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Wired on Water: Charging ahead
Wired on Water: Charging ahead
Are you considering changing to lithium LFP batteries in your boat? If so, here some things you should know.
Dining under the blossoms at Diamond Cliff’s Kiko restaurant
Dining under the blossoms at Diamond Cliff’s Kiko restaurant
On my very first trip to Japan, while slurping noodle soup in the window seat of a ra­men joint in Kyoto’s historical Gion district at dusk, I spot­ted a geisha scuttling across the dimly lit street. Smooth­ing her hair and slipping off her shoes, she entered an adjacent tea house. It was a brief but holiday brochure-level experience I’ll always re­member. It was Japan plus.
Foreigner arrested after puppy beaten at condo
Foreigner arrested after puppy beaten at condo
SAMUT PRAKAN: A young Zambian has been arrested after a man was seen cruelly beating a Siberian Husky puppy outside a condominium building in Samut Prakan.
Bridging Supply: Officials reveal B3.5bn proposal to resolve island’s water shortage woes
Bridging Supply: Officials reveal B3.5bn proposal to resolve island’s water shortage woes
PHUKET: Leading water officials this week unveiled a B3.5 billion plan to have water piped across the channel from Phang Nga as a long-term solution to the island’s increasing water-supply woes.
Red flags line Phuket beaches as dangerous surf broils
Red flags line Phuket beaches as dangerous surf broils
PHUKET: Surin Beach has been closed to swimmers in the current weather as the beach has no lifeguards and the strong waves and flash rips are considered too dangerous to risk tourists entering the water, Chief of the Cherng Talay Tambon Administration Organisation (OrBorTor), MaAnn Samran, told The Phuket News today (July 19).
Phuket Raceweek: Demanding conditions for all on Day 2
Phuket Raceweek: Demanding conditions for all on Day 2
SAILING: Anticipation was high this morning (July 19) as the dark clouds started to lift and the sky clear. It didn’t last too long, sadly, as the rain soon returned forcing an AP onshore while the Race Management team went out to look at the options.
PHUKET XTRA: VIDEO: Medical marijuana tourism? Dead bride made up! Dog attacker arrested? || July 19
PHUKET XTRA: VIDEO: Medical marijuana tourism? Dead bride made up! Dog attacker arrested? || July 19
PHUKET XTRA - July 19 || brought to you by PVCPhuket.com Body found in search for tourists |:| Praewa family to sell land for compensation |:| Medical marijuana tourism? |:| Dead bride gets made up |:| Brit arrested for dog attack Hosted by: JP Mestanza || #Phuket
Phuket told to brace for more rain, warned of flash floods, landslides
Phuket told to brace for more rain, warned of flash floods, landslides
PHUKET: The national office of the Department of Disaster Prevention and Mitigation (DDPM) has called on all residents in high-risk areas of Phuket and throughout Southern Thailand to be on full alert for possible floods and landslides as more rain is expected to douse the region over the weekend.
Driver, 25, charged for asleep at the wheel as truck overturns on main Phuket road
Driver, 25, charged for asleep at the wheel as truck overturns on main Phuket road
PHUKET: A 25-year-old truck driver will be charged with reckless driving causing damage to government property after he fell asleep at the wheel on Thepkrasattri Rd in Mai Khao early this morning (July 19), with the truck hitting the central reservation, levelling two trees before flipping onto its side.
Phuket airport van B3k fare ‘just a misunderstanding’, say police
Phuket airport van B3k fare ‘just a misunderstanding’, say police
PHUKET: Two Australian tourists who reported being charged B3,000 by a passenger van driver to take them from Phuket International Airport to a hotel in Kata was just “a misunderstanding”, the Chief of the Karon Police has announced.
Search for Filipinos lost in Phuket surf continues
Search for Filipinos lost in Phuket surf continues
PHUKET: The search for Filipino tourists who disappeared in strong surf at Freedom Beach on Wednesday continues today (July 19), with police, lifeguards and rescue workers expanding their search area.
AoT confirms overcharging Phuket van driver not registered to pick up airport passengers, tout illegally roams terminal
AoT confirms overcharging Phuket van driver not registered to pick up airport passengers, tout illegally roams terminal
PHUKET: Airports of Thailand (AoT), which operates Phuket International Airport, has confirmed that the van driver who charged two Australian tourists B3,000 to take them from the airport to Kata, on Phuket’s southwest coast, on Wednesday (July 17) was not registered to pickup passengers from the airport.
Praewa’s family to sell land to compensate crash victims
Praewa’s family to sell land to compensate crash victims
BANGKOK: The mother of Orachorn ’Praewa’ Thephasadin na Ayudhya has promised to sell the family’s land to raise money to pay the 24.76 million baht in compensation ordered for the families of the dead and injured victims of her young daughter’s horrific car crash in 2010.
UN: Southeast Asia’s meth gangs making $60 billion a year
UN: Southeast Asia’s meth gangs making $60 billion a year
ASEAN: Southeast Asia’s drug gangs are making over $60 billion a year pumping out record amounts of methamphetamine, then laundering the profits through the region’s mushrooming number of casinos, a UN study showed Thursday.
Free cash to spur tourism, economy
Free cash to spur tourism, economy
BANGKOK: The Finance Ministry is set to dust off a planned cash handout for travel to 55 secondary provinces by including it in the economic stimulus package going before new Finance Minister Uttama Savanayana.
Rotary Weekly Meeting 30, July
Rotary Weekly Meeting 30, July
Meeting of the last Tuesday of July, organized by S. Petersen, at @ Millennium Hotel in Jungceylon, Rat-U-Thit Road Patong Beach. Dress code: Members shall be dressed appropriately in a manner that shows their respect for the club and its members. Please register on the website provided.
British International School, Phuket
British International School, Phuket
Willing for Property in Laguna
Willing for Property in Laguna
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Brit expat behind bars for attacking Phuket dog
Brit expat behind bars for attacking Phuket dog
PHUKET: A 43-year-old British national is behind bars at Phuket Provincial Court after being charged by Chalong Police for animal cruelty after he was caught on CCTV attacking a dog with a metal rod in the early minutes of Tuesday morning (July 16).
PHUKET XTRA: VIDEO: Teen caught pimping? Patong fire! Tourists lost in surf! || July 18
PHUKET XTRA: VIDEO: Teen caught pimping? Patong fire! Tourists lost in surf! || July 18
PHUKET XTRA - July 18 || brought to you by PVCPhuket.com Patong fire destroys 12 shops |:| Victims of horror crash still hurting |:| Search for tourists lost in surf |:| Light pole update |:| Teen madam arrested for pimping Hosted by: JP Mestanza || #Phuket