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  • Phuket NewsWhere’s Juthamas?; Cambodia’s complaint; floods; hot info | Thaiger
    Legacy Phuket GazettePublished: 13:42, 15 August 2010
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    Where’s Juthamas?; Cambodia’s complaint; floods; hot info

    Phuket NEWS Hound – A daily digest of news about Thailand from around the world, compiled by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community. Juthamas back in lions’ den PHUKET: The Nation reports this morning that the national anti-graft agency is likely to seek legal indictment of former Tourism Authority of Thailand (TAT) governor Juthamas Siriwan in connection with a bribery…

  • Phuket NewsMET issued flood warning for Phuket
    Legacy Phuket GazettePublished: 15:08, 27 July 2010
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    MET issued flood warning for Phuket

    PHUKET: Due to prevailing strong monsoonal conditions, the Meteorological Department (MET) has issued a flood warning to residents in risk areas of Phuket, Phang Nga, Krabi and Ranong. Issued by the MET Southern Meteorological Center (West Coast) at Phuket International Airport at 11am today, the warning states that residents in risk areas should be prepared for flooding and flash-flooding. It…

  • Phuket NewsPhuket storm warnings
    Legacy Phuket GazettePublished: 18:11, 13 July 2009
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    Phuket storm warnings

    PHUKET CITY: The Meteorological Department has issued a weather warning as the Andaman region continues to be battered by heavy rain and strong winds.The warning said strong southwest monsoonal conditions continue to affect the Andaman Sea and southwest coast of southern Thailand.Rain, very heavy at times, continues in most west coast areas.As there is a risk of flash-flooding and landslides,…

  • Thailand NewsFlushed condoms trigger sewage catastrophe | Thaiger
    Legacy Phuket GazettePublished: 18:00, 30 October 2008
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    Flushed condoms trigger sewage catastrophe

    PATHUM THANI: Most people have been warned at some point not to flush condoms down the toilet for risk of blocking the outflow pipe and having a nasty overflowing toilet to deal with. But who has ever seen it actually happen? The management of one short-time hotel in Muang District discovered, to its chagrin, that a steady input of second-hand…

  • Phuket NewsWet, wet, wet | Thaiger
    Legacy Phuket GazettePublished: 15:28, 11 September 2008
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    Wet, wet, wet

    PHUKET: Residents hoping for some sun to dry out the laundry might have to wait longer, as the Meteorological Department (MET) has issued a warning that Phuket and the other five Andaman Coast provinces remain at risk of heavy rains and flooding for the next two to three days. All ships should proceed with caution during this period, the weather warning…

  • Phuket NewsKhao Sok Cave Tragedy: Guides were warned, survivor recounts ordeal | Thaiger
    Legacy Phuket GazettePublished: 15:06, 15 October 2007
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    Khao Sok Cave Tragedy: Guides were warned, survivor recounts ordeal

    SURAT THANI (Nation, Gazette): The two Thai tour guides who led a group of foreign tourists into a cave at Khao Sok National Park over the weekend did so despite a warning by park officials about the danger of flooding inside, the Gazette has learned.Both guides and six of the seven tourists who entered the cave with them died in…

  • Phuket NewsCyclone prompts local weather warning | Thaiger
    Legacy Phuket GazettePublished: 19:02, 14 May 2007
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    Cyclone prompts local weather warning

    PHUKET: The Southern Meteorological Center (West Coast) issued a regional weather warning for Southern West Thailand at 4 pm today after tracking a Tropical Cyclone “01B” in the Bay of Bengal. The cyclone has winds of up 75kmh and has been causing unusually rainy conditions along the Andaman Coast over the past few days. At 1 pm today the depression…

  • Phuket NewsPhuket beaches closed due to bad weather | Thaiger
    Legacy Phuket GazettePublished: 18:39, 04 May 2007
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    Phuket beaches closed due to bad weather

    PHUKET (Gazette, The Nation): Winds gusting up to 35 kilometers an hour and waves of up to two meters in height crashing along Phuket’s west coast forced lifeguards to close nearly all of Phuket’s main beaches today.Siripong Yukhonthorn, Deputy President of the Andaman Life Saving Club and a senior figure in the provincial government’s Life Guard project, told the Gazette,…

  • Phuket NewsGov halts work on housing project
    Legacy Phuket GazettePublished: 18:31, 06 October 2005
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    Gov halts work on housing project

    RASSADA: Phuket Governor Udomsak Uswarangkura and Muang District Chief Wirawat Janpen yesterday went to Soi Siang Tai to order a halt to the construction of an 80-unit residential housing project on Toh Sae Hill, citing seven different building code violations. Gov Udomsak said his inspection of the site followed complaints by Soi Siang Tai residents, lodged with the Damrongtham Center,…

  • Phuket NewsPhang Nga counts storm damage | Thaiger
    Legacy Phuket GazettePublished: 06:25, 25 August 2000
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    Phang Nga counts storm damage

    PHANG NGA: Provincial officials have been counting the cost of damage caused by Tropical Storm Kaemi after it hit Southern Thailand last week. Deputy Provincial Governor Wut Sitthisurat yesterday submitted a report on damage caused by the storm to officials at the Ministry of Interior, in which he estimated damage in six districts at 1.1 million baht. He added in…