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  • OPINION: Street Show a great event for Phuket | Thaiger

    OPINION: Street Show a great event for Phuket

    PHUKET: The Phuket Street Show festival last weekend was a wonderful coming out party for Old Phuket Town following its recent facelift. (See story, current issue of the Phuket Gazette. Digital subscribers click here to download the full newspaper.) Whoever came up with the idea to host world-class street performers in the old quarter is to be given a great…

  • PHUKET OPINION: Economics leads the challenge to Thai Tourism | Thaiger

    PHUKET OPINION: Economics leads the challenge to Thai Tourism

    PHUKET: A survey by a popular UK-based website recently ranked Bangkok as 31st among 32 major cities around the world in terms of cost of living. (See Phuket Gazette report here.) The survey, and our report of it, set off a great deal of lively, if not always learned, debate among armchair economists in the Gazette readers’ forum. A common…

  • OPINION: Phuket truly a leader in education | Thaiger

    OPINION: Phuket truly a leader in education

    PHUKET: Construction of the new international school with a Chinese-language curriculum is good news for Phuket. [See front page story, current issue of the Phuket Gazette. Digital subscribers click here to download the full newspaper.] The school will provide an important new option for parents who want to position their children to tap the potential of the world’s most-populous nation…

  • Phuket Opinion: Fire lanterns out of control | Thaiger

    Phuket Opinion: Fire lanterns out of control

    PHUKET: The festive season is upon us and visitors from around the world continue to pour into Phuket in what is shaping up to be a banner high season for tourism – at least in terms of arrivals. Use of khom loy (“fire lanterns”) is increasingly common during festivals in Phuket and the night sky above our island was replete…