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Berserker Australians get rough Phuket justice

PHUKET: Two out-of-control Australians received rough justice early yesterday morning (May 23), after they attacked an American in a bar on Bangla Rd and started a brawl.

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Phuket Opinion: Kept in the dark

PHUKET: If Tuesday night’s black out – the biggest outage ever recorded in Thailand – taught us anything, it is to always be careful in Thailand. That you’re on your own and that nothing is probably as it seems.

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).

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.

Thai cop arrested with 20 elephant tusks

Phuket News / Thailand

Sunday 3 February 2013, 10:11PM

CHUMPHON: A Thai policeman has been arrested after he was caught trying to smuggle 20 elephant tusks, officials said Sunday.

US winter almost over: Phil the groundhog

Phuket News / World

Sunday 3 February 2013, 09:09AM

NEW YORK: It's official, at least according to America's most celebrated groundhog: spring is around the corner.

Hollande gets hero's welcome in a Mali fearful of future

Phuket News / World

Sunday 3 February 2013, 09:06AM

BAMAKO: President Francois Hollande received a rapturous welcome in Mali on Saturday as he promised that France would stay as long as necessary to continue the fight against Islamist rebels in the country's north.

Phuket police housing scandal back in the spotlight

Phuket News / Phuket

Saturday 2 February 2013, 11:14PM

PHUKET: Tharit Pengdit, DSI Director together with MP Prompong Nopparit, Pheu Thai Party spokesman, visited Phuket today to reexamine the police housing scandal.

Phuket boat ordeal owners describe accident as 'force majeure'

Phuket News / Phuket

Saturday 2 February 2013, 05:01PM

PHUKET: Tour company Andawaree Co Ltd, which runs tours to Phi Phi from Chalong Pier, held a press conference yesterday (February 1) about the accident on January 30.

Patong community mourns much-loved Phuket expat

Phuket News / Phuket

Saturday 2 February 2013, 03:17PM

PHUKET: Tributes were being laid in Patong over the weekend following the death of Phuket businessman, Swedish man Niklas “Nicke” Kring, 42, who died in a motorbike crash.

WTO unlikely to help Laos escape Thailand's grasp

Phuket News / Thailand

Saturday 2 February 2013, 08:32AM

BANGKOK: Laos joins the World Trade Organisation on Saturday, a major step for the small communist country but one that experts say may not break its powerful neighbours' stranglehold over its economy just yet.

Rohingya baby born in refugee boat near Phuket

Phuket News / Phuket

Saturday 2 February 2013, 08:24AM

PHUKET: A Rohingya refugee gave birth to a baby boy on an overcrowded boat carrying around 110 people which arrived in Thailand from unrest-hit western Myanmar, an official said Thursday.

China approves Ping An sale to Thailand's CP Group

Phuket News / Business

Saturday 2 February 2013, 08:20AM

BEIJING: China said Friday it had approved British bank HSBC's sale of its stake in insurance giant Ping An to a Thai conglomerate for $9.4 billion, ending speculation that the deal was on the verge of collapse.

Honest Phuket van driver returns B120,000

Phuket News / Phuket

Friday 1 February 2013, 03:26PM

PHUKET: A 24-year old van driver Sarawut Sompan is being praised for his honesty after he handed in around B132,000 worth of cash belonging to an Indonesian official.

L&H launches Phuket Inizio project

Phuket News / Business

Friday 1 February 2013, 12:52PM

PHUKET: Land and House Park Phuket launched a new housing project, Inizio Koh Kaew last Friday (January 18) on 26 rai of land in a quiet soi behind the Isuzu showroom on Thepkrassattri Rd, aimed, like so many new developments in Phuket, at first-home buyers at the lower end of the Thai market.

Sansiri targets uni market in Phuket

Phuket News / Business

Friday 1 February 2013, 12:51PM

PHUKET: Bangkok giant Sansiri is set to launch its fifth dcondo project on the island, on a site near Phuket Rajabhat University. It will be called dcondo Campus Resort Kuku.

Phuket Property Show ‘is the best so far’

Phuket News / Business

Friday 1 February 2013, 12:49PM

PHUKET: The Phuket Property Show 2013, held at Central Festival Phuket from January 17 to Wednesday (January 23) has been the most successful yet.

Phuket architects celebrate five years of success

Phuket News / Business

Friday 1 February 2013, 12:47PM

PHUKET: Phuket architecture firm Able Architects celebrated its fifth anniversary with a “white corporate” event at the Blue Elephant Restaurant in Phuket Town last week.

Phuket: Learning old-school lessons could end in a cold old age

Phuket News / Business

Friday 1 February 2013, 12:43PM

EXPAT MONEY: How many times have we all heard it said that stocks outperform bonds, which outperform cash deposits, which get eaten up by inflation, so you’re losing money just by doing nothing?

Phuket resort gets change of manager

Phuket News / Business

Friday 1 February 2013, 12:40PM

PHUKET: Hotel consulting company Mai-BS (Thailand) took over the management of the Dewa Karon Resort with effect from January 1.

Phuket: Small capacity ‘crimps deep port potential’

Phuket News / Business

Friday 1 February 2013, 12:38PM

PHUKET: If Phuket is to prosper as a cruise site, and not be forgotten amid a booming regional cruise scene, then it needs to seriously bolster local facilities, a recent Tourism Authority of Thailand (TAT) fact-finding panel was told, according to SeaShipNews.

Govt plan for tourism ‘lacking in direction’

Phuket News / Business

Friday 1 February 2013, 12:35PM

BANGKOK: The private sector is worried over the government’s “directionless” plan to raise the country’s tourism revenue to B2 trillion, saying that it lacks coordination, a concrete action plan and accountability.

Phuket Opinion: Let’s face the facts

Phuket News / Opinion

Tuesday 1 January 2013, 12:29PM

PHUKET: Most of the so-called “Russian” businesses in Phuket are actually Thai-owned and just use Russian people in the front so they can get explain things to Russian customers directly.

Debate examines benefits of Thai culture on tourism

Phuket News / Business

Friday 1 February 2013, 11:41AM

BANGKOK: PATA-organised debate in Bangkok asks 'Is Thai culture good or bad for the development of Thailand's tourism industry?'

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