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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.

Deal brokered over troubled Phuket condo project

Phuket News / Phuket

Wednesday 19 September 2012, 04:52PM

PHUKET: A committee set up by the Damrongtham Centre (DC) to hear disputes between property developers and their buyers yesterday brokered a deal that may solve a long-standing problem over the 69-unit Chalong Bay View condominium.

Consuls briefed on Phuket taxi progress

Phuket News / Phuket

Wednesday 19 September 2012, 04:38PM

PHUKET: Taxis and tuk-tuks were once again the main topic for the latest meeting between government officials and the island’s honorary consuls at Provincial Hall on Monday (September 17).

Wigged robber's wife arrested

Phuket News / Phuket

Wednesday 19 September 2012, 03:09PM

PHUKET: Phuket Police poured officers into the Kathu Waterfall area this morning to search for one of two “wigged robbers” who robbed a gold shop in Phuket Town yesterday.

Filipinos robbed of B75,000 worth of jewellery

Phuket News / Phuket

Wednesday 19 September 2012, 02:28PM

PHUKET: A Filipino couple in Phuket were reportedly robbed of over B75,000 worth of gold jewellery by a motorcycle thief on Saturday (September 15), on Sirirach Road connecting Patong with Karon.

Geologist warns of Phuket underpass dangers

Phuket News / Phuket

Wednesday 19 September 2012, 02:08PM

PHUKET: A respected local geologist has warned that great care must be taken in the construction of the new B600 million underpass next to Central Festival to ensure that it does not collapse after it is completed.

Phuket Opinion: Legal taxi

Phuket News / Opinion

Wednesday 19 September 2012, 01:23PM

PHUKET: It’s human nature to want something that is difficult or even impossible to attain. Maybe it’s because we are animals who value the chase over the prey, or perhaps we are all just eternal optimists seeking a better life.

Botched abortion results in death

Phuket News / Thailand

Wednesday 19 September 2012, 01:13PM

A 17-year-old student was found dead in a short-time hotel after performance of an illicit abortion on September 17. The incident occurred in tambon Tak Daed Moo 8 of Chumporn's Meuang district. The unidentified hotel's manager notified Meuang district police about 3pm that a girl had been found dead in one of the rooms, so the duty officer, Pol Capt Suksant Yimyaem went to investigate, accompanied by a medical officer from Chumporn Ketra Udomsak Hospital and Kupai Saichol Rescue unit personnel. At the hotel, which lies close to Chumporn town and is described as a 'resort' though catering to short-time customers, Pol Capt Suksant was led to the aforementioned, cheaply furnished room where he saw the body of a girl, 17, slender and fair-skinned, a native of Chumporn. The corpse was dressed in pink T-shirt screened with cartoon characters and black shorts, and lay supine on a single bed. Her name was not reported. The thin mattress on which she lay was covered in a flower-pattern sheet, and rested on ill-fitting box springs. In front of the bed was a mirror; above the mirror, a TV screen. The walls were white and unadorned. A bottle of soft drink stood open nearby the corpse. Only a little had been consumed. No evidence of fighting or foul play was discerned. While examining the corpse, the hospital medical officer noted a great deal of blood had flown from the vagina, swamping the underside. He said the girl had been dead no fewer than five hours. Investigators found two Pampers-type diapers thick with red and black blood. They were collected as evidence. The hotel manager told police that a woman approximately 40 years of age had arrived driving a Chumporn-registered Honda motorcycle at 8.00 AM Sunday morning and booked a short-time room. "About half an hour later," Pol Capt Suksant said, "another motorbike arrived with the girl later found dead riding on the back. Another half-hour or so passed and two or three more women were seen running back and forth from the room carrying various food items. That went on all day. Then one came and paid for the room overnight. "After that, all was quiet. "But about 2pm the following day, when the room maid entered to clean, she found the girl lying dead. The others had vanished." Pol Capt Suksant said the woman who booked the room was a regular customer of the hotel: "She rents short-time rooms five or six times a week," he said, "each time for three or four hours. She is always followed by women, who stay in the room with her, sometimes for a short time, sometimes over night." He said he expects the girl who died found herself pregnant while still in school and, fearing what might happen when her parents found out, decided on an abortion. He thinks the abortionist lives nearby the hotel. "After completing the abortion," he said, "the woman and her team watched over the girl -- but the blood wouldn't cease flowing. They tried to staunch the flow but nothing worked and finally she died. "Seeing that, they fled." It was not reported whether police planned to follow up on the investigation. Abortion is not illegal in Thailand, young women need to know that if they can have it proved by two doctors that having a baby would cause them anxiety or depression then trained doctors can perform the procedure.

Phuket's first Museum Festival starts Friday

Phuket News / Phuket

Wednesday 19 September 2012, 12:21PM

PHUKET: For the first time in Phuket, in cooperation with 30 different southern museums, the “Museum Festival 2012” will be held from this Friday until Sunday (September 23).

Thai Muslims protest anti-Islam film at US embassy

Phuket News / Thailand

Wednesday 19 September 2012, 11:59AM

THAILAND: Hundreds of Muslims, many carrying placards and chanting 'Down with America', rallied outside the US embassy in Bangkok Tuesday, as protests over an anti-Islam film spread to the Thai capital.

Patong detective injured in road smash

Phuket News / Phuket

Wednesday 19 September 2012, 10:27AM

PHUKET: A Patong police detective was injured after the car he was driving smashed into an electricity pole on Sunday morning in Rassada district and ended up in a water-filled ditch.

Human trafficking suspect arrested at Phuket airport

Phuket News / Phuket

Wednesday 19 September 2012, 09:37AM

PHUKET: A Thai woman suspected to be a member of a Thai-Bahrain human trafficking gang, who forced Thai women to work as prostitutes in Bahrain, was arrested at Phuket International Airport on Sunday (September 16).

Phuket Police closing in on ‘Wigged crims’

Phuket News / Phuket

Tuesday 18 September 2012, 06:34PM

PHUKET: Although the ‘wigged criminals’ suspected of making off with two kilograms of gold in yesterday’s Phuket store jewellery store robbery are still to be apprehended, police believe they are closing in on the dubiously-dressed duo.

Lax law enforcement ‘ruining Phuket’

Phuket News / Phuket

Tuesday 18 September 2012, 05:38PM

PHUKET: Environmental authorities have urged Phuket’s local elected councils – OrBorJor, OrBorTor and municipalities – to enforce laws more effectively to control the unbridled growth of economic development on the island.

King Power beats Audemars Piguet in King's Cup Final

Phuket News / Thailand

Tuesday 18 September 2012, 06:29AM

THAILAND: After a fun and ferocious week of elephant polo, attended by teams from all over the world as well as royals, celebrities and many other special VIP guests, the final day of the tournament offered up a showcase of skillful play, plenty of memorable moments and a new winning team for 2012.

Army behind Thai protest death: inquest

Phuket News / Thailand

Monday 17 September 2012, 06:17PM

The Thai military shot and killed a taxi driver during 2010 "Red Shirt" rallies, an inquest found Monday, in the first ever ruling on deaths during the country's worst political violence in decades.

Security warning to US citizens

Phuket News / Thailand

Monday 17 September 2012, 04:12PM

The US Embassy in Bangkok is bracing for a protest planned at its gates tomorrow (September 18) over an anti-Islamic film that was at the root of the recent riots in Benghazi, Libya, in which the US Ambassador to that country and three other embassy staffers were killed.

BTS sells huge plot of Phuket land

Phuket News / Business

Monday 17 September 2012, 03:45PM

PHUKET: Thailand’s publicly listed BTS has announced that its subsidiary, Bangkok Mass Transit System Public Co Ltd (BMTS), has sold a massive 455-rai piece of land in Kamala.

Wigged raiders hit Phuket gold shop

Phuket News / Phuket

Monday 17 September 2012, 03:23PM

PHUKET: Two men wearing wigs robbed a gold shop in Mubaan Kaeha, in the Rassada Port area of Phuket Town, at about 1pm today.

Buffalo rescued from well

Phuket News / Thailand

Monday 17 September 2012, 02:51PM

Pataloong Kupai Rescue Service in Ranong were called to perform an unusual rescue on Wednesday (September 12): pulling a two-year-old water buffalo from a well.

Phang-Nga prisoner caught

Phuket News / Thailand

Monday 17 September 2012, 02:31PM

After two days on the lam, drug suspect Tsongraks Kam-on, who escaped from Phang-nga courthouse on September 12 subsequent to his arraignment on charges of possessing 10,000 methamphetamine tablets and an unspecified type of firearm, was re-captured by provincial police.

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