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Tuesday, December 20, 2011 7:20:53 PM
PHUKET: This year's Red Cross Fair will be held from December 29 to January 8, 2012 at
Saphan Hin central stage in Phuket Town. The opening ceremony, s...
Wednesday, December 21, 2011 11:58:24 AM
PHUKET: May I present some good news, some not-so-good news, and some news that keeps crawling out of the mailbag, like a gift from Santa that can’t be returned....
Tuesday, December 20, 2011 1:35:05 PM
PHUKET: The
Silver Hotel in Phuket Town has complained to the province that odor from a nearby seafood processing plant is costing them up to 400,000 b...
Tuesday, December 20, 2011 1:31:19 PM
PHUKET: A panel of experts led by Dr Smith Dharmasaroj, former head of the National Disaster Warning Center, will stage a public discussion on disaster management...
Tuesday, December 20, 2011 12:20:47 PM
PHUKET: The management of a Phuket hotel agreed to pay some 150,000 baht in compensation to an Australian couple who claimed their room safe was robbed of 255,000...
Tuesday, December 20, 2011 11:15:17 AM
PHUKET: Tropical storm “Washi”, which killed nearly 1,000 people in the Philippines, will have virtually no effect on the weather here in Phuket, the Phuket Gazette...
Monday, December 19, 2011 8:30:14 PM
PHUKET: Police yesterday arrested a restaurant owner in Phuket’s busy tourist town of Patong, on Phuket’s west coast, after he visited another Patong restaurant...
Monday, December 19, 2011 8:17:48 PM
PHUKET: Villagers of Lam Tab District in Krabi, a 40-minute boat ride across Phang Nga Bay from Phuket, are mourning the death of one of their most respected members...
Monday, December 19, 2011 3:31:32 PM
PHUKET: Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) fighter Junie Browning, who is wanted by Phuket Police for his role in
two serious brawls, has contacted the Phuket...
Monday, December 19, 2011 3:09:07 PM
PHUKET: A small group of friends and Red Cross officials gathered at Wat Saen Suk on Wednesday for the somber cremation ceremony of long-time Phuket resident Yvon...
Sunday, December 18, 2011 12:26:11 PM
PHUKET: Government assistance to help solve the chronic "labor shortage" in the island’s tourism industry is unlikely to have much impact this high season, given...
Sunday, December 18, 2011 12:47:15 PM
PHUKET: Eleven days after her disappearance from a Phuket Town internet cafe, 12-year-old Phuket schoolgirl
Samudchaya “Nong Pin” Yanpunya remains miss...
Saturday, December 17, 2011 1:35:51 PM
PHUKET: Deputy Minister of Transport Kittisakdi Hathasongkorh yesterday vowed to support plans to expand Phuket’s Deep Sea Port, which have run aground over its...
Saturday, December 17, 2011 12:04:15 PM
PHUKET: A rubber tapper in Krabi, Phuket’s sister province across Phang Nga Bay, got an unexpected surprise this week when he discovered a live peacock of a species...
Friday, December 16, 2011 5:24:08 PM
PHUKET: The driver of the six-wheeled truck that struck and killed 27-year-old resort worker
Arayada Budsayakul on the Patong beach road last month has...
Friday, December 16, 2011 5:21:24 PM
PHUKET: Police in Phang Nga have arrested the mastermind behind the
triple-homicide that took place outside a Krabi mosque on Sunday night. The suspect...
Friday, December 16, 2011 5:18:23 PM
PHUKET: An outbreak of tuberculosis in Phuket that has hospitalized nearly 60 Burmese workers has prompted the Phuket Immigration chief to call for a more integrated...
Friday, December 16, 2011 2:46:14 PM
PHUKET: Heavy downpours stopped just in time last night as thousands of people lined the streets of Patong to watch the parade and opening ceremonies of Phuket’s...
Friday, December 16, 2011 10:53:35 AM
PHUKET: Superyacht spotters in Phuket are in for treat this weekend as some of the finest luxury yachts in Asia ply Phuket’s west coast as part of the annual Asia...
Friday, December 16, 2011 9:51:33 AM
PHUKET: Leading retail chain Tesco Lotus launched a pilot project at its new
Thalang branch in Phuket yesterday with the aim of reducing plastic bag us...
Thursday, December 15, 2011 7:27:06 PM
PHUKET: The Phuket office of the World Vision Foundation in Thailand, operating under the Supanimit Foundation, yesterday stepped up its anti-polio campaign, in...
Thursday, December 15, 2011 7:03:03 PM
PHUKET: More than 70 per cent of business owners in Phuket agree to the minimum wage being raised to 300 baht per day, according to a recent survey by the Phuket...
Thursday, December 15, 2011 5:58:55 PM
PHUKET: After a 30-minute standoff, Phuket Police on Tuesday rescued a woman held hostage by a knife-wielding glue addict at a local gas station. Chalong Police...
Thursday, December 15, 2011 5:44:07 PM
PHUKET: A Phuket hotel representative yesterday claimed that the 2004 tsunami washed away property boundary markers between his resort and public beach land, thus...
Friday, December 16, 2011 8:32:06 AM
PHUKET: Tourists visiting nightspots in Phuket should not leave their drinks unattended as there have been incidents of people having their drinks “spiked” with...
Thursday, December 15, 2011 12:10:22 PM
PHUKET: The countdown to Phuket’s annual Patong Carnival is over. The six-day event began at 9am today with ceremonial offering of food to monks at Loma Park on...
Thursday, December 15, 2011 11:34:46 AM
PHUKET: Over 57% of respondents to a Phuket Gazette poll believe reasonably-priced alcohol is either “important” or even “critical” to Phuket's attractiveness...
Thursday, December 15, 2011 10:55:39 AM
PHUKET: A fire believed to have started from an explosion quickly engulfed several fishermen’s huts in Baan Bang Tao, Cherng Talay, on Phuket’s west coast, yesterday...
Wednesday, December 14, 2011 5:47:26 PM
PHUKET: Businesses wishing to appear in the 2012 Gazette Guide , Phuket’s ‘yellow pages’, have until 6pm on Thursday, December 22, to enter (or update) their...
Wednesday, December 14, 2011 5:14:51 PM
PHUKET: Police do not suspect foul play in the death of a Finnish tourist Veijo Armas Vallius, found dead in his Phuket hotel room last week. The body of 52-year-old...
