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  • Baby boy of Phuket’s first gibbon twins found dead

    Baby boy of Phuket’s first gibbon twins found dead

    PHUKET: One of the first set of gibbon twins to be born at the Gibbon Rehabilitation Project (GRP) in Phuket has died. Staffers at the center hope to return the surviving twin to her mother on Monday. “These are our first gibbon twins since the center was established in 1992. The twins are the son and daughter of mother Mee…

  • Chinese duo caught in Phuket skim scam

    Chinese duo caught in Phuket skim scam

    PHUKET: Police arrested two Chinese men and a Thai employee at a Phuket tour office for processing an estimated 700,00 baht in fake transactions charged to accounts of people whose ATM cards had been skimmed. Officers arrested Thongtam Bamrajken, 23, and Chinese nationals Tang Yongjie, 39, and He Haibin, 24, at the Ping Boom tour office in Wichit on Tuesday.…

  • Laguna Phuket cleans up in dirty laundry trade

    Laguna Phuket cleans up in dirty laundry trade

    PHUKET: Part of the pleasure of holidaying in a good hotel is that you don’t have to do your own laundry. Yetsomeone has to do it for you and for all the other guests. Can you just imagine what a gigantic pile of dirty clothes all the resorts in Phuket generate? But where some see nothing but a lot of…

  • Finance: Oil volatility good for asset class

    Finance: Oil volatility good for asset class

    PHUKET: I used to write about the trend-following sector. Many of the funds I still use went decades with the steadiest performance in the investment industry, while still giving investors above-average returns. Sadly, in the period of low interest rates and volatility following the financial crisis, the entire asset class has struggled. The steady year-after-year forward progress seemed to turn…

  • Daughter warned of suicide before family found poisoned, children hanged | Thaiger

    Daughter warned of suicide before family found poisoned, children hanged

    PHUKET MEDIA WATCH – Thailand news selected by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community Daughter warned of suicide before family found poisoned, children hanged The Nation / Phuket Gazette PHUKET: The former wife of a man who was found dead with four members of his family in a rented house in Bangkok’s Thon Buri district on New Year’s Eve told…

  • Search teams battle rough weather in hunt for AirAsia wreck

    Search teams battle rough weather in hunt for AirAsia wreck

    PHUKET MEDIA WATCH – World news selected by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community Search teams battle rough weather in hunt for AirAsia wreck Reuters / Phuket Gazette PHUKET: Ships and aircraft criss-crossed the seas off Borneo on Friday hunting for the wreck of an Indonesia AirAsia passenger jet, but bad weather again hindered the search for the plane and…

  • Police nab armed thugs for Patong gang shootout

    Police nab armed thugs for Patong gang shootout

    PHUKET: Police tracked down and arrested two men at a bus station in Phang Nga yesterday after one of the suspects shot a rival gang member in the face in a shootout on the streets of Patong just hours earlier. Staff at Patong Hospital notified the police of the shooting at 5am after Boonprom Chupeng, 18, was rushed to the…

  • Woman, 23, jumps to her death before dawn on New Year’s Day | Thaiger

    Woman, 23, jumps to her death before dawn on New Year’s Day

    PHUKET: A 23-year-old woman jumped to her death from her second-floor apartment on Sainamyen Road in Patong before dawn on New Year’s Day. According to neighbors, Rattikorn Sunarak, 23, was feeling neglected as her boyfriend, as yet unnamed, had to work and could not attend 2015 New Year party countdown celebrations with her. The neighbors explained that the couple had…

  • Woman dies from injuries after Russian tour bus crash

    Woman dies from injuries after Russian tour bus crash

    PHUKET: The driver of a car that crashed head-on into a tour bus carrying 37 Russian tourists on Tuesday has died from her injuries. Tantima Thaworn, 37, was pronounced dead at 11:35am yesterday, staff at Vachira Phuket Hospital in Phuket Town confirmed. However, the hospital staff declined to give further details. Ms Tantima is the sole fatality from the accident,…

  • NFL playoffs in Wild Card pre-dawn blitz

    NFL playoffs in Wild Card pre-dawn blitz

    PHUKET: The end of the 256-game NFL regular season is bittersweet. Even with the unparalleled excitement of the playoffs still ahead of us, simply knowing that the end of the season is rapidly approaching is enough to set off that tiny first wave of depression in those of us who are hopelessly hooked. Super Bowl Sunday in the US falls…

  • Crewman’s body washes ashore Phi Phi coast

    Crewman’s body washes ashore Phi Phi coast

    PHUKET: Phi Phi locals yesterday discovered the body of a crewman who drowned after the cargo boat he was working on sank in heavy weather on Monday (story here). The body of the man, named by police only as “Mr Au”, was discovered at Ao Rantee on the Phi Phi coast at about 1pm. “Mr Au’s body washed up on…

  • 128 killed in accidents over first two days of New Year

    128 killed in accidents over first two days of New Year

    PHUKET MEDIA WATCH – Thailand news selected by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community 128 killed over first two days of New Year The Nation / Phuket Gazette PHUKET: The first two of the New Year period’s “seven dangerous days” have seen 128 people killed and 1,158 others injured in 1,133 accidents nationwide, the Road Safety Center said yesterday. Phetchabun,…

  • Myanmar rapist of girl, 14, sentenced to eight years in jail

    Myanmar rapist of girl, 14, sentenced to eight years in jail

    PHUKET: The pedophile who confessed to raping a 14-year-old undocumented Myanmar migrant worker with the help of his wife in Khao Lak in August has been sentenced to eight years in jail. The wife, as an accomplice to the crime, was sentenced to three years in jail. The couple, named by police only as “Mr Ko Nai” and “Ms Ma…

  • Chinese dive tour company shut down at Koh Racha

    Chinese dive tour company shut down at Koh Racha

    PHUKET: Officials have shut down a dive tour company serving Chinese tourists at Koh Racha, located about 25km south of Phuket, after confirming that Myanmar nationals were working illegally there as dive instructors. Santi Pawai, director of the Minister of Tourism and Sports Phuket office, announced the forced closure of dive company Hou Hai Diver Co Ltd during his inspection…

  • Teen shot dead in New Year drive-by near Governor’s house

    Teen shot dead in New Year drive-by near Governor’s house

    PHUKET: Police are searching for six men wanted for shooting dead a 15-year-old on the streets of Phuket Town last night in an attack that began in front of the Governor’s House on Narisorn Road. Police arrived at scene, near Ministry of Finance Phuket Office, shortly after receiving a report of the shooting at 11:15pm. “We arrived to find one…

  • New Year’s Eve stampede kills 35 on Shanghai’s Bund tourist strip

    New Year’s Eve stampede kills 35 on Shanghai’s Bund tourist strip

    PHUKET MEDIA WATCH – World news selected by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community New Year’s Eve stampede kills 35 on Shanghai’s Bund tourist strip Reuters / Phuket Gazette PHUKET: A stampede killed at least 35 people during New Year’s Eve celebrations in Shanghai, authorities said, possibly caused by people rushing to pick up fake money thrown from a building…