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Friday, August 5, 2011 12:21:13 PM
PHUKET: Yingluck Shinawatra today became Thailand’s first female prime minister, by winning 296 of 299 votes in Parliament, state-news agency MCOT has reported....
Thursday, August 4, 2011 8:50:12 PM
PHUKET: Land owners digging up and selling the earth on their plots in central Phuket has sparked a row from neighbors, who say the extensive excavation work is...
Thursday, August 4, 2011 8:41:54 PM
PHUKET: Parents and local residents are calling for action against repeated poisoning of a canal along a major Phuket Town school, killing hundreds of fish. About...
Thursday, August 4, 2011 2:48:34 PM
PHUKET: Police have confirmed the identity of a Thai woman who slipped off rocks and drowned at Phromthep Cape late yesterday afternoon as that of Yula Suwan, 20,...
Wednesday, August 3, 2011 9:42:03 PM
PHUKET: Large waves brought on by the wet-season monsoon are damaging homes at a small sea gypsy community on Phuket’s east coast, forcing villagers to seek refuge...
Wednesday, August 3, 2011 6:58:32 PM
PHUKET: Not since the tsunami in December 2004 have readers around the world shown so much interest in a single event in Phuket. Yesterday, as on December 27, 2004,...
Wednesday, August 3, 2011 11:34:14 AM
PHUKET: A little less than two months ago we changed the method for measuring internet speeds, as reported on
PhuketInternetSpeed.com. Before that poin...
Tuesday, August 2, 2011 10:47:23 PM
PHUKET: Phuket City Police tonight charged two Swedish men they say confessed to the
murder yesterday of 25-year-old Maksim Schantz. Police said they...
Tuesday, August 2, 2011 10:23:33 PM
PHUKET: Phuket is not the only town in Thailand selling fake Viagra or other illicit drugs to tourists. The nation's capital is probably the leader. But in the...
Thursday, August 4, 2011 3:11:30 PM
PHUKET: In honor of HM Queen Sirikit’s 79th birthday and Mother’s Day on August 12, the
Phuket Regional Blood Center is hoping for an increase in donat...
Tuesday, August 2, 2011 7:45:36 PM
PHUKET: The blanket of haze seen across Phuket today was only fog and not related to Indonesian wild fires, the top official at the Thai Meteorological Department...
Tuesday, August 2, 2011 7:40:24 PM
PHUKET: A Public Health Ministry center in Phuket is now conducting drug tests on urine and blood samples provided by police in a move that is expected to boost...
Tuesday, August 2, 2011 6:01:57 PM
PHUKET: Phuket City Police have confirmed to the Phuket Gazette that two Swedish men have been arrested in connection with the
stabbing murder yest...
Tuesday, August 2, 2011 4:06:46 PM
PHUKET: Police have stressed to the Phuket Gazette that they have not identified the alleged accomplice of Tommy Viktor Soderlund, the man being sought for...
Tuesday, August 2, 2011 2:12:25 PM
PHUKET: Phuket City Police have issued an arrest warrant and appealed to the public to keep an eye out for the prime suspect in last night’s murder of Russian-born...
Tuesday, August 2, 2011 2:29:53 PM
PHUKET: Phuket Police are investigating the stabbing murder of a Swedish man ambushed and stabbed to death as he returned to his luxury villa in Koh Kaew subdistrict...
Monday, August 1, 2011 7:09:07 PM
PHUKET: The Phuket Seafood Fiesta got underway today with an official launch at Jungceylon in Phuket’s resort town of Patong. The festival offers a 10 to 20% discount...
Monday, August 1, 2011 7:05:57 PM
PHUKET: The Phuket daycare teacher allegedly caught on video
beating her students has been charged with child abuse, with the possibility of more charg...
Monday, August 1, 2011 7:00:50 PM
PHUKET: The new Thao Srisoonthorn Bridge, unofficially called “Sarasin Bridge 2”, opened to traffic heading northbound off Phuket this morning. The first vehicle...
Monday, August 1, 2011 1:51:17 PM
PHUKET: Missing Australian tourist Geoffrey Hoffmann has been found alive and well. Mr Hoffmann disappeared while going for a morning walk at the lake at
Karon Park on Saturday. His family
raised the alarm...
Sunday, July 31, 2011 12:51:12 PM
PHUKET: Another rainy season in Phuket, and yet another death from a landslide. The trench collapse on Monday that killed Burmese laborer Min Hla Thein came just...
Sunday, July 31, 2011 8:46:52 AM
PHUKET: Three people were injured early this morning when a Phuket passenger van slammed into two buffalo, killing both. Thalang Police were notified of the accident...
Saturday, July 30, 2011 4:24:27 PM
PHUKET: A worried Australian family on holiday in Phuket is urging anyone who identifies Geoffrey Hoffmann, 77, to contact them immediately. Mr Hoffman was last...
Saturday, July 30, 2011 4:12:12 PM
PHUKET: Phuket Town has maintained its place as the top district in upper Southern Thailand for drug crime, an accolade the popular tourist town has held for the...
Saturday, July 30, 2011 3:56:22 PM
PHUKET: Heavy rains in Phuket over the past week have caused more boulders to hurtle downhill into the L’Orchidee Residences in Patong. Although the boulders were...
Saturday, July 30, 2011 11:52:04 AM
PHUKET: The Thai Meteorological Department has this morning issued a wet weather warning covering much of Thailand due to Tropical Storm “Nock Ten” in the South...
Friday, July 29, 2011 7:37:24 PM
PHUKET: Phuket tourism operators were warned very plainly yesterday that they must become game-changers if they want to stay in business after 2015. The warning...
Friday, July 29, 2011 7:34:04 PM
PHUKET: A Phuket temple’s daycare program is under fire after video footage surfaced allegedly showing a long-time teacher beating her students. About 200 parents...
Friday, July 29, 2011 4:52:49 PM
PHUKET: Police are awaiting test results to confirm whether alcohol was a factor in a fatal traffic accident this morning involving a luggage-transport truck and...
Friday, July 29, 2011 5:02:23 PM
PHUKET: The Election Commission of Thailand (ECT) has confirmed Democrat candidates Raywat Areerob and Anchalee Vanich Thepabutr as Phuket’s two Members of Parliament....
