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  • Phuket Opinion: Stand up and be counted | Thaiger

    Phuket Opinion: Stand up and be counted

    PHUKET: As some readers will already be aware, the 2010 National Census is underway in Phuket, which is the first Thai province where this important data is being collected. [See ‘First Person’ in the current issue of the Phuket Gazette. Digital subscribers: click to download the full newspaper.] This is the 100th anniversary of the national survey, conducted every 10…

  • PHUKET OPINION: Let’s kill the ignorance on the roads | Thaiger

    PHUKET OPINION: Let’s kill the ignorance on the roads

    PHUKET: Phuket City Police are to be commended for not giving up in their effort to get all motorbike riders in their district to wear safety helmets. Unfortunately, the entrenched carelessness that has persisted on Phuket roads for at least two decades means they face a long, uphill battle against a notoriously stubborn opponent: ignorance. Despite a two-month public relations…

  • OPINION: IT could help to clean up Phuket | Thaiger

    OPINION: IT could help to clean up Phuket

    PHUKET: Most private firms in Phuket realize that keeping up with developments in information technology is a difficult and never-ending effort, but one vital to competitiveness. Talk of Phuket’s designation as an ‘IT hub’ has been a recurring theme in the news over the past decade. This IT optimism reached its zenith in during the first Thaksin administration, when we…