Phuket News | The Phuket News

PATTAYA: An air-conditioning technician who was reportedly devastated that his wife reported allegations of domestic abuse against him at Banglamung Police Station appears to have taken his own life at his apartment in South Pattaya on Tuesday afternoon (December 18).

Friday 21 December 2012, 09:19AM

Bite and go: McDonald's sets one hour time limit

THAILAND: McDonald's has imposed a new rule prohibiting customers from loitering in their shops for more than one hour.

Friday 21 December 2012, 09:06AM

Phuket-UAE aircraft catches fire: passengers safe

PHUKET: An Air Berlin flight from Phuket to Abu Dhabi in the UAE caught fire after takeoff around 10 pm tonight (December 20) from Phuket International Airport.

Thursday 20 December 2012, 11:46PM

Artificial reef created off Phuket coast

PHUKET: A total of 1,800 concrete cubes were planted in the sea along the Kata-Karon shore today (December 20) to create a new artificial reef.

Thursday 20 December 2012, 06:54PM

Missing American ‘rented Phuket home for 3 more months’

PHUKET: Police say that missing American surfer Brett Bean paid in advance for another three months rent of his bungalow in Karon, indicating that he did not intend to return to the US from Phuket as his mother thought.

Thursday 20 December 2012, 05:11PM

American dies in Phuket bike smash

PHUKET: An American man and a Thai ladyboy are dead following a motorbike smash on Viset Rd in Rawai just after midnight this morning (December 20).

Thursday 20 December 2012, 05:09PM

Bangkok court orders extradition of Italian mafia boss

BANGKOK: A Thai court on Thursday ordered the extradition of an alleged mafia boss wanted in Italy.

Thursday 20 December 2012, 04:38PM

US senators slam Oscar-tipped Bin Laden movie

Phuket News / World

Thursday 20 December 2012, 02:29PM

US: Three top US senators, including former White House hopeful John McCain, on Wednesday slammed a new Osama bin Laden manhunt movie for suggesting that torture helped find the Al-Qaeda chief.

China arrests nearly 1,000 doomsday 'cult' members

Phuket News / Asia

Thursday 20 December 2012, 02:29PM

CHINA: China has arrested nearly 1,000 people in a crackdown on a Christian sect that spread doomsday rumours and targeted communist rule, state media said Thursday ahead of the supposedly Mayan-foretold apocalypse.

Phuket worker dies from electric shock, fall

PHUKET: A metal worker died on Tuesday in Vachira Phuket Hospital after he received an electric shock and then fell from the top of a four-metre-high archway where he had been working.

Thursday 20 December 2012, 01:10PM

Kata Rocks in Phuket wins another accolade

Phuket News / Business

Thursday 20 December 2012, 09:17AM

PHUKET: Phuket’s Kata Rocks has picked up another International Property Award at an awards dinner in London.

Video of eagle attacking toddler sparks online buzz

Phuket News / World

Thursday 20 December 2012, 08:55AM

MONTREAL: A video of a golden eagle swooping down in Montreal and briefly snatching a toddler off the ground sparked online buzz, but turned out on Wednesday to be a hoax that some said harms wildlife.

US to open military ties soon with Myanmar: official

Phuket News / Asia

Thursday 20 December 2012, 08:40AM

MYANMAR: The United States is poised to take "nascent steps" to open up military ties with Myanmar as a way of bolstering political reforms undertaken by the former pariah state, a senior US defense official said Wednesday.

Thai deputy PM charged over export of 100 tigers to China

BANGKOK: A Thai deputy prime minister was charged Wednesday in connection with the export to China of 100 tigers, an endangered species protected by international law, the attorney general's office told AFP.

Thursday 20 December 2012, 08:40AM

The Big List: Great Imposters

THE BIG LIST: Pranksters, hoaxers, fakers, imposters and impersonators. Pretending to be someone (or something) that you’re not might be just a joke, or it might get more serious.

Wednesday 19 December 2012, 05:34PM

Chinese model in hot water over cop photos

BEIJING: Chinese authorities sentenced a 23-year-old model to nine months in jail, suspended for a year, after she posted pictures of herself in a police uniform on the internet.

Wednesday 19 December 2012, 05:29PM

Police lieutenant’s secret identity as a ‘Baller’

DALLAS: In the latest ‘Lucille Baller’ rap song, she talks about how she will shoot anyone who messes with her since she’s “been to hell and back”.

Wednesday 19 December 2012, 05:27PM

The secret US plan to nuke the moon

WASHINGTON: A secret US military plan to detonate an atomic bomb on the moon in the 1950s was designed as a warning to the Soviet Union, says a scientist who worked on the project.

Wednesday 19 December 2012, 05:24PM

Patong business people object to Phuket party

PHUKET: A group of Patong business people disagree with plans to move the Sydictive Element New Year’s party from Surin Beach to Patong – and have warned that the compensation expected by Patong businesses for the disruption will be considerable.

Wednesday 19 December 2012, 05:18PM

InterCon to manage former Evason Resort in Phuket