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Improvement of polluted Phuket canal ‘underway’

PHUKET: Much of the polluted Klong Bangtao has been dredged in order to improve flow and reduce bottlenecks that cause stagnation, a meeting at Phuket Provincial Hall was told this morning (May 23).

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Taxis, taxis, taxis – a week of fever in Phuket

PHUKET: Thirty meter taxis from the Phuket Limousine & Business Services cooperative (PBC) convened a mob at Phuket International Airport yesterday evening (May 22), blocking one of the two roads into the airport.

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'Blackout could have been avoided'. Thai industries affected by black out. Former VG house suspect overlooking Patong.

Who's responsible for Phuket's blackout?

BANGKOK: The energy minister has reasons to be upset about the southern power outage, as no one at the electricity supplying agencies made the decision to save the region.

Phuket Lotus protesters meet Commerce boss

Phuket News / Phuket

Sunday 30 September 2012, 10:16PM

PHUKET: Santichai Santhawanpat, the vice general director of the Department of Internal Trade, along with Phuket MP Rewat Jindapol and municipality representative Niwat Engchuan held a meeting yesterday (Saturday) to discuss the proposal for the new Tesco Lotus in Phuket Town.

Graft busters spar with land officials

Phuket News / Phuket

Friday 28 September 2012, 07:30PM

PHUKET: Land officers and the adviser to the Department of National Parks and Wildlife and Plant Conservation (DNP), which has been rattling skeltons all around Phuket with its land investigation, confronted each other at the Sirinart Marine National Park offices this morning.

Mayor and locals plan how to block Tesco

Phuket News / Phuket

Friday 28 September 2012, 07:14PM

PHUKET: Local officials met yesterday (September 27) to discuss ways to block the construction of a large Tesco-Lotus hypermarket on Bangkok Rd in Phuket Town.

Worker electrocuted atop LED billboard

Phuket News / Phuket

Friday 28 September 2012, 06:46PM

PHUKET: A Nakorn Sri Thammarat man working on the erection of a new giant LED advertising screen just south of the Central Festival mall was electrocuted this afternoon (September 28).

Store owner 1, burglar 0

Phuket News / Phuket

Friday 28 September 2012, 05:56PM

PHUKET: A burglar who climbed to the third floor of a Phuket Town clothing store was confronted and finally overcome by the store’s owner after a furious struggle in the wee hours of Thursday morning.

Croc escapes cage on board Qantas flight

Phuket News / World

Friday 28 September 2012, 02:35PM

Baggage handlers came to the rescue on board a Qantas flight earlier this month, capturing a loose crocodile that had escaped its cage in the aircraft’s cargo hold.

Asian fashion grads have New York moment

Phuket News / Asia

Friday 28 September 2012, 02:17PM

There’s nothing glamorous about ironing your own collection before a show at New York fashion week, but if that’s what it takes for Jie Jessie Liu to break into the business, she’ll do it.

Day change for DJ Boy George set

Phuket News / Phuket

Friday 28 September 2012, 01:57PM

PHUKET: Former Culture Club singer turned DJ Boy George, originally scheduled to perform at Bliss Beach Club on October 4, will now perform on Friday, October 5.

Survivors tell of Nepal avalanche

Phuket News / Asia

Friday 28 September 2012, 01:45PM

Climbers who survived an avalanche in the dark on one of the world’s deadliest peaks told Tuesday of their horror as breaking dawn revealed the bodies of their companions littering the mountain.

Gov says goodbye

Phuket News / Phuket

Friday 28 September 2012, 01:37PM

PHUKET: A farewell banquet for Governor Tri Augkaradecha on Monday night (September 24) attracted some 1,500 people – a veritable Who’s Who of the great and good in Phuket – to the governor’s official residence.

Surf's up for girls

Phuket News / Phuket

Friday 28 September 2012, 01:34PM

PHUKET: The posters advertise a “sea, sand, sun and surf camp” as Rip Curl Launch their Girls Go Surfing Day tomorrow (September 29) at Kata Beach.

No box jellyfish here – scientist

Phuket News / Phuket

Friday 28 September 2012, 01:30PM

PHUKET: The recently appointed Director of the Phuket Marine Biological Centre (PMBC) at Cape Panwa, Ukkrit Satapoomin, has strenuously denied that he issued a warning about the possibility of highly venomous box jellyfish being found in the waters around Phuket.

Tiger fire started inside – report

Phuket News / Phuket

Friday 28 September 2012, 01:26PM

PHUKET: The deadly fire at the Tiger Discotheque in Patong on August 17 probably started inside the building, Phuket Police Chief Maj Gen Chonasit Wattanavrangkul has said.

Miss Thailand 2012 arrives in Phuket

Phuket News / Phuket

Friday 28 September 2012, 11:38AM

PHUKET: Miss Thailand World 2012 Vanessa “Na-Chatra” Muangkod arrived in Phuket this morning for the opening of the O2 Beach Club in Chalong tonight.

Air Asia dumps Phuket-Ubon service

Phuket News / Phuket

Friday 28 September 2012, 10:58AM

PHUKET: Fury and frustration has greeted an apparently sudden decision by low cost carrier AirAsia to dump its direct flights from Phuket to Bali and Ubon Ratchathani, at a moment’s notice.

First weekly inspection of Pattaya and Jomtien Beach jet skis takes place

Phuket News / Thailand

Friday 28 September 2012, 09:32AM

On Thursday afternoon the first of a series of random weekly checks on jet skis and their operators on Pattaya and Jomtien Beaches took place in an effort to stop the well publicized jet ski scams which have a huge negative impact on tourism in the area.

Police raid Huay Kwang’s High Class massage parlor, find 16 women from Laos and Burma

Phuket News / Thailand

Friday 28 September 2012, 09:27AM

Huay Kwang police raided the High Class Entertainment Complex massage parlor in the Din Deang area yesterday and found 16 illegal immigrant women from Laos and Burma.

‘Innocence’ movie sparks extra security for US Navy

Phuket News / Phuket

Thursday 27 September 2012, 06:41PM

PHUKET: The island's Police Deputy Commander, Pol Col Peerayut Karajedee, has confirmed that stringent security measures will be in place for the coming visit of the American aircraft carrier USS John C Stennis when it arrives in Patong Bay on October 7, accompanied by the guided missile cruiser the USS Mobile Bay.

Let's get ready for veggie festival

Phuket News / Phuket

Thursday 27 September 2012, 05:46PM

PHUKET: A full list of events in this year’s Phuket Vegetarian Festival has been released.

Mascots for World Cup and Commonwealth Games: an armadillo and a thistle

Phuket News / Weird World

Thursday 27 September 2012, 12:00PM

The year 2014 will be a big time for sports as the World Cup and Commonwealth Games will be in full force. With over a year to go, mascots for both events were respectively unveiled last week.

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