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Wednesday, August 31, 2011 5:19:52 PM
PHUKET: A clear majority of Phuket Gazette online pollsters believe former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra will return to Thailand by the end of 2012. In...
Tuesday, August 30, 2011 8:07:45 PM
PHUKET: Phuket Prison will install 12 CCTV cameras around its perimeter wall and throughout the compound as part of a 'crackdown' targeting mobile phone and drug...
Tuesday, August 30, 2011 2:45:21 PM
PHUKET: The reinforced, raised, redecorated
Sarasin Bridge connecting Phuket with the mainland Thailand is now open to pedestrians. “People are walkin...
Tuesday, August 30, 2011 9:42:23 AM
PHUKET: Floodwaters that crippled operations at
Patong Hospital on Saturday were the worst the facility has experienced in ten years, the hospital dire...
Monday, August 29, 2011 6:22:46 PM
PHUKET: The amount you pay for an Internet line has almost no correlation with how fast the line runs internationally. Before you spend a fortune on a new Internet...
Monday, August 29, 2011 6:16:21 PM
PUKET: Karon Municipality is compiling a list of fares charged by tuk-tuk drivers operating in the
Kata-
Karon area in order to establish an agr...
Monday, August 29, 2011 6:09:29 PM
PHUKET: In order to minimize deforestation, the government in 1996 put a ban on the construction of all permanent structures above 80 meters in Phuket. How effective...
Monday, August 29, 2011 6:05:52 PM
PHUKET: The Tourism Authority of Thailand (TAT) has warned businesses and operators that it would consider legal action against those counterfeiting or imitating...
Monday, August 29, 2011 5:57:25 PM
PHUKET: A landslide at a Phuket construction site for a shrine to the goddess Guanyin sent large boulders tumbling down a steep hillside yet again yesterday. No...
Monday, August 29, 2011 4:32:03 PM
PHUKET: A man was killed last night when his motorbike slammed into the back of a 10-wheel truck parked in the breakdown lane of Phuket’s deadliest road. The tragedy...
Sunday, August 28, 2011 11:21:42 AM
PHUKET: A sick and destitute Burmese worker was the second man to take his life by hanging in Phuket’s Srisoonthorn sub-district yesterday. Just hours after Thalang...
Sunday, August 28, 2011 9:10:52 AM
PHUKET: A Nepalese tailor drowned when his car plunged into a canal in Phuket’s Thalang district last night. Thalang Police were notified of an accident near the...
Tuesday, August 30, 2011 8:50:32 AM
PHUKET: A German man is in intensive care fighting for his life after he was beaten by a mob of Phuket tuk-tuk drivers for refusing to pay a fare of 200 baht (approx...
Sunday, August 28, 2011 12:27:36 PM
PHUKET: Phuket has experienced unprecedented growth across at levels of the retail sector over the past two decades, but without any real improvement in customer...
Saturday, August 27, 2011 6:00:19 PM
PHUKET: Emergency response crews across Phuket continued their clean-up operations as the flood waters subsided and breaks in the rain came late this afternoon....
Saturday, August 27, 2011 4:40:09 PM
PHUKET: The four tuk-tuk drivers wanted for setting up a blockade on Patong’s beach road on August 1 have surrendered to police, Patong Police duty officer Lt Col...
Saturday, August 27, 2011 1:05:29 PM
PHUKET: Heavy rain on Phuket this week has provided a handy boost to the inaugural Andaman Hotelier hospitality expo, which attracted nearly 3,000 visitors on the...
Saturday, August 27, 2011 12:46:32 PM
PHUKET: A man in debt to loan sharks and unable to find work was found hanged in his rented room in Phuket’s Thalang district this morning. Friends believe he...
Saturday, August 27, 2011 8:44:09 AM
PHUKET: Immigration officers at Phuket International Airport will not necessarily be stringent in enforcing the new requirements for 60-day tourist visas to Thailand,...
Saturday, August 27, 2011 7:43:37 AM
PHUKET: Flooding of the basement at Patong Hospital forced doctors there to evacuate about 40 patients as a precaution, transferring them to facilities elsewhere...
Friday, August 26, 2011 4:39:37 PM
PHUKET: Market vendors whose shops were destroyed by
fire on Wednesday are seeking government assistance in restarting their businesses. Tossapol Rung...
Saturday, August 27, 2011 6:16:45 AM
PHUKET: The Phuket Provincial Administration Organization will spend 17 million baht on installing speed and traffic cameras to catch people running red lights...
Thursday, August 25, 2011 8:41:35 PM
PHUKET: A young British tourist died in Patong early this morning after he accidentally placed his hand on an outdoor, floor-mounted power socket covered with water....
Thursday, August 25, 2011 7:08:28 PM
PHUKET: Over the past 24 hours Phuket experienced the heaviest rains since the freak storms of last March, with reports all over the island of flooding and downed...
Thursday, August 25, 2011 6:57:05 PM
PHUKET: Heavy rains in Phuket today caused a landslide that plunged a house in Kathu, in central Phuket, down a slope, over a small retaining wall, and onto an...
Thursday, August 25, 2011 6:53:37 PM
PHUKET: THE current economic climate will have no effect on the Phuket Vegetarian Festival this year, says the director of the southern regional office of the Tourism...
Thursday, August 25, 2011 3:00:04 PM
PHUKET: FC Phuket’s hopes of advancing to the final four of the 2011 Toyota League Cup were squashed Wednesday night by Division 2 upstarts Phattalung FC, who played...
Wednesday, August 24, 2011 1:54:59 PM
PHUKET: A young woman employed by the Phuket Land Office died when her motorbike was struck from behind by a pickup on Thepkrasattri road in Thalang this morning....
Wednesday, August 24, 2011 1:52:22 PM
PHUKET: The mother of the baby reported
found abandoned on Sunday night has presented herself at Patong Hospital and is now reunited with her one-month...
Wednesday, August 24, 2011 10:20:49 AM
PHUKET: A large fire ripped through an undercover clothes market of more than 200 stalls in the heart of Patong, on Phuket’s west coast, early this morning. The...
