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  • Phuket Opinion: Truth not optional in the media or in public relations | Thaiger

    Phuket Opinion: Truth not optional in the media or in public relations

    PHUKET: Since Phuket’s emergence as a tourist destination in the 1980s, the island has maintained a remarkable ability to attract foreign visitors, through good times and bad. Apart from the 2004 tsunami disaster, few events – locally, nationally or globally – have been able to buck the trend in any appreciable way. Despite a seemingly endless series of ‘tourism threatening’…

  • Sunday Opinion: Swift actions to regulate Phuket crime | Thaiger

    Sunday Opinion: Swift actions to regulate Phuket crime

    PHUKET: Efforts by the Phuket Provincial Office and related agencies to tackle the problem of unregulated “swiftlet ranching” are admirable in their foresight, but regrettable in approach. (See here to read “Tourism finds swiftlet avaries difficult to swallow”). As many residents of this island are aware, mainland Chinese are one of the largest and most rapidly growing segments of the…

  • Phuket Opinion: Why the muddle with maps? | Thaiger

    Phuket Opinion: Why the muddle with maps?

    PHUKET: Over the past century, mankind has made astonishing progress in understanding the nature of the universe, but it seems technological advances have now outstripped the ability of many of us to put them to the best possible use. One good example is in the field of cartography. Maps produced with painstaking effort and considerable risk a century ago, pale…