Search Results for: body
- Phuket News
Death of German woman ‘natural’, say Phuket Police
PHUKET: Police do not suspect foul play in the death of a foreign woman found dead in her Phuket villa yesterday morning. Cherng Talay Police inspector Sarubadee Butranongsaeng told the Phuket Gazette that the woman was found dead by her husband at her home in Baan Layan. He named the deceased as German national Maria Makeenta, as identified by her…
- Thai Life
Phuket Diving: Out of the shadows ye self-reliant scuba diver
PHUKET: Ten years, five years, even two years ago, any conversations approaching the idea of “solo” diving were held in hushed voices in the back of small bars between experienced divers, or in the depths of online cave-diving forums. ‘Buddy diving’ was a philosophy heralded by Jacques Cousteau and the crew of the Calypso as early as the writing of…
- Thai Life
Phuket Lifestyle: Secret dinners keep guests guessing
PHUKET: Picture Phuket in 1785 (called Thalang then) when most of the island was still covered in virgin rain forest. Local people lived off the bounty of the nearby forests – roots, vines, leaves, barks, fruits, and seeds – and fresh seafood from the Andaman sea. At the time, when synthetic medicine was unheard off, people believed in the healing…
- Phuket News
Phuket Live Wire: Wait until Christmas
PHUKET: Last week I talked about the direction the computer industry is headed as we barrel along toward the Christmas season. If you’re thinking about buying any new electronics – computer, tablet, phone, maybe even a TV – it would be worthwhile to stay on top of developments between now and Christmas. Some of the stuff coming down the pipe…
- Phuket News
French tourist killed, another comatose in Phuket motorbike crash
PHUKET: One French tourist is dead and another remains in a coma after the motorbike they were riding crashed on the beach road in Karon before dawn yesterday.Chalong duty officer Boonlert Onklang said that police were informed of the accident, at a curved section of the beach road near the Hilton Phuket Arcadia Resort, at 3.40am. Arriving at the scene,…
- Thai Life
Land of Smiles: The mallification of Phuket
PHUKET: Get ready, Phuket people. It’s coming. It has already saturated Bangkok, and is moving rapidly southward, like an alien slime. I’m talking about mallification: the process by which a nation becomes overrun with enormous shopping malls. Now the mallification of Bangkok has progressed to the point where they are considering appointing a Minister of Malls to oversee the process.…
- Phuket News
Forensic test results delay trial of Nong Som’s killer
PHUKET: The delay in receiving test results from the Institute of Forensic Medicine at Police General Hospital in Bangkok has resulted police having to defer bringing to trial the killer of 17-year-old Sunisa “Nong Som” Saiyoy. Nong Som was killed by an intruder in her family home in Chalong on July 10 while her parents were still tending to their…
- Phuket News
Cristiano Ronaldo: “It is the most difficult group in my opinion
PHUKET: “It is the most difficult group in my opinion and I think that’s the same for most people. But we are champions of Spain and we are ready to compete with everybody.” After the draw for the Champions League Group Stages the Real Madrid midfielder Cristiano Ronaldo admitted his team face a daunting task in Group D with Manchester…
- Phuket News
Search continues for killer Phi Phi speedboat
PHUKET: Krabi Police are still working to identify vessels that were at Tonsai Beach on Phi Phi Island when a French tourist was killed while snorkeling in the area on August 18. Police suspect a fast-moving speedboat struck and killed French national Olivier Raymond Philippe Jannequin. The police report into Mr Jannequin’s death included a statement from Phi Phi Island…
- Phuket News
Loei woman found hanged at Phuket workers’ camp
PHUKET: Colleagues of a female construction worker found hanged at a workers’ camp in Phuket early yesterday evening have no idea why she decided to take her own life. Police were notified of the death at 5:45pm. Arriving at the camp with Phuket Kusoldharm Foundation workers, they found the body of 30-year-old Nuanchan Donphon hanged by the neck in a…
- Phuket News
Phuket Live Wire: It’s the future of computers
PHUKET: August is usually a rather dull month for the computer industry. This August started out with an enormous amount of activity, but as the days wane, so does the news. All eyes at this point are fixed on the coming Christmas season. And it looks like Christmas this year will be very interesting indeed. Microsoft has already released its…
- Phuket News
Phuket man dies of heroin overdose in gas station bathroom
PHUKET: A Phuket man died of an apparent heroin overdose in a gas station bathroom in Thalang yesterday. Staff at the Shell service station on Thepkrasattri Road southbound in Thepkrasattri Subdistrict notified Thalang Police of the death at 4:30pm. Arriving at the station with Phuket Kusoldharm Foundation workers, police found the body of a man slumped over in the middle…
- Phuket News
Police brutality complaint filed over drug suspect arrest
PHUKET: A man who claims his nephew was severely beaten by five Thalang police officers trying to extract more information after they had arrested him for drug possession has filed a complaint at the Phuket Damrongtham Center (ombudsman’s office).Prapakorn Waharak, a 20-year-old Thalang resident, was accompanied to the Damrongtham Center at Provincial Hall yesterday by his uncle Prapan Waharak, 40,…
- Phuket News
Phuket FC ready for showdown with Ratchaburi
PHUKET: First-place Ratchaburi FC is in “fine form” and preparing to play attacking football in tonight’s highly-anticipated match against Phuket FC, the team’s coach told a pre-match press conference yesterday. Speaking in the Phuket FC office opposite Surakul Stadium, Ratchaburi Coach Somchai Maiwelai said, “Even though there is a considerable gap between our teams [26 points], we’re not going to…
- Phuket News
Families of Phuket disco fire accept Bt1mn compensation
PHUKET: Families of the two Thai victims killed in the Tiger Discotheque fire on August 17 accepted compensation cheques of 1 million baht each during a ceremony in Phuket yesterday. The handover ceremony at the Tiger Live Band venue in Patong, not far down Bangla Road from the gutted disco, was shown live on Thai TV Channel 7 as part…
- Phuket News
Phuket Sports: Rory roars to another Major
PHUKET: The last Major on this year’s PGA Tour golfing calendar, the PGA Championship, was played at the Ocean Course Kiawah Island South Carolina, one of the most difficult courses in the world. Before the tournament started, Kiawah Island had heavy thunder storms, similar to the weather in Phuket presently. As all the world’s top professionals gathered, including newly crowned…
- Phuket News
Phuket Tiger Disco fire: Police identify two Thai women as victims
PHUKET: Forensics experts at the Institute of Forensic Medicine in Bangkok have officially announced the names of two more victims of the Tiger Discotheque fire in Phuket last Friday. Dr Bhawat Prateepvisrut, a forensic pathologist at the institute, confirmed to the Phuket Gazette today that two of the four bodies recovered from the scorched nightclub had been identified as those…
- Phuket News
Four Tiger Disco victims found “one meter’ from fire exit: rescue workers
PHUKET: Rescue workers who recovered the bodies of the four people who died in the Tiger Discotheque inferno last Friday have revealed that all four bodies were found only “one to two meters” from a fire exit. “All four of the bodies were found in front of the restrooms on the second floor, only one to two meters from a…
- Phuket News
Phuket teenager confesses to slaying stepfather with axe
PHUKET: A 15-year-old boy who confessed to murdering his stepfather with an axe told police yesterday that the attack was motivated by the man’s abusive behavior to his mother. The murder was reported to Chalong Police at 9:30pm on Tuesday. Arriving at the scene, a modest home near the Baan Maneekram housing estate on Kwang Road, police found the body…
- Phuket News
Phuket Sports: The noble art of Muay Chaiya
PHUKET: Muay Chaiya, or Chaiya-styled Thai Boxing, is part of the martial arts that are collectively known as Muay Boran, literally the ancient art of fighting. It’s the ancestor of the ever-popular Thai boxing, Muay Thai, which has been heavily adapted and modified into the fast and furious stage fight that we know today. Originating in Chaiya, a town in…
- Phuket News
Phuket floods delay flight, mudslide confirmed
PHUKET: The floodwater that slowed traffic to a snail’s pace across Phuket this morning resulted in a Thai Airways flight being delayed to ensure passengers caught in traffic jams could get aboard. Staff at the Phuket International Airport Customer Service department confirmed to the Phuket Gazette that Thai Airways flight number TG204, scheduled to depart Phuket at 10:55am, was delayed…
- Phuket News
Dead sperm whale washes ashore in Phang Nga
PHUKET: The carcass of a sperm whale measuring nine meters long and weighing an estimated six tons was found washed ashore at Bang Sak Beach in Phang Nga, north of Phuket, this morning. Experts from the Phuket Marine Biological Center (PMBC) believe the whale died at sea from an illness about four days ago and its carcass was washed ashore…
- Business News
Phuket Business: German economist warns about ASEAN+3
PHUKET: Mechanisms need to be in place for crisis prevention and resolution before the next economic crash, and this means the Southeast Asian regional financial structure needs to be reformed, warns Ulrich Volz, a senior economist at the German Development Institute.Giving a public lecture at Chulalongkorn University on lessons learned from the current European crisis, Volz said there were five…
- Phuket News
Phuket Live Wire: Goodbye to ol’ Hotmail
PHUKET: If you have a Hotmail account, you’re in for a big surprise. Microsoft is throwing away Hotmail completely. That’s quite a comeuppance for one of the best-known brands in the world. Imagine Toyota throwing away the Camry brand, or Louis ditching Vuitton. Once upon a time, Hotmail blazed new ground as the first major free web-based e-mail service when…
- Phuket News
British tourist confirmed as Tiger Disco fire victim
PHUKET: Royal Thai Police forensics experts have identified British national Michael Tzouvanni, 24, as one of the four people killed in the Tiger Discotheque fire in Patong early last Friday morning. The news was announced at a press conference led by Assistant National Police Chief Charamporn Suramanee at the Royal Thai Police Institute of Forensic Medicine in Bangkok, where the…
- Phuket News
French tourist dies snorkeling in Phi Phi speedboat accident
PHUKET: A French tourist died after being struck by a speedboat while snorkeling off Phi Phi Island, near Phuket, yesterday afternoon. Phi Phi Police named the man as Olivier Jannequin, 42 years old. Police were notified of the accident at about 12:30pm. Mr Jannequin was travelling with four Frenchmen. Two of them went snorkeling not far from the shore, the…
- Phuket News
Tiger Disco fire: French, British named as probable victims
PHUKET: Patong Police Superintendent Jirapat Phochanaphan this afternoon confirmed to the Phuket Gazette that police were now investigating at least three more missing persons now suspected of being victims of the Tiger Discotheque fire that killed four people early Friday morning. “Police are investigating four people named as missing. We will ask for DNA samples to be provided so they…
- Phuket News
Tiger Disco Fire: Friend identifies watch, bracelet of missing Thai waitress
PHUKET: A Thai waitress who worked at the Tiger Discotheque may have been identified today after a friend recognized a wristwatch and a bracelet found on one of the four bodies incinerated by the blaze. Phuket Provincial Police Commander Chonasit Wattanavrangkul today confirmed that several people had come forward to identify at least one of the four victims incinerated in…
- Phuket News
4 dead, 11 injured in Tiger disco inferno
PHUKET: A pre-dawn blaze at the popular Tiger Bar and Discotheque in Phuket has left four people dead and 11 people injured. Among the injured were four French nationals.Kathu Police were notified of the blaze at the well-known Patong nightspot at about 4am. Patong Municipality Fire Department rescuers raced to the scene with eight fire engines. It took them about…
- Thai Life
Phuket Lifestyle: The big zipper
PHUKET: Keeping with the idea that people and modern primates were once related by a distant cousin, I’d like to make a comparison. Humans are social like primates, we use tools like they do and we have the same urge to swing recklessly through the tops of trees for sheer amusement. Such amusement is available in our back yard (a…
