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Rice kingpin gets six years in jail for B200mn fraud
PHUKET MEDIA WATCH – Thailand news selected by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community Rice kingpin sentenced to six years in jail for B200mn fraud The Nation / Phuket Gazette PHUKET: The Samut Prakan provincial court yesterday sentenced a rice businessman reportedly close to former PM Thaksin Shinawatra to six years in jail and fined him Bt12,000 after finding him…
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Russia’s Putin renounces right to send troops to Ukraine
PHUKET MEDIA WATCH – World news selected by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community Russia’s Putin renounces right to send troops to Ukraine Reuters / Phuket Gazette PHUKET: President Vladimir Putin asked Russia’s upper house on Tuesday to repeal the right it had granted him to order a military intervention in Ukraine in defence of Russian-speakers there, the Kremlin said…
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Suarez faces another ban after biting Italian defender
PHUKET MEDIA WATCH – World news selected by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community Suarez faces another ban after biting Italian defender Reuters / Phuket Gazette PHUKET: Uruguay striker Luis Suarez looks almost certain to be banned from the World Cup for the second successive tournament after he bit Italy’s Giorgio Chiellini on the shoulder during his team’s 1-0 win…
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Colombia crush Japan 4-1 and next face Uruguay
PHUKET MEDIA WATCH – World news selected by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community Colombia crush Japan 4-1 and next face Uruguay Reuters / Phuket Gazette PHUKET: Colombia striker Jackson Martinez scored twice as they thrashed Japan 4-1 to maintain their 100 percent record and claim top spot in Group C on Tuesday to set up a mouthwatering second-round clash…
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New crowd-sourced data shows Phuket yacht sighting, MH370 flight path correlate
PHUKET: Crowd-sourced research plotting the projected flight path of missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 by using data from Inmarsat satellites may have confirmed that a British woman sailing from India to Phuket spotted the ill-fated flight over the Andaman Sea. British sailor Katherine Tee, 41, was sailing from Cochin, India to Phuket with her husband when on March 7 she…
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Officers pull down last illegal taxi stand in Patong
PHUKET: Armed soldiers were on guard as Phuket officers pulled down the last illegal taxi stand in Patong this afternoon. The taxi shack, in front of the Diamond Cliff Resort and Spa, had escaped destruction when 12 other stands were demolished on June 6 (story here). Drivers asserted that it had been in position for more than 30 years and…
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Hazardous rip currents force closures of popular Phuket beaches
PHUKET: Dangerous rip currents at Kata and Karon have forced lifeguards to rope off sections of the beaches in an effort to keep swimmers from entering the most hazardous areas of surf today. “Nobody should swim in the sea right now, the water is extremely dangerous,” Uten Singsom, Kata-Karon chief lifeguard, told the Phuket Gazette this morning. Other areas of…
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Krabi nursery school invaded by mysterious, smelly, burning bugs
PHUKET: An attack of mysterious bugs at a Krabi nursery school has frightened teachers and students and may cause the students to be moved out. The black bugs, about one centimeter long, have a putrid smell and cause a burning sensation when touched, Piyawan Chamnongrak, a teacher at the school, told the Phuket Gazette. “They appeared yesterday afternoon, from where…
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Sudan court frees woman sentenced to death for changing faith
PHUKET MEDIA WATCH – World news selected by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community Sudan court frees woman sentenced to death for changing faith Reuters / Phuket Gazette PHUKET: A 27-year-old woman who was sentenced to death in Sudan last month for converting to Christianity from Islam was freed on Monday after what the government said was “unprecedented” international pressure.…
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Major quake hits off Alaska’s Aleutian Islands
PHUKET MEDIA WATCH – World news selected by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community Major quake hits off Alaska’s Aleutian Islands Reuters / Phuket Gazette PHUKET: A magnitude 8.0 earthquake struck deep under the ocean floor near Alaska’s Aleutian Islands, triggering shaking that could be felt for vast distances and briefly prompting a tsunami warning, the National Tsunami Warning Center…
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Neymar inspires Brazil, Dutch storm on at World Cup
PHUKET MEDIA WATCH – World news selected by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community Neymar inspires Brazil, Dutch storm on at World Cup Reuters / Phuket Gazette PHUKET: Brazil’s poster-boy striker Neymar fulfilled a nation’s expectations to score twice in a 4-1 destruction of Cameroon on Monday while the Netherlands again showed their potential to win the World Cup with…
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Phuket police slap seahorse, illegal coral vendor with conservation lesson
PHUKET: A vendor selling several pieces of illegal black coral jewellery in a Sea Gypsy village in Phuket was given a stern warning and a lesson on conservation Saturday afternoon. “We got a tip-off about the vendor near Rawai Pier, and asked Chalong Police officers to check it out,” Tanet Munnoy, chief of the Department of Marine and Coastal Resources…
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Flooding delays Phuket underpass trial run
PHUKET: The trial opening of Phuket’s first underpass, at the Darasamuth Intersection on the bypass road, will not begin until at least next month, the Phuket Gazette has learned. The 600-million-baht underpass, located beside the Central Festival Phuket shopping mall, missed its mid-May trial deadline after heavy rains flooded the road’s not yet complete drainage system. “The water pumps were…
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Aussie surf safety expert to teach how to survive Phuket’s deadly rip currents
International specialist on rip currents and beach safety Associate Professor Robert Brander will stage a dramatic visual demonstration of the power of rip currents at Phuket’s deadliest stretch of sand, Karon Beach, this Thursday. Dr Brander is a coastal geomorphologist and senior lecturer at the School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences at the University of New South Wales in…
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Slip on Phuket rocks costs fisherman his life
PHUKET: A man fishing on rocks at Laem Sing promontory, on Phuket’s west coast, slipped and fell to his death yesterday afternoon. Sakorn Lamnaonan, 35, had taken a neighbor’s 10-year-old son to fish with him at about noon, Lt Prasert Thongprom of Kamala Police told the Phuket Gazette. “It was very windy and big waves were washing over the rocks,…
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Phuket Airport Bus plan to use van drivers reveals the road ahead
PHUKET: The chief official in charge of drafting key policy changes affecting Phuket’s public transport has revealed that he will present a request for an airport bus operator to hire van drivers to deliver tourists from Phuket International Airport directly to the taxi-mafia hotbed of Kata-Karon. Jaturong Kaewkasi, the chief policy adviser at the Phuket Land Transport Office, confirmed to…
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Phuket storms prompt flash flood, landslide warnings
PHUKET: Scattered thunderstorms and isolated downpours forecast for today through Wednesday have prompted disaster officials to issue flash flood and landslide warnings for risk areas throughout Phuket. “We issued a warning to every local administration in Phuket to watch out for flash floods and landslides and to be prepared to respond to emergencies in their areas,” Department of Disaster Prevention…
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Coup confidence sparks rally on stock market, stabilises baht
PHUKET MEDIA WATCH – Thailand news selected by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community Coup generates confidence, sparks a rally on stock market and stabilises baht The Nation / Phuket Gazette PHUKET: Consumers and investors have regained their confidence and banks are seeing a rise in demand for loans just one month after a coup saw the National Council for…
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Polish foreign minister: ‘We gave the US a blow job’
PHUKET MEDIA WATCH – World news selected by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community Polish foreign minister called ties to USA ‘worthless’ Reuters / Phuket Gazette PHUKET: A Polish news magazine said on Sunday it had obtained a secret recording of Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski, in contention for a senior European Union job, saying that Poland’s relationship with the United…
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South Korea conscript who killed five comrades continues standoff with troops
PHUKET MEDIA WATCH – World news selected by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community South Korea conscript who killed five comrades continues standoff with troops Reuters / Phuket Gazette PHUKET: A South Korean conscript soldier who killed five of his comrades in a grenade and gun attack continued a standoff on Monday with troops trying to capture him in a…
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Last-gasp equalizer keeps Portugal World Cup hopes alive
PHUKET MEDIA WATCH – World news selected by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community Last-gasp equalizer keeps Portugal World Cup hopes alive Reuters / Phuket Gazette PHUKET: Portuguese substitute Silvestre Varela grabbed a dramatic stoppage-time equalizer to secure a 2-2 draw with the United States in World Cup Group G on Sunday. Just as it looked as though the Americans…
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Police nab 22 young racers on motorbikes
PHUKET: A late-night teenage motorcycle race was nipped in the bud last night after local residents tipped off Phuket City Police after reading about the event in a Facebook post. “Local residents called yesterday afternoon and told officers about a race that was planned – as advertised on Facebook – for 10pm last night,” said Maj Rattaket Munmuang of the…
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Krabi tourist dies after sunbathing on beach
PHUKET: A tourist was pronounced dead on arrival at Krabi Hospital yesterday after other tourists found her unconscious on Ao Nang Beach with waves washing over her body. Thidarat Roh, 37, from Yasothon province in Northeastern Thailand, was sunbathing by herself when the tide came in and washed over her, witnesses told Lt Pithak Wongdet of Krabi City Police. “Beachgoers…
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Costa Rica stun Italy, France crush Switzerland
PHUKET MEDIA WATCH – World news selected by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community Costa Rica stun Italy, France crush Switzerland Reuters / Phuket Gazette PHUKET: Another European heavyweight fell to Latin American opposition on Friday as Costa Rica shocked Italy 1-0, putting the four-times champions’ qualification in peril, but France thumped Switzerland 5-2 in an imperious World Cup display.…
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US downgrades Thailand to be among worst human trafficking hubs
PHUKET MEDIA WATCH – Thailand news selected by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community Thailand downgraded to be among worst trafficking centres The Nation / Phuket Gazette PHUKET: The US State Department yesterday downgraded Thailand to the lowest level in its annual Trafficking in Persons (TIP) report – a move that could trigger sanctions by the United States. After years…
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Brazilian family cross extra fingers for sixth World Cup
PHUKET MEDIA WATCH – World news selected by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community Brazilian family cross extra fingers for sixth World Cup Reuters / Phuket Gazette PHUKET: Brazil have won a handful of World Cups but for one local family five is not enough. Fourteen members of the Da Silva family were born with six fingers on each hand…
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Korean woman jumps bail in B10mn Phuket fraud case, swept up 3 years later
PHUKET: A Korean woman who was wanted for jumping bail in a 10-million-baht fraud case three years ago was swept up today in a National Council for Peace and Order (NCPO) campaign to rid Phuket of crime. Lee Mikyong, 48, was arrested at a Korean restaurant on Chao Fa West Road in Wichit at about 11am, Phuket Immigration Inspector Tianchai…
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British embassy rolls out passport extensions
PHUKET: The British Embassy in Bangkok has announced that it will begin conducting appointments on Monday so that British nationals in need of an extension to their current passport can be issued them. Her Majesty’s Passport Office (HMPO) in London is dealing with the highest demand for passports in 12 years and has issued more than three million passports so…
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Phuket Poll: Beach land for Phuket’s beach clubs?
PHUKET: A bold campaign spearheaded by Phuket Vice Governor Chamroen Tipayapongtada and backed by the Army has led to the recent deconstruction of some parts of Phuket’s most popular west coast beach clubs, such as Catch Beach Club (story here). Though beach clubs aren’t the only targets in the bid to return Phuket’s public beach land to the people, they…
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South African arrested for running ATM card scam in Phuket
PHUKET: Police arrested a South African in possession of 72 bank cards early this morning for allegedly skimming ATMs at popular tourist beach towns along Phuket’s west coast. “Manquba Parker Ngcobo, from the Republic of South Africa, was identified as a suspected ATM skimmer after a police investigation revealed that he had been withdrawing money using multiple bank cards in…
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