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PHUKET XTRA: VIDEO: Motorbikes allowed on Patong Hill, Hotel demolition, Miss Universe Pageant || October 28
PHUKET XTRA: VIDEO: Motorbikes allowed on Patong Hill, Hotel demolition, Miss Universe Pageant || October 28
PHUKET XTRA - October 28 || Brought to you by @PVC Phuket Hosted by: Chris Howson || #Phuket #PhuketNews #Thailand
Phuket man nabbed with methamphetamine, ammunition
Phuket man nabbed with methamphetamine, ammunition
PHUKET: Police have arrested a man in Wichit after finding him in possession of methamphetamine pills (ya bah), crystal methamphetamine (ya ice) and ammunition.
Experts install safety monitors on Patong Hill
Experts install safety monitors on Patong Hill
PHUKET: Expert geologists have installed devices to monitor the water content of the soil at the landslide site on Patong Hill so that officials can close the road and give advance warning of any impending landslide at the site.
Demolition of bypass abandoned hotel to begin
Demolition of bypass abandoned hotel to begin
PHUKET: Demolition of the abandoned incomplete hotel on the bypass road that looms dangerously atop a steep slope beside the road will start today (Oct 28).
Health checkups for inmates as mobile unit visits Phuket prison
Health checkups for inmates as mobile unit visits Phuket prison
PHUKET: Inmates at Phuket Provincial Prison in Thalang underwent medical checkups earlier today after a mobile medical unit visited the Srisoonthorn-based site.
Signs removed at Layan Beach
Signs removed at Layan Beach
PHUKET: Officials have removed several signs posted at Layan Beach claiming that ownership of the land was still in dispute under a case being heard in court.
Patong Hill opens for motorbikes
Patong Hill opens for motorbikes
PHUKET: Officials are now allowing motorbikes over Patong Hill, riding past the section of road damaged by the landslide last week.
PHUKET XTRA: VIDEO: Expats to be allowed to own land soon, Road from Chalong-Patong || October 26
PHUKET XTRA: VIDEO: Expats to be allowed to own land soon, Road from Chalong-Patong || October 26
PHUKET XTRA - October 26 || Brought to you by @PVC Phuket Hosted by: Chris Howson || #Phuket #PhuketNews #Thailand
Scheduled blackout to hit Phuket Old Town
Scheduled blackout to hit Phuket Old Town
PHUKET: The main Phuket office of the Provincial electricity Authority (PEA) has announced a scheduled power outage that will affect the historical part of Phuket Town on Oct 27 as workers will be upgrading high-voltage power lines in the area.
Region 8 Police put seized guns haul on show
Region 8 Police put seized guns haul on show
PHUKET: Region 8 Police presented to the public yesterday (Oct 25) 363 firearms seized in police operations in just the past two weeks.
PHUKET XTRA: VIDEO: Patong Hill walkable, Kamala road woes, 4AM closing time deliberation || October 25
PHUKET XTRA: VIDEO: Patong Hill walkable, Kamala road woes, 4AM closing time deliberation || October 25
PHUKET XTRA - October 25 || Brought to you by @PVC Phuket Hosted by: Chris Howson || #Phuket #PhuketNews #Thailand
‘Safe’ walking path created up Patong Hill
‘Safe’ walking path created up Patong Hill
PHUKET: Officials have created a new walking path up Patong Hill so people can choose to not walk past the landslide zone where the road collapsed last week.
Kamala road back to one lane during power supply repairs
Kamala road back to one lane during power supply repairs
PHUKET: Traffic along the main road through Kamala to Patong has been reduced to one lane traffic flow at the Khuan Yak Hill, at the southern end of Kamala.
Officials to open Chalong-Patong road
Officials to open Chalong-Patong road
PHUKET: After more than a decade of permission to build a road over the hills from Chalong to Patong being denied because the road would have to pass through protected forest, officials are now hoping to open the road to traffic in about two weeks.
PHUKET XTRA: VIDEO: Phuket deals with the aftermath of landslides and heavy rain || October 24
PHUKET XTRA: VIDEO: Phuket deals with the aftermath of landslides and heavy rain || October 24
PHUKET XTRA - October 24 || Brought to you by @PVC Phuket Hosted by: Chris Howson || #Phuket #PhuketNews #Thailand
Cruise tourists arrive in Phuket
Cruise tourists arrive in Phuket
PHUKET: Phuket Governor Narong Woonciew led a delegation of high-ranking officials to welcome ashore passengers from the ‘Spectrum of the Seas’ cruise liner as they made landfall in Patong this morning (Oct 24).
Dangerous land excavation investigated in Kathu
Dangerous land excavation investigated in Kathu
PHUKET: Officials are investigating whether excavation of a hillside land plot in Kathu was legal following a landslide at the site nearly falling onto monks’ dwellings at the base of the hill in Moo 7, Baan Bang Thong, last Wednesday (Oct 19).
Bypass abandoned hotel to be demolished
Bypass abandoned hotel to be demolished
PHUKET: The abandoned hotel on the bypass road at the site of a landslide last week will be demolished, officials have confirmed.
Search for missing Russian tourist enters Day 4
Search for missing Russian tourist enters Day 4
PHUKET: Search teams scouring the north of Phuket for Elena Radchenko will continue their efforts today (Oct 24) after day three of the search brought no sign of the missing 53-year-old Russian tourist last seen on Nai Thon beach before noon last Thursday (Oct 20).
Patong Hill landslide site opens for crossing on foot
Patong Hill landslide site opens for crossing on foot
PHUKET: People who need to get from Patong to Kathu and in the opposite direction are able to cross the damaged section of Phra Barami Rd on foot from Oct 23.