drug has
cosmetic benefits. Doctors say that although the stimulant may...
Wednesday, October 12, 2011 8:30:15 AM
Phuket NEWS Hound – World news selected by Phuket Gazette editors for Phuket's international community Sydney Morning Herald An Iranian actress has...
Tuesday, October 11, 2011 7:16:09 PM
PHUKET: The ongoing downpours that continue to plague the island have caused 100 million baht in damage to Phuket roads, Governor Tri Augkaradacha revealed today....
Tuesday, October 11, 2011 7:05:23 PM
PHUKET: Phuket will stage a “World Musiq Festival” at Saphan Hin in Phuket Town from December 2 to 5 to honor the 84th birthday of HM King Bhumibol Adulyadej on...
Tuesday, October 11, 2011 6:58:39 PM
PHUKET: Last week in Live Wire I talked about finding a good wireless Internet service provider. At the time I didn’t have enough first-hand experience with the...
Tuesday, October 11, 2011 6:47:12 PM
PHUKET: Patong Beach Hotel Ltd – owners of the Patong Beach Hotel and Banana Disco – today announced the opening of a “new-lifestyle” shopping center in Patong,...
Tuesday, October 11, 2011 4:19:05 PM
PHUKET: Continuing rains across Phuket last night caused a mudslide that forced the evacuation of a residential estate in Rassada. There was considerable property...
Tuesday, October 11, 2011 8:09:39 PM
PHUKET: A Swedish expat who ran a Phuket guesthouse died on Saturday in a motorbike accident in Karon on Saturday. Patong Police received a report that a “tourist”...
Monday, October 10, 2011 7:21:20 PM
PHUKET: One westbound lane of the road over Patong Hill will remain closed to traffic indefinitely as authorities survey the damage of a recent landslide and draw...
Monday, October 10, 2011 4:54:12 PM
PHUKET: Police will send the body of an Australian tourist to Bangkok for forensic examination in order to rule out any foul play in his
fatal fall fro...
Monday, October 10, 2011 1:41:29 PM
PHUKET: Five rubber dinghies loaded with safety equipment left Phuket this morning for the flood-ravaged central plains, where they will assist in transporting...
Monday, October 10, 2011 10:18:51 AM
PHUKET: An Australian tourist on holiday in Phuket died over the weekend after falling off a hotel balcony in Patong. It is believed he was sleepwalking at the...
Sunday, October 9, 2011 12:21:23 PM
PHUKET: Severe flooding has wreaked havoc and caused enormous damage across Thailand. Although Phuket is not among the 28 provinces currently on the radar of the...
Sunday, October 9, 2011 11:07:38 AM
PHUKET: The Phuket Gazette fully supports the long-overdue effort by the Phuket Highways Office to remove billboards and other unsightly advertising signage...
Sunday, October 9, 2011 8:11:38 AM
PHUKET: A construction worker trying to catch fish drowned in a fast-moving klong in Phuket’s Thalang District this afternoon. Thalang Police identified the deceased...
Saturday, October 8, 2011 5:00:15 PM
PHUKET: Phuket officials are urging more residents to evacuate as torrential rain continues to fall on exposed soil at a landslide risk zone along the bypass road...
Saturday, October 8, 2011 4:50:14 PM
PHUKET: Phuket homeowners are a prime target for regional fraud gangs that leave their "marks" heartbroken and penniless, with wives of wealthy foreigners often...
Saturday, October 8, 2011 3:47:14 PM
PHUKET: Two people were injured in Phuket this afternoon when the driver of a pickup truck lost control on the bypass road, hit a tree on the median strip and collided...
Saturday, October 8, 2011 2:39:50 PM
PHUKET: Representatives of numerous government agencies started work this morning at the newly established 'Flood-Relief Operations Command' in a concerted effort...
