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  • Covid-19 NewsPhuket’s new cases (Tuesday), all originating from Bangla Road area
    ThaigerPublished: 11:14, 07 April 2020
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    Phuket’s new cases (Tuesday), all originating from Bangla Road area

    Numbers are out for new cases in Phuket over the past 24 hours. Case 124: 23 year old Russian women Case 125: 26 year old Kazakhstan women Case 126: 28 year old Russian women All 3 new cases in Phuket had a history of visiting or staying in the Bangla Road entertainment zone for up to a month, and having…

  • Covid-19 NewsHungarian tourist dies in Phuket after failing to reveal Bangla Road visits
    ThaigerPublished: 08:29, 07 April 2020
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    Hungarian tourist dies in Phuket after failing to reveal Bangla Road visits

    Dr Chalermpong Sukhonthapol, the director of Phuket’s Vachira Hospital, has revealed details of a Hungarian tourist who recently died of Covid-19, but had earlier withheld details of his visits to the island’s red light district in Bangla Road, Patong. Bangla Road has been the island’s hotzone for new cases of the Covid-19 coronavirus. The case has resulted in more than…

  • Covid-19 NewsPhuket: Patong on official lockdown from today
    Sean KellyPublished: 15:33, 05 April 2020
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    Phuket: Patong on official lockdown from today

    Phuket’s Governor Pakkapong Thaweepat has issued a closure order for Patong with all non-essential travel in or out of the popular tourist town banned in an attempt to slow a potential large scale outbreak of Covid-19 in Phuket. In recent weeks the daily reports of new cases in Phuket were mostly focussed on cases in Patong, especially around the Bangla…

  • Covid-19 News10 new coronavirus cases in Phuket today (Sunday)
    ThaigerPublished: 13:08, 05 April 2020
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    10 new coronavirus cases in Phuket today (Sunday)

    The island of Phuket in Thailand’s south has reported 10 new Covid-19 coronavirus cases today (Sunday), bringing the total to 119. Today’s new cases aren’t all in Patong, as has been the trend over the past week, with new cases being reported in Bang Tao, just north of Surin Beach area. Among the confirmed cases announced today are six members of…

  • Covid-19 NewsPhuket rooftop party busted, drugs seized
    AnukulPublished: 13:17, 02 April 2020
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    Phuket rooftop party busted, drugs seized

    Police arrested 9 foreigners and 5 Thai women for partying in Patong in violation of orders against gathering in crowds, to control the spread of coronavirus disease. They were arrested on the rooftop of a rental house on Sirirat Road in tambon Patong of Kathu district last night after police received a complaint about a loud party. Those arrested included Australians,…

  • Covid-19 NewsPhuket reports 12 new coronavirus cases, all from Patong
    ThaigerPublished: 12:04, 02 April 2020
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    Phuket reports 12 new coronavirus cases, all from Patong

    The southern island province of Phuket confirmed 12 new cases of the Covid-19 coronavirus today (Thursday), bringing the total on the island to 87. All appear to have originated in the island’s Patong area, most from the Bangla Road red light district. The town of Patong was placed on unofficial curfew yesterday as its governor issued a public decree urging…

  • Covid-19 NewsPhuket’s Patong all but shut down
    ThaigerPublished: 16:30, 01 April 2020
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    Phuket’s Patong all but shut down

    A notice from Patong municipality is urging Patong’s residents to stay at home and not venture out of doors, including the Soi Bangla entertainment area, which has become the hotbed of Covid-19 coronavirus in the island province of Phuket. The announcement, on government letterhead, says citizens who need food and water can contact authorities for delivery. The notice, seen below,…

  • Covid-19 News13 cases in Phuket, official
    ThaigerPublished: 11:48, 22 March 2020
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    13 cases in Phuket, official

    13 cases of Covid-19 coronavirus have now been confirmed in the southern Thai island of Phuket. 6 new cases have been announced in the past 24 hours. On Friday the Phuket Governor admitted to five cases on the island – 2 Chinese visitors in early February and 3 current cases involving a Danish family. 188 new cases have been announced…

  • Phuket News17 kids rescued in Phuket human-trafficking raids
    ThaigerPublished: 14:15, 24 February 2020
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    17 kids rescued in Phuket human-trafficking raids

    “All 17 children were Cambodian and were taken to the Phuket Shelter for Children and Families on Koh Siray.” Thai police have taken 17 children into protective custody after a series of coordinated raids in Patong. They say the children were being exploited by a human trafficking gang, who beat them with a wire clothes hanger if they did bring…

  • Phuket NewsAustrian man dies in Patong condo fall
    ThaigerPublished: 11:04, 07 February 2020
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    Austrian man dies in Patong condo fall

    A 68 year old Austrian man is dead after falling from his 12th floor condominium in Patong. His body was found at about 10 last night, on the ground outside the Patong Night Plaza condominium, where police say he lived alone. According to his passport he entered Thailand on December 19 on a 90 day visa. Blood pressure diabetes medications…

  • Phuket NewsBibi does Bangla – What is the Thai girl experience with foreign boyfriends?
    ThaigerPublished: 11:34, 06 February 2020
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    Bibi does Bangla – What is the Thai girl experience with foreign boyfriends?

    Bibi heads to Soi Bangla in Phuket’s seaside party town of Patong. She’s inquiring about Thai girls’ opinions, even the working girls in the clubs. Have they had experience with a foreign boyfriend? What about their foreign boyfriend experiences, good and bad? What are their expectations? Is it all about money or are the Thai women more romantic than the…

  • Phuket NewsRussian woman drowns in Patong
    ThaigerPublished: 09:25, 03 February 2020
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    Russian woman drowns in Patong

    A 34 year old Russian woman drowned while swimming at Patong beach on Saturday. Lifeguards performed CPR on the woman before she was taken to Patong Hospital, where she was pronounced dead, according to police, who were alerted at 9am. Police say the woman, whose name was witheld pending notification of relatives, travelled with her boyfriend to Patong with the…

  • Tourism NewsPhuket’s high season delayed until after Christmas
    ThaigerPublished: 16:26, 10 December 2019
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    Phuket’s high season delayed until after Christmas

    PHOTO: The Hotel Specialist “Diversifying Phuket’s market to rely less on Chinese tourists is key to improving tourism in the province.” It will be a quiet Christmas in Phuket as the island’s high season will come late for hotels this year, with most reservations are for after the Christmas celebration. Tourism in Phuket usually increases in November, but this year’s November…

  • Phuket NewsPhuket tollway and tunnel project, linking Kathu and Patong, awaiting approval
    ThaigerPublished: 09:24, 29 November 2019
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    Phuket tollway and tunnel project, linking Kathu and Patong, awaiting approval

    PHOTOS: Phuket People’s Voice Phuket’s first ever tolled highway, to be built linking Kathu to Patong route, is awaiting approval from the government’s committee on public-private partnership. This will be the first ever tolled highway in Thailand that also allows motorcycles. The infamous, and much-discussed, Patong Tunnel, and accompanying link roads, has been a slow-burn story over the past two…

  • Tourism NewsProstitution, the CIA, David Bowie and Patpong – Undercover in Bangkok infamous red light district
    Tim NewtonPublished: 08:49, 16 November 2019
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    Prostitution, the CIA, David Bowie and Patpong – Undercover in Bangkok infamous red light district

    PHOTO: patpongmuseum.com Let’s start from the very beginning, a very good place to start. Where did Bangkok’s Patpong get its name? It actually goes back to a Chinese immigrant named Luang Patpongpanich. He purchased the land when it was just a banana plantation (I can hear the Benny Hill theme already). During World War II, so the story goes, Patpongpanich’s son and…

  • Phuket NewsPhuket hotels slashing the price of rooms
    ThaigerPublished: 08:39, 21 October 2019
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    Phuket hotels slashing the price of rooms

    by Sophie Deviller Hotels on Thailand’s most popular holiday island are being forced to slash prices, with rooms left vacant and beaches sparse as Thailand’s tourism chiefs struggle with a plunge in Chinese visitors caused by the US trade war and a stronger baht. Phuket was the most visited destination in the country last year, after Bangkok, and a good gauge of…

  • EventsPhuket university’s safe-sex campaign attracts 390 volunteers
    ThaigerPublished: 17:01, 19 September 2019
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    Phuket university’s safe-sex campaign attracts 390 volunteers

    Yesterday, saw the return of Prince of Songkhla University’s Safe Sex Campaign. Now in its third year, some 390 PSU students turned up to support the campaign by making safe sex packs, which are then distributed free to bars in Patong. The safe sex packs include a condom and lubricant. It was the biggest turn-out of students since this corporate social…

  • Phuket News“Phuket needs a world class exhibition and convention centre”
    ThaigerPublished: 12:15, 16 September 2019
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    “Phuket needs a world class exhibition and convention centre”

    “Two key developments we are tracking is Central Festivals next phase of expansion and Proud Groups Andamanda project that both have significant concerence, meeting and incentive space.” Plans to promote Phuket as a world-class MICE (meetings, incentives, conventions, exhibitions) location are being obstructed by many impediments – inefficient town planning, poor transport systems and poor availability of land in tourist…

  • Phuket NewsJet-ski collision injures two Chinese tourists in Patong
    Maya TaylorPublished: 10:15, 12 September 2019
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    Jet-ski collision injures two Chinese tourists in Patong

    Two Chinese tourists have been injured in a jet-ski collision in Patong yesterday, the Phuket News reports. Maj Teerasak Boonsaeng from Patong Police was notified of the accident shortly before 4.00pm yesterday, with both men taken to Patong hospital for treatment. The men, named as 28 year old Hu Meng and 26 year old Yang Ming, had rented jet-skis from…

  • Phuket NewsBurmese man stabbed to death by ‘friend’ in Patong, Phuket
    ThaigerPublished: 07:52, 08 September 2019
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    Burmese man stabbed to death by ‘friend’ in Patong, Phuket

    PHOTO: Phuket People’s Voice Patong Police have arrested 18 year old Robier Aaron, from Myanmar, after he stabbed another Burmese man, 23 year old ‘Johnny’, to death. The incident happened on Friday night (September 6) at around 9pm in front of a restaurant on Phangmuang Sai Gor Road. Police received a report about the attack and found Johnny’s body stabbed…

  • Phuket News18 cases in one day for Patong’s lifeguards in Phuket
    ThaigerPublished: 16:40, 28 August 2019
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    18 cases in one day for Patong’s lifeguards in Phuket

    PHOTOS: Patong Surf Life Saving Busy day for Phuket’s local lifeguards as they saved 17 people from the waves off Patong, and one one the Beach Road. Yesterday (August 27), Patong Lifeguards reported that there were a total of 18 people rescued, all in a day’s work at Patong beach. They said the situation was very challenging, with limited manpower,…

  • Phuket NewsDaytime closure looms for Patong beach road
    Maya TaylorPublished: 09:48, 21 August 2019
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    Daytime closure looms for Patong beach road

    The mayor of Patong, Chalermluck Kebsup, has announced that from August 25, Thaweewong Road, better known as the Patong beach road, will be closed during the day while power and communication cables are installed. Apologising for the inconvenience, Mayor Chalermluck explains that the closures will be between 6.00am and 4.00pm and expected to last until September 30. She says the…

  • Thai LifePhuket’s lifeguards say goodbye to a champion of local beach safety
    ThaigerPublished: 10:51, 18 August 2019
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    Phuket’s lifeguards say goodbye to a champion of local beach safety

    PHOTOS: Phuket Lifeguard Service A commemoration ceremony has been held for Prathaiyuth Chuayuan, a local Phuketian who helped drive Phuket’s first beach lifeguard services. He passed away on Friday morning after a heart attack. He first experienced chest pains whilst delivering his daughter to school in Phuket Town on Friday morning, drove himself immediately to the Vachira Hospital nearby but…

  • Phuket NewsChinese tourist almost drowns after ignoring warnings from lifeguards at Patong
    ThaigerPublished: 19:30, 13 August 2019
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    Chinese tourist almost drowns after ignoring warnings from lifeguards at Patong

    PHOTOS & STORY: เสียงประชาชน คนภูเก็ต Phuket People’s Voice Yesterday (August 12), a Chinese tourist almost drowned at Patong Beach. Fortunately, a lifeguard was on duty, noticed the man was in difficulty, rescued him and saved his life. The young Chinese man had already been warned once by the lifeguards about the red flags with lifeguards telling him the red flags…

  • Phuket NewsX2 Vibe brand adds third hotel in Phuket
    ThaigerPublished: 10:59, 22 July 2019
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    X2 Vibe brand adds third hotel in Phuket

    PHOTO: Existing X2 Vibe Patong hotel Cross Hotels & Resorts has signed an agreement with PT Three Land for its third Phuket property, the X2 Vibe Phuket Patong Centre. Poised to open middle of 2021, it is a 50 minute drive from Phuket International Airport and a 10 minute walk to Patong Beach and the bustling Bangla Road walking street.…

  • Phuket NewsUPDATE: Search for Filipinos lost off Freedom Beach, Phuket
    ThaigerPublished: 16:00, 18 July 2019
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    UPDATE: Search for Filipinos lost off Freedom Beach, Phuket

    PHOTO: siangtai.com Officials are still trying to push on with a search for two Filipino tourists who were washed out to sea by waves at Freedom Beach in Phuket last night around 5pm. With nearly 24 hours having passed since the pair’s disappearances grave fears are now held for their survival. Conditions have been quite rough and squally for most…

  • Phuket NewsFire destroys 12 shops in Patong market
    ThaigerPublished: 15:09, 18 July 2019
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    Fire destroys 12 shops in Patong market

    PHOTOS: Siam Rath A fire at a market in Patong early this morning has caused damages estimated at 1 billion baht in value. Five fire trucks raced to the scene at the SB Plaza on Rat-U-Thit road at about 2am. It took firefighters an hour to bring the fire under control. 12 shops were destroyed. No one was injured in the…

  • Phuket News“Probably the best pork spare ribs in the world” – Naughty Nuri’s Patong
    ThaigerPublished: 17:01, 17 July 2019
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    “Probably the best pork spare ribs in the world” – Naughty Nuri’s Patong

    Naughty Nuri’s Phuket, also known as Naughty Nuri’s In The Forest in Patong, was the first restaurant from the iconic Indonesian chain to open its doors in Thailand. The indoor/outdoor venue can easily accommodate more than 500 diners in an alfresco setting. Their signature dish is the BBQ Spare Ribs – “probably the best spare ribs in the world” –…

  • Phuket NewsWater shut-off along parts of Phuket’s west coast
    ThaigerPublished: 09:43, 22 June 2019
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    Water shut-off along parts of Phuket’s west coast

    The Phuket Provincial Waterworks Authority says the mains water supply will be shut off around Patong, Karon and Kata from today until next Friday (June 28). Areas mostly affected will be homes and residences in elevated areas. Works are being carried out on the water-treatment plant in Karon. The water supply to the affected areas will be shut off from 9am to…

  • Phuket NewsAustralian dies after falling from hotel balcony in Patong
    Kritsada MueanhawongPublished: 13:56, 10 June 2019
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    Australian dies after falling from hotel balcony in Patong

    An allegedly drunk Australian man has died after falling from a hotel in Patong yesterday. Patong Police were notified of the incident at the C&N Hotel on Rat-U-thit 200 Pi Road in central Patong. Police and emergency responders arrived at the scene to find the injured man, identified by police as 33 year old Daniel Jon Partridge, an Australian national. He was…