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The dark side of Songkran: The danger on Phuket's roads

PHUKET: Songkran’s not all fun and games, as Nattha Thepbamrung discovers speaking to the forgotten victims of road crashes during the holidays

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Why Phuket needs the Russians

PHUKET: A Russian guest was so happy recently with the service at a swanky restaurant, where he had been dining with his family, that at the end of the meal he threw a wad of baht notes into the air as a tip for the Thai staff.

Phuket: Is working in human resources a dangerous job?

PHUKET: Phuket murder illuminates violence done to hotel management staff, reports Tanyaluk Sakoot.

Accident or carelessness?

PHUKET: Two Australian sisters recount their horror speedboat trip to Phi Phi to Nattha Thepbamrung.

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.

Was the Phuket Sydictive megaparty worth it in the end?

Phuket News / Features

Monday 7 January 2013, 05:44PM

PHUKET: The Sydictive New Year’s megaparty finally happened. But was it all worth it? Alasdair Forbes and Nattha Thepbamrung analyse the event in its aftermath.

Phuket party plans 'a mess' – Surin restaurateur

Phuket News / Features

Thursday 6 December 2012, 04:20PM

PHUKET: On December 30, Surin Beach will be transformed into a raving party site for up to 50,000 people pumping their fists to the latest techno tunes, all in a safe, happy, clean environment.

Will extradition finally resolve Dashawn Longfellow's death?

Phuket News / Features

Tuesday 27 November 2012, 06:18PM

PHUKET: When Dashawn Longfellow was murdered more than two years ago, in the early hours of August 14, 2010, Phuket’s foreign community, and particularly the Thai boxing and MMA community, were horrified.

The Phuket Badlands files

Phuket News / Features

Friday 16 November 2012, 05:34PM

PHUKET: The Government has announced formation of a new Phuket Land Centre. What will this mean? Alasdair Forbes and Nattha Thepbamrung summarise the situation.

‘Mum, I can breathe now’

Phuket News / Features

Friday 2 November 2012, 11:29AM

PHUKET: A Singaporean company provides life-changing machine for Petch, reports Nattha Thepbamrung.

Life since Thailand's Got Talent

Phuket News / Features

Saturday 27 October 2012, 02:55PM

PHUKET: Despite coming fourth in season two of Thailand’s Got Talent, and now being well known not only in Phuket but across Thailand, Rawai rock singer Warunee ‘Gig’ Suwannurak still finds it hard to believe that she’s not living a dream.

TV Talent contestant Romadon brings chaos and colour to Phuket

Phuket News / Features

Friday 26 October 2012, 11:29AM

PHUKET: One can never really keep up with Romadon, as he always appears to be at least a few steps slightly ahead. Sometimes though, it’s possible to sit down with him, and attempt to find out how he has been since reaching the grand final of Thailand’s biggest reality TV show.

Exposing Thailand’s secret shadow trade

Phuket News / Features

Friday 19 October 2012, 04:02PM

PHUKET: John Dalley, co-founder of the Phuket-based Soi Dog Foundation, says he doesn’t have time to feel pride – he is always too busy feeling frustrated.

Phuket Sea Gypsies under siege from owners

Phuket News / Features

Friday 19 October 2012, 11:07AM

PHUKET: The Phuket Provincial Court is facing a long series of lawsuits aimed at getting members of the Rawai Sea Gypsy village – the largest such village in Phuket – evicted from land claimed by a local businessman who bought the land four years ago.

A private glimpse at the life of a ladyboy dancer

Phuket News / Features

Friday 12 October 2012, 12:20PM

PHUKET: It’s 5.30 in the afternoon and heading towards dusk. Spotlights on the roof of the Aphrodite cabaret show on the bypass road are bouncing beams off clouds. Already more than 200 tourists are milling around in the auditorium.

Learning Thai language in Phuket

Phuket News / Features

Friday 5 October 2012, 10:51AM

PHUKET: Three foreigners speak to Claire Connell about how they successfully became fluent in Thai language.

A mother's desperate love

Phuket News / Features

Saturday 22 September 2012, 02:30PM

PHUKET: Single mum Yuparate Kiawwan does not sleep at night. She can’t. If she does her son, Patchara “Petch” Samana, may die.

Will the AEC really change anything?

Phuket News / Features

Saturday 15 September 2012, 02:48PM

PHUKET: In three years the Asean Economic Community will become fully operational, removing impediments to travel and commerce between the 13 member countries.

Still true to those baby boom values

Phuket News / Features

Friday 7 September 2012, 05:49PM

PHUKET: Alasdair Forbes meets Ho Kwon Ping and his wife Claire Chiang of Banyan Tree Holdings, owners of Laguna Phuket, and discovers a deep vein of social conscience.

Who's your Baba?

Phuket News / Features

Thursday 6 September 2012, 08:52AM

PHUKET: The word ‘Baba’ refers to people of mixed Thai and Chinese heritage, and although on a superficial level it might seem that the only discernible difference is the multi-coloured garments members of the 10,000 strong Phuket town community wear at traditional events, it runs much deeper.

Super Sonic

Phuket News / Features

Friday 17 August 2012, 03:19PM

PHUKET: Alasdair Forbes test drives the new Chevrolet Sonic.

A pitiful waste: B23m community centre becomes a rotting carcass

Phuket News / Features

Friday 17 August 2012, 03:03PM

PHUKET: The disastrous Asian Tsunami of December 26, 2004, that smashed into Phuket, killing at least 800 people and damaging structures all along the west coast of the island, was followed by an outburst of charitable activity from around the world.

Tears of a clown

Phuket News / Features

Thursday 9 August 2012, 12:24PM

PHUKET: Jody Houton meets talented Phuket performance artist and Thailand's Got Talent contestant, Romadon.

Phuket lions roar on national stage

Phuket News / Features

Friday 3 August 2012, 11:49AM

PHUKET: Arguably the single most successful sporting establishment in Phuket is tucked away behind an innocuous looking metal gate halfway up the Ha Sip Pee Road hill leading out of Patong.

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