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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.

Photographing Baba life in Phuket

Phuket News / Phuket

Tuesday 22 January 2013, 02:43PM

PHUKET: Photo competition ‘Baba Life Photo @ Phuket’ will be held on Sunday, February 3, along Thalang Road in Phuket Town, where photographers will take photos of models in traditional Baba dress.

Phuket food festival returns

Phuket News / Phuket

Tuesday 22 January 2013, 02:20PM

PHUKET: The fifth Phuket Traditional Food Festival kicked off on Sunday at Saphan Hin, and will continue until Thursday (January 24).

Still no sightings of missing Phuket surfer

Phuket News / Phuket

Tuesday 22 January 2013, 12:51PM

PHUKET: Police have found no more clues to shed light on the disappearance of American surfer Brett Bean, nearly two months after he was last heard from.

CCTV fails to reveal details of Phuket murder

Phuket News / Phuket

Tuesday 22 January 2013, 12:32PM

PHUKET: CCTV camera footage around the area where Hilton Phuket Arcadia Resort staff member Jintana Mahattanapak was murdered did not capture footage of her killers, police said today (January 22).

The Big List: Weird Aircraft Cargoes

Phuket News / Weird World

Tuesday 22 January 2013, 10:40AM

THE BIG LIST: In these days of tough aircraft security, frequent fliers are often bombarded with reminders of the sorts of things they cannot take on to a plane. But sometimes that message just doesn’t get through. Here are some of the stranger aircraft cargoes on record:

Cops find angry croc guarding dope stash

Phuket News / Weird World

Tuesday 22 January 2013, 10:38AM

WEIRD WORLD: California police officers were confronted by an aggressive crocodile guarding an illicit marijuana stash when they visited the house of a suspected drug dealer this week.

‘Wonky’ sat-nav sends Brussels-bound driver to Croatia

Phuket News / Weird World

Tuesday 22 January 2013, 10:34AM

WEIRD WORLD: A Belgian woman ended up driving across Europe after mistakenly following directions from her satellite navigation system.

Snake on a plane, seriously!

Phuket News / Weird World

Tuesday 22 January 2013, 10:33AM

WEIRD WORLD: Passengers on an Australian jet bound for Papua New Guinea spotted a three-metre snake clinging desperately to the wing of their aircraft throughout the flight.

Thai army officials 'involved' in people smuggling

Phuket News / Thailand

Tuesday 22 January 2013, 09:22AM

BANGKOK: Thai authorities said on Monday they were investigating allegations that army officials were involved in the trafficking of Rohingya boat people fleeing deadly sectarian violence in Myanmar.

Phuket resident skimmed for B90,000

Phuket News / Phuket

Tuesday 22 January 2013, 09:19AM

PHUKET: A Phuket resident is determined to get back the B90,000 skimmed from his bank account in April last year, withdrawn without his knowledge from an ATM some 1,000 kilometres away in Pattaya.

Phuket woman's drive-by killing captured on CCTV

Phuket News / Phuket

Tuesday 22 January 2013, 09:16AM

PHUKET: The execution-style killing of a Phuket woman as she drove along one of the island's main roads was recorded on CCTV cameras in the area, say the police.

'We were cheated,' say Dutch-Thai family in Phuket

Phuket News / Phuket

Tuesday 22 January 2013, 09:14AM

PHUKET: Thai consumer protection officials say they'll examine the case of a visiting Dutch-Thai family in Phuket, who say a travel company in Bangkok scammed them out of more than B200,000.

Danish man wanted for Phuket hotel robbery

Phuket News / Phuket

Tuesday 22 January 2013, 09:09AM

PHUKET: Police have issued an arrest warrant for the man believed to have drugged a Karon hotel receptionist on Monday and made off with B3 million worth of belongings from security boxes.

Phuket man arrested for drugs

Phuket News / Phuket

Tuesday 22 January 2013, 09:07AM

PHUKET: Wichit police have arrested 35-year-old Phuket Town resident Chusak O-in for possession of 74 ya ba pills and 29.49 grams of ya ice.

Settlement reached in Phuket bottle slashing

Phuket News / Phuket

Tuesday 22 January 2013, 09:06AM

PHUKET: A settlement has been reached in the case involving Iranian tourist Sina Khalilifard, his Peruvian fiancée, and a Thai man who had his face badly slashed in an nasty altercation last Monday night (January 7).

Dogs killed in Phuket blaze

Phuket News / Phuket

Tuesday 22 January 2013, 09:04AM

PHUKET: Three dogs were killed when a temporary housing area for 20 construction workers in Mai Khao was destroyed by fire at 9am this morning (January 18).

Driver killed near notorious Phuket bend

Phuket News / Phuket

Tuesday 22 January 2013, 09:03AM

PHUKET: A driver lost control of his taxi near the infamous Khor Ane corner in Mai Khao at midday today (January 18) and was killed instantly.

Phuket Blood Center still requires O negative blood

Phuket News / Phuket

Tuesday 22 January 2013, 09:02AM

PHUKET: The Phuket Regional Blood Center (PRBC) still requires more O Rhesus-negative blood to restock its supplies for foreigners who have accidents on the island.

Fugitive Phuket expats arrested for rape, tax evasion

Phuket News / Phuket

Tuesday 22 January 2013, 09:00AM

PHUKET: Two foreigners living in Phuket and wanted for crimes in their home countries have been arrested. One is a Frenchman sought for alleged rape and the other is a Swede who allegedly owes his government B100 million in taxes.

Looking after Phuket’s Russians

Phuket News / Features

Tuesday 22 January 2013, 08:57AM

PHUKET: The number of Russian residents in Phuket is now around the 5,000 mark, and the number is climbing every year. In the first half of 2012, meanwhile, Russian tourist numbers were way over 140,000.

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