Taiwanese tourist dies after night on the town

PHUKET TOWN: The body of a Taiwanese tourist who died early on Sunday in his room at the Royal Phuket City Hotel was collected today by family members. Pol Maj Winai Kongkaew said the tourist, whom he named as Huang Tao-min, 36, arrived on Saturday with a tour group from Taiwan. That evening he went out drinking with friends, returning to the hotel at about 3 am. The following morning his friends, unable to arouse him, had hotel staff open his room. They found Mr Huang dead. Initial results from an autopsy showed that he had been dead for about five hours from what appears to have been a heart attack.