PHUKET: Lifeguards at Surin Beach in Cherng Talay are urging all beachgoers to swim only between the red-yellow flags after a foreign woman was rescued from a dangerous rip current late yesterday afternoon (Aug 12). The foreign woman was brought safely back to shore at about 5:45pm, one lifeguard at the beach, who asked not […]
PHUKET: The area around the Phuket Town Fresh Market 1 on Ranong Rd in Phuket Town has been placed under lockdown for one week following a spate of infections at the market “No people are allowed to enter or leave the areas, except for the delivery of food, cooking gas, medical equipment, as well as […]
PHUKET: Phuket Governor Narong Woonciew has confirmed that he will order every municipality on the island to identify isolated locales in their areas that may be unsafe for visitors and not suitable for tourists to visit as part of a campaign to ramp up tourist safety on the island. The move follows the killing of […]
PHUKET, Aug 9 (TNA) – The governor of the Tourism Authority of Thailand ordered efforts to restore tourists’ confidence in safe and attractive Phuket after the murder of a Swiss tourist in this southern island province last week. TAT governor Yuthasak Supasorn said that yesterday he joined a press conference on the conclusion of the […]
PHUKET: A 58-year-old Danish man who arrived in Phuket under the Phuket Sandbox scheme was found safe last night (Aug 7) after he became lost while trekking through the jungle near the hotel where he is staying on Phuket’s northern west coast. Lt Col Ekkachai Siri of the Phuket Tourist Police said that his officers […]
Phuket police have arrested a 27-year-old Thai man who has reportedly confessed to the murder of a Swiss tourist, two days after her body was found in a local waterfall. The body of the 57-year-old Swiss woman was found Thursday near the Ton Ao Yon waterfall in Wichit, around 3.6 km east of the Kao […]
PHUKET, Aug 6 (TNA) – Phuket governor Narong Woonciew expressed his condolences on the death of Swiss woman Nicole Sauvain-Weisskopf, head of diplomatic protocol of Germany, who visited Phuket under the Phuket Sandbox Model project. The governor assured that concerned officials would speed up investigation into the murder to guarantee justice. Full story: tna.mcot.net TNA
PHUKET: The body of a 57-year-old Swiss woman who is believed to have been raped and murdered was found in a creekbed near the Ao Yon Waterfall in Wichit, on Phuket’s east coast, yesterday afternoon (Aug 5). Region 8 Police Commander Lt Gen Kitrat Panpetch held a special press conference at Wichit Police Station last […]
