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The art of ‘Slow Cycling’
The art of ‘Slow Cycling’
Sunday 7 January 2024 02:00 PM
Fighting my way through a forest of jostling ‘selfie sticks’, I hopped off my bike atop Promthep Cape at sunset in order to take in the iconic moment when our great scarlet solar power station dipped below the horizon. The selfie sticks clashed and bristled like febrile insect antennae and a collective explosion of ‘influencer’ verbal ejaculations ran through the assembled ranks of ‘content generators’ as the sun finally disappeared for another night.
A Meal with… Thomas Brack
A Meal with… Thomas Brack
Sunday 10 December 2023 02:00 PM
Thomas Brack is one of Phuket’s most respected restaurant managers and for many years ran, with exceptional grace and efficiency, the famous 9th Floor restaurant off Rat-U-Thit 200 Pi Rd in Patong. So, to meet him, as I recently did, beaming happily in a school playground surrounded by a legion of boisterous, energetic youngsters was something of an enigma.
Lotus’s join Soi Dog food donations campaign
Lotus’s join Soi Dog food donations campaign
Saturday 2 December 2023 11:00 AM
Phuket branches of the national shopping store chain Lotus’s along with Pet Us store are supporting Soi Dog Foundation through their ‘Feed us at Lotus’s’ campaign in an effort to help street dogs and cats.
The Pavilions Phuket has partnered with Siamese Dreams
The Pavilions Phuket has partnered with Siamese Dreams
Friday 24 November 2023 11:21 AM
Siamese Dreams, a Phuket-based luxury loungewear brand, to create an exclusive capsule collection called Bamboo Siamensis.
Floating charity for animal welfare
Floating charity for animal welfare
Sunday 12 November 2023 03:00 PM
This Loy Krathong this year will see the annual fundraising event and doggie fashion show hosted by CHOW Pet Foods moved to Blue Tree Phuket, where guests will enjoy an evening meal designed by an executive chef and the stars of the show, the doggies, will enjoy a five-course feast.
A day of Remembrance
A day of Remembrance
Sunday 5 November 2023 11:00 AM
The Phuket Veterans are hosting Phuket’s first Remembrance (Armistice) service on Saturday, November 11, this year. Everyone is welcome to come along to pay their respects and give thanks to those who made the ultimate self-sacrifice for the freedom that we enjoy today. It is important that, as we remember those who lost their lives or were injured in conflict, their story is passed on to future generations, so children are very much welcome too. Here, The Phuket News speaks with Steve Pearce, founder of the Phuket Veterans (International Veterans Association), about the event.
Vietnam practitioners denounce use of dog and cat meat in traditional medicine
Vietnam practitioners denounce use of dog and cat meat in traditional medicine
Sunday 15 October 2023 02:00 PM
Leaders of the traditional medicine community in Vietnam have denounced the use of dog and cat meat for medicinal purposes, marking a turning point for animal welfare in the country.
Blazing Saddles: Have a Nice day!
Blazing Saddles: Have a Nice day!
Sunday 15 October 2023 11:00 AM
I awoke to the seductive aroma of freshly baked croissants and brewing coffee and realised that despite the dream I’d just been having about a gang of bikini-clad ladyboys fighting a pitched battle against a rabble of unregistered taxi mafiosi in Soi Bangla, I was in fact a long way from Phuket!
SOS: Feed the people
SOS: Feed the people
Sunday 1 October 2023 02:00 PM
The Phuket branch of the Scholars of Sustenance Foundation (SOS) Thailand is moving ahead with its goal of handing out 20,000 meals to people in need across the island on Oct 9, as part of its efforts to mark World Food Day on Oct 16.
Veteran or not: calling for volunteers
Veteran or not: calling for volunteers
Sunday 1 October 2023 11:00 AM
Have you ever wondered what your contribution would be if Phuket were hit by another disaster?  During the aftermath of the tsunami disaster in 2004, many expats joined with locals to offer whatever assistance they could. The hundreds of stories of selfless actions by so many kind-hearted and determined volunteers was enough to regain faith in humanity.
Hope, health and happiness in Kalim
Hope, health and happiness in Kalim
Sunday 17 September 2023 02:00 PM
Phuket’s Kalim region sits over a small hill to the immediate north of Patong, the world-famous epicentre of hedonism and decadence on the island. Although it is so close to the immense cash flow of Patong’s buzzing cash registers, Kalim is a rather down-at-heel suburb populated by many impoverished families…. fisherfolk, odd-jobbers and the unemployed.
Stray puppy becomes millionth animal to be neutered and vaccinated by Soi Dog Foundation
Stray puppy becomes millionth animal to be neutered and vaccinated by Soi Dog Foundation
Thursday 14 September 2023 03:58 PM
A one-eyed stray puppy in Thailand has become the millionth animal to be neutered and vaccinated by animal welfare organisation Soi Dog Foundation.
UN recognises protection from violence against animals as part of child rights
UN recognises protection from violence against animals as part of child rights
Tuesday 5 September 2023 05:22 PM
The need for children to be protected from exposure to violence against animals has been officially adopted into the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC), elevating animal rights into the human rights domain for the very first time. 
Phuket project supports islanders growing own veggies
Phuket project supports islanders growing own veggies
Monday 4 September 2023 03:29 PM
PHUKET: Rewat Areerob, the President of the Phuket Provincial Administrative Organisation (PPAO), over the weekend led an entourage of government officials, educators, local leaders and eager residents to embrace the spirit of ‘Phuket Veggie Land’ - an inspiring green endeavour to get more people living on the isladn to grow their own vegetables.
Blazing Saddles: A Year in Phuket
Blazing Saddles: A Year in Phuket
Sunday 3 September 2023 12:00 PM
I moved to Phuket to live and take over the editorship of Art Asia Publishing’s Phuket Magazine in 2006. I’d jumped from the grinding maw of an exceedingly high (blood) pressured career as an advertising agency Vice President, based in Bangkok…. one of the hottest, congested and polluted cities on Earth. 
See how they run!
See how they run!
Sunday 27 August 2023 02:00 PM
Robert is a nut. A train nut. When you hear that a guy is retiring early to go and live in Thailand, the last kind of model you think he’s going to be hanging out with is a model railroad. But that’s exactly what Robert Kief of the Canadian Chamber of Commerce wound up doing. And he doesn’t mind you knowing that he’s loving it.
Kusoldharm Phuket hands out more than 3,000 ‘survival bags’ for Por Tor festival
Kusoldharm Phuket hands out more than 3,000 ‘survival bags’ for Por Tor festival
Monday 21 August 2023 05:06 PM
In a heartwarming display of community solidarity, well-known local charitable organisation Kusoldharm Phuket Foundation has distributed more than 3,000 survival bags to individuals and families in need as part of the annual Por Tor Festival celebrations.
Jason Wilder memorial raises B32k for charity
Jason Wilder memorial raises B32k for charity
Monday 14 August 2023 10:38 AM
A charity memorial held in Phuket Town last month in memory of renowned Phuket DJ Jason Wilder (real last name Winder) raised more than B32,000 to buy musical instruments for  impoverished school children in Northern Thailand.
A snapshot of the South
A snapshot of the South
Sunday 13 August 2023 02:00 PM
To my amazement, the party ‒ celebrating my partner’s family acquisition of a new house ‒ went on all day. I should have expected it. After all, the previous day’s preparations had been exhaustive, and the cost far above what anyone might expect in a poor rural community. No expense had been spared.
At the helm of Rotary Patong
At the helm of Rotary Patong
Sunday 13 August 2023 11:00 AM
Walter Wyler has been elected President of Rotary Club of Patong Beach, the only English-language Rotary Club on the island. This is his second term as President, re-elected late last month to take up the mantle from outgoing President Best Wanamakok.