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  • Phuket NewsOfficials Record 20 New AIDS Cases | Thaiger
    Legacy Phuket GazettePublished: 05:40, 05 October 1998
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    Officials Record 20 New AIDS Cases

    PHUKET TOWN: Government health officials recorded 20 new cases of AIDS in Phuket province and six deaths from AIDS-related complications during the one-month reporting period ending September 19. The Phuket Provincial Health Department has recorded 765 cases of AIDS since it began keeping records in January, 1989. A total of 262 deaths attributed to AIDS-related complications have been recorded during…

  • Phuket NewsIsland Swept By Snoopy Mania | Thaiger
    Legacy Phuket GazettePublished: 04:53, 05 October 1998
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    Island Swept By Snoopy Mania

    PHUKET: Hong Kong tourists were packing more than T-shirts and cashew nuts into their suitcases last month as they snatched up hundreds of Snoopy dolls from the island’s two McDonald’s restaurants. Faced with long queues and limited selections back home, collectors of the Happy Meal prize items helped clean out the stock at the burger emporium’s Phuket Town and Patong…

  • Phuket NewsBike Riders In Relapse | Thaiger
    Legacy Phuket GazettePublished: 06:48, 01 October 1998
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    Bike Riders In Relapse

    PHUKET TOWN: Just hours after Governor Chaedej Insawang announced that he had directed police to relax enforcement of the mandatory helmet law for passengers of motorbike taxis, (and only for passengers of motorbike taxis), local residents took to the streets in large numbers last night without headgear. A Gazette reporter posted under the clock tower at the intersection of Phuket…

  • Phuket NewsTaxi Driver Testifies In Murder Trial | Thaiger
    Legacy Phuket GazettePublished: 06:46, 01 October 1998
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    Taxi Driver Testifies In Murder Trial

    Taxi Driver Testifies In Murder Trial PHUKET TOWN: A taxi driver testified in court today that he picked up murder suspect Kraisorn Kamnoun and another Thai male on the Patong-Karon Road one evening last December. Suwit Hemlek, a 34-year-old tuk tuk driver, was the first of two witnesses to testify this morning before Phuket Provincial Court Judge Amornpoj Kulwijit in…

  • Phuket NewsSearch Intensifies For Missing Tourist | Thaiger
    Legacy Phuket GazettePublished: 05:35, 21 September 1998
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    Search Intensifies For Missing Tourist

    KOH PHANGAN: Local and regional authorities have stepped up their search for a Japanese tourist who has been missing for more than a week from this resort island near Koh Samui. Phangan Deputy Police Chief Pol Lt-Col Prayoon Krutmusik told the Gazette this morning that helicopters and specially-trained scent dogs from Provincial Police Region 8 Headquarters in Surat Thani were…

  • Phuket NewsHoteliers To Add 345 Rooms | Thaiger
    Legacy Phuket GazettePublished: 05:34, 21 September 1998
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    Hoteliers To Add 345 Rooms

    KARON BEACH: Innkeepers on this popular stretch of beach are busily preparing new guest rooms as the high tourist season approaches. Karon’s newest hotel will debut next month with the planned grand opening of the Phuket Sukpracha Resort. Located on Patak Road near the Karon Circle, the 200 million baht project includes 196 guest rooms, a shopping arcade, a Thai…

  • Phuket NewsPolice Nab Two In Theft Ring | Thaiger
    Legacy Phuket GazettePublished: 05:33, 21 September 1998
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    Police Nab Two In Theft Ring

    PHUKET TOWN: A motorbike theft ring was broken up by Muang district crime suppression officers on Sunday, Provincial Police Commander Kongpol Suwannaraks announced this morning. Officers arrested 38-year-old Sirisak Songsiri of Phuket Town near the Honda automobile dealership on Phang Nga Road at approximately 5 p.m. Sunday while he was attempting to steal a motorbike parked at the site of…

  • Phuket NewsShouting Subsides At Local Prison | Thaiger
    Legacy Phuket GazettePublished: 05:32, 21 September 1998
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    Shouting Subsides At Local Prison

    PHUKET TOWN: Visitors to Phuket Provincial Prison are saving their voices, thanks to a newly-installed two-way communication system at the facility. Visitors can now pick up a handset and converse directly with an inmate for 15 minutes inside the visiting room. The new 20,000-baht system has replaced the jail’s antiquated set-up wherein the parties – separated by steel curtains and…