Month: July 2010

  • Phuket NewsNew sketch of suspect in Phuket murder of Wanphen Pienjai
    Legacy Phuket GazettePublished: 16:31, 03 July 2010
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    New sketch of suspect in Phuket murder of Wanphen Pienjai

    PHUKET: Police have released a sketch of what the prime suspect in the Wanphen Pienjai murder case may look like without a full beard. Ms Pienjai’s naked body was found stuffed in a suitcase in Phuket on June 24. For our previous report, click here. She was last seen leaving her workplace at the Sweetheart Bar in Kata with a…

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  • Phuket NewsMan murders friend with homemade gun in Phuket
    Legacy Phuket GazettePublished: 15:52, 03 July 2010
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    Man murders friend with homemade gun in Phuket

    PHUKET: A construction site foreman has been charged with murder after allegedly shooting one of his laborers with a homemade pen-gun, police said. The shooting happened about 9pm last night in the Phanson Villa (Bor-Rae) housing project in Wichit. Arriving at the scene shortly after the incident, Phuket City Police officers found a single .38mm bullet casing and were told…

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  • Phuket NewsThai politics not ‘all in the family’ | Thaiger
    Legacy Phuket GazettePublished: 11:41, 03 July 2010
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    Thai politics not ‘all in the family’

    Phuket NEWS Hound – A daily digest of news from around the world compiled by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community. World Cup? Get instantaneous scores and news updates right here on the Gazette Online (fed directly from FIFA). PHUKET: In stark contrast with the family of deposed prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra, who speak with one voice on seemingly all…

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  • Phuket NewsPhuket ‘bypass-bypass’ construction stalled
    Legacy Phuket GazettePublished: 11:17, 03 July 2010
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    Phuket ‘bypass-bypass’ construction stalled

    PHUKET: Budget problems are holding up work to complete a road linking the bypass road to a section of Ekwahnit Road near the back entrance to Surakul Stadium. Work on the project, known jokingly as the bypass-bypass road, was stalled for months because the road was blocked by a home belonging to a family of squatters who settled the area…

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  • Phuket NewsMother of Phuket murder victim tells of her pain | Thaiger
    Legacy Phuket GazettePublished: 17:35, 02 July 2010
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    Mother of Phuket murder victim tells of her pain

    PHUKET: The mother of Wanphen Pienjai, the bar hostess whose body was found stuffed in a suitcase in Phuket last week, has spoken of her anguish over the murder of her daughter. Sa-ard Maliwan, 59, told the Gazette she is praying every day for police to catch the killer. “He deserves to be punished hard for what he did to…

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  • Phuket NewsParade kicks off Phuket helmet crackdown
    Legacy Phuket GazettePublished: 15:23, 02 July 2010
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    Parade kicks off Phuket helmet crackdown

    PHUKET: Phuket City Police kicked off their helmet safety campaign yesterday with around 4,000 helmet-clad riders on some 2,000 motorbikes parading down the island’s roads. From now on, police are pledging to crack down heavily on both drivers and passengers without helmets. Thai traffic law states that both drivers and passengers without helmets can be fined up to 500 baht.…

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  • Phuket NewsPhuket police offer 50,000 baht to catch killer
    Legacy Phuket GazettePublished: 11:57, 02 July 2010
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    Phuket police offer 50,000 baht to catch killer

    PHUKET CITY: Phuket City Police are offering a reward of 50,000 baht for information leading to the arrest of the killer of 33-year-old bar hostess Wanphen Pienjai, whose naked body was discovered stuffed into a suitcase in Phuket last week. The offer follows the release of a sketch of the prime suspect in the investigation, a bearded Caucasian man who…

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  • Phuket NewsCouple get lucky with stolen ATM card, then get arrested | Thaiger
    Legacy Phuket GazettePublished: 18:15, 01 July 2010
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    Couple get lucky with stolen ATM card, then get arrested

    PHUKET: A Thai couple relieved an Irish expat of more than 750,000 baht after stealing his ATM card in Phuket and guessing his PIN number from his birth date, police said. Chai Bunrit, 26, and Pacharin Rathanaphansunthara, 24, then went on a spree, buying a car and staying in luxury hotels across the South before their arrest in a luxury…

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  • Phuket NewsRed-shirt protests hit Phuket leukemia patient
    Legacy Phuket GazettePublished: 16:27, 01 July 2010
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    Red-shirt protests hit Phuket leukemia patient

    PHUKET: Jenarong Tapklaeng, a 16-year-old leukemia patient from Phuket, spent almost a month in Bangkok for medical consultations that should have taken just a few days after his hospital was shut down because of the red-shirt protests. Doctors at King Chulalongkorn Memorial Hospital were set to examine the possibility of performing a bone marrow transplant on Jenarong, who is currently…

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  • Phuket NewsTourism: Phuket better than most | Thaiger
    Legacy Phuket GazettePublished: 11:44, 01 July 2010
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    Tourism: Phuket better than most

    Phuket NEWS Hound – A daily digest of news from around the world compiled by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community. World Cup? Get instantaneous scores and news updates right here on the Gazette Online (fed directly from FIFA). PHUKET: Tourism in Thailand suffered heavily in May, but Phuket continued to do better than most. The Bangkok Post reports that…

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