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Phuket Drive Thru: Woman blames car for surging into 7-Eleven
PHUKET: A woman parking her car outside a 7-Eleven in Phuket Town
this afternoon ended up inside the store when the vehicle suddenly
surged forward, injuring a 12-year-old girl in the process. Orathai
Kaikong, 31, had pulled into a gas station on Phun Pol Road in Phuket
Town with...
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Patong elections set for April 26, bringing another weekend alcohol ban
PHUKET: The Patong by-election has been set for Saturday, April
26. After former Patong Mayor Pian Keesin was found guilty of electoral
fraud on March 7 (story here),
new elections were required by law to take place within 60 days,
explained Patong Municipality Chief Administrative Officer Poonsuk
Narksena. Candidate registrations will be accepted on the third floor at
Patong Municipality Office (map here...
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Phuket’s B120mn road to Freedom Beach inches forward
PHUKET: The controversial new road planned to provide access to
Freedom Beach, south of Patong, took a step closer to becoming reality
as the project passed its third and final public hearing on Friday.
About 80 of the 100 participants who joined the hearing, held at the
Patong Merlin...
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Phuket national park encroachment investigation in full swing again
PHUKET: The plot thickened in the ongoing investigation into
encroachment onto Sirinath Marine National Park yesterday as five former
park chiefs were accused of signing documents allowing encroachment.
“After reviewing several land titles from owners in the area, we
discovered that...
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Blackout strikes third of island as Phuket sees year’s first rain
PHUKET: A blown transformer was responsible for a two-hour
blackout in parts of Phuket on Saturday afternoon, said an official at
the Phuket Provincial Electrical Authority (PPEA). Electricity shut off
in Chalong, Rawai, Kathu, Patong, Kathu and some areas of Phuket Town at
about...
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Police post bodyguard for Russian 'kidnap' victim
PHUKET: Police have posted an around-the-clock guard outside the
hospital room of the Russian woman who was found injured yesterday after
having disappeared for nine days. Friends say the woman, Iana
Strizheus, 22, may have been the victim of a kidnapping. Phuket
Provincial Police...
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Special Report: Phuket's stolen passports shine light on illegal migrant corridor to Europe
PHUKET: Investigations into the disappearance of Malaysia
Airlines Flight MH370 led to the discovery that two men boarded the
plane with passports stolen in Phuket (story here) – raising fears that a...
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Phuket Opinion: Casting aside modern conveniences for an island dream
PHUKET: With the seemingly endless parade of new condo
developments springing up like mushrooms all over the island, it’s clear
that quite soon, the majority of Phuket’s residents will be living in
high density housing. When I first moved here, I too found it
convenient to move...
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Letter from the Phuket Governor: Creating unity in a time of discord
PHUKET: As we face ongoing political instability, protests and
even violence, it is reassuring to hear of generous charitable acts, of
people who feel moved to help others without asking for anything in
return. This is particularly so when the people involved come from
different...
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Phuket Opinion: Preventing passport malpractice
PHUKET: The revelation that two passengers aboard the ill-fated
Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 were travelling on passports stolen in
Phuket (story here) once again highlights the need for a serious and sustained crackdown on the use of travel documents as collateral on...
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Raging Phuket black market passport trade
PHUKET: Police have admitted they are powerless to prevent
motorcycle and car rental operators from holding foreign tourists’
passports as collateral against potential damage to rented vehicles. The
news comes as the island’s top police officers try to stymie the
fallout from international...
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Rain breaks Phuket’s worst drought in 30 years
PHUKET: The skies parted to deliver scattered showers across the
island late this afternoon to break Phuket's lowest recorded rainfall
between the months of January and March for 30 years. Governor Maitri
Inthusut yesterday morning chaired an annual meeting at the Department
of Disaster...
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Mysterious deaths of Quebec sisters may be due to lethal dose of pesticide
PHUKET: Two Canadian sisters who died mysteriously on the popular
resort island of Phi Phi in 2012 may have ingested toxic amounts of a
lethal pesticide called aluminum phosphide, reports Canadian news
network CBC. The highly toxic pesticide is used to control bedbugs in
some holiday...
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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...
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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. Eyewitness accounts described Wayne Anthony
Stone driving his motorbike at high speeds with only one hand holding
the handlebars,”...
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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...
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