PHUKET: The first Miss Phuket Universe contest was officially launched yesterday evening (August 21) at the Kalima Resort and Spa in Kalim. “We are going to find a perfect woman to represent Phuket in supporting culture and promoting tourism in Thailand and another countries,” said Chanitnan Tephabutra, the pageant’s PR officer. Read more: thephuketnews.com
Phuket beaches are now slowly returning to natural beauty with concrete structures that were illegally built for decades to operate businesses are being torn down under the policy of the military junta to return the beaches to the people. Now officials of the Department of National Parks, Wildlife, and Plant Conservation began cleanup operation on […]
BANGKOK, 22 August 2014 (NNT) – Authorities at Phuket International Airport are on a lookout for more suspected Ebola cases as special monitoring is being kept on seven passengers who recently arrived at the airport from Ebola-affected countries. According to the supervisor of the disease control checkpoint at Phuket International Airport, joint efforts have been […]
PHUKET: Nine people were arrested last night (August 18) when police made a sweep through three Kathu communities looking for drugs. The sweep began when plain-clothes police separately approached Somporn Dachadonbom, 33, and Ungkan Sanboonsiri, 27, and bought crystal methamphetamine and methamphetamine pills from them. Read more: thephuketnews.com
PHUKET: The general manager of the Hard Rock Café in Patong, 42-year-old Gerard Caleo, was arrested this morning at Sydney Airport in Australia, accused of a murder that took place 24 years ago in the ritzy Double Bay area of Sydney. He was arrested when he flew into Australia from Malaysia. Read more: thephuketnews.com
PHUKET: Citizens and tourists in Patong woke this morning (August 15) to find the streets flooded after torrential rain last night. As usual, the deepest flooding was at Kathu Police Station and the area around the hospital, where the water was as deep as 60cm. Read more: thephuketnews.com
The body of a Russian man, Fedor Vasilev, 33, was found with multiple stab wounds to his chest at a hotel in Phuket on Wednesday morning, along with suicide notes – and no sign of his Thai transvestite partner. Read more: Bangkok Post
PHUKET: Three hundred Chinese holidaymakers have been stranded in Phuket since Sunday (August 9) when the charter aircraft that was supposed to pick them up broke down in Bangkok. The aircraft is operated by City Airways, a small airline owned by a group of Thai, Chinese and Hong Kong investors. Read more: thephuketnews.com Darawan Naknakhon, […]
