Phuket News (Phuket Gazette)

	Dazed and confused: Danish expat crashes into Thalang store PHUKET: Police are still looking for an explanation as to what caused a car driven by a Danish expat to fly off the road and plunge into an appliance store in Thalang on Thursday evening. Police arrived at the scene, about 250 meters from Baan Nai Klam Mosque on the southbound side...
	Full Story Saturday, March 15, 2014  11:37:41 AM

	Australian long-term expat dies after fall from motorbike in Phuket PHUKET: An Australian expat died early yesterday morning in Phuket after allegedly driving his motorbike one-handed. “The accident happened at about 1:50am in the morning. Eyewitness accounts described Wayne Anthony Stone driving his motorbike at high speeds with only one hand holding...
	Full Story Saturday, March 15, 2014  11:30:47 AM

	Phuket tour bus drivers caught in Patong Hill checkpoint drug blitz PHUKET: The new police and transport office safety checkpoint for buses about to cross over Patong Hill netted 16 drivers who tested positive for drugs in its first day of operation this week. Officers tested 75 drivers at the new checkpoint, set up near the Thung Thong police checkpoint...
	Full Story Saturday, March 15, 2014  11:06:12 AM

	Murder brings curfew for Myanmar workers in Patong PHUKET: Patong police announced today that Myanmar workers living in Patong will be arrested if they are found outside of their camps after 10pm. The curfew is in response to the murder of a Thai man by a group of Myanmar nationals early Tuesday morning in Patong. “Construction operators...
	Full Story Friday, March 14, 2014  6:52:00 PM

	Chinese tourists safe after brakes fail on Phuket’s Patong Hill PHUKET: The driver of a Phuket tour bus avoided a serious accident on Patong Hill this morning by running the bus off the road before driving down the steep slope on the east side of the hill. Bus driver Sutthichai Pohad was ferrying about 20 Chinese tourists from Patong to Phuket...
	Full Story Friday, March 14, 2014  6:36:09 PM

	Phuket Airport customs officers nail drug mule with B7mn of ya ice PHUKET: Customs officers at Phuket International Airport on Tuesday arrested a drug mule attempting to smuggle 7 million baht of ya ice (crystal methamphetamine) from China into Phuket. The 37-year-old woman, Pornphat Wattanachaisen, was on a watchlist for possible involvement...
	Full Story Friday, March 14, 2014  6:16:21 PM

	Shark killed off Phuket Beach raises online ire PHUKET: Photos posted online of a foreigner killing a small shark at Kata Noi Beach prompted outrage, but the act was legal, a marine official said. The pictures, posted on the Go Eco Phuket Facebook page (click here) yesterday, showed a man in the act of killing the sha...
	Full Story Friday, March 14, 2014  2:56:20 PM