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  • Phuket NewsPhuket Police take down another drug dealing ring
    Legacy Phuket GazettePublished: 17:58, 15 July 2010
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    Phuket Police take down another drug dealing ring

    PHUKET: Phuket City Police have arrested a man and his pregnant girlfriend for drug dealing, seizing over 1,000 ya bah (methamphetamine pills) in the process. The arrests were announced at a press conference at Phuket City Police Station this morning. Presenting the suspects were Phuket Provincial Police Commandaer Pekad Tantipong and Phuket City Police Superintendant Wanchai Ekpornpit. The arrests resulted…

  • Phuket NewsPhuket teens at risk from illegal abortions
    Legacy Phuket GazettePublished: 17:33, 15 July 2010
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    Phuket teens at risk from illegal abortions

    PHUKET: A warning issued by the head of the Phuket Public Health Office (PPHO) indicates that illegal abortions are quite common in Phuket. PPHO Director Narinrach Pichyakamin recently told the state-run Thai News Agency that many of the cases involved teenage girls who have abortions without their parents knowledge or permission. Women getting illegal abortions risk complications including hemorrhage, renal…

  • Phuket NewsPhuket Gazette reader finds runaway boy in Patong
    Legacy Phuket GazettePublished: 15:49, 15 July 2010
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    Phuket Gazette reader finds runaway boy in Patong

    PHUKET: A runaway boy was safely reunited with his family yesterday after being spotted in Patong by a sharp-eyed Phuket Gazette reader. The reader, a Malaysian-born US citizen named Shain from San Diego, contacted the Gazette by email this morning. He spotted the boy, 13-year old Anuchit “Erk” Tan-a-pirom, selling fireworks by the side of the beach road in Patong.…

  • Phuket NewsPhuket Immigration launches on-line alien tracking project
    Legacy Phuket GazettePublished: 10:10, 15 July 2010
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    Phuket Immigration launches on-line alien tracking project

    PHUKET: Phuket Immigration will conduct a training session for hotel staff and apartment owners taking part in an Internet-based tracking system of foreigners living in Phuket. Phuket Immigration Superintendent Panuwat Ruamrak said his office is already at work creating a database of accommodation establishments catering to foreigners. Owners of these establishments will then be able to more easily report the…

  • Phuket NewsPhuket Ironman scales Mont Blanc; then goes off to swim The Channel
    Legacy Phuket GazettePublished: 18:13, 13 July 2010
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    Phuket Ironman scales Mont Blanc; then goes off to swim The Channel

    PHUKET: Ironman athlete Les Bird made it safely to the 4,810 meter summit of Europe’s highest mountain, Mont Blanc, on Saturday. He spent the next two days getting back down. For our previous report click here: British-born Les and climbing partner Harry Taylor arrived back at their base camp in the Chamonix Valley on Monday. But before he could even…

  • Phuket NewsPhuket Gov to lead delegation to Nice, France
    Legacy Phuket GazettePublished: 17:08, 13 July 2010
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    Phuket Gov to lead delegation to Nice, France

    PHUKET: Governor Wichai Phraisa-ngop will lead a delegation of government officials and private sector representatives to Nice, France to discuss ways of improving links between the two locales, which have been “sister cities” for over two decades. The visit, scheduled to run from July 16 to 23, follows receipt on July 9 of an official letter of invitation issued by…

  • Phuket NewsOld Phuket Town cable project: phase II starts in August
    Legacy Phuket GazettePublished: 15:26, 13 July 2010
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    Old Phuket Town cable project: phase II starts in August

    PHUKET: Having passed the public hearing process with almost unanimous approval, the second phase of the project to bury electric cables in Old Phuket Town will get underway in August, with scheduled completion in March 2011. The project contractor will have 240 days to complete the 57.4-million-baht job, which will cover: – 250 meters of Krabi Road, between Yaowarat and…

  • Phuket NewsPhuket hotels urged to discount | Thaiger
    Legacy Phuket GazettePublished: 11:15, 13 July 2010
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    Phuket hotels urged to discount

    Phuket NEWS Hound – A daily digest of news from around the world compiled by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community. PHUKET: The Thai Hotels Association (THA) will launch a Buy-One, Get-One-Free promotion this month to match the time frame of the Amazing Thailand Grand Sale 2010, TTR Weekly reports. Phuket hotels are being encouraged to participate in the promotion.…

  • Phuket NewsPhuket Amateur Golf Open on Sunday | Thaiger
    Legacy Phuket GazettePublished: 10:28, 12 July 2010
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    Phuket Amateur Golf Open on Sunday

    PHUKET: Following an impressive debut by 12-year-old Newport Lapojkit, the second round of the Phuket Amateur Golf Open is set to tee off next Sunday, July 18 at Loch Palm Golf Club in Kathu. The tournament will be the second in a series of 11 to determine the best amateur golfer in Phuket. The first and second place winners in…

  • Phuket NewsIP crackdown underway in Phuket
    Legacy Phuket GazettePublished: 13:08, 11 July 2010
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    IP crackdown underway in Phuket

    PHUKET: A Crime Suppression Division (CSD) intellectual property rights unit from Bangkok is leading local police in crackdowns on intellectual property (IP) violators in Phuket this weekend. Officers at Phuket City Police Station last night were busy counting up a large haul of counterfeit CDs, DVDs and music videos seized in a raid on four stalls at the Phuket Variety…

  • Phuket NewsPhuket named best Asian yachting capital | Thaiger
    Legacy Phuket GazettePublished: 12:37, 11 July 2010
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    Phuket named best Asian yachting capital

    Phuket NEWS Hound – A daily digest of news from around the world compiled by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community. World Cup? Get instantaneous scores and news updates right here on the Gazette Online (fed directly from FIFA). PHUKET: Phuket, voted as the Best Asian Maritime Capital 2010 in May, will bring in US$306 million in revenue from boating…

  • Phuket NewsPhuket to host Andaman Motor Expo
    Legacy Phuket GazettePublished: 11:49, 09 July 2010
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    Phuket to host Andaman Motor Expo

    PHUKET: HomeWorks will host the first annual Andaman Motor Expo 2010 from August 6 to 12. Krishapanat Patwarasith, managing director of event organizers ND Productions, told a press conference yesterday that the car show will be the largest and most impressive ever held on the island, with automakers BMW, Volvo, Isuzu, Chevrolet and many others taking part. The goal is…

  • Phuket NewsPhuket punters mourn as World Cup favorites fall
    Legacy Phuket GazettePublished: 17:42, 08 July 2010
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    Phuket punters mourn as World Cup favorites fall

    PHUKET: Like the rest of Thailand, Phuket is prey to the quadrennial month-long madness known as ‘World Cup Fever’. This year, owing to the peculiar string of upsets resulting in early elimination of such favorites as France, England, Italy, Brazil, and Argentina, at least one bookie is reporting drastically reduced business.Sale of football jerseys, meanwhile, are up.The bookie says wagers…

  • Phuket NewsPhuket City Police crash helmet campaign gets high-level backing
    Legacy Phuket GazettePublished: 18:02, 07 July 2010
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    Phuket City Police crash helmet campaign gets high-level backing

    PHUKET: Deputy Interior Minister Thavorn Senniam was so impressed with the effort of Phuket City Police Station to get all motorbike riders and passengers to don safety helmets that he has asked the Governor’s Office to extend the initiative across the entire province. Mr Thavorn, who arrived at Phuket International Airport this morning on a one-day inspection tour, was greeted…

  • Phuket NewsPhuket Ghostbusters: illegal guide crackdown looms
    Legacy Phuket GazettePublished: 12:05, 07 July 2010
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    Phuket Ghostbusters: illegal guide crackdown looms

    PHUKET: Kathu Police are setting up a new center aimed at cracking down on unregistered ‘ghost guides’ operating in Patong, the local police chief says. Kathu Police Superintendent Arayaphan Pukbuakhao told the Gazette that the new center, to be based in the police box on the beach at the foot of Soi Bangla, is scheduled to open in about one…

  • Phuket NewsPhuket City Police helmet crackdown hits the big screen
    Legacy Phuket GazettePublished: 12:11, 06 July 2010
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    Phuket City Police helmet crackdown hits the big screen

    PHUKET: It was ‘standing room only’ at Phuket City Police Station this morning as hundreds of people caught on motorbikes without helmets crammed into the fourth-floor meeting room to watch a movie showing graphic images taken from road accident scenes. The viewings are all part of the Phuket City Police effort to enforce a long-ignored traffic law requiring all people…

  • Phuket NewsPhuket chosen as Asian HQ | Thaiger
    Legacy Phuket GazettePublished: 12:11, 04 July 2010
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    Phuket chosen as Asian HQ

    Phuket NEWS Hound – A daily digest of news from around the world compiled by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community. World Cup? Get instantaneous scores and news updates right here on the Gazette Online (fed directly from FIFA). PHUKET: Asia Travel Tips reports that Outrigger Hotels and Resorts Asia has officially established Phuket as its Regional Operating Headquarters (ROH).…

  • Phuket NewsThai politics not ‘all in the family’ | Thaiger
    Legacy Phuket GazettePublished: 11:41, 03 July 2010
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    Thai politics not ‘all in the family’

    Phuket NEWS Hound – A daily digest of news from around the world compiled by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community. World Cup? Get instantaneous scores and news updates right here on the Gazette Online (fed directly from FIFA). PHUKET: In stark contrast with the family of deposed prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra, who speak with one voice on seemingly all…

  • Phuket NewsMother of Phuket murder victim tells of her pain | Thaiger
    Legacy Phuket GazettePublished: 17:35, 02 July 2010
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    Mother of Phuket murder victim tells of her pain

    PHUKET: The mother of Wanphen Pienjai, the bar hostess whose body was found stuffed in a suitcase in Phuket last week, has spoken of her anguish over the murder of her daughter. Sa-ard Maliwan, 59, told the Gazette she is praying every day for police to catch the killer. “He deserves to be punished hard for what he did to…

  • Phuket NewsRed-shirt protests hit Phuket leukemia patient
    Legacy Phuket GazettePublished: 16:27, 01 July 2010
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    Red-shirt protests hit Phuket leukemia patient

    PHUKET: Jenarong Tapklaeng, a 16-year-old leukemia patient from Phuket, spent almost a month in Bangkok for medical consultations that should have taken just a few days after his hospital was shut down because of the red-shirt protests. Doctors at King Chulalongkorn Memorial Hospital were set to examine the possibility of performing a bone marrow transplant on Jenarong, who is currently…

  • Phuket NewsPhuket City Police hunt expat murder suspect | Thaiger
    Legacy Phuket GazettePublished: 16:43, 30 June 2010
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    Phuket City Police hunt expat murder suspect

    PHUKET: Phuket City Police are asking the public for help in their search for a Caucasian man who is the prime suspect in the murder of 33-year-old Wanphen Pienjai, the bar hostess whose remains were discovered stuffed into a large suitcase in tambon Wichit last week. Ms Wanphen, a native of Petchaboon province, was an employee of the Sweetheart Bar…

  • Phuket NewsPhuket City Police helmet crackdown starts tomorrow
    Legacy Phuket GazettePublished: 15:36, 30 June 2010
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    Phuket City Police helmet crackdown starts tomorrow

    PHUKET: After more than two months of public awareness campaigning, Phuket City Police will tomorrow begin the enforcement of a long-ignored traffic law requiring all motorbike riders – including passengers – to wear crash helmets. Thai traffic law states that both drivers and passengers without helmets can be fined up to 500 baht. A driver transporting a passenger not wearing…

  • Phuket NewsPheu Thai opens office in Phuket
    Legacy Phuket GazettePublished: 11:58, 30 June 2010
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    Pheu Thai opens office in Phuket

    PHUKET: The opposition Pheu Thai Party has launched a bid to win seats in southern provinces in upcoming elections by setting up operations centers in key Andaman Coast provinces, including Phuket. Party spokesman Prompong Nopparit said at the Phuket center’s opening ceremony on June 24, “We are ready to fight for representation in the next elections. Phuket is the first…

  • Phuket NewsPhuket arrest: Father remains jailed | Thaiger
    Legacy Phuket GazettePublished: 09:59, 30 June 2010
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    Phuket arrest: Father remains jailed

    Phuket NEWS Hound – A daily digest of news from around the world compiled by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community. World Cup? Get instantaneous scores and news updates right here on the Gazette Online (fed directly from FIFA). PHUKET: A father volunteered to remain in jail in the United States on Monday while awaiting trial on charges that he…

  • Phuket NewsPhuket family to climb Mt Kinabalu
    Legacy Phuket GazettePublished: 14:47, 29 June 2010
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    Phuket family to climb Mt Kinabalu

    PHUKET: Two young sisters, nine-year-old Kasia Sambrook and her sister Alicia, 6, are in training to scale one of the largest mountains in the region next month in order to raise money for stray dogs. The two girls have their eyes on the 4,095-meter peak of Mount Kinabalu in Borneo, the fourth highest peak in the Malay Archipelago. All of…

  • Phuket NewsTwo teens arrested for Phuket shooting murder
    Legacy Phuket GazettePublished: 18:07, 28 June 2010
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    Two teens arrested for Phuket shooting murder

    PHUKET: A 17-year-old was left dead after one man’s jealousy turned fatal in Phuket Town on Saturday night. Phuket City Police today announced the arrests 19-year-old Narongchai ‘Tan’ Boonprom of Nakhon Sri Thammarat and 27-year-old Phuket native Kajorn ‘Ee’ Chansri for their involvement in the murder of Phuket youth Witarn Chuaykuea, 17. An accomplice identified only as ‘James’ remains at…

  • Phuket NewsSoftware Park Phuket ‘Tech Talk’ series for July
    Legacy Phuket GazettePublished: 11:29, 28 June 2010
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    Software Park Phuket ‘Tech Talk’ series for July

    PHUKET: Software Park Phuket has announced its schedule of weekly ‘Tech Talk’ discussions for July: July 1: ‘Worry-free, legal-licensed, free open source business software‘, by LisAndi (English presentation with Thai translation). July 8: ‘Get to know Google Docs’ by Phuket Innovation Incubation Center, Software Park Phuket (Thai presentation with English slides, no translation). July 15: ‘CAT CDMA 3G: Wireless technology…

  • Phuket NewsPhuket flights: Air Bagan to Burma? | Thaiger
    Legacy Phuket GazettePublished: 11:17, 28 June 2010
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    Phuket flights: Air Bagan to Burma?

    Phuket NEWS Hound – A daily digest of news from around the world compiled by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community. World Cup? Get instantaneous scores and news updates right here on the Gazette Online (fed directly from FIFA). PHUKET: Myanmar’s two private airlines have announced plans to purchase new aircraft to service new routes, including Phuket, in time for…

  • Phuket NewsSomething’s getting fishy in Phuket
    Legacy Phuket GazettePublished: 14:26, 26 June 2010
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    Something’s getting fishy in Phuket

    PHUKET: Faced with high-tech detection technology and sniffer dogs, drug smugglers are resorting to stashing methamphetamine pills inside containers of fermented fish (pla raa) in an effort to hide their smell from authorities, Phuket Police say. Chalong Police held a press conference yesterday afternoon to announce the arrest of four suspects for possession of methamphetamine pills, known in Thailand as…

  • Phuket NewsThailand prepares for earthquakes
    Legacy Phuket GazettePublished: 10:50, 26 June 2010
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    Thailand prepares for earthquakes

    Phuket NEWS Hound – A daily digest of news from around the world compiled by Gazette editors for Phuket’s international community. World Cup? Get instantaneous scores and news updates right here on the Gazette Online (fed directly from FIFA). PHUKET: Pic caption: NREM Minister Suwit Khunkitti called on the public not to panic as Thailand is not situated near major…