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Phuket TV - PHUKET XTRA: VIDEO: Member of gang stealing safe box with B10m caught |:| December 6

Phuket TV - PHUKET XTRA: VIDEO: Member of gang stealing safe box with B10m caught |:| December 6

Parents call for answers after newborn’s finger cut at government hospital, starts to rot

Parents call for answers after newborn’s finger cut at government hospital, starts to rot

Tourists safe after longtail boat swamped, left stranded in Phang Nga Bay

Tourists safe after longtail boat swamped, left stranded in Phang Nga Bay

Safety on point: Demerit point penalties for traffic violations to start

Safety on point: Demerit point penalties for traffic violations to start

Elon Musk cleared of defamation over 'pedo guy' tweet

Elon Musk cleared of defamation over 'pedo guy' tweet

Thai gold medal haul up to 17 after day six of SEA Games

Thai gold medal haul up to 17 after day six of SEA Games

Phuket King’s Cup Regatta: Roberts’s ‘Team Hollywood’ wins again

Phuket King’s Cup Regatta: Roberts’s ‘Team Hollywood’ wins again
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Phuket History: The Siamese character seen through foreign eyes
Phuket History: The Siamese character seen through foreign eyes
Sunday 24 November 2019, 03:00PM
Nicolas Gervaise, a French resident in Siam in 1688, says of the Siamese character: “They make no scruples about being a little [dissembling] and those to whom they sometimes show the greatest politeness and respect are those for whom in their heart they have often contempt and antipathy.
Phuket History: Why Penang was colonised but Phuket was not
Phuket History: Why Penang was colonised but Phuket was not
Sunday 20 October 2019, 03:00PM
After 12 years of intrigues, Captain Francis Light [of the British East India Company (EIC)] and [his friend and business partner] James Scott had two islands potentially in their hands: Phuket and Penang – and an EIC in the mood to do something to obtain a base on the east side of the Bay of Bengal.
Phuket History: Siam’s conflict with Portugal
Phuket History: Siam’s conflict with Portugal
Sunday 22 September 2019, 03:00PM
Portugal and Siam had gener­ally got along well at first, but the Portuguese, especially after they united with the Spanish crown (1580-1640) grew increasingly arrogant and overbearing towards the Siamese kings Ekathotsarot and Songtham.
Cities on the move: Countries that relocated their capitals and the reasons why
Cities on the move: Countries that relocated their capitals and the reasons why
Sunday 8 September 2019, 03:00PM
Since World War I, the world has seen a country move its capital every five or six years. From Ka­zakhstan to Pakistan to Nigeria; for political gain, for environ­mental protection, for better, for worse. There’s something oddly fascinating and dramatic about the idea of capital moves, although they aren’t particularly uncommon.
Phuket History: The first English privateers in Phuket
Phuket History: The first English privateers in Phuket
Wednesday 21 August 2019, 04:00PM
In 1591 the first English privateering fleet was funded to go to the East for, as its charter stated, “The anoyinge of the Spaniards and Portingalls, (nowe our enemys) as also for the vendinge of oure comodities.”
Phuket History: A short period of Japanese rule over the central peninsula and Phuket
Phuket History: A short period of Japanese rule over the central peninsula and Phuket
Monday 19 August 2019, 03:00PM
In 1629 when King Songtham of Ayutthaya died, his cousin, Okya Kalahom (minister of defence), and his supporters effectively usurped the throne by killing King Songtham’s designated heir and placing King Songtham’s six-year-old son on the throne as King Chetha, with Okya Kalahom as his overseeing regent, which gave the ambitious defence minister real power over the kingdom.
Melting pot: Luk kreung people in history and popular culture
Melting pot: Luk kreung people in history and popular culture
Sunday 28 July 2019, 03:00PM
It’s been a while since I’ve explored the influence of luk kreung (i.e. half-Thai people) on popular cul­ture. Today it seems that a great number of part-Thai people are prominent in Thai popular cul­ture. However, this phenomenon is not new considering that the first luk kreung actors appeared in the 1940s to 1960s. This, nevertheless, is not widely known nowadays.
Phuket History: A picture of the slave trade before the chains were broken
Phuket History: A picture of the slave trade before the chains were broken
Sunday 21 July 2019, 03:00PM
Since labour was such a scarce resource, slav­ery remained legal in Siam until 1905 and was integral to peninsular society. Hwang Chung, a visiting Chinese trader in the 16th century, reported that on the peninsular west coast the people said, “it is better to have slaves than to have land because [the labour of] slaves [is] a protection to their masters”.
Phuket History: The first English privateers in Phuket
Phuket History: The first English privateers in Phuket
Monday 10 June 2019, 02:00PM
In 1591 the first English privateering fleet was funded to go to the East for, as its charter stated, “The anoyinge of the Spaniards and Portingalls, (nowe our enemys) as also for the vendinge of oure comodities.”
Kathu’s 19th Century treasure: The discovery of tin in the 1790s
Kathu’s 19th Century treasure: The discovery of tin in the 1790s
Monday 13 May 2019, 02:00PM
Kathu had previously been an area frequented only by hunters chasing flocks of waterfowl in the swamps or rhinoceros, tigers, deer and boar in the forests. In 1870, Dr. D. B. Bradley, publisher of the Bangkok Daily Advertiser, visited Phuket and tells us the history of the early development of these new mines at Kathu.
History preserved: Rare footage gives glimpse into the royal coronation of King Rama VII
History preserved: Rare footage gives glimpse into the royal coronation of King Rama VII
Saturday 4 May 2019, 08:00AM
Before the reign of King Rama VII of the Chakri Dynasty, royal coronation ceremo­nies had never been filmed. As of now, the footage from the ceremonies of King Rama VII and the late King Bhumibol Adulyadej are the only two existing coronation motion pictures available in Thailand.
Unesco project aims to give prominent women the recognition they deserve
Unesco project aims to give prominent women the recognition they deserve
Sunday 21 April 2019, 03:00PM
Khunying Lin Srivisanvaja was the first Thai woman to receive a medical degree and practise medicine in Thailand. Su­malee Viravaidya, a journalist, ensured a gender equality clause was added to the Thai Constitution. Khunying Yai Dam­rongthammasan was a devout dhamma practitioner who wrote a widely celebrated Buddhist text. What do all of these women have in common? Relative anonymity.
15th World Wai Kru Muay Thai Ceremony attracts record numbers to Ayutthaya
15th World Wai Kru Muay Thai Ceremony attracts record numbers to Ayutthaya
Friday 22 March 2019, 12:04PM
AYUTTHAYA: The 15th World Wai Kru Muay Thai Ceremony attracted a record number of participants to Ayutthaya with over 1,500 Muay Thai practitioners from 70 countries attending the event from March 16 to 17.
Phuket History: The 1675 Battle of Patong
Phuket History: The 1675 Battle of Patong
Monday 18 March 2019, 03:00PM
The Englishman Thomas Bowrey was on Phuket as the island’s trouble with the Dutch escalated. He tells us that the main base for the Dutch patrol ships was “Banquala” Bay (Patong), where they were based to intercept boats coming east from India.
The Kingdom of Funan: The First Great Southeast Asian Empire
The Kingdom of Funan: The First Great Southeast Asian Empire
Sunday 13 January 2019, 10:00AM
The smaller kingdoms develop­ing in the central peninsula came to be dominated by the Kingdom of Funan from the first to the seventh centuries AD. Funan, probably the first great Southeast Asian empire, apparently started out as a simple pirate base at Óc Eo, strategical­ly situated on the southwest coast of Vi­etnam today between the Mekong delta and the main east-west maritime trade routes.
The Massacre of the Cholas - Phuket under Indian Governorship 1676-1679
The Massacre of the Cholas - Phuket under Indian Governorship 1676-1679
Sunday 2 December 2018, 02:00PM
In 1676, when he was warned that the Dutch East India Company (VOC) was planning to invade Phuket to make it a colony, King Narai had ordered the removal of Okya Phet, the anti-Dutch governor. Okya Phet petitioned heavily in Ligor and Ayutthaya to try to retain his lucrative governorship.
Sinbad the Sailor - Was Phuket the mariner’s old stomping ground?
Sinbad the Sailor - Was Phuket the mariner’s old stomping ground?
Sunday 21 October 2018, 02:00PM
Persian and Arab mariners returned home to their barren and dry homelands with fantastic stories of the exotic jungle lands they had seen on the other side of the Indian Ocean, and they soon became the setting for fabulous sailors’ legends such as the tales of Sinbad the Sailor in The Thousand and One Nights.
Peranakannitat Museum in Phuket Town
Peranakannitat Museum in Phuket Town
Sunday 14 October 2018, 01:00PM
Right in the heart of old Phuket Town you can find the Peranakannitat Museum (also called the Baba Museum), which was officially opened in May 2017 by HRH Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn.
Reach of the ancient empire. Were the Greeks or Romans in Phuket or the Peninsula?
Reach of the ancient empire. Were the Greeks or Romans in Phuket or the Peninsula?
Friday 10 August 2018, 09:00AM
“The beautiful vessels, the masterpieces of the Greeks, stir white foam on the Periyar River … arriving with gold and departing with pepper.”
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