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  • Phuket NewsPhuket rescue drill targets sea safety
    Legacy Phuket GazettePublished: 16:20, 28 July 2011
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    Phuket rescue drill targets sea safety

    PHUKET: Emergency service agencies staged their annual coordinated sea rescue drill off Phuket’s east coast yesterday, simulating a tourist boat catching fire after colliding with a cargo ship. The exercise aimed to improve coordination among a battery of rescue personnel from different agencies, including police, health officials and hospital staff, the Royal Thai Navy, local administration organizations and related departments…

  • Phuket NewsPhuket police claim “breakthrough’ with drug mule bust
    Legacy Phuket GazettePublished: 16:00, 26 July 2011
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    Phuket police claim “breakthrough’ with drug mule bust

    PHUKET: Police believe they have made a major breakthrough in breaking a Phuket drug delivery chain that leads all the way to Bang Kwang Prison in Bangkok. A provincial anti-drugs task force together with Border Patrol Police from Takuapa in Phang Nga arrested Prapan “Ae” Nammali during a sting operation in Saphan Hin Village on Sunday night. The arrest was…

  • Phuket NewsDriver “not drinking’ in fatal Phuket crash
    Legacy Phuket GazettePublished: 14:03, 25 July 2011
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    Driver “not drinking’ in fatal Phuket crash

    PHUKET: Police have confirmed that alcohol was not a factor in a fatal car accident in central Phuket on Friday. The driver of the car, Lithuanian Tamara Latvijas Rabo, 31, died instantly in the crash and Kuwaiti Waleed MHH Alostad, 37, the front-seat passenger, later died at Phuket International Hospital (PIH), Police Duty Officer Kittiphum Tinthalang told the Phuket Gazette.…

  • Phuket NewsMurder the ultimate risk in Phuket land. Did it trigger the temple murders? | Thaiger
    Legacy Phuket GazettePublished: 12:33, 24 July 2011
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    Murder the ultimate risk in Phuket land. Did it trigger the temple murders?

    PHUKET: Murder the ultimate risk in Phuket land deals. Did it trigger the temple murders? The significance of the armed attack by six gunmen at Suwanpadit temple in Surat Thani last Sunday is not lost on Phuket people. The men, armed with pistols, entered the temple and opened fire on Songwut Noppakhun, an official serving with the Surat Thani Provincial…

  • Phuket NewsPhuket hotelier dies in sidewalk crash
    Legacy Phuket GazettePublished: 12:36, 22 July 2011
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    Phuket hotelier dies in sidewalk crash

    PHUKET: A 54-year-old Swedish hotelier died after sustaining injuries in a motorcycle accident early Tuesday morning in Patong. Vachira Phuket Hospital identified the victim as Lars-Goran Salomonsson, who owned the Lars-Lita guest-house and restaurant in Patong with his wife, Lita. After hearing the sound of a loud crash around dawn, witnesses found Mr Salmonsson lying in a pool of blood…

  • Phuket NewsPhuket holiday: Dane found dead in Kamala
    Legacy Phuket GazettePublished: 18:20, 19 July 2011
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    Phuket holiday: Dane found dead in Kamala

    PHUKET: A 62-year-old Danish man was found dead in a resort garden near his Phuket hotel room this morning. Lt Col Anek Mongkol, duty officer at Kamala Police Station, told the Phuket Gazette that staff at the Print Kamala Resort discovered the man’s body at about 6:30am and called the police immediately. “His body was found in gardens beside a…

  • Phuket NewsTemple shootout prompts Phuket security concerns
    Legacy Phuket GazettePublished: 20:02, 18 July 2011
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    Temple shootout prompts Phuket security concerns

    PHUKET: The gunfight at a temple in Surat Thani early this morning that claimed the lives of a local official and a five-year-old girl has sparked security concerns at temples in Phuket. Six men armed with pistols entered the Suwanpadit temple just after midnight last night and opened fire on local administrator Songwut Noppakhun, killing him. Mr Songwut was handing…

  • Phuket NewsDriver plows Phuket trees, hits pole
    Legacy Phuket GazettePublished: 10:48, 16 July 2011
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    Driver plows Phuket trees, hits pole

    PHUKET: A businessman driving from Phang Nga to Phuket crashed his pickup truck in Thalang yesterday, taking out six small roadside trees before finally crashing into a power pole. Thalang Police were notified of the accident just after 10am. At the scene, in front of the Yee Teng Mansion on Thepkrasattri Road near the Isuzu dealership, police and rescue workers…

  • Phuket News“Bagged’ American may have been murdered: Phuket Police | Thaiger
    Legacy Phuket GazettePublished: 19:32, 14 July 2011
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    “Bagged’ American may have been murdered: Phuket Police

    PHUKET: Phuket Police have not ruled out foul play in the investigation into the death of an American man whose body was found in his holiday apartment near Karon Beach earlier today. Chalong Police Duty Officer Attawat Suwannarat told the Phuket Gazette that a maid at the Mountain Seaview Apartment resort found the guest dead in his room just after…

  • Phuket NewsPhuket “warms up’ for Mother’s Day
    Legacy Phuket GazettePublished: 12:44, 12 July 2011
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    Phuket “warms up’ for Mother’s Day

    PHUKET: Phuket International Hospital is holding a “Warm Family Photo Contest” as part of its celebrations to mark upcoming Mother’s Day, held in Thailand each year on the birthday of HM Queen Sirikit on August 12. Cash and other prizes to be won in the contest, open to Thais and foreigners but not to professional photographers, total 20,000 baht. Entries…

  • Phuket NewsPhuket kickboxing student loses foot in motorbike crash | Thaiger
    Legacy Phuket GazettePublished: 15:17, 11 July 2011
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    Phuket kickboxing student loses foot in motorbike crash

    PHUKET: An Australian man studying Thai kickboxing in Phuket lost his foot when the motorbike he was riding collided with a car in Chalong last night. Staff at the Phuket Provincial Administration Organization’s Tourist Rescue Center named the victim as 30-year-old Mark Anthony Schreiber. At about 9pm, Mr Schreiber’s motorbike collided with a Toyota Fortuner at the entrance to Soi…

  • Phuket NewsPhuket murder: victim’s lesbian lover sought for questioning | Thaiger
    Legacy Phuket GazettePublished: 20:09, 10 July 2011
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    Phuket murder: victim’s lesbian lover sought for questioning

    PHUKET: Police are investigating the apparent murder of a Phuket Town garment vendor whose body was discovered yesterday in her rented home in Chalong. Chalong Police identified the victim as 41-year-old Chamaiporn Chuaykham, originally from Trang Province. The gruesome discovery, at the victim’s home on Soi Kloom Yang Para, was made by Nattiporn Chuaykham, the 29-year-old brother of the victim.…

  • Phuket NewsBody of missing Aussie tourist found
    Legacy Phuket GazettePublished: 09:53, 07 July 2011
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    Body of missing Aussie tourist found

    PHUKET: A Phuket lifeguard this morning found the body of missing Australian tourist Jennifer Laidley. Uten Singsom, head of the Phuket Lifeguard Club contingent assigned to patrol Karon beach, said the discovery was made by fellow lifeguard Phachoke Jamjareonjan at about 8:15am today. The body, recovered about one kilometer offshore from Nong Harn Lagoon at the north end of the…

  • Phuket NewsPhuket man killed instantly in motorbike crash
    Legacy Phuket GazettePublished: 15:33, 06 July 2011
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    Phuket man killed instantly in motorbike crash

    PHUKET: A road sign intended to save lives became an instrument of death last night when a Phuket motorcycle rider crashed into it at high speed and was killed instantly. Thalang Police were informed of the death at 10:20pm. Arriving at the scene, on the southbound lane of Thepkrasattri Road near the Tha Reua Chinese Shrine, police found the body…

  • Phuket NewsFilipino injured in Phuket motorbike crash
    Legacy Phuket GazettePublished: 10:53, 05 July 2011
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    Filipino injured in Phuket motorbike crash

    PHUKET: The dimly lit Baan Don – Layan road in Cherng Talay was the scene of yet another Phuket accident last night in which a Filipino man was injured. Teddy Dilag, the 38-year-old assistant operations manager at the Phuket & Marbella Villa Rental Management Company, suffered a broken arm when his motorbike and a pickup truck collided near the entrance…

  • Phuket NewsJealous Phuket cop kills wife, self
    Legacy Phuket GazettePublished: 10:43, 04 July 2011
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    Jealous Phuket cop kills wife, self

    PHUKET: A jealous policeman shot his wife point-blank then turned the gun on himself in the latest murder-suicide in Phuket. Patong Police identified the victim as 25-year-old Suchapha Saman-iam, wife of Snr Sgt Maj Boonsuk Saman-iam, 39. According to eyewitness accounts, the shooting took place at about 8pm at the couple’s home on Nanai Road, where they operated the Yaris…

  • Phuket NewsLand Dept claims 90% of prime Phuket land controlled by foreigners
    Legacy Phuket GazettePublished: 11:19, 02 July 2011
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    Land Dept claims 90% of prime Phuket land controlled by foreigners

    PHUKET: Phuket leads all of Thailand in the amount of land held by foreigners, with up to 90 per cent of prime beachfront land being illegally held through Thai nominees, claims one of the country’s top land officials. Speaking at a recent seminar on legal issues relating to land ownership, Land Inspector Sriracha Charoenpanit said Thailand’s positive characteristics, friendly people…

  • Phuket NewsPhuket Red Cross blood drive for July
    Legacy Phuket GazettePublished: 12:08, 01 July 2011
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    Phuket Red Cross blood drive for July

    PHUKET: Following a successful campaign in June, the Phuket Regional Blood Center has announced the dates for its July blood drive. “By June 28, we had 2,124 blood donations for the month. This was above our target of 1,500-2,000 donors,” said Suphawan Rattanachan, an officer with the Phuket Red Cross. “This month the need for blood won’t be as high…

  • Phuket NewsBrutal execution
    Legacy Phuket GazettePublished: 09:37, 29 June 2011
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    Brutal execution

    PHUKET: “This is going to be the most brutal execution of a boxer that you’ve seen for many, many years. Don’t go to the hospital with your brother. Make sure you’re there, don’t go with the ambulance.” WBA Heavyweight Boxing Champion David Haye, 30, from Great Britain voiced and illustrated his intentions towards the Klitschko brothers (Wladimir, 35, – IBF…

  • Phuket NewsHotel cook drowns at Phuket beachside lake
    Legacy Phuket GazettePublished: 12:40, 28 June 2011
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    Hotel cook drowns at Phuket beachside lake

    PHUKET: A hotel cook drowned last night at Nong Harn Lake, at the northern end of Phuket’s tourist-popular Karon Beach, sparking a three-hour search for his body. Kasin Wirachod, 41, employed by a prominent Karon hotel, supplemented his income by catching fish in the lake, an old tin mine quarry surrounded by resorts and restaurants. Mr Kasin, originally from Sakon…

  • Phuket NewsPhuket rubber tapper killed by hoe
    Legacy Phuket GazettePublished: 14:26, 24 June 2011
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    Phuket rubber tapper killed by hoe

    PHUKET: Phuket Police are questioning the girlfriend of a rubber tapper found bludgeoned to death in the hills behind Layan Beach earlier today. Thalang Police responded to a report of a murder in Cherng Talay Village 6 at 9:20am. At the scene, inside a small hillside shack, they found the body of a 49-year-old man thus far identified only as…

  • Phuket NewsWichit to open first ‘community dialysis center’ in Phuket
    Legacy Phuket GazettePublished: 18:14, 23 June 2011
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    Wichit to open first ‘community dialysis center’ in Phuket

    PHUKET: The first kidney dialysis center in Phuket to be run by a local administrative body is 80 per cent complete, the Mayor of Wichit has announced. Work on the five-million-baht Wichit Kidney Dialysis Center, located at the Laem Son Public Health Center on Pattana Thongthin Road, began about five months ago, he said. The center will offer dialysis for…

  • Phuket NewsPhuket father, daughter die in paraquat murder-suicide
    Legacy Phuket GazettePublished: 17:28, 22 June 2011
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    Phuket father, daughter die in paraquat murder-suicide

    PHUKET: A man killed his two-year-old daughter and took his own life with lethal doses of the herbicide paraquat last week, Phuket City Police have confirmed. A witness to the tragedy, 25-year-old Aekkachai “Champ” Suksai from Nakhon Sri Thammarat, told the Phuket Gazette he was making coconut milk at a shop near Koh Sireh Circle last Thursday when he saw…

  • Phuket NewsPhuket Live Wire: True 3G dongles all the way
    Legacy Phuket GazettePublished: 14:27, 22 June 2011
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    Phuket Live Wire: True 3G dongles all the way

    PHUKET: I dropped by the True office in Phuket Town and discovered a number of changes. If you want “3G” HSPA service in Phuket, here’s what you need to know. In Phuket, 3G service (more accurately, HSPA service) is only available from True. True is in the process of extending 3G service on the island. In spite of what you…

  • Phuket NewsTwo dead, many injured in Phuket school van crash
    Legacy Phuket GazettePublished: 10:44, 21 June 2011
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    Two dead, many injured in Phuket school van crash

    PHUKET: A three-vehicle collision near the Heroines’ Monument in Phuket left two dead and many injured this morning. The two dead were staff members at the well-known Muslim Witthaya School in Koh Kaew. Police identified one the deceased as 54-year-old Phang Nga resident San Thasai, driver of a school van transporting young school students from their homes in Baan Bang…

  • Phuket NewsHeartbroken Estonian dies in Phuket Town | Thaiger
    Legacy Phuket GazettePublished: 11:20, 20 June 2011
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    Heartbroken Estonian dies in Phuket Town

    PHUKET: Police are investigating the death of an Estonian business owner found dead in his Phuket Town shophouse last night. Phuket City Police duty officer Yingnucharee Longkaew identified the deceased as 45-year-old Artur Mansurov, who was found dead on the third floor of his shophouse at the Phuket@Town commercial housing estate on Surin Road. According to one local media report,…

  • Phuket NewsChinese tourist airlifted after Phuket boat tour
    Legacy Phuket GazettePublished: 16:56, 18 June 2011
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    Chinese tourist airlifted after Phuket boat tour

    PHUKET: Royal Thai Navy medevac officers scrambled this afternoon after receiving a call to airlift a Chinese tourist from Koh Racha Yai back to Phuket. Cdr Jongjaroen Jangjun, Duty Officer at the Third Naval Area Command Operations Center, told the Phuket Gazette that 53-year-old Xiao Ming Hao was on a boat trip to Koh Racha Yai, about 25 kilometers south…

  • Phuket NewsPhuket expat survives high-speed crash
    Legacy Phuket GazettePublished: 13:32, 18 June 2011
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    Phuket expat survives high-speed crash

    PHUKET: An expat sales executive at a luxury villa resort complex in Phuket was injured when his car slammed into a power pole on the coastal road to the airport just before midnight last night. Called to the crash site, about 200 meters from Nai Yang Temple, Kusoldharm Foundation workers found a badly-damaged Toyota Vios crashed into a power pole…

  • Phuket NewsDriver flees scene of lethal Phuket crash
    Legacy Phuket GazettePublished: 18:17, 17 June 2011
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    Driver flees scene of lethal Phuket crash

    PHUKET: The driver of a pickup truck fled the scene of a fatal crash with a motorcycle on Phuket’s west coast early this morning. The accident, involving a Honda Wave motorbike and an Isuzu D-Max, occurred near a Chinese cemetery on Srisoonthorn Road between Cherng Talay and Bang Tao at 3:30am. The motorcycle was found 15 meters from the truck,…

  • Phuket NewsPhuket gets cooking for halal food expo
    Legacy Phuket GazettePublished: 16:33, 17 June 2011
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    Phuket gets cooking for halal food expo

    PHUKET: Representatives from 70 halal organizations from 35 countries have been invited to join the ‘Phuket Halal International Forum and Andaman Muslim Expo 2011’, which gets underway at Phuket Graceland Resort and Spa in Patong on June 22. The two-day international forum will focus on halal certification in each respective country, seeking to reach consensus on a standard in order…