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5!5! Bar (HaHa Bar)
Welcome to 5!5! Bar on OTOP Shopping Paradise in Patong. Enjoy our friendly hospitality, our daily FREE BBQ, those great Fillet Steaks on Fridays and some of the best drinks against affordable prices. Looking forward to meeting YOU at our bar.
Duke's Sport Bar @ Kata Beach
Duke's Sport Bar @ Kata Beach
Duke's @ Kata is a great sports bar with 5 big screen TVs and some of the best fresh fruit shakes on the island. A ‘cocktail of the day’ is featured every day, and all day, for only 110 baht. Happy hour pricing is offered 3-7PM each day. We serve food from 4 surrounding restaurants. Come to watch your favorite sports and hang out for the great company. We're located on Tai-Na Road between Rico's and Little Star restaurants....in Kata Center. Owned and operated by Americans, we’re clean, friendly, and we do it right!
Daily free BBQ
Welcome to 5!5! Bar @ OTOP Shopping - Patong. Enjoy our daily free BBQ! Best drinks for affordable prices. See YOU soon
Professional plumbers
We are the experienced team who provide you the perfect works of plumbing, electrical, air con and any home improvement
Delish Cafe
Fisherman Way Garden, Viset Rd, Rawai. Try our cakes, frittatas and tarts - each item is handmade using ingredients of the highest quality. Our freshly-made salads and burgers (Aussie lamb and beef and free-range chicken) will satisfy the cravings of herbivores and carnivores alike. We use homemade dressings and sauces and customers can tailor their burger with extras to suit their own taste.Fine espresso coffee, fresh juices and smoothies. Gourmet deli produce for sale
Sales Support Wanted URGENTLY
Looking for experiences sales support,multi-tasking handling, very good command of English,contact gm@thephuketnews.com
Electricians Needed
Environmental Company - needs four Electricians / Technicians - Bypass Road near Lotus, 076-304278 / 086-9530675
Swim Pool Service Technician
Swim Pool Service Company - needs four Swim Pool Service Technicians - Bypass Road near Lotus, 076-304278 / 086-9530675
Accounting Staff Needed
Environmental Company openings for two Jr. Accounting Clerks. Office on Bypass Road near Lotus, 076-304278 / 086-9530675
Phuket Health Shop
Phuket Health Shop
Phuket Health Shop is a leading supplier of whey protein and bodybuilding supplements throughout Thailand. Order online or visit our store in Phuket.
AAA Phuket Electricians
UK approved electricians available to advise on all electrical issues.Tel 081-691 9907.
MANAGER FOR THALANG OFFICE
Outgoing person with minimum 2 years management experience, good English and computer skills. 25-35,000B month.
Phuket Water Filtration Service
PHUKET NEO WATER FILTRATION SERVICES is one stop shop of drinking and consume water with world class standard of selected products, we supply all types of water purifiers, filter cartridges, filter medias, spare parts. We specialize in residential and commercial water filtration system. Our store is one of the most products and spare parts in the south. All products are from selected manufacturers with high quality and international standards.
UNIQUE COMPANY FOR SALE
Owner retiring and selling his 9 year established company, container, site office, sales,rental,export.10 million Baht.
ENGLISH COMPUTERMAN
Sales, Service & Repairs & tuition. WLAN a speciality
Marine Cleaning Service
Cleaning services for boats and yachts in greater Phuket. Chem-Dry offers expert carpet and furniture cleaning & more.
Environmental Solutions (ESP)
ESP Corporation - Phukets Water Experts. Over 17 years of service to our Thai customers for every possible water project; design, engineering, installations, service, & repair. Includes drinking water, filtered water, waste water, swimming pool filtration/sanitation, decorative ponds, water wells (deep drilled or shallow), and much more - anything to do with water ESP is the company to call in Phuket! Also full maintenance & service for many of Phukets top villas
Kata Group expanding north of Phuket with beach hotel project
The Kata Group plans to invest more than B1.2 billion building a four-star hotel in Khaolak, Phang Nga. The new 153 room-hotel, Khaolak Cassaway Resort & Spa, will be built on a 67 rai property at Pak Weep beach. The Kata Group already operates three four-star hotels in Phuket, including the Phuket Orchid Resort & Spa, Kata Beach Resort & Spa, Karon Beach Resort & Spa and a four-star hotel in Samui, Surat Thani Province, the Kandaburi Resort & Spa. Its latest project was announced at a signing ceremony involving the Kasikorn Bank (Kbank) and Kata Group at the Kata Beach Resort and Spa. Kbank Executive Vice President Krissada Lamsam and Kata Group Managing Director Pamuke Atchariyachai revealed details of the project. It will comprise of 148 units of duplex bungalows, three units of one bedroom bungalows, and two units of two-bedroom bungalows in a contemporary architecture style combining southern Thai style with modern design. Mr Pamuke said that of the 1.2 billion baht investment, 470 million baht was supported by Kbank. “Our decision to expand our investment to Khaolak is because we have our own land at Pak Weep beach where many five-star hotels are located. “This gives us confidence to that it is a good location where high potential tourists are coming. The project is divided into two phases and they are being constructed about the same time. “Apart from the rooms in villa styles, we will also have a Thai restaurant, a seafood restaurant along the beach, an Italian restaurant, and the spa. “We expect that the first phase of our project can be opened by this coming November, while we are waiting to decide on the style of room style to be constructed for the second phase. “If the villa style is popular we will build 250 villas in phase two,” he said. Mr Pamuke said Kata Group’s main customers are still European and Scandinavian.
Housing developer shows confidence
Housing developer shows confidence
Large local property investor Winpro Engineer Co Ltd is showing its confidence in the Phuket property market by planning new projects, including one in Phang-nga Province. Company president Kasem Srirat, whose firm invested in Chao Fah Garden Home and Phumandra housing estates, said he was confident in the housing market, especially its current demand for affordable houses in the price range of 2-3 million baht. Good sales from Chao Fah Garden Home project 3 at Koh Kaew saw only 80 ready-to-move-in houses left from a total 563 units from phase 1. All 470 units in the second phase sold out recently as well as all 300 units in Chao Fah Garden Home project 5 on Chaofa West Road. Mr Kasem said from his long experience in the Phuket property market, he saw the preference change of buyers to condominium apartments because of the rising cost of land and stand-alone houses. Phumandra, a 130-unit condominium near Phuket Premium Outlet, is selling well. He said his firm plans to expand its property development and its next project will be a 120-roomed, three-star hotel and an 80-unit pool villas, both costing over one billion baht, and expected to be started by the third quarter of this year near the Phumandra project. Target clients are businessmen who travel often to Phuket. “We are also going to expand to Kok Kloi in Phang-nga with an 18-hole golf course and a hotel on the 1,000 rai. That project is now on the drawing table,” he said.
Phang-nga puts the brakes on ‘Greater Phuket’
Phang-nga puts the brakes on ‘Greater Phuket’
Phang-nga Province has introduced stringent zoning aimed at curbing what locals there see as out-of-control development in Phuket, a Bangkok-based lawyer told a seminar organised by the American Chamber of Commerce in Phuket on Friday. Anurag Ramanat, a partner in the South Asia Law Co, explained, “Phang-nga people think they don't want Phang-nga to be ‘spoiled’ like Phuket.” Already, for several years, developers have been moving into “Greater Phuket” – southern Phang-nga – in search of beachfront plots or cheaper land. “Whatever happens in Phuket will move to Phang-nga,” said Mr Anurag, and much of the new zoning regulations appear to be aimed at containing this. For a start, about 70 per cent of Phang-nga is now branded for “rural or agriculture” use. This is broken into smaller areas, in each of which only 20 per cent may be occupied by structures. No home of less than 400 square metres may be built, and 40 per cent of any land parcel must be given over to green area, landscaped or otherwise. Row houses, townhouses, condominiums and apartment buildings are effectively barred, as are shopping complexes – only shops of less than 400 square metres may be built. Along the much coveted beaches, the first 30 metres from the shoreline is designated as “recreational or conservation” area. It may be landscaped, but that’s all, and building heights and built-up areas behind that strip are strictly limited. “There are many restrictions [across the province] in terms of development,” Mr Anurag said. “It’s limiting for hotels, though housing is easier, albeit with a lot of green area.” Two other lawyers, Sorachong Boonsong and Kammalard Urapeepatanapong from Baker & McKenzie reviewed recent changes to zoning regulations as they apply to Phuket. A complex system imposed seven months ago, they explained, stipulate buildings heights and green space for nine different types of zone, and stricter regulations for building on slopes. Mr Sorachong noted that the biggest impact is on outlying islands, which are almost all designated Zone 1. Here, structures may now be no more than six metres high and must be set back at least 20 metres from the mean high tide mark. In addition, 75 per cent of any plot in Zone 1 must be given over to green area. He also highlighted two areas of vagueness that will inevitably result in local “interpretation”: the definition of “Sino-Portuguese” structures in Zone 4 (Phuket Town). The required green area around such buildings is smaller than for other buildings in the zone. Slope regulations stipulate that mandatory free space must be planted with “local trees” but what kind of trees these may be is not defined in the regulations. Mr Kammalard noted that developments that already have local authority contsruction permits are not subject to the new regulations, but warned that developers must ensure that their permitdoes not expire. An approved environmental impact assessment is not enough, nor is a “39bis permit”, even though this allows construction work to begin. Finally, he noted that Phuket’s current town planning law will expire soon, and a new one may be introduced any day.