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Human Rights Watch calls for probe into alleged Rohingya shootings
PHUKET: New York-based Human Rights Watch (HRW) today issued a statement calling for the Thai authorities to investigate reports of Royal Thai Navy sailors opening fire on a boatload of Rohingya off the Phang Nga coast, north of Phuket, allegedly killing at least two of the refugees. “Rohingya fleeing Burma should be given protection, not shot at,” said Brad Adams,…
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Phuket Gazette Sports: Champions League latest; Barc and Galatasaray win; Arsenal falling short – Graham
Magical Messi lifts Barca to stunning comeback Reuters / Phuket Gazette PHUKET: A fired-up Lionel Messi answered his critics by inspiring Barcelona to a sensational Champions League comeback against AC Milan last night with two goals in a 4-0 home win to help them reach the quarter-finals. A rampant Barca, all-but written off after a surprise 2-0 reverse at Milan’s…
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Phuket Gazette Thailand News: Three Thai butterfly close to extinction
PHUKET MEDIA WATCH – Thailand news selected by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community Three Thai butterflies close to extinction Phuket Gazette / The NationPHUKET: Three Thai butterfly species are close to extinction but can still be traded under international laws. Watana Sakchoowong, of the National Parks, Wildlife and Plant Conservation Department, said yesterday the endangered species are Teinopalpus imperialis,…
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Phuket Gazette World News: No Pope as black smoke rises over Sistine Chapel
PHUKET MEDIA WATCH– World news selected by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community Cardinals begin voting in earnest for new pope to face Church crisis Phuket GazettePHUKET: Cardinals begin the process of choosing a new pope in earnest today, holding their first full day of voting for a leader to face a major crisis in the Roman Catholic Church.The 115…
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Vietnamese Defense Minister visits Naval Command in Phuket
PHUKET: The Royal Thai Navy’s Third Area Command gave a warm welcome to General Phung Quang Thanh, Vietnam’s Minister of National Defense, yesterday as he made his first diplomatic visit to the Phuket naval base responsible for Thailand’s Andaman coast.“I am very lucky to have had the opportunity to visit Thailand several times. This is my first official visit to…
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Government chief, 100-year-old tree deliver crushing blow to driver’s insurance
PHUKET: The chief of the Phuket Provincial Social Security Office (PPSSO) has denied any liability for a tree – believed by locals to be about 100 years old – that fell and crushed five cars in the Social Security car park this morning.No injuries were reported in the incident.“It was an accident and the tree was here before the building,”…
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Phuket Vice Governor tees off probe into course-side land conflict
PHUKET: Conflicting descriptions of property boundaries on the land titles for a plot beside the Loch Palm Golf Course and for the course itself has prompted Phuket Vice Governor Somkiet Sangkaosuttirak to launch an investigation into which title deed is accurate. Vice Governor Somkiet visited the site in person after Rattana Bunyoungponglert filed a complaint that Loch Palm had built…
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Bikes found flaming near popular Phuket Beach
PHUKET: Police are investigating the possible arson of four motorbikes parked on public land at the entrance of Laem Sing Beach.At about 3:45pm today Kamala Police received a report that four vehicles had burst into flames.“Three of the motorbikes belong to locals who work on the beach as masseuses; the other motorbike was the rental bike of a tourist who…
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Officers arrest six foreigners for working illegally in Phuket
PHUKET: Phuket Immigration officers yesterday raided a software design office in Rawai, where they arrested six foreigners, half of them Russian, for working illegally. Phuket Immigration Investigator Chidchanok Sakornyen led the raid, which saw his team of officers enter the site at 12:30pm. We found six foreigners working as software and web design consultants and operating a website. We questioned…
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Phuket Gazette Sports: Must provoke things – Arsene Wenger
Arsenal seek unlikely escape route in Munich Reuters / Phuket Gazette “Our mentality is to go there, not resigned, but ambitious and provoke things, not go there and think ‘we will not qualify anyway,” Wenger said yesterday before leaving for Bayern Munich. PHUKET: Arsenal must stage one of the most unlikely Champions League comebacks if they are to advance at…
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Phuket Gazette Thailand News: Protection for shark and manta; Tiger and elephant poaching
PHUKET MEDIA WATCH – Thailand news compiled by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community Five shark species and manta ray to get protection Phuket Gazette / The Nation PHUKET: After being killed in unlimited numbers for decades, five shark species and the manta ray have won the protection of the world’s wildlife and plants summit, prompting countries to regulate trade…
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Phuket Gazette World News: India rape suspect suicide; Iran-Pak lays pipeline; Neo German Party; Harvard says sorry
PHUKET MEDIA WATCH – World news compiled by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community Alleged ringleader in India gang-rape case found dead in cell Reuters / Phuket Gazette PHUKET: The man police say was the ringleader in a gang rape on a New Delhi bus in December that outraged India hanged himself in his cell yesterday, prison authorities said, raising…
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Phuket celebrates 54th anniversary of HM the King’s visit
PHUKET: A ceremony to mark HM King Bhumibol Adulyadej’s visit to Phuket 54 years ago was led by Phuket Vice Governor Somkiet Sangkaosutthirak today.A merit-making ceremony with nine monks at the Governor’s residence started the proceedings at about 7 am, after which Phuket V/Gov Somkiet carried the Phuket Provincial sword through the streets of Phuket.The revered sword was presented to…
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Tiger Woods: ‘That’s why I work my tail off…’
Tiger works his tail off Reuters / Phuket Gazette“I enjoy being there. That’s why I work my tail off to lift all those weights, hit all those balls and spend those countless hours out there to be in that position,” Tiger Woods said after clinching victory at the WGC-Cadillac Championship. PHUKET: Tiger Woods made 27 birdies on his way to…
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Six children caught in Phuket beggar bust
PHUKET: Six children were part of a group of Cambodian beggars rounded up in Patong on Friday, as police continue to crackdown on beggars from abroad (story here). Police took six children into custody, aged between 5 months and 8 years, in addition to arresting six adults – three men and three women. None of the adults had a passport…
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Phuket Opinion: Tough love for Phuket stray dogs
PHUKET: For the past 10 months, Weerasit Puthipairoj, 58, has been the chief of the Phuket Provincial Livestock Office. Originally from Narathiwat, Mr Weerasit has a master’s degree in Agricultural Development from the Prince of Songkla University Haad Yai campus in Songkhla. Here, he talks about stray dogs in Phuket, the best way to deal with them and what to…
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Phuket women focus on exercise for International Women’s Day
PHUKET: More than 1,000 women gathered at Phuket’s landmark Promthep Cape on Friday for a pre-sunset mass exercise to mark International Women’s Day. The event was held under the theme “Women Healthy Creative” as part of an ongoing campaign being conducted by the Phuket Women’s Development Center. The objective of the campaign is to raise awareness among Thai women of…
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Phuket Opinion: Drivers – Charming, to the last
PHUKET: At first I was charmed by Thai driving idiosyncrasies, like motorcycles puttering along on the wrong side of the road. To all those who said “There are no rules”, I said “But there are!” For example, that wrong-way driving motorcyclist knows he had better stay well to the side and go slowly.When someone said, “Drivers in Phuket don’t get…
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Phuket Business: Three more subdivisions get approval
PHUKET: A recent Phuket Land Subdivision Committee (PLSC) meeting gave provisional approval for three Land Subdivision Permit (LSP) applications, while denying another application. Chaired by Phuket Vice Governor Chamroen Tipayapongtada, the PLSC’s first meeting this year was held on March 5 at the Phuket Land Office. Among the topics addressed in the meeting was the review and consideration of four…
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Koh Lanta villagers seek media help to end dumping ‘health issue’
PHUKET: Villagers in Koh Lanta, east of Phuket, have appealed to the Krabi Press Club to help resolve health problems caused by the recent burning of rubbish at a landfill which they say local authorities have ignored. “We have asked the OrBorTor Saladan [in Koh Lanta] to solve the problem, but nothing has been done,” said Phakob Solaem, a local…
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Baby buffalo killed in Phuket hit-and-run, owner blamed
PHUKET: A pickup truck struck and killed a young buffalo and then drove off north of Phuket Town on Saturday night, but authorities say the buffalo’s owner was at fault. “In this case, the owner of the buffalo must pay for the damage to the pickup truck,” Phuket City Police chief Col Sermphan Sirikong explained to the Phuket Gazette. “He…
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Phuket United beat Samut Prakarn, win five in a row
PHUKET: Playing their final home match of the season, Phuket United defeated Samut Prakarn Futsal Club 4-1 in a thrilling match on Saturday night in Phuket Town. The victory was the Andaman Pearl’s fifth in a row, and was both side’s 28th game of the 30-fixture GMM Sport Thailand Futsal Premier League (TFPL) 2012-2013 season. Played at the 4,000-seat Saphan…
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Phuket Gazette World Sports: Slim pickings will be offered by Wales in finale of Six Nations
Everything to play for in Cardiff finale Reuters / Phuket Gazette PHUKET: After a painfully poor-quality weekend of Six Nations rugby that produced three tries and an off-the-chart penalty count, fans will hope that next Saturday’s title showdown between Wales and England in Cardiff lives up to its billing. It will undoubtedly be a fantastic occasion with the Millennium Stadium…
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Phuket FC draw Bangkok in season home opener
PHUKET: The Southern Sea Warriors, Phuket FC drew against Bangkok FC 2-2 in their first Yamaha League One (YL1) home match of the season, played last night at Surakul Stadium. Kritsada Sakaew opened the scoring in the 24th minute for Phuket, beating Bangkok FC’s Cameroonian keeper, Jean-Marc Engoulou Beyeme, at his near post with a free kick just outside the…
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Phuket Sports: Brits dip into TSLC
PHUKET: Thanyapura Sports and Leisure Club’s (TSLC) management recently added the British sprint swim team to their list of world class sporting guests, welcoming the team of Olympians and world record holders to the international standard sports training facility in Phuket. Among the swimmers who flew out to Thailand for the training programme were two times world champion and world…
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Phuket Gazette World News: Syria rebels breach Homs; Pope vote begins; PNG quake; China land protests; Khmer war crimes
PHUKET MEDIA WATCH – World news compiled by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community Syrian rebels pierce Assad’s siege lines in Homs – opposition Reuters / Phuket Gazette PHUKET:Syrian rebels broke through government lines to ease a siege of their positions in the strategic central city of Homs yesterday despite coming under fierce aerial bombardment, opposition campaigners said. The communally…
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Phuket Gazette Sports: Chelsea force replay as Liverpool win thriller; Euro roundup
Chelsea fight back as Bayern, Juve move clear Reuters / Phuket Gazette PHUKET: Chelsea came from two goals down at Manchester United to draw 2-2 in a thrilling FA Cup quarter-final yesterday that capped a bad week for the Premier League leaders who were knocked out of the Champions League on Tuesday. Their conquerors in midweek, Real Madrid, beat struggling…
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Phuket book launch makes history
PHUKET: It was standing room only as more than 250 people crammed into the auditorium next to Les Anges bakery at Royal Phuket Marina (RPM) yesterday evening for the launch of Colin Mackay’s potentially seminal work,”A History of Phuket and the Surrounding Region”.More than six years in the making, the book references more than 800 texts detailing the arrival of…
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Driver with drugs in black plate taxi trunk gets attempted bribery charges to boot
PHUKET: A Phuket bound “black plate” taxi was caught doing double-duty yesterday as it hauled 45 kilograms of kratom leaves back from Surat Thani after dropping a group of Russian tourists off in a resort in Nakorn Sri Thammarat. The drug-running duo in the car have been charged with the intent to sell a category five drug and for bribery…
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Phuket concrete-mixing truck kills 5-year-old boy
PHUKET: A concrete-mixing truck ran over a 5-year-old Burmese boy in Thalang on Friday night. The boy, “Juggy”, was on a motorbike with his 35-year-old mother, Mrs Namprik, and his 3-year-old sister. The concrete-mixing truck, allegedly being driven at a high speed toward a construction site in Patong, struck the motorbike at around 9:45pm on the Baan Don-Cherngtalay Road, Roonnaphum…
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