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Navy tasked with ensuring marine tour boat safety in Phuket
Navy tasked with ensuring marine tour boat safety in Phuket
PHUKET: Following the Phoenix tour boat disaster, Vice Admiral Somnuk Preampramot, Commander of the Royal Thai Navy Third Area Command based at Cape Panwa on Phuket’s east coast, has been ordered to set guidelines for “controlling and supervising” tour boats operating in the Phuket area.
Mission underway to recover last body from Phuket boat disaster
Mission underway to recover last body from Phuket boat disaster
PHUKET: At 5.45am today Royal Thai Navy vessels HTMS Thong Lang, HTMS Hua Hin and HTMS Panyi departed from the pier at the Cape Panwa to continue with the mission to recover the body of a presumed Chinese tourist stuck under the Phoenix tour boat that sunk off the coast of Phuket last Thursday (July 5).
MoTS Permanent Secretary joins funeral ceremony of Phuket boat victims
MoTS Permanent Secretary joins funeral ceremony of Phuket boat victims
PHUKET: The Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Tourism and Sports and the Governor of Phuket yesterday joined a funeral ceremony for victims of the Phoenix boat disaster at Wat Kosit Wihan in Sapam.
Search for Phoenix dead is over: last body found near Phi Phi Island
Search for Phoenix dead is over: last body found near Phi Phi Island
PHUKET: Officials have reported that the last body sought as still missing from the Phoenix tour boat disaster last Thursday was found today (July 11).
ICC smash Patong in Phuket cricket friendly
ICC smash Patong in Phuket cricket friendly
CRICKET: Enjoying a break from league formalities, the ACG hosted a friendly encounter between Island Cricket Club (ICC) and a Patong selection last Sunday (July 7) to tide the C&C Marine 8 by 20 scheduling gap leading into the second round of this exciting cricketing format.
Phuket hotels team up with US Embassy to eliminate single-use plastics
Phuket hotels team up with US Embassy to eliminate single-use plastics
PHUKET: The Phuket Hotels Association has joined forces with the US Embassy Science Fellowship (ESF) Program to tackle the critical issue of waste management in Phuket, with the aim of eliminating single-use plastics at the island’s hotels.
Dead body bingo as Thai Police rejig numbers to mitigate Phuket tour boat disaster
Dead body bingo as Thai Police rejig numbers to mitigate Phuket tour boat disaster
PHUKET: On the day that Prime Minister Gen Prayut Chan-o-cha met with Chinese Ambassador Lyu Jian in person in Phuket over the deaths of 41 Chinese tourists killed in the ‘Phoenix’ tour boat disaster, Royal Thai Police Deputy Commander Gen Srivara Ransibrahmanakul today (July 9) presented a new tally of the dead, injured and missing – telling the public that only five persons remain unaccounted for.
Prayut flies in as 41 bodies from Phuket boat catastrophe identified
Prayut flies in as 41 bodies from Phuket boat catastrophe identified
PHUKET: Officials have relocated 41 bodies of the victims of the ill-fated tour boat ‘Phoenix’ from Vachira Phuket Hospital in Phuket Town to Wat Kosit Wihan in Rassada, after all of them have been identified a report issued by the National News Bureau of Thailand (NNT) today has confirmed.
Phuket storm warning issued amid search for bodies from Phoenix tour boat disaster
Phuket storm warning issued amid search for bodies from Phoenix tour boat disaster
PHUKET: The Thai Meteorological Department (TMD) has issued another weather alert for Phuket and surrounding region, a factor that may affect the ongoing search for survivors, or bodies, from the Phoenix tour boat disaster.
Phuket boat disaster: Search for bodies turns to beaches
Phuket boat disaster: Search for bodies turns to beaches
PHUKET: Officials have been ordered to start scouring the beaches at nearby islands and as far away as Koh Lanta and even Trang for bodies from the Phoenix boat disaster, which sunk off Koh Hei (Coral Island), south of Phuket, on Thursday.
Phuket Opinion: One at heart
Phuket Opinion: One at heart
PHUKET: The incredible story of the 12 young children of the local Chiang Rai Wild Boars football team and their coach surviving more than nine days, trapped under a mountain kilometres from daylight, has had the dramatic effect of bringing together the nation.
Phuket boat disaster: Eight more bodies recovered, 15 remain missing, confirms Governor
Phuket boat disaster: Eight more bodies recovered, 15 remain missing, confirms Governor
PHUKET: Eight more bodies have been recovered in the ongoing efforts to recover all victims from sunken tour boat Phoenix, Phuket Governor Norraphat Plodthong confirmed today at a press conference held at 5:30pm.
Phuket tour boat disaster morgue overflow spurs call for ‘freezer box’ donations
Phuket tour boat disaster morgue overflow spurs call for ‘freezer box’ donations
PHUKET: The mortuaries at hospitals across Phuket are being overloaded by the number of bodies recovered in the aftermath of the Phoenix tour disaster, which sank off Koh Hei, south of Phuket, amid a heavy storm on Thursday (July 5).
Phuket boat disaster spurs response from Chinese President Xi Jinping
Phuket boat disaster spurs response from Chinese President Xi Jinping
PHUKET: Chinese President Xi Jinping has called on Thailand to ramp up safety for tourists in the wake of the tour boat disaster off Phuket that has claimed at least 33 lives.
Weather warning for Phuket remains in effect
Weather warning for Phuket remains in effect
PHUKET: The Thai Meteorological Department (TMD) this morning maintained its weather warning for Phuket and other areas along the Andaman Coast, warning of heavy and possible isolated flash flooding in areas across Southern Thailand.
Bodies seen in sunken ’Phoenix’ dive boat off Phuket
Bodies seen in sunken ’Phoenix’ dive boat off Phuket
PHUKET: It has been confirmed this afternoon that a number of bodies have been seen inside the sunken ‘Phoenix’ dive boat which overturned and sunk in a storm off Phuket yesterday afternoon with 105 passengers on board.
Airbnb brokers Thai Govt ‘partnership’ deal, blanks Hotel Act illegal rentals
Airbnb brokers Thai Govt ‘partnership’ deal, blanks Hotel Act illegal rentals
PHUKET: Airbnb has successfully negotiated an “Empowering Local Tourism Entrepreneurs” partnership with the Ministry of Interior’s Department of Local Administration (DOLA).
A formula for success: QSIP initiatives extend excellence in Math into Arts and Life
A formula for success: QSIP initiatives extend excellence in Math into Arts and Life
Students from QSI International School of Phuket participated in the World Math Games competition for the school year of 2017-18. We are pleased to announce that students from our school ranked #1 in mathematics in all of Phuket and ranked #2 in all of Thailand.
Storm leaves Phuket in blackouts, flights diverted
Storm leaves Phuket in blackouts, flights diverted
PHUKET: The storm that hit Phuket late yesterday afternoon left huge swathes of the island without power for up to six hours and forced air traffic controllers to divert several flights from landing at Phuket International Airport for saf
Thai kids shine at the Football for Friendship program
Thai kids shine at the Football for Friendship program
FOOTBALL: The sixth season of the Football for Friendship (F4F) Program implemented by Gazprom, the Official partner of FIFA and the 2018 FIFA World Cup, concluded successfully in Moscow.