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Monday, September 12, 2011 8:28:45 PM
PHUKET: Police are hunting for a man who tried robbing a bank in Phuket Town late this afternoon reportedly with grenades strapped to his chest, but was foiled...
Tuesday, September 13, 2011 8:06:01 PM
PHUKET: Advertising signs and billboards on public land lining Phuket’s main roads are being removed, the Phuket Highways Office confirmed yesterday. Sathaporn...
Tuesday, September 13, 2011 6:18:04 PM
PHUKET: Phuket’s renowned animal welfare charity Soi Dog Foundation has opened the island’s first facility dedicated to providing medical treatment to cats. The...
Tuesday, September 13, 2011 4:59:33 PM
PHUKET: Forensic Police continue to investigate the cause of the
fire that ripped through the Koh Kaew Market in Patong last month, raising the distinc...
Monday, September 12, 2011 8:49:00 PM
PHUKET: South Korean Ambassador to Thailand Chung Hae-moon today paid a visit to Phuket Governor Tri Augkaradacha at Provincial Hall to say farewell before his...
Monday, September 12, 2011 9:36:55 PM
PHUKET: In response to media reports on the release of a man who confessed to multiple counts of kidnapping, imprisonment, and repeated rape and robbery of Nepali...
Monday, September 12, 2011 6:07:50 PM
PHUKET: Government spokesman Prompong Nopparit was in Phuket over the weekend to assure that the Pheu Thai Party has no plan to cut central government funding for...
Monday, September 12, 2011 5:46:35 PM
PHUKET: The Phuket Public Health Office (PPHO) and island pharmacists have joined forces to provide every Phuket school with a free medicine cabinet and first-aid...
Monday, September 12, 2011 11:45:35 AM
PHUKET: The Thai Meteorological Department (TMD) has issued another weather advisory for Phuket, the second in as many days. Issued at 6am today by the Southern...
Monday, September 12, 2011 8:09:02 AM
PHUKET: Heavy seas off Phuket over the weekend swamped a German man’s sailboat and prompted a dramatic rescue of his three Thai passengers off Mai Thon Island yesterday....
Sunday, September 11, 2011 4:02:24 PM
PHUKET: The Phuket Provincial Office is pushing ahead with the construction of a 5.4-million-baht culture center for Urak Lawoi sea gypsies, with the facility set...
Sunday, September 11, 2011 7:40:03 PM
PHUKET: Despite a great deal of press coverage and international diplomatic pressure, altercations between foreign tourists and tuk-tuk drivers are increasing,...
Sunday, September 11, 2011 1:30:14 PM
PHUKET: A man is in hospital recovering today after being plucked from the fast-flowing waters under Phuket’s
Thepkrasattri Bridge. Sen Sgt Maj Sayan...
Sunday, September 11, 2011 10:06:03 AM
PHUKET: A goal by Sarach Yooyen just three minutes into play was all FC Phuket needed to secure a 1-0 victory over Thai League Division 1 rivals Bangkok United...
Saturday, September 10, 2011 2:25:09 PM
PHUKET: Children of all ages are flocking to the Kathu Kids’ Street Fair, which is on through Sunday in Phuket’s Kathu subdistrict. The three days of fun activities...
Saturday, September 10, 2011 2:11:11 PM
PHUKET: FC Phuket will be back in action on the friendly turf of Surakul Stadium tonight, when they will be gunning to snatch all three points from division 1 rivals...
Saturday, September 10, 2011 11:39:25 AM
PHUKET: GSM mobile phone operator Advance Info Service (AIS) has set up a temporary sales booth giving away free SIM cards at the entrance to the visiting area...
Saturday, September 10, 2011 10:21:29 AM
PHUKET: Police have confiscated the gun of a Phuket housing estate manager who is accused of using it to intimidate a construction team into stopping their noisy...
Friday, September 9, 2011 7:06:04 PM
PHUKET: Highlighting the role of wardens as her embassy’s “eyes and ears” in Thailand, United States Ambassador Kristie Kenney today affirmed that tourist safety...
Friday, September 9, 2011 6:43:37 PM
PHUKET: Two Burmese workers on their way home from a Phuket karaoke bar were critically injured after they were attacked by knife-wielding youths yesterday. Thalang...
Friday, September 9, 2011 6:35:48 PM
PHUKET: Kamala Police have been issued a court summons to bring in two drivers for questioning over the
savage beating of a Phuket tour company driver...
Friday, September 9, 2011 6:30:43 PM
PHUKET: During a day-trip inspection tour to Koh Maphrao off Phuket’s east coast on Tuesday, Phuket Vice Governor Somkiet Sangkhaosutthirak reprimanded The Village...
Thursday, September 8, 2011 6:21:19 PM
PHUKET: Police today were called in to resolve yet another taxi dispute, this time reports of drivers using their vehicles to block the entrance to the renowned...
Thursday, September 8, 2011 5:11:58 PM
PHUKET: Patong Hospital faces a chronic flooding problem so bad that its administrators plan to construct an emergency dike and pedestrian footbridge to keep out...
Thursday, September 8, 2011 5:07:07 PM
PHUKET: Friends of Michael Sand Andersen, a long-term Phuket expat who died in a motorcycle accident on August 26, will hold a remembrance gathering for him on...
Thursday, September 8, 2011 11:12:07 AM
PHUKET: Thailand’s top traffic cop was in Phuket yesterday to brief top-ranking officers on the need to crack down on vehicle theft and the smuggling of luxury...
Wednesday, September 7, 2011 3:07:41 PM
PHUKET: LAST week, with Khun Roger’s help, I published an updated ‘bang for the baht’ chart that shows you what kinds of international download speeds various Internet...
Wednesday, September 7, 2011 2:14:47 PM
PHUKET: Fugitive British fraud suspect Paul Ridden has been charged with a three-month immigration overstay and faces additional charges for working without a work...
Wednesday, September 7, 2011 9:54:08 AM
PHUKET: A British expat arrested in Phuket today was on a list of fugitives wanted by an international division of the UK’s Serious Organized Crime Agency (SOCA),...
Wednesday, September 7, 2011 10:01:00 AM
PHUKET: More than 100 racing cars representing 40 teams will be zooming around
Saphan Hin in Phuket Town on September 17-18 as the Phuket Honda Racing...
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