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| DSI reaches out to scammed rubber investors
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Tuesday, May 13, 2008
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PHUKET: The Department of Special Investigation (DSI) has set up a desk at Phuket City Police Station to accept complaints from victims of an “investment company” thought to have defrauded some 5,000 ...
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| Navy accepting donations for cyclone relief
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Tuesday, May 13, 2008
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CAPE PANWA: The Royal Thai Navy Third Naval Command at Cape Panwa is accepting donations of food and equipment to provide emergency relief for victims of Cyclone Nargis in Myanmar.
Appro...
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| Young Turks win Phuket City election
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Tuesday, May 13, 2008
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PHUKET CITY: Incumbent Phuket City Mayor Somjai Suwannasuppana was re-elected by a comfortable margin on Sunday, garnering 10,657 votes (57.4%) vs just 7,910 (42.6%) votes for her rival Ayuth Tan...
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| Phuket Senators not short of spare change
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Tuesday, May 13, 2008
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BANGKOK: Phuket Senator Thanyarat Atchariyachai and her husband K. Pamuke have combined assets totaling just under 1.7 billion baht, according to asset declaration statements posted by the National Co...
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| Phuket City elections on Sunday
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Friday, May 9, 2008
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PHUKET CITY: Despite intermittent downpours throughout the day, sound trucks carrying political hopefuls plied the streets of Phuket City today in a last-minute bid to drum up support for their candid...
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| Thai AirAsia sets up Myanmar donation stations
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Friday, May 9, 2008
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BANGKOK: Thai AirAsia announced this afternoon that it is offering aid to cyclone victims in Myanmar by carrying public donations to Yangon.
The airline has set up collecti...
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| Ao Phuket project given top-level green light
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Friday, May 9, 2008
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PHUKET: The government of Prime Minister Samak Sundaravej has given the green light to the Ao Phuket development plan, a 100-billion-baht megaproject on 3,000 rai of reclaimed land that would include ...
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| Police hunt suspected tsunami coffin thieves
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Friday, May 9, 2008
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PHANG NGA (Kom Chad Luek): Takuapa District Police are on the lookout for two former cemetery workers who confessed to stealing 11 |
| Tour guide, 31, dies of ‘heart attack’
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Friday, May 9, 2008
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RASSADA: Police have cited heart failure as the probable cause of death of a man found dead in his Rassada apartment on May 2.
Phuket City Police duty officer Lt Salan Reedeng said his station ...
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| Burmese junta stalls aid workers
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Thursday, May 8, 2008
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BANGKOK (Nation/Agencies): With the death toll estimated at more than 100,000 and even more people stricken homeless by Cyclone Nargis, survivors still await emergency supplies while the...
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| Myanmar relief efforts underway
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Thursday, May 8, 2008
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BANGKOK: With the death toll in Myanmar now feared to be more than 100,000, a number of aid organizations have started relief efforts in the hardest-hit areas.
World Vision is reporting that it...
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| Little larvae, powerful performance
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Thursday, May 8, 2008
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KALASIN: Aphrodisiacs and sex aids come in many forms. The Chinese have rhino horns and tiger penis, while Viagra has spread from America to become a worldwide craze allowing a generation of aging lot...
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| Plodprasop flames NDWC’s effectiveness
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Wednesday, May 7, 2008
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CAPE PANWA: Dr Plodprasop Surasawadee, assistant minister of the Prime Minister’s Office, today likened the status of Thailand’s National Disaster Warning Center (NDWC) to that of an “abandoned toilet...
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| Police chief warns drivers of cellphone ban
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Wednesday, May 7, 2008
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PHUKET: Phuket Provincial Police Chief Maj Gen Decha Budnampetch today warned motorists that they have until May 19 to break the habit of talking on a mobile phone without using a hands-free set while...
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| Eight nabbed in Cherng Talay drug-ring bust
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Wednesday, May 7, 2008
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PHUKET: Cherng Talay Police have arrested eight people on drugs charges, Phuket Provincial Police Commander Maj Gen Decha Budnampeth announced yesterday.
Cherng Talay Police arrested Prasit Wah...
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| Construction site extortion gang busted
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Tuesday, May 6, 2008
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PATONG: In the latest case of extortion involving Burmese workers, Kathu Police on Saturday afternoon arrested five men posing as government officers in a bid to extort money from a construction compa...
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| Phuket braces for stormy weather
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Tuesday, May 6, 2008
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PHUKET CITY: The Phuket office of the Department of Disaster Prevention and Mitigation (DDPM) has warned of the risk of landslides, flooding and strong seas in Phuket due to Cyclone Nargis.
Mya...
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| Newborn found in hospital car park
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Tuesday, May 6, 2008
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PHUKET CITY: A newborn boy was discovered yesterday morning in the back of a pickup truck in the car park of Bangkok Hospital Phuket. Doctors believe he had been abandoned the night before.
Dr ...
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| Dead turtle highlights endangered species’ plight
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Tuesday, May 6, 2008
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PHUKET (TNA, Gazette): The discovery of a dead Olive Ridley turtle in front of the West Sands Resort on Mai Khao Beach on March 17 has again raised the issue of coastal development deple...
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| Coral Reef Squadron red-flagged
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Saturday, May 3, 2008
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PHUKET CITY: The sinking of 10 decommissioned military aircraft – nicknamed the Coral Reef Squadron – to create Thailand’s largest artificial reef has been postponed until November, Tourism Authority ...
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| Aussie airlifted from Similans
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Friday, May 2, 2008
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PHUKET CITY: An Australian man is recovering at Vachira Phuket Hospital after being airlifted to Phuket from the Similan Islands by the Royal Thai Navy this afternoon.
Rear...
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| Investigation launched into ‘stolen’ tsunami victims’ coffins
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Friday, May 2, 2008
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PHANG NGA (Kom Chad Luek): Grave robbery has taken on a disturbing new form in Takuapa, where 11 aluminum coffins intended for tsunami victims were recently reported missing from ...
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| Kowsurat, celebrities to host aircraft reef festivities
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Friday, May 2, 2008
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LAYAN BEACH: Tourism and Sports Minister Weerasak Kowsurat and several Thai TV celebrities on Monday will lead activities to mark the sinking of 10 decommissioned military aircraft to form an artifici...
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| Hotel owner dies in paramotor accident
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Friday, May 2, 2008
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NAKHON SRI THAMMARAT (The Nation): Suwit Kitkamchai, owner of the Patong Pearl Resortel on Sawasdirak Rd in Patong, died on Wednesday when his paramotor rig plunged into the sea during a test f...
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| Job Fair marks Labor Day
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Friday, May 2, 2008
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SAPAN HIN: Hundreds of people turned out to apply for jobs yesterday morning at a job fair to mark International Labor Day.
The fair was organized by the Governor’s Office and the Phuket...
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