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Phuket TV - PHUKET XTRA: VIDEO: Thailand Elections: What you need to know || March 22

Phuket TV - PHUKET XTRA: VIDEO: Thailand Elections: What you need to know || March 22

15th World Wai Kru Muay Thai Ceremony attracts record numbers to Ayutthaya

15th World Wai Kru Muay Thai Ceremony attracts record numbers to Ayutthaya

Phuket History: The 1675 Battle of Patong

Phuket History: The 1675 Battle of Patong

All About Buddhism: An exclusive interview with Phra Maha Tongmee Supanla part 2

All About Buddhism: An exclusive interview with Phra Maha Tongmee Supanla part 2

All About Buddhism: An exclusive interview with Phra Maha Tongmee Supanla part 1

All About Buddhism: An exclusive interview with Phra Maha Tongmee Supanla part 1

20 years of Phuket Old Town Festival

20 years of Phuket Old Town Festival

Well I’ll be damned! A short history of meaningful coincidence

Well I’ll be damned! A short history of meaningful coincidence
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.
All About Buddhism: An exclusive interview with Phra Maha Tongmee Supanla part 2
All About Buddhism: An exclusive interview with Phra Maha Tongmee Supanla part 2
Sunday 10 March 2019, 03:00PM
In part one of the interview with Phra Maha Tongmee Supanla, senior monk at The Flat Temple in Bangkok, we discovered that a Thai monk’s day usually starts at 5am. A normal day features morning alms collecting, morning chanting, breakfast, Buddhist studies, lunch, daily chores and evening chanting.
All About Buddhism: An exclusive interview with Phra Maha Tongmee Supanla part 1
All About Buddhism: An exclusive interview with Phra Maha Tongmee Supanla part 1
Sunday 3 March 2019, 03:00PM
Each year, Thailand is discov­ered by tens of millions of tour­ists. Love arrives. Marriages happen. Families start. Babies are born. Children smile. Hearts are changed... and spir­ituality is sought.
20 years of Phuket Old Town Festival
20 years of Phuket Old Town Festival
Sunday 17 February 2019, 12:00PM
72nd Anniversary Queen Sirikit Park on Thalang Rd was awash with reds and golds – even more so than usual – on Feb 10 as Phuket Governor Phakaphong Tavipatana welcomed locals and tourists alike at the opening of this year’s Phuket Old Town festival.
Well I’ll be damned! A short history of meaningful coincidence
Well I’ll be damned! A short history of meaningful coincidence
Sunday 10 February 2019, 03:00PM
In the spring of 2018 I was feeling rather sorry for myself. I was in London, living out of a suit­case and working for a cause with which I had become particularly disillusioned. Cynical of the wily workings of the West and armed with a whimsical flight of fancy to head east I sent my resume to The Phuket News. Whilst polite about my unsolicited advances, there was of course no position available for this random chancer.
Kung Hei Fat Choy: Phuket’s expats on one of the world’s most celebrated festivals
Kung Hei Fat Choy: Phuket’s expats on one of the world’s most celebrated festivals
Monday 4 February 2019, 11:00AM
Expats from China and Hong Kong discuss their take on life in Thailand, what Chinese New Year – or Spring Festival – means to them and how they’ll be seeing in the year of the pig.
All About Buddhism: Eastern teachers and Western students mix like oil and water
All About Buddhism: Eastern teachers and Western students mix like oil and water
Sunday 27 January 2019, 03:00PM
This year, it is expected that over 30 million tourists will come to Thailand. If you’re a tourist reading this, then chances are you’re thinking at least a little bit about extending your stay. If you’re like some of us expats in Thailand, you might even be thinking about making that stay permanent.
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.
All in a dream: Thailand’s lottery obsession can be a nightmare
All in a dream: Thailand’s lottery obsession can be a nightmare
Sunday 6 January 2019, 01:00PM
He appeared out of nowhere. My personal assistant. He was dressed in his work uniform. I don’t know where he came from but he ran towards me.  As he neared he smiled and crouched down right before me. He must have been about a metre away from my face. He didn’t say a word, just kept beaming at me.
All About Buddhism: The Season for Miracles
All About Buddhism: The Season for Miracles
Saturday 29 December 2018, 12:31PM
Due to our unfamiliarity with them, foreign traditions often strike our hearts much more deeply than do the traditions that we like to claim for our own. Sometimes, we even find that new traditions can lead to miracles in our life because a foreign tradition gives us a new and novel way of seeing the world.
Year-long activities planned for 2019 to celebrate ‘Khon’
Year-long activities planned for 2019 to celebrate ‘Khon’
Friday 21 December 2018, 10:00AM
Thailand’s Ministry of Culture’s Department of Cultural Promotion has declared a year of activities in 2019 to celebrate ‘Khon’, Thailand’s masked dance drama, which has been inscribed on Unesco’s Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity.
Guru Prep Academy - Studying for ‘The Thamasooksa Test’
Guru Prep Academy - Studying for ‘The Thamasooksa Test’
Sunday 9 December 2018, 02:00PM
In America, the Church and State have been staunchly separated for centuries. The United States was never a religious Kingdom and, these days, most traces of its Christian roots are being purged out of the government classroom entirely.
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.
An eternal Halloween - A Buddhist view on evil
An eternal Halloween - A Buddhist view on evil
Sunday 28 October 2018, 11:00AM
In a child’s world, the worst acts of man go largely unseen. But, all adults know that evil is a sad fact of life. We also know that it exists in all times and in all places.
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.
Everything Possible: What Buddhism does and does not say about gay marriage
Everything Possible: What Buddhism does and does not say about gay marriage
Sunday 16 September 2018, 11:00AM
Okay readers, pick the best of one of these statements: ‘I’m better than you’, ‘I’m worse than you’, ‘I’m the same as you’.
Duals with the Dutch - The Honourable East India Company in Siam
Duals with the Dutch - The Honourable East India Company in Siam
Monday 10 September 2018, 09:00AM
In late December 1600, as the winter dark fell over the drizzling, grim but bustling streets of London, passersby may have heard a cheer emanate from the lamp-lit windows of a building in Leadenhall St. Inside were some of the city’s leading lords and merchants who had just agreed to form a joint stock trading company for undertaking eastern trade, the Honourable East India Company or HEIC, which was given a monopoly by the king over all eastern trade.
Slave to the rhythm - The natural phenomena of entrainment
Slave to the rhythm - The natural phenomena of entrainment
Saturday 8 September 2018, 09:00AM
It was in Paris, 1666, that Christiaan Huygens, the Dutch physicist, became rather baffled. Huygens had invented the pendulum grandfather clock, along with a wide range of classic mechanics and mathematical physics formula for which he would become renowned. But his attention had turned to a surprising observation on the behaviour of two swinging pendulums.
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