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  • Phuket NewsBriton and Thai die in road crash | Thaiger
    Legacy Phuket GazettePublished: 07:14, 09 April 2001
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    Briton and Thai die in road crash

    PHUKET: A British man on a motorcycle and a Thai pedestrian both died after the bike struck the pedestrian early Friday at the entrance to Moo Baan Anupas Manorom, on Chao Fa Nok Rd. Police named the men as Kenneth Patrick Ford, 24, and Soonthon Sripudtong, 40, from Phatthalung. Pol Maj Songwut Khunjun of the Phuket Town Police Station told…

  • Phuket NewsJapanese tourist in “religious’ suicide | Thaiger
    Legacy Phuket GazettePublished: 22:31, 06 April 2001
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    Japanese tourist in “religious’ suicide

    PHUKET TOWN: Shindo Yuji, a 26-year-old Japanese tourist, committed suicide by jumping from his 16th-floor room at The Metropole hotel, Montri Rd, early on Thursday morning, say police. Pol Lt Kanuang Pitakulthon, of the Phuket Town Police Station, told the Gazette that hotel staff had called the police after discovering Mr Yuji’s body in the VIP car park. It is…

  • Phuket NewsCharn re-elected as Chamber Chairman | Thaiger
    Legacy Phuket GazettePublished: 06:03, 26 March 2001
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    Charn re-elected as Chamber Chairman

    PHUKET TOWN: Members of the Phuket Chamber of Commerce, meeting late into the night, voted on Saturday to re-elect Charn Wongsatayanont as Chairman of the chamber. K. Charn received 11 votes, just one vote more than his rival for the position, Pamuke Achariyachai, president of the Kata Group of Hotels. The 21-member committee elected at the same time includes eight…

  • Phuket NewsIBAP looks at BoI advantages | Thaiger
    Legacy Phuket GazettePublished: 21:45, 25 March 2001
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    IBAP looks at BoI advantages

    PHUKET TOWN: The International Business Association of Phuket (IBAP) saw a record turnout of around 100 members and guests for its bi-monthly general meeting on Friday. Guest of honor was Charn Wongsatayanont, chairman of the Phuket Chamber of Commerce. The main topic of the meeting was the Board of Investment (BoI), its aims and the ways it can help businesses.…

  • Phuket NewsPolice bust karaoke selling ya bah | Thaiger
    Legacy Phuket GazettePublished: 07:53, 22 March 2001
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    Police bust karaoke selling ya bah

    PHUKET TOWN: Teerawit “Jiew” Saefu, the 32-year-old owner of Nong Kim Karaoke on Soi Sri Sena, was arrested during a police raid on Tuesday on drugs charges. Two minors were also arrested. Pol Maj Sanya Thongsawat of Phuket Town Police Station said that sources had informed him that ya bah (methamphetamine) was for sale at the karaoke bar, near the…

  • Phuket NewsPoliceman held for smuggling Burmese | Thaiger
    Legacy Phuket GazettePublished: 06:25, 16 March 2001
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    Policeman held for smuggling Burmese

    PHUKET TOWN: Acting on a tip-off, police today arrested 15 Burmese illegal immigrants. They also arrested three Thais who were bringing the Burmese into Phuket, one of them a police officer from Ranong. The Burmese were riding in two pick-up trucks and a car when they were stopped at 5 am, halfway between Thalang and the Heroines’ Monument, by officers…

  • Phuket NewsNew dad ends up in handcuffs | Thaiger
    Legacy Phuket GazettePublished: 05:31, 12 March 2001
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    New dad ends up in handcuffs

    PHUKET: Robert Clarke received more than he bargained for when he visited his Thai wife at the Bangkok Phuket Hospital after she gave birth to their child. As he watched over her early on Friday morning, police officers marched in and arrested him. Pol Capt Anukul Nuket of Phuket Town Police Station said that the Norwegian Embassy in Bangkok had…

  • Phuket NewsBloody robbery at currency exchange | Thaiger
    Legacy Phuket GazettePublished: 06:18, 08 March 2001
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    Bloody robbery at currency exchange

    PHUKET TOWN: An employee at the Bank Thai PLC currency exchange booth on Tilok Utit 1 Rd was brutally attacked in a robbery this afternoon. At about 3:15 pm, a foreign customer, wanting to change some money, peered into the window of the booth in front of the Ocean Shopping Mall. She saw the employee, 44-year-old Urai Taweekul, lying on…

  • Phuket NewsOne dead, four injured in plane fire | Thaiger
    Legacy Phuket GazettePublished: 06:27, 03 March 2001
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    One dead, four injured in plane fire

    BANGKOK (AFP): At least one person was killed and four others were injured when a Thai Airways Boeing 737-400 burst into flames this afternoon on the tarmac at Bangkok’s domestic airport, police and airport officials said. Police Major General Amnuay Ditkavee, Bangkok’s deputy police commissioner, told reporters at the airport that the dead body of a Thai Airways crew member…

  • Phuket NewsSwiss man stabbed to death | Thaiger
    Legacy Phuket GazettePublished: 06:18, 27 February 2001
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    Swiss man stabbed to death

    PATONG: Dokkaew Niyonrum, 38, from Buri Ram, has been charged with the murder of a 40-year-old Swiss national named by police as Christoph Albert Hartmann. Dokkaew is alleged to have stabbed Mr Hartmann in the chest during a fight in their home on Sai Nam Yen Rd in the early hours of Sunday morning. Pol Maj Komdech Poathong of Patong…

  • Phuket NewsBookmaker gunned down | Thaiger
    Legacy Phuket GazettePublished: 05:57, 23 February 2001
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    Bookmaker gunned down

    PHUKET TOWN: A restaurant owner, who was also a bookmaker specializing in gambling on soccer matches, was murdered on Tuesday morning outside his restaurant on Phuket Rd. The victim, Supachart “James” Panumassakul, 36, from Phuket, owned the Khrua New James restaurant, opposite the Imperial hotel on Phuket Rd. A witness told police that she was waiting for a friend on…

  • Phuket NewsUrgent call for O negative blood | Thaiger
    Legacy Phuket GazettePublished: 06:42, 19 February 2001
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    Urgent call for O negative blood

    PHUKET TOWN: The Bangkok Phuket Hospital has appealed for urgent donations of type O negative blood for a patient in its intensive care unit. The patient, Hans Lorenzet, 42, of Germany, has a liver complaint which has caused internal hemorrhaging, and is in urgent need of blood. Potential donors are asked to report to the reception desk at the hospital.

  • Phuket NewsMotorbike injury toll hits five figures | Thaiger
    Legacy Phuket GazettePublished: 00:05, 16 February 2001
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    Motorbike injury toll hits five figures

    PHUKET: The number of people injured in motorcycle accidents went into five figures for the first time last year, with 10,359 needing treatment, according to statistics supplied by the Wachira, Thalang and Patong government hospitals. The number of people injured represented an increase of 4.6% on the previous year’s 9,903. In 1998 the toll was 9,681 and in 1997 it…

  • Phuket NewsToddler killed in motorbike smash | Thaiger
    Legacy Phuket GazettePublished: 21:47, 12 February 2001
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    Toddler killed in motorbike smash

    KARON: The three-year-old daughter of an American expatriate was killed in a motorcycle accident in Karon early on Saturday afternoon. Herman Bachmann, 69, better known to Phuket residents as Shankar, was riding his bike along Patak Rd in Karon, heading toward Phuket Town, with his maid on the back and the child in front. In front of the Karon Tong…

  • Phuket NewsAnother fishing port murder | Thaiger
    Legacy Phuket GazettePublished: 05:21, 07 February 2001
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    Another fishing port murder

    PHUKET TOWN: A man was found murdered in the fishing port in Mu 7, Tambon Rassada, early yesterday morning. Pol Maj Thanet Phuangmanee of Phuket Town Police Station told the Gazette, “A crewman from a fishing boat told me that as he was moving fish from the boat to the dock he saw the body floating in the water. He…

  • Phuket NewsEnvironmental activist shot dead | Thaiger
    Legacy Phuket GazettePublished: 06:21, 30 January 2001
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    Environmental activist shot dead

    PA KLOK: Environmental activist Jurin Rachapol, 50, was shot dead this morning while out collecting cashew nut leaves for salad. Pol Capt Anan Jengjit of Thalang Police Station said that K. Jurin went into the forest around 9 am with his wife. He was shot three times; two bullets hit his left shoulder while the third hit his head, killing…

  • Phuket NewsSecond urgent call for blood | Thaiger
    Legacy Phuket GazettePublished: 04:48, 19 January 2001
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    Second urgent call for blood

    PHUKET TOWN: The Wachira Phuket Hospital this afternoon issued a second urgent appeal for blood, this time type A negative blood. Earlier today it appealed for B negative donors. The appeals were issued because the hospital’s blood bank has no stock of either blood type, and needs both, one type for a pregnant woman who underwent an operation after her…

  • Phuket NewsUrgent call for B negative blood | Thaiger
    Legacy Phuket GazettePublished: 02:13, 19 January 2001
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    Urgent call for B negative blood

    PHUKET TOWN: Wachira Phuket Hospital has issued an urgent appeal for Type B negative blood for a young Thai woman who is bleeding internally. Surin Khomkaew, 17, who was six months pregnant, arrived at the hospital this morning complaining of severe stomach pains. Tests revealed that her unborn child had died. Following an operation to remove the fetus, K. Surin…

  • Phuket NewsWoman dragged one kilometer by truck | Thaiger
    Legacy Phuket GazettePublished: 00:10, 06 January 2001
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    Woman dragged one kilometer by truck

    PHUKET TOWN: A delivery van dragged a woman and her motorbike along Thepkrasattri Rd for about a kilometer early on Wednesday morning after a collision. Wipa Kongpisutthikul, 25 of Phuket Town, told police that while she was waiting to turn right near the intersection of Thepkrasattri Rd and Komaraphat Rd, the van driven by Sanit Maichum, 27, hit her and…

  • Phuket NewsHealth warnings should not concern tourists | Thaiger
    Legacy Phuket GazettePublished: 09:49, 04 January 2001
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    Health warnings should not concern tourists

    PHUKET: Following health warnings issued by the Phuket Provincial Health Department (PHD) on January 2, Dr Jessada Chaikhunnarath, Specialist in Preventive Medicine, confirmed that tourists are not at serious risk of diarrhea or malarial infections. “There were no recorded cases of serious diarrhea or dysentery among tourists in the year 2000. The PHD health survey includes reports from every hospital…

  • Phuket NewsBig turnout at Saphan Hin for Democrats | Thaiger
    Legacy Phuket GazettePublished: 09:18, 04 January 2001
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    Big turnout at Saphan Hin for Democrats

    PHUKET TOWN: Thousands of Democrat Party supporters gathered in Saphan Hin last night to listen to the Prime Minister before the national elections on Saturday, January 6. Prime Minister Chuan Leekpai and other Democrat Party ministers, Abhisit Vejjajiva, Surin Pitsuwan, Trairong Suwankiri, and Suthep Thaugsuban, took the stage in support of Phuket’s Democrat candidates for MP: Suwit Sa-Ngiamkul, for District…

  • Phuket NewsGerman woman in suicide jump | Thaiger
    Legacy Phuket GazettePublished: 03:13, 03 January 2001
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    German woman in suicide jump

    PHUKET TOWN: A 45-year-old German woman apparently committed suicide by jumping from the third floor of the Bangkok Phuket Hospital on Monday at about 7:30 pm. The woman, a tourist, died from severe head injuries, according to Pol Lt Kanuang Pitakulthon of Phuket Town Police Station. The hospital cannot verify the woman’s name because no passport or other identification papers…

  • Phuket News3 die, 36 hurt in bus crash | Thaiger
    Legacy Phuket GazettePublished: 05:15, 22 December 2000
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    3 die, 36 hurt in bus crash

    THALANG: Three people died yesterday afternoon when a Phuket Central Tour bus crashed on Thepkrasattri Rd about a kilometer south of the entrance to the Yacht Haven. The remaining 36 passengers, including six foreigners, were injured. Just 45 minutes after it left Phuket Town, bound for Bangkok, the bus flipped onto its side and crashed off the road on an…

  • Phuket NewsAirport taxi driver beaten to death | Thaiger
    Legacy Phuket GazettePublished: 06:35, 19 December 2000
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    Airport taxi driver beaten to death

    PHUKET: Airport limousine operators threatened to blockade Phuket International Airport yesterday after a “black” taxi driver allegedly beat a legitimate limousine operator to death on Saturday in front of the airport. A fight broke out between Kanisorn “Lert” Downchoowan, 35, the black taxi driver, and Chart Ketwongworachat, 58, the legitimate limousine operator, at around noon after the two argued over…

  • Phuket NewsBrit dies in car crash on way to airport | Thaiger
    Legacy Phuket GazettePublished: 06:14, 11 December 2000
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    Brit dies in car crash on way to airport

    PHUKET TOWN: British national Allan Winston Allford, 50, died instantly from head injuries sustained in a car accident on Friday afternoon while on the way to the airport. Arriving at the scene on Chao Fa Nork Rd, opposite Soi Sa Nguan Sak, police found Mr Allford’s jeep upside-down in a drain. Mr Allford’s body was still trapped behind the wheel.…

  • Phuket NewsRoad accident figures improving | Thaiger
    Legacy Phuket GazettePublished: 06:52, 05 December 2000
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    Road accident figures improving

    PHUKET: A total of 855 people were killed or injured in traffic accidents between September 20 and October 20, according to statistics from the Wachira, Thalang and Patong government hospitals. Of the 12 fatalities during the period, nine involved motorcycles while the remaining three involved cars. The death rate was lower than the average per month for the year to…

  • Phuket NewsPhuket tops list for AIDS in pregnant women | Thaiger
    Legacy Phuket GazettePublished: 05:46, 30 November 2000
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    Phuket tops list for AIDS in pregnant women

    PHUKET: The island has Thailand’s highest rate of HIV infection in pregnant women, the Chief of the Phuket Provincial Health Office, Dr Boonrieng Chuchaisangrat, has revealed. He said that of every 100 woman going to the province’s hospitals for pre-natal care or to give birth, four test positive for the deadly disease. Dr Boonrieng stressed that all government departments should…

  • Phuket NewsPrison cancels Open Days | Thaiger
    Legacy Phuket GazettePublished: 06:27, 28 November 2000
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    Prison cancels Open Days

    PHUKET: Phuket Provincial Prison has canceled its Open Days, scheduled to take place between December 2 and 8, following the breakout and hostage drama at Samut Sakhon prison last week. Pairoj Pankaew, chief of the prison, told the Gazette today that he had received instructions from the director of the Region 8 Prison Service, in Nakhon Sri Thammarat, that Open…

  • Phuket NewsHostage-takers die in hail of gunfire | Thaiger
    Legacy Phuket GazettePublished: 06:22, 23 November 2000
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    Hostage-takers die in hail of gunfire

    KANCHANABURI (AFP): Thai security forces today shot and killed a band of nine Burmese who had held a jail governor and two other prison staff captive overnight, police said. The governor, his deputy and a policeman were injured in the rescue attempt and had been taken to hospital for treatment, officials said. “The prison governor is seriously injured. He is…

  • Phuket NewsFrench deputy mayor killed in bike smash | Thaiger
    Legacy Phuket GazettePublished: 05:42, 17 November 2000
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    French deputy mayor killed in bike smash

    PATONG: A deputy mayor of the French ski resort of Chamonix died in a motorcycle accident in front of Phuket Simon Cabaret early yesterday morning. Pol Maj Pisit Cheanpeth of Kathu Police Station told the Gazette that at around 2.30 am, the man, whom he named as Jean-François Girod, aged about 38-40, crashed his rented motorbike into a culvert at…