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PhuketSeptember 30, 2013

Phuket’s “Brother Pom’ leads Central taxi flock to legal co-op

PHUKET: The informal network of taxi drivers operating at Central Festival Phuket shopping mall will be registered as a formal co-operative as part of the drivers’...
PhuketSeptember 30, 2013

Tour operators warned of imposters in Similian National Park

PHUKET: The Similan Islands National Park authority has warned tour operators over a group of people posing as park officers and offering reduced entry fees to...
PhuketSeptember 30, 2013

Phuket wild boars ravage football-golf greens

PHUKET: A sounder of wild boar has settled on an 18-hole “Football Golf Course” in Chalong as their preferred dining area, but in the pigs’ quest...
PhuketSeptember 30, 2013

Alarmed drunkard dumps temple bell, flees scene

PHUKET: Police are on the lookout for a man who reportedly tried to sell a temple bell to a secondhand store in Thalang while drunk. Natthakarn...
PhuketSeptember 30, 2013

Go Eco Phuket starts eco-warrior recruitment

PHUKET: The first fifty people to contact local marine conservation group Go Eco Phuket will earn a spot at the Go Eco Camp, which plans on...
PhuketSeptember 30, 2013

Phuket jet-ski thug gets first taste of swift tourist court justice

PHUKET: The first cases heard in Phuket’s tourist court, which involved a jet-ski operator who attacked two tourists on Kata Beach, were resolved less than 36...
PhuketSeptember 30, 2013

Krabi’s Andaman Eagles swoop down on Phuket FC

PHUKET: The Islanders fell into 11th place of the 18-team Yamaha League One (YL1) as a result of their latest defeat, 3-1 to Krabi FC in...
PhuketSeptember 30, 2013

Phuket hitman Rambo denies death squad charges

PHUKET: Joseph Manuel Hunter, 48 – nicknamed “Rambo” and arrested at his rented Phuket home last Thursday, as originally reported by the Phuket Gazette (story here)...
PhuketSeptember 30, 2013

Phuket tour bus brakes fail, driver avoids disaster

PHUKET: Faulty brakes almost resulted in a tour bus smashing into a house on Patong Hill last night, in a near-repeat of an accident that occurred...
PhuketSeptember 30, 2013

Phuket’s new ‘top cop’ arrives on the island

PHUKET: Phuket’s new Provincial Police Commander, Maj Genl Ong-art Phiewruangnont, has arrived in Phuket. On arriving here yesterday evening, in a convoy of nine police vehicles,...
WorldSeptember 30, 2013

Phuket Gazette World News: Berlusconi plunges Italy into chaos; Air strike on Syrian school; US faces Fed Govt shutdown; Nigerian massacre; Space FalconX launches

PHUKET MEDIA WATCH– World news compiled by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community Italian politics in crisis after Berlusconi pulls support Reuters / Phuket GazettePHUKET: Silvio...
ThailandSeptember 30, 2013

Phuket Gazette Thailand News: Floods hit, more rain coming; High hopes for baby panda; Govt urged to consider BRN proposal

PHUKET MEDIA WATCH– Thailand news compiled by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community PM visits Prachin Buri as flood crisis intensifies The Nation / Phuket GazettePHUKET:...
PhuketSeptember 29, 2013

Russian dive instructor drowns at Racha Noi Island

PHUKET: A Russian dive instructor who worked in Phuket drowned off Racha Noi Island on Saturday afternoon.Denis Lipatov, 39, was at the island with friends when...
PhuketSeptember 28, 2013

Rubber protests yield gains in Phuket

PHUKET: Rubber protests in recent weeks in Southern Thailand are now paying dividends for plantation owners in Phuket and the rest of the nation.Though the direct...
PhuketSeptember 28, 2013

Kata jet-ski operator attacks Israeli tourists

PHUKET: Two Israelis, a father and son, were attacked and injured by a jet-ski operator wielding a “No Swimming” flag-pole on Kata Beach yesterday afternoon. The...
Thai LifeSeptember 28, 2013

Ma Song on their way for Phuket’s Vegetarian Festival

PHUKET: Final preparations are underway as the annual Phuket Vegetarian Festival draws closer. This year the festival will start on October 5. According to tradition, it...
PhuketSeptember 28, 2013

Samkong underpass construction set to begin in November

PHUKET: Construction is to start on the 850-million-baht underpass at the Samkong intersection in mid-November.“We have already started to clear the area in preparation for the...
WorldSeptember 28, 2013

Iran paying it back; Anti-coco mission crashes; Sudanese hit with tear gas; Global warming mankind’s fault

PHUKET MEDIA WATCH– World news compiled by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community Iran makes payments on old loans to World Bank Reuters / Phuket GazettePHUKET:...
ThailandSeptember 28, 2013

Army to battle pad kaphrao; Abhist warns PM over amendment; Big three to reduce prices

PHUKET MEDIA WATCH – Thailand news compiled by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community Thai Army ready: We shall fight them in the kitchens Phuket Gazette...
PhuketSeptember 27, 2013

Video Report: Transnational drug lord Hunter deported, new Thai search laws enacted

PHUKET: High on the United States authorities’ most-wanted list, Joseph Manuel Hunter was deported back to the US this morning, days after the Prevention and Suppression...

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