Police suspect French national murdered in Phuket
PHUKET: A 37-year-old French national was found dead in his
underwear in a rental room in Phuket this afternoon.The Parisian was
found in a pool of blood partially under a stripped mattress at the
Morgot Resort in Chalong. There was evidence of blunt trauma to the side
of his head.Police believe he had been dead for more than 5 hours
before he was discovered at 1:45pm.“It looks as if the room was
ransacked,” said Capt Kraisorn Boonprasop of the Chalong Police.“We
think someone stole his laptop after the attack, as the resort owner saw
the man...
Phuket closes Songkran Seven Days of Danger with one dead, 22 injured
PHUKET: The Songkran Seven Days of Danger national road-safety
campaign drew to a close at midnight last night with Phuket amassing a
tally of one death and 22 people injured during the week-long
holiday.Saeree Panitkul, the chief administrative officer at the Phuket
Provincial Office, reported the news at the Department of Disaster
Prevention and Mitigation Phuket office (DDPM-Phuket) this...
Navy defamation case proceeds against PhuketWan
PHUKET: Alan Morison and Chutima Sidasathian of local blog PhuketWan
were released on bail yesterday on charges of criminal defamation and
other offenses in connection with a story they published on trafficking
in Rohingya.Mr Morison, an Australian, and Thai national Ms Chutima
published a story last July that contained excerpts from a Reuters
Special Report alleging that some Thai naval...
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Celebrity comedian Teng a no show for Phuket Town
PHUKET: Anti-government protesters have prevented another well-known
celebrity from performing in Phuket, this time the nationally renowned
comedian Pongsak Pongsuwan, better known by his stage name Teng
Terdtheong.Mr Teng was set to appear in the Sam Cha Carniwow event at
Saphan Hin in Phuket Town tonight.“Event organizers from Workpoint
Entertainment...
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PHUKET: The Russian kidnapping victim who was recovered alive, Iana
Strizheus, caught a flight from Phuket back to Russia last night.“She
has given her statement to police and been presented to the judge.
Therefore, she is free to go home,” Phuket Provincial Police Deputy
Commander Arun Kaewvatee told the Phuket Gazette this morning. “This
changes nothing for... 
PHUKET: A 10-year-old girl is unresponsive and on life support at
Vachira Phuket Hospital after a motorbike accident on Thepkrasattri Road
in Koh Kaew on Thursday.Rattanawadee Tukthin was returning home from
Big C on a motorbike driven by her sister, Anjira Tukthin, 17, when the
pair crashed into a utility pole.“Ms Anjira is recovering in... 
PHUKET: Three suspects who opened fire on an armored van carrying 10
million baht yesterday afternoon were chased down by the van driver, but
managed to escape.The van had left Tesco Lotus in Phuket Town and was
northbound on Thepkrasattri Road, headed to refill ATMs in Bang Tao and
at the Phuket International Airport when the men fired on... 
PHUKET: The rescue worker who passed out while attempting to save
four workers who died in a Phuket Town sewer on March 26 is recovering
in the hospital and will be discharged in a week.Jessada Janpen, 25, was
one of the first to arrive on the scene, and immediately descended into
the sewer to rescue the maintenance workers. Although he wore an oxygen
mask, Mr... 
PHUKET: A 19-year-old fell off his motorbike near Phuket
International Airport early this morning and was hit by a car and killed
while he was trying to right his bike.Rescuers responded to the call
just after midnight and found the body of Atthaphon Prasobsaeng on Route
4026, which joins Thepkrasattri Road to the road to th...
PHUKET: The Nai Harn Beach Chair Club president took to the sand on
Saturday in an attempt to dissolve lingering tension between lounge
chair operators and a group of expats after a conflict erupted on March
15 over shared beach space. Two weeks ago, during the “Clean the Beach
Boot Camp” at Nai Harn Beach, a battle over...
PHUKET: Graft charges levied against Chalong Police officers by the
dive community have resulted in the transfer of the Superintendent of
the Chalong Police Station to Thalang.“I moved Col Krittapas
Dazintharasorn out of Chalong partly because of the extortion charges
(story here), but also because he has been there a long...
PHUKET: Provincial Police Commander Ong-art Phiewruangnont today said
he is “80 per cent sure” that the decomposed body found on Saturday
(story here) is that of missing Russian Alexey Slabinskiy.The skull had
been separated from the body and was no longer identifiable, and police
are seeking to identify the remains with...
PHUKET: Fishermen discovered the body of a man who had been executed
floating near the main fishing port in Rassada in Phuket earlier this
morning.“We believe the body is that of a Myanmar national who worked on
a fishing boat. He most likely got in a fight with other crew members,
was killed and then thrown overboard,” ...
PHUKET: Phuket Highways Office Director Samak Luedwonghad has called
for confidence in the construction of the island’s first underpass in
the wake of a fatal building collapse which killed 10 people in Samut
Prakarn last month.The Phuket underpass, on the bypass road near the
Central Festival Phuket shopping mall, is unde...
PHUKET: Heavy rain across Phuket last night brought on minor flash
flooding in several parts of the the island.On Thepkrasattri Road in
Srisoonthorn, north of Phuket Town, cars and motorbikes stalled as
motorists attempted to plow through water that had flooded the
road.“More than 10 people from Srisoonthorn Municipality w...
PHUKET: A man broke his neck after falling from the fourth floor of a
Phuket apartment building while trying to escape two women who caught
him red-handed stealing from their room.Patong Police were notified at
about 1pm yesterday that 32-year-old Mongkolchai Na-Tawan had fallen
after trying to jump from a fourth-floor room ...
PHUKET: The chief medical inspector called in to investigate the
mysterious deaths of Canadian sisters Noemi and Audrey Belanger on Phi
Phi Island in 2012 has dismissed reports that said the sisters died from
poisoning from a specific pesticide.The news follows a report by
Canadian news network CBC quoting Dr Pasakorn Akaras...
PHUKET: The Phuket Gazette has learned that Phuket has been named as
the pilot province for a nationwide project that will eventually see all
“countdown” traffic lights retrofitted to show Thai numerals instead of
the more popular Arabic numbers currently used in most countries,
including Thailand.Deadline for completion...
PHUKET: Unofficial results of yesterday’s senatorial election on the
island indicate that local lawyer Chaiyot Panyawai, 47, has won the
contest to become Phuket’s new representative in the Upper House.Mr
Chaiyot, president of the Phuket branch of the Lawyers Council of
Thailand, garnered 19,262 votes, confirmed Phuket E...
PHUKET: A Chinese tourist issued a warning to other Phuket visitors
of skimmer gangs after thieves in Russia withdrew 400,000 baht from his
account.“On March 24, my bank called to ask me where I was, because my
account showed several withdrawals in Russia between March 22 and 24,”
said Haohao Sun.“At the time the 400,0...
PHUKET: Police have found a body they believe is that of missing
Russian expat Alexey Slabinskiy, first reported as suspected of being
kidnapped three weeks ago (story here).“We learned that the suspects –
Russians Oleksandr Boychuk, 44, and Aleksandr Novichkov, 58 – had rented
a house in Soi Koktanode in Cherng ...
PHUKET: About 100 officials led by Phuket Vice Governor Somkiet
Sangkaosuttirak gathered yesterday to call on the people of Phuket to
vote in the nationwide Senate election on Sunday.Speaking at Sanam Chai,
the field in front of Provincial Hall that is occupied by
anti-government protesters every night, Vice Governor S...
PHUKET: An Australian man who passed out drunk during his flight to
Phuket was carried off the plane still unconscious on arrival yesterday
and rushed to Thalang Hospital.The man, named by police as Christopher
Lazarus Boubis, 39, later regained consciousness in the emergency ward
at the hospital, but immediately went ... 
PHUKET: The two factions of the People’s Democratic Reform Committee
(PDRC) anti-government protesters in Phuket united today to march
through Phuket Town and stage a motorcade along Phuket’s west coast.The
Krabot Rak Chart faction led by former Rassada Mayor Suratin Lian-udom
massed in front of the Phuket Revenue ...
