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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.

NEWS TODAY May 23

'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.

Momentum grows for B1m Phuket skate park

Phuket News / Phuket

Friday 8 March 2013, 05:02PM

PHUKET: A group of Phuket skaters are hoping to raise funds to build a state-of-the-art B1 million skate park to help bring the Phuket community together and provide a venue for the island’s skaters.

Rare comet visible over Thailand all week

Phuket News / Thailand

Friday 8 March 2013, 04:14PM

BANGKOK: The National Astronomical Research Institute of Thailand (Narit) is encouraging people to try to catch a glimpse of an approaching comet that will be visible to the naked eye just once in a lifetime.

AirAsia's India entry wins investment panel approval

Phuket News / Business

Friday 8 March 2013, 08:40AM

NEW DELHI: Asia's largest low-cost carrier AirAsia won approval from India's foreign investment panel Wednesday to set up an airline in a joint venture with the giant Tata group, a government official said.

EU, Thailand launch free trade talks

Phuket News / Thailand

Friday 8 March 2013, 08:39AM

BANGKOK: The European Union and Thailand on Wednesday announced the launch of talks on a Free Trade Agreement (FTA), seeking to boost annual commerce already worth some 30 billion euros ($39 billion).

British activist fighting to avoid Thai jail term

Phuket News / Thailand

Friday 8 March 2013, 08:37AM

BANGKOK: A British activist who could face up to seven years in a Thai prison for his investigation into alleged migrant labour abuses has decried the charges as a politically motivated attempt to silence him.

Lucky escape as stray bullet zips into woman’s Phuket home

Phuket News / Phuket

Thursday 7 March 2013, 05:05PM

PHUKET: Phuket woman 59-year-old Thayika Yotyoy had a close call yesterday evening (March 6) when a bullet missed her by millimetres as she stood inside the house in Rawai she shares with her sister and niece.

Phuket mob protests at sacking of teacher

Phuket News / Phuket

Thursday 7 March 2013, 03:43PM

PHUKET: Around 100 Muslim people, including students of the Muslim Wittaya School in Koh Kaew and members of the school’s foundation, gathered at the school this morning to protest at the sacking of a teacher.

City offers summer fun for Phuket children

Phuket News / Phuket

Thursday 7 March 2013, 02:26PM

PHUKET: Phuket City Municipality has invited all children aged six to 10 to join a wide variety of activities – some serious and some just plain fun – which will run from March 25 to April 25, at very little cost.

OrBorJor bus victim recovering after Phuket smash

Phuket News / Phuket

Thursday 7 March 2013, 12:48PM

PHUKET: Kirill Kulaein, 43, the Russian tourist who was hit by a Po Tong – an OrBorJor pink bus – yesterday (March 6) remains in Vachira Hospital but is out of danger.

Still no funds for new B1bn Phuket prison

Phuket News / Phuket

Thursday 7 March 2013, 12:19PM

PHUKET: With prisoner numbers now at bursting point in the existing overcrowded and ancient prison in Phuket Town, the director of Phuket Provincial Prison is hoping that the funds to build a new B1 billion prison in Thalang will be included in the 2014 government budget.

Phuket Opinion: Probing for the truth

Phuket News / Opinion

Tuesday 5 March 2013, 12:54PM

PHUKET: Last week The Phuket News published a story about the apparent shelving of the two main land title probes that have had Phuket’s developers and hoteliers quivering for the past year.

Phuket: More bank accounts targeted by smartphone trojan

Phuket News / Phuket

Thursday 7 March 2013, 09:02AM

Phuket: Following the story posted by The Phuket News yesterday about a trojan/spyware virus targeted at online banking by Kasikornbank account holders, its seems that other Thai banks, too, are being targeted.

Phuket Pride Week 2013 will be ‘Same Same Not Different’

Phuket News / Phuket

Thursday 7 March 2013, 08:55AM

PHUKET: The Phuket Loves You Club (PLU) have officially launched Phuket Pride Week 2013, which runs from April 22-28, by announcing the first 22 planned events.

Cadbury accused of evading taxes in India: report

Phuket News / Asia

Wednesday 6 March 2013, 01:51PM

MUMBAI: Indian tax authorities have accused the local unit of chocolate giant Cadbury of evading $46 million in taxes by pretending to produce sweets at a factory that did not exist, a report said Wednesday.

S. Korea vows to retaliate if provoked by North

Phuket News / Asia

Wednesday 6 March 2013, 01:50PM

SEOUL: South Korea warned Wednesday that it would retaliate against any provocation from North Korea, a day after the North threatened to tear up the armistice that ended the Korean War in 1953.

Car thief kills toddler in China: police

Phuket News / Asia

Wednesday 6 March 2013, 01:48PM

CHINA: A Chinese car thief strangled a two-year-old toddler to death after stealing a vehicle with the infant inside, police said, provoking outrage across the country Wednesday.

Body in car for five days on busy New Zealand road

Phuket News / World

Wednesday 6 March 2013, 01:47PM

WELLINGTON: The body of a driver lay undetected on the front seat of his car beside one of New Zealand's busiest roads for five days before anyone called police, reports said Wednesday.

Phuket: Trojan bug targets KBank accounts

Phuket News / Phuket

Wednesday 6 March 2013, 12:50PM

PHUKET: Kasikornbank (KBank) has issued a warning to users of smart phones, particularly those running the Android system, that a “Trojan/spyware” program is currently doing the rounds, posing as a Kasikornbank app.

Russian run over by Phuket OrBorJor bus

Phuket News / Phuket

Wednesday 6 March 2013, 11:52AM

PHUKET: A Russian tourist named by police as Kirill Kulaein, 43, was taken to Vachira Phuket Hospital about 10am this morning (March 6) after being run over by an OrBorJor “po tong” pink bus in the middle of Phuket Town.

Work begins on Phuket bypass stabilisation

Phuket News / Phuket

Wednesday 6 March 2013, 11:34AM

PHUKET: Highways Department workers are currently clearing vegetation from a steep bank between the south- and north-bound lanes of the bypass road as part of a project to stop the bank collapsing in heavy rain.

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