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Italian Christmas Eve Dinner
Italian Christmas Eve Dinner
Antipasto, Soup, Pasta, Main COurse, Desert, Coffee/tea - THB 1,900 ++ per person
Jazz victorious on home turf as he wins Thailand Masters
Jazz victorious on home turf as he wins Thailand Masters
GOLF: Thailand's Jazz Janewattananond won the Thailand Masters on home turf yesterday (Dec 22), celebrating a super season with his second major Asian Tour victory this month.
Tesco halts Christmas card production after China inmate message
Tesco halts Christmas card production after China inmate message
LONDON: UK Supermarket giant Tesco said yesterday (Dec 22) it has stopped production at a factory in China after one of its Christmas cards was found to contain a cry for help from a prisoner who made it.
Lampard out-wits Mourinho but racism scars Chelsea win at Spurs
Lampard out-wits Mourinho but racism scars Chelsea win at Spurs
FOOTBALL: Frank Lampard out-witted Jose Mourinho as Chelsea powered to a 2-0 win at Tottenham yesterday (Dec 22) that featured a double from Willian, a red card for Son Heung-min and allegations of racist abuse.
Woman barber prone to depression found hanged
Woman barber prone to depression found hanged
PHUKET: A 43-year-old woman from Trang was found hanged by a scarf in her bedroom above her barber shop in Koh Kaew yesterday evening in what police at this stage believe to be suicide brought on by depression.
Phuket History: The Tin’acious Dutch
Phuket History: The Tin’acious Dutch
The Dutch had originally come to the Phuket peninsula to buy pepper. But as the market in Europe for porcelain, tea and silk began to boom they concentrated more on their trade with China and Japan. The problem was that Holland, in fact Europe, had few products that China needed. But China did always want tin, which was widely used in religious ceremonies and for making bronze (rust-proof) cannons. So the Vereenigde Oost-Indische Compagnie, or VOC, widely known by it’s British name the Dutch East India Company, started to focus on obtaining tin in the Malay Peninsula for its China trade. For this it began to turn to the tin mines of southwestern Siam around Phuket. The official VOC “Dagregistrar” (records book) records that the first Dutch tin-buying expedition to Phuket had been in 1639 under Captain Orlando Thibault. However two years later, after conquering Ma­lacca in 1641, the Dutch moved more aggressively to expand their tin-buying activities up the surrounding peninsular west coast.
The Naka Island resort completes seven-month extension
The Naka Island resort completes seven-month extension
PHUKET: The Naka Island, an award-winning resort and spa located off Phuket’s east coast operated as part of Marriott International’s The Luxury Collection, has announced the completion of its seven-month expansion.
Holiday Miracles
Holiday Miracles
It has often been said that the power of music is universal. For some reason, certain songs just have a way of staying with us and we’ve all experienced plenty of holiday songs which somehow managed to touch our souls; even though we couldn’t literally understand the words.
Phuket Opinion: Loud and Proud
Phuket Opinion: Loud and Proud
PHUKET: Phuket has a new event to be proud of: the Miss Coral Queen 2019 beauty pageant, for transgenders only. The event will be held as part of the annual Red Cross Fair at Saphan Hin over the New Year and will be the first time that the annual festival has held a pageant specifically for kathoey.
Merlin Divers Phuket - Scuba
Merlin Divers Phuket - Scuba
Merlin Divers is a SSI Dive Center on Kamala beach with excursions to the best dive sites around Phuket and with SSI dive courses from the beginner to the professional level. It is proud to offer a personal diving experience with half day tours from Kamala. The shortest scuba dive trip with 2 dives on Phuket! The dive shop has a big retail area for diving and snorkeling items.
Body of missing tour boat crewman found
Body of missing tour boat crewman found
PHUKET: Search teams today found the body of missing tour boat crewman Kittpong Samanbut, who fell overboard in a deadly collision of the tour boat he was working on with a large motoryacht off Koh Khai Nok late Wednesday afternoon (Dec 18).
Phuket beach safety hits top-level agenda
Phuket beach safety hits top-level agenda
PHUKET: Beach safety took a serious step forward this week as the Department of Disaster Prevention and Mitigation office for Phuket in collaboration with the Phuket Disaster Resilience Foundation (PDRF) conducted a Phuket Beach Safety Workshop at the Tree House K PARK Phuket hotel in Phuket Town.
Phuket Red Cross to host inaugural Miss Coral Queen transgender beauty pageant
Phuket Red Cross to host inaugural Miss Coral Queen transgender beauty pageant
For the first time in the more than two decades since the Phuket chapter of the Red Cross began holding its annual fund-raising fair at Saphan Hin, on the outskirts of Phuket Town, this year will see the renowned event hold a Miss Coral Queen Phuket beauty pageant open exclusively to ladyboys.
Experts fret about overuse of antibiotics
Experts fret about overuse of antibiotics
BANGKOK: Health experts have urged people to cut their use of antibiotics amid an alarming rise in infections that are resistant to the drugs.
Tourist arrivals surpass last year's record on Indian's visit
Tourist arrivals surpass last year's record on Indian's visit
BANGKOK: Thailand has exceeded the record for foreign tourist arrivals set last year with the 38,260,000th visitor reaching the country yesterday (Dec 20).
Ozil kicking the beautiful game to question its morality
Ozil kicking the beautiful game to question its morality
FOOTBALL: Similar to his laconic playing style, Mesut Ozil seems to court controversy in an almost effortless manner.
Australia's Cummins sold for record $2.17m at IPL auction
Australia's Cummins sold for record $2.17m at IPL auction
CRICKET: Australian players attracted big prices in the Indian Premier League auction on Thursday (Dec 19) with paceman Pat Cummins becoming the costliest overseas buy after he went to Kolkata Knight Riders for $2.17 million.
[VIDEO] Lamb, three ways! What The Munch Ep. 5 || Phuket Food
[VIDEO] Lamb, three ways! What The Munch Ep. 5 || Phuket Food
It's time to fill Jason's belly with some good ol' lamb! Join Jason as he searches Phuket for three different ways to prepare lamb in this special episode of What The Munch!
New Phuket Traffic Police Chief set sights on zero deaths for New Year holidays
New Phuket Traffic Police Chief set sights on zero deaths for New Year holidays
Phuket has a new Traffic Police Chief, and he has set his sights on zero deaths from road accidents on the island over the New Year holidays.
Arteta appointed head coach at Arsenal, tasked with reviving troubled club
Arteta appointed head coach at Arsenal, tasked with reviving troubled club
FOOTBALL: Mikel Arteta has been given the job of reviving the fortunes of Arsenal after he was appointed head coach of the English Premier League side yesterday (Dec 20).