PHUKET: Phuket's top traffic policeman, Pol Lt Col Teeraphol Thipjaroen, has responded with resignation to yesterday's announcement in Bangkok that a new law barring heavily tinted...
PHUKET TOWN: A German tourist was arrested Monday evening after allegedly stealing goods worth almost 30,000 baht from the Tesco-Lotus Supercenter. According to a police report...
PHUKET: May 1 to May 25 was a bad time for Phuket's gamblers, who once again topped the island's arrests league. According to statistics released by...
BANGKOK (AFP): All-female "lady buses" will begin operating in Bangkok today, in a bid to eliminate sexual harassment of female passengers. The buses, which are marked...
PHUKET TOWN: Accompanied by his politician father, Pol Sub Lt Wanchalerm Yoobumroong came to Phuket last Wednesday to visit the Phuket Provincial Attorney's Office in connection...
PHUKET: Eighteen people were killed in traffic accidents in Phuket between March 20 and April 20, a considerable improvement on last year. Last year the figure...
PHUKET: To prepare for a promising high season, the Phuket Canoe Club, the Tourism Authority of Thailand (TAT), and Phang-Nga Bay National Park have announced plans...
PHUKET: Despite an almost two-year-old ban, illegal sea-walking companies were given another eight months to operate on Koh Hey, one of Phuket's many outlying islands. At...
PHUKET: Lauda Air has today announced a whopping 20% discount on Business Class fares from Phuket and Bangkok to any of its destinations in Europe. The...
PHUKET TOWN: A man who is alleged to have hired three hit men in March to kill a 77-year-old woman, surrendered to police on Wednesday. As...
PHUKET TOWN: The Phuket Town Municipality announced yesterday that the price of piped water supplied from the council's waterworks will increase massively from next Thursday (June...
PHUKET TOWN: Samkhan Saengfai, who a year ago proposed to launch Phuket's first local bus service, has finally admitted defeat. K. Samkhan, managing director of PB...
PHUKET: Phuket is the front-runner in the competition to be the venue for a major international summit conference three years from now. Around the end of...
KARON: A street stall owner was arrested on Monday by Chalong Police for selling pirated computer game CDs. Pol Lt Teerawat Liumsuwan of Chalong police station...
KAMALA: After the naming of the Yayee family of Kamala as the descendants of the legendary Princess Mahsuri of Langkawi, five more families in the village...
KAMALA: An American fighter pilot who later told police he was bored of flying jets, "borrowed" a tuk-tuk in the early hours of May 22. His...
PATONG: Eekaphan Hin-on, 37, was shot dead in his brother's snooker club early yesterday morning by a young gunman. The gunman, identified by police as Somjit...
PHUKET: The Phuket Provincial Administration Organization, (OrBorJor), is to allocate 3 million baht to providing lifeguards on beaches during the monsoon season, it was announced today....
KAMALA: Chern Yayee, 62, from Kamala and his family have been named by the Malaysian Government as the long-lost relatives of Princess Mahsuri, a legendary figure...
PHUKET: The Board of Directors of the Phuket International School (PINS) announced today that the US-based Quality Schools International (QSI) has accepted its invitation to take...
