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Stopgap deal keeps lifeguards on Phuket beaches

PHUKET: The Phuket Provincial Administration Organisation (OrBorJor) has organised a stopgap solution to the threat of Phuket having no beach lifeguards during the particularly stormy weather of June.

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Top chefs showcased at ‘Six of the Best’

PHUKET: Experiencing six of Phuket’s top dining experiences over the course of a year would be special enough, but to experience them in one night is exceptional.

Elephants go on show at Phuket’s Coconut Island

PHUKET: On May 25 – the night of the full moon – another cosmic event takes place in Phuket.

Weather sees Phuket fish prices soar

PHUKET: The current stormy monsoon weather has pushed up seafood prices as local fishing boats stay snug in port until conditions at sea improve.

Phuket: LCCs and why they act the way they do

Phuket News / Business

Tuesday 6 November 2012, 04:58PM

PHUKET: AirAsia’s public relations disaster in September scrapping the Phuket-Bali route without warning underlines the precarious nature of the low cost carrier business and its negative impact on customers.

Thailand and Indonesia tie Mice knot

Phuket News / Business

Tuesday 6 November 2012, 04:52PM

THAILAND: Thailand Convention and Exhibition Bureau says a recently signed Memorandum of Understanding with Indonesia will help to boost events hosted in Thailand.

Online wholesale travel system launched

Phuket News / Business

Tuesday 6 November 2012, 04:08PM

ASIA: Asiatravel.com has launched what it says is Asia’s first online wholesale system with instant confirmation for destinations worldwide.

Asia offers new potential for super luxury palace hotels

Phuket News / Business

Tuesday 6 November 2012, 04:04PM

ASIA: Asia is the most dynamic market for luxury products and services and is the next target for palace hotels under the brand of Dorchester Collection, company chief executive Christopher Cowdray recently said in an interview about strategy.

Thai ‘transgender airline’ grounded over finance issues

Phuket News / Business

Tuesday 6 November 2012, 04:00PM

THAILAND: Months after taking to the skies with Thailand’s first transsexual air crew, fledgling carrier PC Air has suspended services over financial troubles that left passengers stranded in South Korea.

Thailand 2nd in HSBC survey

Phuket News / Business

Tuesday 6 November 2012, 03:55PM

THAILAND: Thailand is ranked second in the world in this year’s HSBC expatriate living survey, just behind Singapore.

Two join Boathouse in Phuket

Phuket News / Business

Tuesday 6 November 2012, 03:50PM

PHUKET: Argentinean Santiago Lopez has been appointed Director of Food and Beverage at Boathouse Phuket and ReKáTa Beach Club.

Crafty property ideas ‘will fail’

Phuket News / Business

Tuesday 6 November 2012, 03:07PM

PHUKET: A lawyer who worked for eight years in Phuket, much of it on land and property issues, has warned that crafty attempts to circumvent Thai property law are most likely doomed to fail – and that a new law on shareholders’ voting rights could shake up the property industry.

Zcape Phuket condos sell out in just three months

Phuket News / Business

Tuesday 6 November 2012, 03:04PM

PHUKET: Tri Property Co celebrated with a party last weekend after selling all 198 units in their Zcape Condominium project in Cherng Talay in less than three months, and announced that construction of the seven-story condo building will begin by the end of the year.

New THAI boss has a giant job ahead

Phuket News / Business

Tuesday 6 November 2012, 03:01PM

THAILAND: Thai Airways International’s new president told local media at his first press conference last week that he would submit a revised business plan for 2013 by the end of this year.

Phuket hotel figures soar

Phuket News / Business

Tuesday 6 November 2012, 02:59PM

PHUKET: Phuket delivered outstanding performances in occupancy rate and revenue per available room (RevPAR) of all destinations in Asia Pacific covered by the August STR Global report.

Thailand ‘a hot target’ for hotel investors

Phuket News / Business

Tuesday 6 November 2012, 02:57PM

THAILAND: Jones Lang LaSalle Hotels (JLLH) are tipping Thailand as a hotel investment market to watch.

Scam artist nets B1.5m from Phuket victim

Phuket News / Phuket

Tuesday 6 November 2012, 02:53PM

PHUKET: Chawwarote Jangjob, 44, was arrested yesterday for scamming a local man out of B1.5 million by posing as a representative of Phuket’s new Police Chief, Maj Gen Chote Chavalviwat.

‘Ultra-luxury’ cruises head for Phuket

Phuket News / Business

Tuesday 6 November 2012, 02:50PM

PHUKET: Miami-based “ultra luxury” cruising company SeaDream Yacht Club has released details of its first ever season sailing in Asia and northern Australia, which will include a stop in Phuket.

Obama, Romney end tumultuous White House campaign

Phuket News / World

Tuesday 6 November 2012, 12:08PM

WORLD: Barack Obama and Mitt Romney made their final cases to Americans on election eve Monday, capping a grueling, negative, multi-billion dollar campaign and handing their fates to voters.

DNP cancels massive park fees hike

Phuket News / Business

Tuesday 6 November 2012, 10:53AM

THAILAND: In the face of a deluge of criticism from the travel industry, the Department of National Parks, Wildlife and Plant Conservation (DNP) has cancelled its planned massive hike in park entry fees.

Gov stresses construction standards after wall collapse

Phuket News / Phuket

Monday 5 November 2012, 06:47PM

PHUKET: Governor Maitree Intusut visited the Senses Beach Resort in Nanai Rd, Patong, yesterday (November 4) to inspect the damage caused when a four-metre-high boundary wall of the hotel collapsed the day before onto houses below it.

Kasikorn Phuket bank robber had done it before

Phuket News / Phuket

Monday 5 November 2012, 06:22PM

PHUKET: Anudit Kaewmookda, who robbed the Kasikorn Bank branch on Thepkrasattri Rd last Wednesday (October 31), escaping with B2.7 million, has confessed to pulling off another bank robbery, on January 29 this year.

Central Festival Phuket East opens

Phuket News / Business

Monday 5 November 2012, 03:48PM

PHUKET: The grand opening will not be until December 15 but “Central Festival Phuket East” is now open for business.

Protesters block new Phuket Red Shirt Village plan

Phuket News / Phuket

Monday 5 November 2012, 02:21PM

PHUKET: Two groups of local people calling themselves the “Phuket Urban Anti-Red” and the “Phuket Model Banish Red Shirt Village” gathered at the Dragon Park on Thalang Rd in Phuket Town yesterday morning (November 4) to protest once more against any attempt to establish a Red Shirt Village on the island.

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